2011 ESH Hypertension Summer School 

17-22 September 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Final Program available here

Who Should Attend?

Younger candidates strongly devoted to hypertension coming both from basic research and clinical practice.

Although there is no specific age limit, candidates below the age of 40 should be preferred.

Please note the ESH Summer School is a once-in-a-lifetime event, which means each participant can attend the course only once in his/her life.

Topics to be covered:

• Basic research
• Clinical areas

Faculty

Hypertension Summer School brings together a truly international faculty, offering the unique opportunity to expose the fellows to a number of excellent local speakers.

Expenses

• Covered by the ESH: accommodation and travel costs of the faculty; the attendees' accommodation and meals
• Covered by National Societies of Hypertension: attendees' travel costs.

 Travel grants will be provided by the ESH for countries facing economic hardship.

At least two candidates from each country (bigger countries may send more than two applications) should be nominated by National Societies of Hypertension in Europe, and to be submitted by March 31.

Each National Society of Hypertension will be informed about the selection of candidates in early June.

Contacts of local organizers are listed below by year.

2011
Prof. Antonio Coca
Director of the Vascular Risk Prevention Unit
Hospital Clinico
University of Barcelona
Villarroel 170
08036 - Barcelona
Spain
Tel.: +34 93 227 5759
Fax: +34 93 227 5724
e-mail: acoca@clinic.ub.es

2012
Dr Alice Stanton
Department of Clinical Pharmacology
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
St Stephen's Green
Dublin 2
Ireland
e-mail: astanton@rcsi.ie

ESH Membership for Summer School Participants

If you have attended an ESH Summer School you are eligible to become a member.

Criteria for Summer School participant membership application:

• Participants must provide a short CV (listing academic degrees and professional positions) and a bibliograpy of publications in English
• Participants are NOT required to provide letters of endorsement
• Membership fees are waived for the first three (3) years for fellows attending the ESH Summer School

The application form with the documents listed above should be sent to:

Prof. Renata Cífková
Secretary
ESH Educational Activities Committee
Department Preventive Cardiology (G6 Building)
Thomayer University Hospital
Vídeňská 800
140 59 Prague 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 2 6108 3694
Fax: +420 2 6108 3821
Email: renata.cifkova@ftn.cz

Download the application form here