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Dear CnAHA members, colleagues, and friends,
I want to update you on some highlights in CnAHA in
April of 2009.
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CnAHA Logo
As
you can see, we now have a well designed and crafted CnAHA logo,
thanks to the many hours and nights of hard work by Mr. James Wang,
and Mr. and Mrs. Peng Yan (CnAHA Secretary) from Chicago. This logo
will be used in the CnAHA website, Chinese Medical Tribune, Great
Wall International Cardiology Congress, and other sites and venues to
promote our visibility and impact.
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Membership
Drive
Our
association is growing. I am very proud to tell you that now have 6
life time members (Drs. Dali Fan, Dali Feng, Li Zhang, Cynthia Taub,
Leng Jiang, and Shuping Ge) and many members and associate members.
I commend Dr. Huigui Li (Director of CnAHA memberships) for his
leadership and efforts to reach out to you and colleagues. The most
important treasures of our association are our members like you. We
hope you can continue what you do to recruit members into CnAHA,
because only by working together, can we chart our own destiny.
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“China
Evening” during HRS 2009
Please
mark your calendar on “China Evening” during HRS 2009: Working
Together For Health-"Advancing Patient Care Through
International Clinical Study Collaboration" on May 14, 2009
(6:30 –9:00pm) in Salon E, 2nd Floor, Marriott Copley Place,
Boston. The event is co-organized by Medtronic, Biosense Webster and
CnAHA. More info will be forthcoming. If you have question or need
to RSVP please contact Dr. Huigui Li.
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CnAHA-GWICC
Symposiums in Beijing
I
want to thank you all for your enthusiastic support and good ideas
about the CnAHA-GWICC symposium in Beijing this fall. The selection
process is not an easy one because of the expertises from our members
in various fields in cardiovascular disease. I want to thank Dr.
Gong-Yuan Xie for spearheading this vitally important activity and
for balancing the need of CnAHA, GWICC, and our members in both
format and content for the 2 symposiums. There are a few excellent
topics and presenters that are not on the list for year but will be
kept and considered for next year.
#1 “Evidence-based Medicine in
Cardiology Practice: Case Discussion”:
GW-ICC/CnAHA Joint Forum (2 hour
session)
· A 55 years old woman
with right arm pain and coded in ER:
Gong-Yuan Xie
· A young athlete who
passed out in exercise:
Shuping Ge
· A 75 years old woman
with persistent chest pain in the Cath Lab: Leng Jiang
· A 47 years old man
with symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation Jian-Ming
Li
#2 “Cardiac Imaging”: GW-ICC/CnAHA
Joint Forum in “Cardiovascular Imaging Session”
A. “Advanced Cardiac Imaging in
Daily Practice I” (2 hour session)
· Echocardiography: A
life saving tool: Cynthia Taub
· Prosthetic valve in
pregnant women: Dali Fan
· Cardiac imaging in the
heart failure clinic: Leng Jiang
· Contrast
echocardiography: An update: Feng Xie
B. “Advanced Cardiac Imaging in
Daily Practice II” (1.5 hour session)
· Complex congenital
heart disease: A tale of two blue babies Shuping Ge
· Cardiac tumor work-up:
Cynthia Taub
· Chest pain work-up:
Gong-Yuan Xie
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CnAHA Members
in the News and Spotlight
In this column, I will
update you our members with distinction last month. I know this will
be an incomplete list and I need your help to share those worth
noting with our members.
1) DaLi
Feng, Imran S. Syed, Matthew
Martinez, Jae K. Oh, Allan S. Jaffe, Martha Grogan, William D.
Edwards, Morie A. Gertz, and Kyle W. Klarich. Intracardiac Thrombosis
and Anticoagulation Therapy in Cardiac Amyloidosis. Circulation
published 4 May 2009, 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.785014
2) Xie
F, Dodla S, O'Leary E, Porter TR.
Detection of subendocardial ischemia in the left anterior descending
coronary artery territory with real-time myocardial contrast
echocardiography during dobutamine stress echocardiography. JACC
Cardiovasc Imaging. 2008
May;1(3):271-8.
3) Shuping
Ge, MD, FASE, elected to the
Editorial Board of Journal of American
Society of Echocardiography.
Thank you for your
continued support and service to CnAHA.
Cordially
yours,
Shuping Ge, MD, FAAP, FACC, FASE
President, Chinese
American Heart Association
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