Hypertension Summer School 2009

19-25 September, 2009 - Smolenice, Slovakia

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 only 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 opportunityto 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.

There will still be some travel grants 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 to local organizers are listed below by year.

2009
Assoc. Prof. Slavomira Filipova, MD, PhD
Dept of Cardiology
National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Pod Krásnou hôrkou 1
833 48 Bratislava 37
Slovak Republic
Tel.: +421 2 59320282
Fax: +421 2 59320282
e-mail: filipova@nusch.sk 

2010
Assoc. Prof. Bojan Jelakovic
Department of Nephrology and Arterial Hypertension Univ. Hospital
Center Rebro Kišpatic'eva 4
12 10 000 Zagreb 
Croatia
Tel.: +385 1 23 88 271 
Fax: +385 1 23 88 592
e-mail: bojan.jelakovic@zg.htnet.hr  

2011
Prof. Antonio Coca
Hospital Clinico
4 Villarroel 170
08036 - Barcelona
Spain
Tel.: +34932275759
Fax: +34932275724
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