Final Programme - World Heart Federation

Acknowledgements
The scientific programme has been prepared in close
collaboration with the Scientific Programme Committee
(SPC), local advisers and topic group leaders.
The WCC 2008 organizers would like to thank everybody
for their commitment and contribution to the WCC 2008
Scientific Programme.
tOPIC GROUP lEADERS:
Arrhythmias
Günter Breithardt (Germany)
Alvaro Sosa Liprandi (Argentina)
Heart failure/Left ventricular function
Hugo Grancelli (Argentina)
Akira Matsumori (Japan)
Valvular disease/Pulmonary circulation/Myocardialpericardial
Edgardo Escobar (Chile)
Ricardo Ronderos (Argentina)
Ischemia/Coronary artery disease
Juan Krauss (Argentina)
Dev Pahlajani (India)
Interventions/Peripheral circulation/Stroke
Liliana Grinfeld (Argentina)
William Wijns (Belgium)
Hypertension
Luis Maria Amuchástegui (Argentina)
Ayrton Brandão (Brazil)
Churchill Onen (Botswana)
Exercise/Epidemiology/Prevention
Nizal Sarrafzadegan (Iran)
Néstor Vita (Argentina)
Pharmacology
Jorge Lerman (Argentina)
Andrew Tonkin (Australia)
Basic science
Luis Alday (Argentina)
Valentin Fuster (United States)
Cardiac imaging/Computers
Moníca Acevedo (Chile)
Néstor Pérez Baliño (Argentina)
Acute cardiac care
Juan Carlos Linares-Casas (Argentina)
Marco Martínez-Ríos (Mexico)
Paediatric/Congenital heart disease
Horacio Faella (Argentina)
Trevor Hassell (Barbados)
Nursing/Technician
Sania Nishtar (Pakistan)
Juan Plastino (Argentina)
Local advisers (Argentina)
Carla Agatiello
Carlos Barrero
Horacio Capelli
Sergio Dubner
Irene Ennis
Guillermo Fábregues
Mariano Falconi
Paola Kuschnir
Emilio Kuschnir
Pedro Lylyk
Osvaldo Masoli
Eduardo Mele
José Moltedo
Oscar Oseroff
Diego Pérez de Arenaza
Daniel Piñeiro
María Laura Plastino
Fernán Quiroz
José Luis Ramos
Rodolfo Rothlin