Honorary President Stephen Drance President André Mermoud Secretary General Tarek Shaarawy Meeting Director Ike Ahmed   International Scientific Program Committee Juhani Airaksinen Finland (Chair) Alan Crandall USA (Vice-Chair) Jorge Acosta Argentina Keith Barton UK Alain Bron France Roberto Carassa Italy Vital Costa Brazil Dale Heuer USA Schlomo Melamed Israel Kuldev Singh USA William Sponsel USA Gordona Sunaric-Megevand Switzerland Ravi Thomas India	International Advisory Board Ibrahim Al Jaddan Saudi Arabia G. Georgopoulos Greece Ivan Goldberg Australia Erik Greve The Netherlands Roger Hitchings UK Ted Krupin USA Clive Migdal UK Jean-Philippe Nordmann France Tor Odberg Norway Richard Parrish USA Prin Rojanapongpun Thailand Greg Skuta USA John Thygesen Denmark Carlo Traverso Italy Graham Trope Canada Thierry Zeyen Belgium	Keynote Speakers Alan Beck , MD Atlanta, Georgia, USA Franz Grehn , MD Wuerzburg, Germany Douglas Johnson , MD Rochester, Minnesota, USA Peng Khaw , MD London, England Dennis Lam , MD Hong Kong, China Robert Ritch , MD New York, New York, USA Tarek Shaarawy , MD Geneve, Switzerland Remo Susanna Jr. , MD Sao Paulo, Brazil Robert Weinreb , MD La Jolla, California, USA Local Organizing Committee Ike Ahmed Toronto (Chair) Christoph Kranemann Toronto (Vice-Chair) Fred Assalian Montreal Andy Crichton Calgary Gordon Douglas Vancouver Richard Lewis Sacramento Paul Rafuse Halifax