Lectures presented at the Opening Ceremony of the World Congress of Heart Disease meetings.
Since 2005, the Opening Lecture has been presented as the J.H.C Swan Memorial Lecture.
| 1989 | HEART FAILURE: ETIOLOGICAL MODELS
AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS Edmund H. Sonnenblick, USA |
| 1993 | THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CARDIAC
HYPERTROPHY AND FAILURE: THE POTENTIAL FOR MOLECULAR INTERVENTION Robert Roberts, USA |
| 1995 | CARDIOMYOPATHY OF OVERLOAD: AN
UNNATURAL GROWTH RESPONSE IN THE FAILING
HEART Arnold M. Katz, USA |
| 1996 | PREVENTION OF HEART FAILURE -
FEASIBLE AND DESIRABLE Kanu Chatterjee, USA |
| 1997 | MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL
TRANSFORMATION OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE IN
HEART FAILURE Sidney Goldstein, USA |
| 1998 | PREVENTION OF CORONARY DISEASE
EVENTS: MYTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES Harold J.C. Swan, USA |
| 1999 | NEW
CONCEPTS CONCERNING THE CELL BIOLOGY OF VULNERABLE PLAQUES James S. Forrester, USA |
| 2000 | THE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BASIS OF
HEART FAILURE IN VALVULAR REGURGITATION: RELATION TO CLINICAL OUTCOME Jeffrey S. Borer, USA |
| 2001 | MODERN
PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES OF THE THORACIC AORTA John A. Elefteriades, USA |
| 2002 | GENETIC MECHANISMS OF HEART FAILURE Jeffrey A. Towbin, USA |
| 2003 | HEART FAILURE AND THE NEED FOR DEVICE THERAPY William T. Abraham, USA |
| 2005 | INTEGRATION OF CARDIAC MRI, CARDIAC CT SCANNING, AND NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY IN CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS WITH KNOWN OR SUSPECTED CHRONIC CAD: WHICH TEST IN WHICH PATIENT? D.S. Berman, USA |
| 2007 | HOW BEST TO IDENTIFY PATIENTS AT RISK FOR SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH M.E. Cain, USA |
| 2008 | WOMEN AND HEART DISEASE IN THE POST-WHI ERA E.L. Barrett-Connor, USA |
| 2010 | VOODOO DEATH REVISITED: THE MODERN LESSONS OF NEUROCARDIOLOGY M.A. Samuels, USA |
| 2011 | ANGIOGENESIS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS: MECHANISM, ROLE AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATION J.L. Mehta , USA |
| 2012 | PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY: NEW CONCEPTS IN
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT U. Elkayam, USA |
