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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
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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>
      <publisher>
        <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/S0066-782X2008001600001</article-id>
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          <subject>P&#225;gina do Presidente</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Maioridade cient&#237;fica rumo &#224; lideran&#231;a na Am&#233;rica do Sul</article-title>
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            <surname>Chagas</surname>
            <given-names>Antonio Carlos Palandri</given-names>
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      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2008</year>
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      <volume>91</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>216</fpage>
      <lpage>216</lpage>
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        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" xml:lang="en">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub">
        <day>11</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2008</year>
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    <p>
      <bold>P&#193;GINA DO PRESIDENTE</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Maioridade cient&#237;fica rumo &#224; lideran&#231;a na Am&#233;rica do Sul</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Presidente da SBC</p>
    <p>
      <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="back">Correspond&#234;ncia</xref>
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    <p>Acabamos de realizar a 63&#170; edi&#231;&#227;o do Congresso Brasileiro de Cardiologia. Digo "realizar", pois este &#233; o termo mais adequado, porque me refiro ao fato de a Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) ter alcan&#231;ado um ideal.</p>
    <p>Em n&#250;meros, a programa&#231;&#227;o cient&#237;fica reuniu 30 confer&#234;ncias; 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;&#227;o de temas livres murais, incluindo quatro sess&#245;es especiais com os melhores.</p>
    <p>Al&#233;m disso, foram realizadas 11 atividades pr&#233;-congresso e quatro f&#243;runs de especialidades distintas - fisioterapia, nutri&#231;&#227;o, enfermagem e psicologia em cardiologia e, ainda, tr&#234;s edi&#231;&#245;es do curso ACLS. E, em um modelo inovador, a essa programa&#231;&#227;o tamb&#233;m foram acrescidas 15 sess&#245;es para debate das principais diretrizes publicadas pela SBC no bem-recebido projeto Salas das Diretrizes.</p>
    <p>O congresso tamb&#233;m ofereceu oportunidade de credenciamento dos m&#233;dicos interessados no T&#237;tulo de Especialista em Cardiologia SBC/AMB com a realiza&#231;&#227;o de exame durante o evento; op&#231;&#227;o cultural com a mostra inaugural do Museu do Cora&#231;&#227;o; capacita&#231;&#227;o tecnol&#243;gica para o Consult&#243;rio Digital, software de automatiza&#231;&#227;o de consult&#243;rios; e oferta de produtos exclusivos da SBC no Cantinho do Cora&#231;&#227;o.</p>
    <p>Sem contar com a infra-estrutura de servi&#231;os disponibilizada que somou 53 estabelecimentos da rede hoteleira de Curitiba, 16 linhas de &#244;nibus para transporte dos congressistas ao centro de conven&#231;&#245;es - al&#233;m do disponibilizado para visita ao Museu do Cora&#231;&#227;o - e duas ag&#234;ncias de turismo oficiais envolvidas.</p>
    <p>Os n&#250;meros s&#227;o grandiosos e, sem d&#250;vida, foram primordiais para a atra&#231;&#227;o dos inscritos contabilizados no congresso. Foram 6.305 participantes, entre eles 5.259 m&#233;dicos, 588 acad&#234;micos e 458 colaboradores.</p>
    <p>Enfim, o 63&#186; Congresso Brasileiro de Cardiologia marcou a maioridade cient&#237;fica do evento que se tornou efetivamente internacional com a realiza&#231;&#227;o de simp&#243;sios conjuntos com importantes entidades de outros pa&#237;ses. Entre elas: o <italic>American College of Cardiology</italic>, as sociedades Portuguesa de Cardiologia, de Aterosclerose Latino-Americana, Latino-Americana de Cardiologia Intervencionista e o <italic>Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute</italic>. &#201; nessa dire&#231;&#227;o que a SBC caminha - rumo &#224; lideran&#231;a da cardiologia sul-americana.</p>
    <p>N&#227;o posso me esquecer de mencionar a presen&#231;a destacada do governo Federal com a realiza&#231;&#227;o de v&#225;rias atividades conjuntas. &#201; importante lembrar que, pouco antes do congresso, no dia 3 de setembro, a SBC assinou com o Minist&#233;rio da Sa&#250;de termo de coopera&#231;&#227;o t&#233;cnica. O acordo reconhece a import&#226;ncia cient&#237;fica da entidade que passar&#225; a respaldar as pol&#237;ticas p&#250;blicas direcionadas &#224; sa&#250;de cardiovascular.</p>
    <p>A exemplo do que aconteceu este ano, para o 64&#186; Congresso Brasileiro de Cardiologia que ser&#225; realizado em Salvador, entre 12 e 16 de setembro, registro aqui um compromisso desta gest&#227;o: o de superar todas as expectativas com um evento em que, al&#233;m de uma programa&#231;&#227;o cient&#237;fica de elevado gabarito, estar&#225; exposto tudo de melhor e mais moderno que a ind&#250;stria tem a oferecer, assegurando a difus&#227;o do conhecimento para os cardiologistas, e, sobretudo, contribuindo para o aprimoramento do exerc&#237;cio da atividade m&#233;dica.</p>
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      <fn id="back" fn-type="corresp">
        <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>
      </fn>
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          <subject>The President's Page</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="en">Scientific maturity towards leadership in South America</article-title>
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      <p>
        <bold>THE PRESIDENT&#180;S PAGE</bold>
      </p>
      <p>
        <bold>Scientific maturity towards leadership in South America</bold>
      </p>
      <p>
        <bold>Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas </bold>
      </p>
      <p>President - SBC</p>
      <p>
        <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="back-body2">Mailing address</xref>
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      <p>We have just carried out the 63<sup>rd</sup> Brazilian Congress of Cardiology. I say "carried out" because this is the most adequate term, as I refer to the fact that the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC) has reached a goal.</p>
      <p>In figures, the scientific program comprised 30 conferences; 49 round-tables; 29 colloquiums; 37 "how-to-do" sessions, two clinical cases, 41 controversies, 28 curricular updates, 13 special sessions and 63 oral presentations, contemplating 660 presentations and three days of poster presentations, including four special sessions with the best ones.</p>
      <p>Additionally, we carried out 11 Pre-Congress activities and four Forums in distinct specialties - Physical Therapy, Nutrition, Nursing, and Psychology in Cardiology and, furthermore, three editions of the ACLS course. In an innovative model, 15 sessions were added to that program to debate the main directives published by SBC in the highly welcomed Room of Directives project.</p>
      <p>The Congress also offered the opportunity to physicians interested in sitting the examinations for a Board Certification in Cardiology by the SBC/AMB, with the examinations being carried out during the event; a cultural option, with the opening exhibit of the Heart Museum; technological capacitation for the Digital Office, an automation software for medical offices; and the offer of exclusive SBC products at the "Heart's Corner".</p>
      <p>All that, without mentioning the available service infra-structure, which included 53 hotels in the city of Curitiba, 16 bus lines to transport the Congress participants to the Convention Center - in addition to the one made available for the visit to Heart Museum - and two official tourism agencies involved in the process.</p>
      <p>These figures are impressive and, undoubtedly, they were crucial to attract the Congress participants. There were a total of 6.305 registered participants, among them, 5.259 doctors, 588 academicians and 458 collaborators.</p>
      <p>In conclusion, the 63<sup>rd</sup> Brazilian Congress of Cardiology has commemorated the scientific maturity of the event, which has become effectively an international one, with the carrying out of symposia together with important international societies, among them: the American College of Cardiology, the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, the Latin-American Society of Atherosclerosis, the Latin-American Society of Interventionist Cardiology and the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute. That is the direction toward which the SBC goes - in the direction of the leadership in South-American cardiology.</p>
      <p>I must not forget to mention the significant presence of the Federal Government, with several activities being carried out jointly. It is important to remember that, just before the Congress, on September 3<sup>rd</sup>, SBC signed a Term of Technical Cooperation with the Ministry of Health. The Term recognizes the scientific importance of SBC, which will start to support the public policies directed at cardiovascular health.</p>
      <p>Similarly to what took place this year, regarding the 64<sup>th</sup> Brazilian Congress of Cardiology, to be held September 12-16, I herein state a commitment of this administration: to exceed all expectations regarding an event, which is, in addition to a high-quality scientific program, will show the best and most modern resources that the industry has to offer, ensuring the distribution of knowledge among cardiologists and, overall, contributing to the improvement of the exercise of the medical 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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