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 World Symposia of Cardiac Pacing |
By: Seymour Furman, MD Table of Contents
Conference on Cardiac Pacing - 1958 (Not considered a World Symposium) Edited by Jeffrey, Kirk - Jeffrey K. Conference on Artificial Pacemakers and Cardiac Prosthesis: Sponsored by The Medical Electronics Center of the Rockefeller Institute 1958 PACE 1993;16:1445-1482. | Auspices: | The Medical Electronics Center of The Rockefeller Institute | | Venue: | New York, NY, USA | | Date: | September 10, 1958 | | Organizer: | Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ph.D. | | Presiding: | Carl Berkeley, Ph.D | | Attendance: | approx. 50 investigators (mainly from the US) | | Major Topics/Events: | Clinical long term transvenous pacing had been accomplished but neither published nor discussed.
Implantable pacing was discussed but no implantable pacemaker had been developed. | | Proceedings: | | Back to Top
First World Symposium on Cardiac Pacing - 1963 (Retrospectively designated) | Auspices: | New York Academy of Sciences | | Co-sponsor: | American Heart Association | | Venue: | New York, NY, USA | | Date: | September 27-28, 1963 | | Chair and Organizer: | William W. L. Glenn, M.D. | | Attendance: | Approx. 100 investigators (mainly from the US) | | Major Topics/Events: | | | Proceedings: | Edited by W. W. L. Glenn - Cardiac Pacemakers, Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1964;111, Art 3:813-1122. | | Back to Top
Second World Symposium on Cardiac Pacing - 1968 (Retrospectively designated) | Auspices: | New York Academy of Sciences | | Venue: | New York, NY, USA | | Date: | November 17-19, 1968 | | Chair and Organizer: | Seymour Furman, MD with Hans Lagergren, MD and Edgar Sowton, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 200 (from North America, Europe, South Africa) | | Major Topics/Events: | Temporary and implanted transvenous pacing, Atrial synchronous and ventricular inhibited pacing, rhythmic indications for pacing, follow-up of implanted pacemakers
Mercury-zinc implantable pulse generators | | Proceedings: | Edited by S. Furman-Advances in Cardiac Pacemakers, Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1969;167:515-1075. | | Back to Top
Third World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing - 1970 (Retrospectively Designated)  | | Auspices: | French Society of Cardiology | | Venue: | Monte Carlo, Monaco | | Date: | September 17-18, 1970 | | Chair and Organizer: | Bernard Dodinot, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 250 | | Major Topics/Events: | First World Survey of Cardiac Pacing, nuclear and biogalvanic power for pacemakers, pediatric pacing, atrioventricular pacing, long term pacemaker follow-up. | | Proceedings: | Edited by B. Dodinot-Symposium Sur Les Pacemakers. Annales de Cardiologie et D'Angeiologie 1971;20:281-557. | | Back to Top
Fourth World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing - 1973 (Designated during the Symposium)  | | Venue: | Groningen, The Netherlands | | Date: | April 17-19, 1973 | | Secretary General: | Hilbert J. Th. Thalen, MD | | President: | J. Nieveen, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 900 | | Major Topics/Events: | Trans-telephone pacemaker monitoring
First meeting to have significant support and involvement from industry
Formation of International Cardiac Pacing Society (ICPS) | | Proceedings: | Edited by HJTh Thalen, MD -Proceedings of the IV International Symposium on Cardiac Pacing. The Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Co., B.V. Assen, 1973 | | Back to Top
Fifth World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing - 1976  | | Venue: | Tokyo, Japan | | Date: | March 14-18, 1976 | | Secretary General: | Motokazu Hori, MD | | President: | Eichi Kimura, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 1500 | | Major Topics/Events: | Rate modulation based on pH, biventricular pacing, rechargeable and nuclear pacing, pacing for sick sinus syndrome, pacemaker registries. | | Proceedings: | Edited by Y. Watanabe-Cardiac Pacing: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam-Oxford, 1977 | | Back to Top
Sixth World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing - 1979  | | Venue: | Montreal, Canada | | Date: | October 2-5, 1979 | | Secretary General: | Claude Meere, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 2000 | | Major Topics/Events: | International Cardiac Pacing Society incorporated as the official organizing body for world symposia, single lead atrial sensing with ventricular pacing, sessions concerning cardiac electrophysiology | | Proceedings: | Edited by Claude Meere-Proceedings of the VIth World Symposium on Cardiac Pacing. Montreal: PACESYMP 1979. | | Back to Top
Seventh World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology -1983  | | Venue: | Vienna, Austria | | Date: | May 1-5, 1983 | | Secretary General: | Konrad Steinbach, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 2500 | | Major Topics/Events: | implantable defibrillation, full incorporation of electrophysiology, rate modulated pacemakers, polyurethane leads, single lead VDD pacing | | Proceedings: | Edited by Konrad Steinbach-Cardiac Pacing: Proceedings of VIIth World Symposium on Cardiac Pacing. Darmstadt: Steinkopff Verlag 1983. | | Back to Top
Eighth World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology - 1987  | | Venue: | Jerusalem, Israel | | Date: | June 7-11, 1987 | | Secretary General: | Shlomo Feldman, MD | | President: | Henry Neufeld, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 1800 | | Major Topics/Events: | implantable defibrillation, AV conduction, tachyarrhythmias, polyurethane leads | | Proceedings: | Edited by - B. Belhassen, S. Feldman, Y. Copperman - Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology: Proceedings of the VIII World Symposium on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology. Jerusalem, Israel June 7-11, 1987. R & L Creative Communications Ltd., Israel | | Back to Top
Ninth World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology - 1991 | Venue: | Washington, D.C., United States | | Date: | May 28-31, 1991 | | Organized by: | NASPE and held in conjunction with NASPE's Annual Scientific Session | | Secretary General: | Michael Bilitch, MD deceased, replaced by Jerry C. Griffin, MD | | President: | Victor Parsonnet, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 4500 | | Major Topics/Events: | | | Proceedings: | None Prepared | | Back to Top
Tenth World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology - 1995 | Venue: | Buenos Aires, Argentina | | Date: | October 22-26, 1995 | | Secretary General: | Alejandro Dussaut, MD | | President: | Victor Parsonnet, MD | | Scientific Committee Chair: | Oscar Oseroff, MD | | Attendance: | approx. 2000 | | Major Topics/Events: | | | Proceedings: | None Prepared | Back to Top
Eleventh World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology - 1999 | Venue: | Berlin, Germany | | Date: | June 27-30, 1999 | | Secretary General: | Eckhard Alt, M.D. | | President: | Gunther Breithardt, M.D. | | Honorary President: | Heinz-Joachim Sykosch, M.D. | | Major Topics/Events: | | | Proceedings: | None Prepared | Back to Top
Twelfth World Symposium of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology - 2003 | Venue: | Hong Kong, China | | Date: | February 19-23, 2003 | | Secretary General: | Chu Pak Lau, MD | | President: | TF Tse, MD | | Website: | www.icpes.com | | Back to Top |
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