Opening Lectures - 23rd WCHD

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? Daniel S. Berman, USA
2007	HOW BEST TO IDENTIFY PATIENTS AT RISK FOR SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH Michael E. Cain, USA
2008	WOMEN AND HEART DISEASE IN THE POST-WHI ERA Elizabeth L. Barrett-Connor, USA
2010	VOODOO DEATH REVISITED: THE MODERN LESSONS OF NEUROCARDIOLOGY Martin A. Samuels, USA
2011	ANGIOGENESIS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS: MECHANISM, ROLE AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATION Jawahar L. Mehta , USA
2012	PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY: NEW CONCEPTS IN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT Uri Elkayam, USA
2013	CVD IN WOMEN: A FRESH PERSPECTIVE E.A. Amsterdam, USA
2014	GENDER DISPARITY IN CORONARY HEART DISEASE: BIAS, BIOLOGY, OR BOTH? Nanette K. Wenger, USA
2015	STATE-OF-THE-ART CVD PREVENTION: LOOKING BEYOND AND INTERPRETING THE ACC/AHA PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE GUIDELINES (Invited Lecture) Nathan D. Wong, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
2016	THE WAR ON HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture) Eugene Braunwald, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
2017	IMPROVEMENT IN QUALITY OF CARE FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN GET WITH THE GUIDELINES — ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (GWTG-AFIB) (Invited Lecture) A.B. Curtis, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA