Dear colleagues,

The National Cardiology Congress that the 24^th is being held, is one of the leading congresses organized in our country with high quality scientific content and continuously growing number of participants and contributors. We hold our Congress in İstanbul, 2010 Culture Capital of Europe, this year. Our aim is to organize the 25^th Congress also in this global center with the participation of many more local and international delegates.

We tried our best to accomplish the best program for our guests. We shall find the opportunity of updating information and debate on current developments on cardiovascular diseases in “Symposia”, “Updating Meetings”, “Pro-Con Debates” and “How to do” sessions. We all will share opinions on clinical practices and solve problems we face in sessions titled, “Difficult Cases in Cardiology”. We shall enhance our competence besides our knowledge through “Visual Interactive Courses”.

We made an important renewal for our 24^th Congress. Considering our participants and contributor body and the needs of expanding, we organized all the sessions in this field in one of the halls as “Cardiology in Daily Practices”. Our aim is to present main current information on cardiovascular diseases focused on daily practices, thus to form daily practices based on current applications and guidelines.

The President of European Cardiology Association and a group of elite international speakers on cardiology will be our guests. The traditional Turkish-German Societies of Cardiology joint meeting will be held within our Congress this year. Our joint meeting with The Bosnia-Herzegovina Cardiology Association that we aim to develop our mutual cooperation will also take place within the 24^th Congress.

Our Congress, ensuring and providing information and facilities of knowledge on academic researches organized in our country, through posters and verbal presentations, is also open to international papers this year. This renewal will intensify the international characteristics of the Congress. Awards will also be presented to the speakers as in previous years and the accepted papers will be published in our official journal “Türk Kardiyoloji Derne¤i Arflivi/Archive of the Turkish Society of Cardiology” indexed in Pubmed, IndexMedicus, MEDLINE, IndexCopernicus, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica) and TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Turkish Medical Directory.

Looking forward to meet and share our knowledge in the 24^th National Cardiology Congress organized with careful attention and within which each of our colleagues will find whatever he looks for in every subject, we remain.