September 15-16, 2003 Saint-Petersburg,Russia

Symposium Agenda

Distinguished Guest Faculty

Thomas J. McDonald, M.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology Chair and Director, Mayo Foundation International Education Committee Chair, International Activities Coordinating Committee, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Core Faculty

Kirk N. Garratt, M.D.: Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School

Amir Lerman, M. D.: Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School

Robert L. Frye, M.D.: Rose M. and Morris Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School

Bernard J. Gersh, M.D.: Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School

A. Jamil Tajik, M.D.: Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Mayo Medical School

Michael Eldar, M.D.: Professor of Cardiology, Director of Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center

Michael Glikson, M.D.: Director of Electrophysiology and Pacing, Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center

Hanoch Hod, M.D.: Associated Professor of Cardiology, Head of Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center

Viktor Guetta, M.D.: Director of Cardiac Catheterization Service, Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center

Zeev Rotstein, M.D.: Director, Acute Care Hospital, Sheba Medical Center

Yuri Grishkin, M.D., Ph.D.: Professor of Medicine, Chairman of Cardiology Department, Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education

Tatjana Novikova, M.D., Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Cardiology Department, Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education

   Program At Glance

• Atrial Fibrillation – Rate Control vs. Maintenance of Sinus Rhythms
• Sudden Cardiac Death Management When Defibrillators are Scarce
• Syncope Management with Drugs and Devices: What have we learned from Trials?
• Sudden Cardiac Death: Long QT/Brugada syndrome/IVF
• Management and Diagnosis of SVT: Update for the practitioner
• Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Complications of Myocardial Infarction
• Management of Refractory Angina: the Role of External Counterpulsation
• Vulnerable: The Plaque or the Patient
• Coronary Artery Disease Cases
• Hyperlipidemia
• Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease
• Hypertension
• Emerging Risk Factors for CAD: Homocysteine, Lp (a), CRP and others
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Valvular Heart Disease: Diagnosis and Medical Management
• Surgical Management of Valvular Heart Disease
• Diastolic Heart Failure: New Concepts and Management
• Arrhythmias in Congestive Heart Failure
• City Antiarrhythmia Center - 25^th Anniversary
• Evidential Medicine: the New Horizons