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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>S&#227;o Paulo, SP, Brazil</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1590/S0066-782X2008001500001</article-id>
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          <subject>P&#225;gina do Presidente</subject>
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        <article-title>Aten&#231;&#227;o &#224; educa&#231;&#227;o continuada de qualidade</article-title>
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            <surname>Chagas</surname>
            <given-names>Antonio Carlos Palandri</given-names>
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        <month>09</month>
        <year>2008</year>
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      <volume>91</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>126</fpage>
      <lpage>127</lpage>
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    <p>
      <bold>P&#193;GINA DO PRESIDENTE</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Aten&#231;&#227;o &#224; educa&#231;&#227;o continuada de qualidade</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Presidente da SBC</p>
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      <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="back">Correspond&#234;ncia</xref>
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    <p>Ingressando no nono m&#234;s &#224; frente da nossa Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC), &#233; com muito entusiasmo que inauguro esta sess&#227;o nos <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic>. O momento n&#227;o poderia ser mais oportuno, pois coincide com a realiza&#231;&#227;o da 63&#170; edi&#231;&#227;o do Congresso Brasileiro de Cardiologia.</p>
    <p>Quando assumi o mandato de presidente, em minha primeira mensagem aos associados, ent&#227;o no <italic>Jornal SBC</italic>, aceitei tamb&#233;m, junto aos demais membros da atual diretoria, a responsabilidade de dar grande aten&#231;&#227;o &#224; educa&#231;&#227;o continuada de qualidade. Acredito que assegurar a difus&#227;o do conhecimento, ao mesmo tempo em que se estimula a produ&#231;&#227;o cient&#237;fica, &#233; uma das principais tarefas das sociedades de especialistas no nosso tempo.</p>
    <p>S&#227;o v&#225;rias as iniciativas com esse objetivo, entre elas a renova&#231;&#227;o dos cursos de reciclagem que garantiu a oferta de treinamento homog&#234;neo a todas as regionais da SBC. Mas, naturalmente, o congresso anual, &#233; a que mais se destaca. Antes mesmo de sua realiza&#231;&#227;o, posso afirmar que estamos diante do maior f&#243;rum cient&#237;fico organizado por esta entidade.</p>
    <p>Ser&#227;o 30 confer&#234;ncias - 17 internacionais e 13 nacionais, situa&#231;&#227;o quase equ&#226;nime e que valoriza a bagagem cient&#237;fica dos pesquisadores brasileiros. E ainda: 49 mesas redondas, 29 col&#243;quios, 37 sess&#245;es "como eu fa&#231;o", dois casos cl&#237;nicos, 41 controv&#233;rsias, 28 atualiza&#231;&#245;es curriculares, 13 sess&#245;es especiais e 65 de temas livres orais, contemplando 660 apresenta&#231;&#245;es, e tr&#234;s dias de apresenta&#231;&#245;es de temas livres murais, incluindo quatro sess&#245;es especiais com os melhores.</p>
    <p>As confer&#234;ncias de abertura e magna ser&#227;o proferidas por Velentin Fuster, especialista em aterosclerose, tema central do 63&#186; Congresso. A escolha desse assunto n&#227;o &#233; em v&#227;o: a aterosclerose &#233; uma afec&#231;&#227;o cr&#244;nico-degenerativa que produz, em pa&#237;ses de primeiro e terceiro mundo, n&#237;veis considerado epid&#234;micos em termo de preval&#234;ncia e, portanto, de grande impacto epidemiol&#243;gico.</p>
    <p>O tema central ser&#225; amplamente discutido, sem o congresso perder de vista, contudo, todas as outras doen&#231;as quem acometem o aparelho cardiovascular, sobretudo as que t&#234;m maior preval&#234;ncia no nosso pa&#237;s como a febre reum&#225;tica e a doen&#231;a de Chagas.</p>
    <p>Essa primeira, por exemplo, merece f&#243;rum especial nas atividades cient&#237;ficas apoiadas pelo Minist&#233;rio da Sa&#250;de e corrobora a&#231;&#227;o da SBC que re&#250;ne for&#231;a-tarefa, com apoio do Governo federal e das sociedades cong&#234;neres de Reumatologia e Pediatria, para preven&#231;&#227;o e tratamento dessa mol&#233;stia cardiovascular. Entre as a&#231;&#245;es da for&#231;a-tarefa liderada pela SBC est&#225; a publica&#231;&#227;o de diretriz sobre a doen&#231;a que representa um problema de sa&#250;de p&#250;blico.</p>
    <p>A febre reum&#225;tica faz 500 mil novas v&#237;timas e causa 350 mil mortes por ano, quase exclusivamente nos pa&#237;ses em desenvolvimento, segundo dados da Organiza&#231;&#227;o Mundial de Sa&#250;de (OMS). Em n&#237;vel nacional, estat&#237;sticas do Sistema &#218;nico de Sa&#250;de (SUS) registram, ao longo de 24 meses, 2.207 interna&#231;&#245;es na regi&#227;o Norte; 7.920 no Nordeste; 12.369 no Sudeste; 5.260 no Sul e mais 2.075 no Centro-Oeste, que custaram aos cofres p&#250;blicos R$ 162 milh&#245;es no atendimento e tratamento. Considerando as interven&#231;&#245;es cl&#237;nicas e cir&#250;rgicas, o gasto pode ultrapassar R$ 390 milh&#245;es.</p>
    <p>A doen&#231;a de Chagas tamb&#233;m ser&#225; contemplada com &#234;nfase, durante o congresso, tendo sido reservado ao tema a confer&#234;ncia "Tratamento etiol&#243;gico na mol&#233;stia de Chagas", entre outras atividades. Em 2009, comemora-se o ano de centen&#225;rio de descoberta da mol&#233;stia e n&#243;s j&#225; estamos desenvolvendo os projetos para marcar a data. Haver&#225; ainda um f&#243;rum, durante as atividades pr&#233;-congresso, sobre Epidemiologia e Cardiologia baseada em Evid&#234;ncias - uma parceria entre a SBC, atrav&#233;s de seu gruo de estudo na &#225;rea, e o Minist&#233;rio da Sa&#250;de.</p>
    <p>Al&#233;m da abrang&#234;ncia generalizada no que se referem aos temas abordados, em 2008, a Comiss&#227;o Executiva e Cient&#237;fica do Congresso, presidida pelo diretor Cient&#237;fico, Luiz Antonio de Almeida Campos, preocupou-se de maneira intensa com a co-participa&#231;&#227;o efetiva dos nossos departamentos, grupos de estudos, estaduais e regionais para produzir um programa denso e abrangente que reflita os conhecimentos contempor&#226;neos sobre as doen&#231;as cardiovasculares.</p>
    <p>Volto novamente ao momento da posse quando declarei o prop&#243;sito de congregar todos os cardiologistas para somar for&#231;as e levar a SBC a um novo momento da sua hist&#243;ria. Desde ent&#227;o, todas as lideran&#231;as desta entidade s&#227;o estimuladas a compartilhar conosco as decis&#245;es que ditar&#227;o os caminhos a serem trilhados. Muito al&#233;m disso, especificamente em rela&#231;&#227;o &#224;s estaduais e regionais, procuramos aproximar-nos de nossos representantes, conhecendo suas necessidades e dando apoio para o desenvolvimento da cardiologia em todos os territ&#243;rios da na&#231;&#227;o, oferecendo, por exemplo, educa&#231;&#227;o continuada a todos os cardiologistas da federa&#231;&#227;o.</p>
    <p>Esses parceiros - incluindo-se a&#237; departamentos e grupos de estudos - aprovam integralmente a grade cient&#237;fica do 63&#186; Congresso Brasileiro, tanto em rela&#231;&#227;o aos temas quanto aos palestrantes, caracterizando-o como um evento de representa&#231;&#227;o nacional. Al&#233;m da coer&#234;ncia federativa em sua programa&#231;&#227;o, o f&#243;rum tamb&#233;m evidencia a internacionaliza&#231;&#227;o da cardiologia brasileira.</p>
    <p>Prova disso s&#227;o o II Simp&#243;sio Conjunto com o <italic>American College of Cardiology</italic> (ACC) que ter&#225; tr&#234;s horas de dura&#231;&#227;o, com as presen&#231;as dos presidentes atual e passado do ACC, al&#233;m de seu diretor Cient&#237;fico, e.o Simp&#243;sio Luso-Brasileiro de Cardiologia. Ambos resultam da realiza&#231;&#227;o de eventos conjuntos bem-sucedidos nos congressos das entidades americana e portuguesa. Cabe mencionar ainda o simp&#243;sio em parceria com a <italic>World Heart Federation</italic> (WHF), promovido no Congresso Mundial de Cardiologia.</p>
    <p>A participa&#231;&#227;o da SBC nos eventos fora do pa&#237;s tem-me orgulhado muito. O reconhecimento &#233; prova de como a comunidade internacional coloca a cardiologia brasieira no mesmo patamar de qualquer outro centro de refer&#234;ncia. E continuaremos a investir em projetos que consolidem, de modo ainda mais n&#237;tido, nossa posi&#231;&#227;o de lideran&#231;a dentro do cen&#225;rio cardiol&#243;gico mundial.</p>
    <p>Estamos abrindo as fronteiras da cardiologia, vislumbrando a internacionaliza&#231;&#227;o da nossa sociedade. A globaliza&#231;&#227;o da especialidade nacional &#233; meta a ser perseguida, tanto que, para 2009, est&#225; sendo tra&#231;ado um plano de a&#231;&#245;es para que a SBC possa liderar a cardiologia sul-americana e, por conseguinte, trazer ao Congresso Brasileiro de Cardiologia simp&#243;sios com as principais sociedades localizadas nessa regi&#227;o do continente.</p>
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        <p>Correspond&#234;ncia:</p>
        <p> Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas </p>
        <p> Avenida Marechal C&#226;mara, 160/330, Centro </p>
        <p> 20020-907, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil </p>
        <p> E-mail: </p>
        <p>
          <email xlink:href="acchagas@cardiol.br">acchagas@cardiol.br</email>
        </p>
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        <article-title xml:lang="en">Focusing top quality continuing education</article-title>
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      <p>
        <bold>THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE</bold>
      </p>
      <p>Focusing top quality continuing education</p>
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        <bold>Antonio Carlos Palandri ChagasPresident - SBC</bold>
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        <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="end-body2">Mailing address</xref>
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      <p>Now entering my ninth month at the head of our Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), it is with great enthusiasm that I am inaugurating this section in the <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic>. The moment could not have been more opportune as it coincides with the 63rd edition of the Brazilian Congress of Cardiology. </p>
      <p>When I assumed the office of president, in my first message to my fellow members &#150; at that time in the <italic>Journal SBC </italic>&#150; I also assumed, together with all the other members of SBC&#146;s current board, the responsibility of prioritizing our focus on top quality continuing education. It is my belief that ensuring the spread of knowledge at the same time as we encourage scientific production is one of the main tasks of societies of specialties in our time. </p>
      <p>The initiatives featuring this purpose are various. Among them is renewal of the recycling courses that guaranteed the offer of homogeneous training to all of the SBC regional divisions. Naturally, the yearly congress is the most outstanding of these initiatives. Even before it takes place I am confident in stating that this year&#146;s congress will be the greatest scientific forum our society has ever organized.</p>
      <p>There will be 30 conferences &#150; 17 international and 13 Brazilian &#150; a close-to-equal division that pays homage to the scientific track record of Brazilian researchers. In addition we will have 49 round-tables, 29 colloquiums, 37 &#147;How I do it&#148; sessions, two clinical cases, 41 controversies, 28 curricular up-dates, plus 13 special and 65 free topic oral sessions, all of which add up to 660 presentations and three days of free topic poster presentations, including four special sessions featuring the best of the poster presentations.</p>
      <p>Dr. Venentin Fuster, specialized in atherosclerosis &#150; the central topic of the 63<sup>rd </sup>Congress &#150; will give the opening speech and the keynote speech. The subject was not a random choice: atherosclerosis is a chronic degenerative condition that registers what are considered to be epidemic levels of incidence in first and third world countries and thus exerts a major epidemiological impact. </p>
      <p>The central topic will be the object of wide-ranging discussion but without the congress losing sight of the other cardiovascular related diseases, above all those that are more prevalent in Brazil, such as rheumatic fever and Chagas disease. </p>
      <p>Rheumatic fever, for example, is the object of a special forum within the scientific activities supported by the Ministry of Health and backed by SBC, which gathers a task force that boasts support from the federal government and our sister societies of Rheumatology and Pediatrics for the prevention and treatment of this cardiovascular disease. Among the actions of the task force led by SBC is publication of the guidelines of this disease that constitutes a public health problem. </p>
      <p>According to the World Health Organization (WHO), rheumatic fever registers 500,000 new cases and 350,000 deaths each year, almost exclusively in developing countries. On the domestic front, statistics for a 24-month period drawn up by the public Unified Health System (SUS) show 2207 hospital admissions in the Northern region; 7920 in the Northeast; 12,369 in the Southeast; 5260 in the South; and another 2075 in the Center-West. Care and treatment of these cases cost the public treasury a total of R$ 162 million. When clinical and surgical procedures are taken into account, the cost could amount to more than R$ 390 million. </p>
      <p>Chagas disease will also be focused during the congress and, among other activities, this topic will feature the conference entitled &#147;The Etiological Treatment of Chagas Disease&#148;. The year of 2009 marks the centennial of the discovery of this disease and we are already preparing projects in remembrance of the date. Pre-congress activities will also include a forum entitled Evidence-Based Epidemiology and Cardiology &#150; a partnership between the SBC study group for this field and the Ministry of Health. </p>
      <p>In addition to overall coverage as far as the topics addressed are concerned, in 2008 the Executive and Scientific Commission of the Congress, headed by Scientific Director Luiz Antonio de Almeida Campos, paid special and extensive attention to ensure the effective co-participation of our various state and regional departments and study groups to produce a dense and wide-reaching program that reflects contemporaneous knowledge of cardiovascular diseases.</p>
      <p>I would like to hark back again to my inauguration as president of SBC when I declared my proposal to persuade all cardiologists to get together and lend their strength to lead SBC to a new moment in its history. Since then, all the leaderships of this society have been encouraged to share with us the decisions that will indicate the pathways to be trodden. And further, specifically in regard to the state and regional branches, we have sought closer relations with our representatives, becoming acquainted with their needs and lending support for the development of cardiology throughout the country, for example, by offering continuing education to all cardiologists of the federation.</p>
      <p>These partners &#150; including departments and study groups &#150; fully approve the scientific grid of the 63rd Brazilian Congress in terms of topics as well as speakers, characterizing it as an event of nationwide representation. In addition to the federative consistency of the programming, the forum also demonstrates the globalization of Brazilian cardiology. </p>
      <p>Proof of this is the three-hour II Joint Symposium with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) featuring the presence of both the current and former ACC presidents as well as its scientific director, and the Luso-Brazilian Symposium of Cardiology. Both result from the successful holding of joint events in the congresses of the American and Portuguese entities. Also noteworthy is the symposium in partnership with the World Heart Federation (WHF) promoted during the World Congress of Cardiology.</p>
      <p>I am very proud of SBC&#146;s participation in the out-of-country events. Recognition is proof of how the international community places Brazilian cardiology on the same level as any other center of reference. And we will continue to invest in projects that even more clearly consolidate our position of leadership within the world cardiological scenario. </p>
      <p>We at SBC are opening up new frontiers in cardiology with a view to the globalization of our society. Globalization of this specialty is a goal we aim for, so much so that plans are being laid for 2009 to allow SBC to lead South American cardiology and thus bring symposiums with the major societies located in this region of the continent to the Brazilian Congress of Cardiology. </p>
      <p>This makes us very happy and also represents a great obligation: the more recognition we achieve, the greater is our duty to offer cardiologists effective and up-to-date continuing education programs and, if I may repeat myself, one of the points most focused during the current administration. It is my belief that in this way we will be offering members the up-dating they need to allow them to ensure the best possible treatment of patients, the prime and fundamental object of our profession. </p>
      <p>
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          <p>Mailing address:</p>
          <p>Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas</p>
          <p>Avenida Marechal C&#226;mara, 160/330, Centro</p>
          <p> 20020-907, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil</p>
          <p> E-mail: </p>
          <p>
            <email xlink:href="acchagas@cardiol.br">acchagas@cardiol.br</email>
          </p>
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