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 Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Colleagues,
Dear Friends,
I
would like to thank all the participants of the Second Esmint Congress that has
been hold in Nice the 9th to 11th September 2010.
The
Congress was really successful with interesting discussions and debates. The
Esmint Board has decided to organize the Congress every year at the same time
of year and place. There were 270 participants to the Esmint 2009 and 320 to
the Esmint 2010. We decided to organize the Esmint 2011 in the Congress Center
of Nice because Hotel capacities are now insufficient.
I
was the president of the two first editions of the Esmint and thank all of you
for your help and for the trust you have put in my work but I decided with the
Esmint board to give the responsibility of the next congress to Pr. Alfredo
Casaco who accepted this huge work. I will remain Vice-President and we will
work together with Alfredo to design the next year program.
I remind you that our goal in organizing this Congress is to
facilitate discussions between neuroradiologists and also neurosurgeons,
neurologists and sister scientists about indications, strategies, techniques,
complications and morbi-mortality in Vascular Interventional Neuroradiology.
We want to give an update on new technologies and new
practices and inform participants on achieved or ongoing studies results.
ESMINT is not a usual formal congress!
We want to stimulate debates and
controversies based on cases discussions, operators experience and results of
most recent studies !
We invite you to propose any subject you would like to
discuss!
We invite you to help us in designing the program!
Don’t hesitate to participate!
We want this meeting to open our minds, enlarge our knowledge
and eventually influence our pratice.
Pr. Christophe Cognard
General Secretary of the Esmint
Vice-President ESMINT Congress 2011
 Dear friends,
It is a pleasure to have been nominated as president for the next coming
ESMINT meeting in September 2011 in Nice. I have accepted this duty for several
reasons, among which the challenge to organise an event that should at least be
as successful as it has been in the past, while organised by Christopher Cognard;
but the main reason of my acceptance is to be able to bring together a group of
strongly experienced colleagues in neurointerventional radiology, some of
which, due to language limitations, remain unknown.
As we all know, the official language of the congress is English and we
should all present communications in that language. This is not a problem; in
fact, the real problem for those who are not fluent in English is the
discussion, either because the questions are not well understood or because the
vocabulary used by the speaker is limited and does not allow him/her to answer
with the high standards of his/her experience and knowledge. I find myself in this
same situation and this letter has been revised, corrected and to a great
degree translated by somebody that knows English much better than me. But
language should not be a limitation if we want this society to grow.
A solution to the language problems is for bilingual colleges to help to
translate answers and questions to their peers. I have been trying to foster
this method in SILAN Congresses (Iberian-Latin American Society of Neuroradiology)
where the official languages are Spanish and Portuguese, thus enriching to a
great standard the scientific contributions to the event.
I suggest everybody to actively participate in this coming congress and hope
that nobody feels ashamed for this limitation, as what is important is our work
and not the language in which we speak about it. This, I think, should be the
way to increase even more the level of our events in a relaxed and friendly
atmosphere where tolerance shall prevail in the search for treatment
improvements and greater scientific knowledge.
Looking forward to your collaboration, suggestions and understanding,
Best wishes to all of you,
Pr. Alfredo Casasco
President ESMINT Congress 2011
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