Gary S. Mintz 教授

　　记不清参加过多少次CIT了,恐怕差不多10次了。这些年我看到了CIT的巨大变化。一方面是规模,首次参加CIT时的规模已经让我无法记住,但现在她已经成长为世界第三大的介入心脏病学会议。另一方面是其教育专场的种类,包括病例报告、病例竞赛等,并且采用了先进的支持技术。可以看到,CIT已经成为一个拥有庞大讲者群、许多精彩内容和技术的大型会议。我所见证的CIT的成长是令人惊讶的。

　　CIT令我印象最深刻的就是其进步之大。目前CIT与TCT是合作伙伴。每年夏天CIT部分资深专家就会来到美国心血管研究基金会(CRF)与我们讨论既往会议并讨论如何使下一年的会议办得更精彩。CIT所设置的会节非常利于将世界介入心脏病学家最感兴趣的内容引入介绍给中国参会者。我们也意识到,为中国介入医生尤其是年轻医生提供一个展示和学习的平台是非常重要的,最终他们将成为成熟的优秀介入心脏病学医生。

　　I can’t even count how many times I have come to attend CIT. Maybe it’ s about ten times. During these years, I have seen great changes from CIT. First thing is the size. I can’ t remember how big CIT was when I first attended it but now it has grown to be the 3rd largest interventional cardiological meeting in the world. The second thing is the types of educational sessions that are available, including the case reports, case competitions, etc. The technology used is also advanced. You could see that CIT is becoming a huge meeting with huge attendant faculty, quantities of programs, technolo gies. It is amazing to watch how it changed.

　　What CIT impresses me most is how much it has evolved. It is now co-sponsored by TCT. Some of its senior physician advisors visited CRF every summer. We discuss the previous meeting and how to make the next year’s meeting even better. The sessions are clearly geared to bring what is most interested by interventional cardiologists in the world to the Chinese audience. And we also recognize that it is particularly important to have a venue so that Chinese interventional doctors especially the younger ones can present cases and learn from its faculty to date when they can become part of the interventional cardiologists.