My sincere and glad greetings. Our SBHCI goes forward in its maturity and actively prepares the 31st edition of the annual congress of our entity.

In this festive opportunity, we have the partner ship of the co-sister entity, representative of the interventionists practitioners of all Latin America, SOLACI, under the presidency of the colleague and friend Alexandre Abizaid.

This is a synergic and venturous union which gets stronger with the active participation of the scientific commission of both entities and coordinator managers, with dedicated actions from professionals such as Rogério Sarmento-Leite (Brazil, Porto Alegre; scientific commission and live cases); Fernando Devito (Brazil, Catanduva; coordinator of the free themes commission), Francisco Chamié (Brazil, Rio de Janeiro; coordinator of the interventionist schedule in congenitals), Marco Wainstein (Brazil, Porto Alegre; coordinator of the extracardiac intervention schedule) and Guilherme Attizzani (Brazil, Jundiaí; manager of the congress website for 2009), in addition to the local president Hélio Roque Figueira, Rio de Janeiro, and the Nurse Simone Fantin, president of the nursery department of SBHCI.

The event shall take place along three days, June 10, 11 and 12, in Riocentro Convention Center, Rio de Janeiro. This period comprises the Brazilian religious holiday Corpus Christi, so it will be an excellent scientific, social and familiar settlement opportunity, since the wonderful city will receive us to the dedicated, intense and vertical work related to the event and also to some enjoyment of the unique and outstanding beauties.

What could I say to, in addition to invite you, prompt you all to come? The fact is that we have completely reformed again the event, catching teaching from Brazilian and Latin American events; the highlights are as follows:

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Broadcast of 20 international live cases, from non-Brazilian interventional cardiology centers, an yet unseen action, and also from Rio de Janeiro, about the interventional treatment of cardiovascular acquired diseases and also the congenital diseases.	Awarding of the best abstracts, concentrating the best from the original scientific yield of Latin America.
Live cases with international broadcast from Washington (USA), Seoul (Korea) and Shanghai (China).	Sessions dedicated to the approach and discussion of the cutting edge in interventional cardiology, dealing with the most imperious limitations and controversies
A cast of more than twenty five international renowned guests (check the list presented in this divulgation).	Ionizing Radiation Protection Symposium
Sessions for discussions of complex cases	Parallel program dedicated to Interventions in Congenital Heart Diseases and Endovascular Procedures (non cardiac).

I consider this a unique opportunity to recycle and renew scientific knowledge, concentrated and elaborated with the vertical direction to the insertion of new and reinforcement of concepts, either to young or experienced colleagues, in 3 days, in an ideal stage, centrally located in Brazil and Latin America, very attractive in beauties and cultural life, together with this fantastic eclipse which occurs every three year with SOLACI, this year with the fortune of the management by both entities by colleagues of long convivence.

Don't lose this opportunity, enjoy the advance really lower prices for applications in case of SBHCI associates, a benefit finally conquered, just and necessary, based on the management evolution of the entity.

I count on you in Rio de Janeiro; here we go!

Dr. Luiz Alberto Mattos
Chairman - SBHCI

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