BRITISH CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTION SOCIETY
(Charity No: 1073454) (Web Site: www.bcis.org.uk)
AUTUMN MEETING
will be held on
Friday 21 September, 2007
in the
Burlington Hotel, Dublin
REGISTRATION FORM
and PROGRAMME
Organiser:
Professor David Foley
For Further Details please contact: -
BCOS Ltd., P.O. Box 20710, London E3 5UE
Tel: 020 8980 0679 Fax: 020 8980 0725
E-mail:
The 2007 BCIS Autumn meeting will be held on Friday 21st September in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin
As during previous years, the meeting will focus on clinical aspects of interventional cardiology, and an interesting programme of presentations, case reviews and debates, with ample time for discussion, has been compiled by our Dublin hosts for the education and entertainment of their BCIS and Irish Cardiac Society colleagues.
As in previous years, early registration is advised.
You are also invited to the drinks reception and dinner, which takes place on the evening of Thursday 20th September. Registration for drinks reception and dinner, as well as for the conference, must be made in advance, using the enclosed registration form.
Attendance at the 2007 BCIS Autumn Meeting is free of charge to all BCIS members, and members of the Irish Cardiac Society. However a nominal charge is made towards the Thursday evening social event, for those who wish to attend. A BCIS membership application form is attached for anyone wishing to attend the Autumn Meeting, but who is not yet a member. Please note that the deadline for membership application, to qualify for attendance at the 2007 Autumn meeting, is 15th August, 2007.
Delegate accommodation has been arranged at the Burlington Hotel (please send the attached accommodation registration form directly to the hotel) and other neighbouring hotels are available via the Dublin Tourist Office.
Conference Venue: The meeting, drinks and dinner will be held at the Burlington Hotel. This is a high quality 4-star Dublin hotel, it’s a genuine Dublin institution, always at the heart of the action and central to the whirl of Dublin life. The Burlington Hotel is Dublin's largest and, indeed, liveliest hotel. Centrally located in the heart of Georgian Dublin, it is just a five-minute stroll to the city centre.
The combination of local Dubliners and guests from abroad gives the hotel its lively, cosmopolitan atmosphere. Coupled with their dedication to service and commitment to excellence, the Burlington is sure to exceed even the highest of expectations.
Burlington Hotel, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel: (+353 1) 660 5222 Fax: (+353 1) 660 8496
www.jurys-dublin-hotels.com/theburlington_dublin
Accommodation: Accommodation has been reserved in the Burlington Hotel, and should be booked directly, using the enclosed form. Single room bed and breakfast accommodation is available at Euros 196 per night, with double accommodation available for Euros 221. Subject to availability, the hotel has also offered this rate into the weekend for those delegates wishing to extend their stay in Dublin.
All rooms are equipped with Data Port, Multi-Channel TV, 24-hr Sports & News Channels, Trouser Press, Voice Mail, Workdesk/Lamp, Tea/Coffee Tray, Hairdryer
For other enquiries and alternative hotels, please contact the Tourist Office. www.visitdublin.com
In addition to reserving hotel accommodation, please do ensure that you book your place at the conference, and dinner if required, using the enclosed registration form.
Location: Dublin is easily reached air, sea, rail and road.
For directions to the hotel by road please refer to the hotel website.
Parking: On site parking is available for delegates staying in the Burlington Hotel
Air: Dublin Airport is 8 miles from the Burlington Hotel. You can take the Aircoach located just outside the arrivals hall, which will drop you outside the hotel for a cost of €6. A taxi will cost up to €25.
Rail: Connolly Station A taxi should cost in the region of €7.
Heuston Station 3 miles to the Burlington Hotel. A taxi should cost in the region of €10.
Sea: Dublin Port, 2 miles to the Burlington Hotel. Leaving Dublin Port, head for the city centre until you reach the East Link Bridge. Turn Left onto the bridge. Coming off the bridge, take a right onto York Road and at the end of the road, take a right onto Bremen Grove. Turn left ontoBath Avenue, then Haddington Road, reaching Mespil Road with the canal on your right hand side. Take the last left before you reach the traffic lights, onto Sussex Road, and continue along for 400m. The hotel is located on the left hand side.
Dun Laoghaire Ferry Port, 8 miles to the Burlington Hotel. Follow the signs heading for the city centre. As you pass through the Ballsbridge area, take a left off of Pembroke Road onto Upper Baggot Street. Take the fourth left at the traffic lights, taking you onto Mespil Road with the canal on your right hand side. Take the last left before you reach the traffic lights, onto Sussex Road, and continue along for 400m. The hotel is located on your left hand side.
Transport within Dublin
The Dublin Pass - the best way to see it all! With FREE transport from the airport to the city, FREE entrance to over 30 of Dublin’s top attractions and special offers in over 25 of Dublin’s top shops, restaurants, tours and entertainment venues. Order online from the Tourist Office: www.visitdublin.com
dublin city centre map
Dublin
For further information please contact the Tourist Information Centre: www.visitdublin.com
If you have time after the meeting, consider staying on in Dublin. The Burlington Hotel will continue the BCIS rate for the Friday and Saturday night, if you wish to extend your stay.
Top 10 things to do – from the Dublin Tourist Board!
1. Visit the Dublin Tourism Centre in the former Saint Andrews Church on Suffolk Street (just off Grafton Street) in the city centre. Apart from giving you the opportunity to view this beautifully restored building, we have a wide range of services to assist you in planning your visit to Dublin City, Dublin County and your holiday in the rest of Ireland. You can even pick up your souvenirs! Click here to find out more about our visitor centres.
2. See more for less - The Dublin Pass is your passport to Dublin giving you loads of great features in one great value package, including; FREE entry to over 30 of Dublin’s top visitor attractions, FREE airport transfer to Dublin city with Aircoach and over 25 special offers for eating, shopping, entertainment and tours. All this and an 84-page guidebook to Dublin and you can jump the queues too!
3. Tour Dublin – Discover more of the city on one of the hop-on-hop-off bus tours or if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle coach tours will take you to the surrounding countryside or coastal villages, just a 20-minute drive. If you prefer to discover the city for yourself, download an iWalk to your MP3 player and take things at your own pace. If you don’t want to download a walk why not try the ‘Rock & Stroll’ self-guided tour that stops at the many significant sites associated with Dublin’s world famous musicians, rock group and pop artists.
4. Visit a Castle – Ireland is synonymous with castles and you can step back in time and visit a selection of ancient and historic fortifications situated both in the city and throughout Dublin County
5. Discover the story of Dublin – A wealth of museums hold an array of information and artifacts recounting to you the history of this ancient capital.
6. Visit Georgian Dublin – The Georgian door is a well recognized symbol of ‘Welcome’ in Dublin. In the 18th century (Georgian Era) the city acquired this beautiful and distinctive style of architecture. Stroll through the elegant streets of Merrion and Fitzwilliam Squares, as fine examples of the great Georgian period.
7. Dine with the locals – We Dubliners like to eat, and the last ten years has seen the emergence of a cosmopolitan and chic food culture, which is mirrored in the hundreds of restaurants you will find throughout the Dublin region.
8. Sample some local brews. - Have a pint of Guinness or a shot of whiskey in one of Dublin's 1000 pubs! Discover how our ‘national drinks’ are made with visits to the Guinness Storehouse and Old Jameson Distillery.
9 Shop 'til you drop! - Dublin offers a wonderful array of products ranging from the traditional to the more contemporary. You can easily explore on foot the central shopping area from Henry Street to O' Connell Street and across the river to Grafton Street. You will also fine many extensive shopping centres throughout the city and county.
10. Party the night away! - Dublin has one of Europe's most vibrant and exciting nightlife cultures. So whether it's the traditional pubs with Irish music, or the hip and trendy bar and club scene that you're after, you'll find it all in here! Dublin is also famous for its playwrights and choice of theatres so if drama's your thing why not check out what's on?
For Further Details on the BCIS Autumn meeting: Please contact BCOS Ltd, PO Box 20710, London E3 5UE
Tel: 020 8980 0679 Fax: 020 8980 0725 E-mail:
Sponsors: BCIS would like to thank the British Cardiovascular Industry Association for their continued sponsorship and support of the BCIS Autumn Meeting.
Diary Date: Advanced Angioplasty 2008 (incorporating Left Main Stem 6)
23-25 January, 2008 Hilton London Metropole Hotel, Edgware Road, London W2
Details from
Autumn Meeting 2007
Burlington Hotel, Dublin
Programme
Thursday 20 September
19.30 Drinks Reception Pembroke Suite
20.00 Dinner Pembroke Suite
Friday 21 September Lansdowne Suite
07.15-07.30 Registration
08.00–8.10 Welcome and Opening address
08.10–8.30 Stent thrombosis in daily practice in UK and Ireland
Is there a problem or is it all hype?
08.30–08.50 Stent thrombosis associated with DES: are the trials
providing trustworthy information for the practitioner?
08.50-09.10 Stent thrombosis in daily practice
– insights from OCT Pathology
09.10-09.30 The role of Platelets – can we measure our therapies
or have we any idea what we are dealing with?
09.30-09.50 B.C.I.S. Audit Update
09.50-10.00 Optimal Anti-platelet regimes post DES, strategies Panel Discussion
for Patients on Warfarin and interruption for
surgical procedures
10.10–10.40 Coffee Herbert Suite
10.40–11.00 New and emerging stent technology
Bioabsorbable Stents: The Future starts today
11.00–11.20 Advances in “high-tec” non invasive cardiac imaging
- what impact on the interventionalist?
11.20-1140 Coronary Physiology in the Cath Lab every day
Complete Diagnostic Capability and user friendliness
11.40-12.10 Increasing Need for IVUS guidance of PCI in the
“DES era”
12.10-12.30 Enhancing Endothelial Repair after
Vascular Interventions
12.30-13.30 Lunch Herbert Suite
13.30-13.50 Expanding indications for PFO closure:
Evidence for who benefits:
can we see through the MIST?
13.50–14.10 Coronary Stenting Techniques: Bifurcation Stenting:
As vexatious as ever!
New technologies, optimal techniques?
14.10-14.30 Coronary Stenting Techniques:
The Evolving role of Adjunctive devices,
thrombus aspiration, distal protection devices,
“cutting balloons”, etc?
14.30-15.30 Case review session: Horrendoplasty, heroics
What not to do and how not to do it!!!
15.30-16.00 Tea Herbert Suite
16.00-16.20 Optimal peri-procedural anti-thrombotic therapy?
Heparin, LMW heparin, bivalirudin,
16.20-16.40 Left main and multivessel disease:
the perennial Debate: stenting or surgery?
16.40-17.00 Chronic total occlusion:
The Last Frontier to be conquered in PCI
New Tools, techniques,
17.00 Close of Meeting
AUTUMN MEETING
The Burlington Hotel, Dublin
20th and 21st September, 2007
REGISTRATION FORM
Please complete, using capital letters, and return to:
BCOS Ltd., P.O. Box 20710, London E3 5UE
Fax: 020 8980 0725
Attendance at the BCIS Autumn Meeting on Friday 21st September is free of charge to all BCIS and Irish Cardiac Society members. However, a nominal charge of £30 is made as a contribution towards the Thursday evening dinner. Early registration is recommended, and will be confirmed in writing.
Name:Position:
Hospital:
Preferred Mailing Address:
Tel: / Fax:
Please include your BCIS
Membership No: / Email Address:
Special Dietary Requirements
BCIS and Irish Cardiac Society Members Registration
· Dinner on Thursday evening 20th September:
· Meeting on Friday 21st September:
· I enclose payment towards dinner of £30 (£25.54 + VAT @ 17.5%)
(VAT Registration No: 583 3652 22)
Payment should be made by cheque or by credit card (VISA or MASTERCARD only)
Cheques should be made in favour of “BCOS Ltd Conference Account”
If paying by credit card, please provide details below
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AUTUMN MEETING
The Burlington Hotel, Dublin
20th and 21st September, 2007
ACCOMMODATION REGISTRATION FORM
Please be sure to register for the conference by contacting BCOS Ltd.
Please return the accommodation form prior to 8th August, 2007 directly to the Burlington Hotel to ensure your reservation at the agreed conference rates
If booking by telephone please quote the hotel code listed below:
Name: ………………………………………………………………………..
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Room Type: (please circle as appropriate)
Single Double Twin Smoking Non-smoking Disabled Access
If double/twin, sharing with: ..…………………………..………………………..
Please note that prices are listed in Euros, are per room per night and include breakfast and VAT.
Burlington Hotel*** / Single Room / Double/Twin Room / Ref. CodeUpper Leeson Street,
Dublin 4,
Ireland
Tel: (+353 1) 660 5222
Fax: (+353 1) 660 3172
Email :
www.jurys-dublin-hotels.com/theburlington_dublin / €196.00 / €221.00 / BCIS Autumn meeting
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*** PLEASE NOTE ***
THE FINAL CUT-OFF DATE FOR BOOKING IS THE 8th August, 2007
FOLLOWING THIS DATE ALL BOOKINGS WILL BE SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY
Reservations must be made using this form in order to avail of this special conference rate.
In the event of cancellation and avoiding cancellation charges