Gregg W. Stone, MD, will receive the 2010 Achievement Award from New Cardiovascular Horizons (NCVH) on Friday, June 4, during NCVH 2010 in New Orleans, LA. The award recognizes leaders in cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Stone will be recognized and deliver his presentation during the “Masters and Legends in Cardiovascular Medicine” session.

Established to recognize leaders in the field of cardiology and limb salvage, the NCVH Achievement Award has been bestowed on pioneers
in the industry, including Julio Palmaz, MD, Edward B. Diethrich, MD, Martin Leon, MD, and Michael E. DeBakey, MD.

New Cardiovascular Horizons is the longest running “head-to-toe” cardiovascular meeting to focus on limb salvage and amputation prevention techniques.

TCT 2010 (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics) will provide significant clinical research updates to technologies and practices in interventional cardiology that will directly affect patient care.

The important role of interventional cardiology has figured prominently in recent current events with the announcement that former President Clinton received a heart stent in February at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, followed by the reporting of clinical trial data showing promising results for a heart valve repair device that is inserted via a catheter.

The announcement of a new clinical trial, EXCEL (Evaluation of Xience Prime versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Effectiveness of Left Main Revascularization), that will compare drug-eluting stents to coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients with left main coronary artery disease, was made today at “Optimizing PCI Outcomes: Evolving Paradigms,” a symposium presented by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.

A record-setting number of attendees along with hundreds of groundbreaking research presentations again confirmed that TCT is the premier global forum of evidence-based medicine and scientific studies in the field of interventional cardiology. TCT 2009, held for the first time in San Francisco, September 21-25, attracted a record number of nearly 12,000 participants from 116 countries.