About Us
Israel Heart Society - Portfolio
The Israel Heart Society (IHS) was founded in 1952 in Haifa and currently has 659 active members.
Aims of the Society:
To enhance the professional and scientific knowledge of therapy and prevention of heart diseases in Israel.
IHS is a formal society of the Israel Medical Association, and acts as a formal representative of the cardiology community in Israel as recognized by its scientific committee.
IHS is a formal member of:
European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
World Heart Federation (WHF)
IHS board consists of: President, President elect, past President, Secretary General, and
4 Board members representing middle, south, north, and Jerusalem chapters, representative of cardiac surgery and pediatric cardiology.
IHS has 11 very active Working Groups each headed by a Chairman and Secretary:
- Interventional Cardiology
- Intensive Cardiac Care
- Electrophysiology and Pacing
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging
- Echocardiography
- Cardiology in the Community
- Heart Failure
- Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases
- Cardiovascular Pharmacology
- Additionally, a committee for experimental cardiology and basic sciences
Professional activities:
- Professional Committee for the Ministry of Health "basket" for approval of novel drugs and technologies
- Professional screening and consultation for Ministry of Health
- National Cardiology Board examination and certification.
- Determining the curriculum for cardiology training.
- Close collaboration with the European Society of Cardiology and American College of Cardiology
- Position papers
- 27 position papers on various aspects of cardiology
- 10 guidelines (IHS usually adapts the guidelines published by ESC)
Educational activities:
- Advanced cardiology course for senior residents
- Annual update for community physicians.
- Fellowship grants
- Mayo Clinic award
- Merck Fellowship award
- Krannert Institute
- Supporting grants for young cardiologists who are presenting their original work at major cardiology scientific meetings
- Research grants
- Kellerman's young investigator award
- Neufeld award for the most influencial original publication performed in Israel
- Michelle Mirowski award for excellence in cardiology
Research activities
- Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey – ACSIS – a biannual survey including all hospitalized patients with ACS in all 26 Israeli hospitals.
- ACSIS – PCI in 2010 – data on all cardiac interventions performed in patients included in main ACSIS
- Valvular and coronary intervention registries – in collaboration with the ESC
- Heart failure survey
- Electrophysiology devices registry
- Trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) registry
SCIETIFIC ACTIVITIES:
IHS and its working groups conduct several scientific meetings. In 2010, 40 different scientific meeting took place
The Annual IHS Conference takes place in April-May with collaboration of the Cardiac surgery and pediatric cardiology societies. It is attended by approximately
1500 cardiologists and non-cardiologists, nurses, technicians, and allied health professionals. The conference feature numerous high-level scientific presentations in all fields of cardiology and cardiac surgery and is usually honored by several invited distinguished international speakers who participate in 3 joint sessions: IHS-ACC; IHS–ESC; and IHS – AFICARDIO (French cardiologists).
Friends of the IHS Association (FIHSA):
founded in 2005 and consists of many senior world-renowned cardiologists from USA and Canada with an aim is to promote cardiovascular research in Israel and the collaboration with North American cardiologists.
Professional collaborations:
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IHS is full member of the European Society of cardiology. All IHS members are automatically full ESC members and many Israeli cardiologists serve in senior positions within the ESC.
- new Israeli Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) has just been established.