TY - JOUR
T1 - Report of the third heart surgery forum scientific sessions
T2 - Zagreb, Croatia December 6-8, 2017: Conference highlights
AU - Firstenberg, Michael S.
AU - Nguyen, Tom C.
AU - Roberts, Harold
AU - Levinson, Mark M.
AU - Rudez, Igor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Forum Multimedia Publishing, LLC.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - The Heart Surgery Forum is an online community dedicated to topics related to all aspects of cardiothoracic surgery. It consists of an informative website (www.hsforum. com), a traditional indexed journal both in print and online, and an email-based “list-serv” for discussion of surgical cases and techniques. The email list-serv, “OpenHeart-L” (The Forum) is composed of surgeons and allied specialties (perfusion, anesthesia, nursing). Dr. Mark Levinson (USA) started The Forum originally in 1995. He also served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the print journal for many years. Coinciding with the popularity of The Forum, and the desire by many members to meet in person, the First Heart Surgery Forum Conference (#1 HSF) was held in Savudrija, Istria, Croatia in 2010. The overwhelming success of this meeting, in terms of attendance and scientific content, resulted in #2 HSF being held in Split, Croatia in 2014. Recently, the #3 HSF meeting was held in Zagreb, Croatia on December 6-8th, 2017. This report highlights the scientific events of this meeting, and more importantly aims to inspire greater involvement by the international cardiothoracic community. Substantial increasing attendance was seen at each subsequent meeting, not only in terms of the number of participants and lectures, but also in the number of countries represented.
AB - The Heart Surgery Forum is an online community dedicated to topics related to all aspects of cardiothoracic surgery. It consists of an informative website (www.hsforum. com), a traditional indexed journal both in print and online, and an email-based “list-serv” for discussion of surgical cases and techniques. The email list-serv, “OpenHeart-L” (The Forum) is composed of surgeons and allied specialties (perfusion, anesthesia, nursing). Dr. Mark Levinson (USA) started The Forum originally in 1995. He also served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the print journal for many years. Coinciding with the popularity of The Forum, and the desire by many members to meet in person, the First Heart Surgery Forum Conference (#1 HSF) was held in Savudrija, Istria, Croatia in 2010. The overwhelming success of this meeting, in terms of attendance and scientific content, resulted in #2 HSF being held in Split, Croatia in 2014. Recently, the #3 HSF meeting was held in Zagreb, Croatia on December 6-8th, 2017. This report highlights the scientific events of this meeting, and more importantly aims to inspire greater involvement by the international cardiothoracic community. Substantial increasing attendance was seen at each subsequent meeting, not only in terms of the number of participants and lectures, but also in the number of countries represented.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050264864&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1532/hsf.1988
DO - 10.1532/hsf.1988
M3 - Article
C2 - 29485967
AN - SCOPUS:85050264864
SN - 1098-3511
VL - 21
SP - E59-E62
JO - Heart Surgery Forum
JF - Heart Surgery Forum
IS - 1
ER -