Welcome from ACC Chair

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, I am pleased to welcome you to this official highlights of the recent ACC/i2 Summit meeting in New Orleans, LA. We chose to partner with MD Conference Online to bring you this special edition because of this publication’s thorough approach to assuring the accuracy of conference highlights reporting.

While in most cases, the science presented at a major conference like the ACC/i2 Summit has not undergone the rigors of peer review for publication in a scientific journal, the data presented through the trials, posters, and special sessions may provide useful information for practitioners. The careful process used in creating these conference highlights provides reassurance that the content of the presentations is being accurately represented.

The topics selected for this special edition were determined in direct consultation with the scientific steering committee of the ACC Scientific Session and the i2 Summit. All articles were written strictly from primary source data (no press releases, no third party opinion), and each statistic has been verified. The faculty who presented these data live were invited to comment on the resulting articles. Finally, an independent board of world experts carefully went over the content to ensure accuracy and fair balance.

I hope you find this publication to be useful to your practice.

 

We welcome your comments on this new initiative – please let us know if you would like to see more. And please plan to join us live in Chicago for the 2012 ACC Scientific Session and i2 Summit. You can learn more at www.accscientificsession.org.