Improving Patient Outcomes Through Worldwide Medical Programming
As the breadth and complexity of interventional medicine grows, so does the need for expanded, up-to-the-minute educational opportunities for physicians, nurses, and technologists. CRF has responded by developing a range of educational initiatives that meet those needs.
The CRF Center for Education is committed to educating physicians and other health care professionals on translating new therapies into improved care for patients with cardiovascular disease. With a worldwide reputation for excellence in training practitioners in advanced techniques and innovations CRF conducts educational meetings, conferences, and teaching symposia that shape the direction of research and new approaches to clinical practice in interventional cardiovascular medicine.
In addition to our annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), scientific symposium, the CRF Center for Education also sponsors a variety of other educational activities that focus on emerging clinical areas of need, such as:
- International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease (IC3D)
- Complex PCI: Left Main and CTO Summit (A Live Case Demonstration Course)
- Optimizing PCI Outcomes: A Vision for 2012
- Interventional Cardiology Fellows Course
- Transcatheter Valve Therapies
- ACC/i2 Summit with TCT
Through collaborations with national and international affiliates, the CRF Center for Education also participates in producing a variety of international educational programs:
- China Interventional Therapeutics in Partnership with TCT (Beijing, China)
- JIM (Rome, Italy)
- Angioplasty Summit-TCTAP (Seoul, South Korea)
- Gi2 in Partnership with TCT (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- TCT @ CACI (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- p-c-i Live (Munich, Germany)
- TCT at AATS (San Francisco, CA)
- Advanced CardioVascular Solutions (ACVS) with TCT (Hyderabad, India)
- SOLACI Congress 2012 (Mexico City, Mexico)
- TCT Mediterranean
- TCT Russia
The CRF Center for Education also develops and distributes educational materials intended for the global medical community through online journals, ancillary programs at other national medical meetings, and state-of-the-art graphic and multimedia services that include high-definition video production, online interactive training programs, and 3-D modeling and animation. CRF also manages TCTMD.com, a leading resource for interventional cardiovascular news and education.
