Dear Members of the European Society of Cardio-Vascular Surgery,
It’s for me a privilege to send you this address for my 2008-2010 mandate as President of the European Society for Cardio-Vascular Surgery.
The prestige of the Society is remarked by the names of the Past Presidents; many of them are important figures in the history of both cardiac and vascular surgery. It is for me an honour to serve in the same office.
The spirit of the Society has shown to be based on a complete “par condicio” autonomy of its two ancillary components, cardiac and vascular.
As a consequence of the development of the latter, I would rather speak nowadays of vascular and endovascular surgery. It is clear that today, if a patient affected by an arterial disease consults an expert of conventional arterial surgery, he will receive a conventional treatment; in case he consults an interventionalist, he will receive an interventional procedure. Only an equipe prepared to treat very well a patient both with conventional and endovascular procedures, will give a patient the best treatment option for that specific case.
During the Annual Congress an interdisciplinary program is dedicated to the overlapping items of the Society.
A reorganization of the Society is taking place, and it’s aiming to bring about in the near future an easier interface between its members and the Executive Committee, giving more attention to young cardiac, vascular and endovascular surgeons, and promoting the presentation of scientific methodology from countries which have not been so involved in the scientific research so far. Of course a Society will live and improve through the efforts of its members.
I am sure all of you will do your best to be proud to be part of this Society.
Sincerely yours
Giovanni Deriu
President of the European Society