Key result
JCS 2021 highlights cardiovascular medicine and community care advances across ~16,000 hybrid participants.
Why the study?
The 85th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society was held to address significant changes in cardiology and promote international collaboration during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Population
Attendees of the 85th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society in 2021
Design
Hybrid format scientific meeting with on-site and online participation
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Hybrid format enabled wide participation; leaves open translation of community care themes into cardiovascular practice.
Overview and Meeting ThemeDuring the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we express our heartfelt respect for all the frontline healthcare-related workers who are working hard on COVID-19 measures, in addition to providing regular medical care, striving to bring this situation to a resolution as quickly as possible.Under these challenging circumstances, the 85 th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) was held from March 26 to 28, 2021, in a hybrid format on-site in Yokohama, Japan, and online for the first time in its history.In accordance with the policy of the JCS, which promotes internationalization, this meeting was held with the World Congress of Cardiology (WCC), operated by the World Heart Federation (WHF), as JCS together with WCC 2021, for the first time in the history of the JCS.The Congress Co-Chairperson was Professor Karen Sliwa, Heart Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa.The on-site presentations were live-streamed from the venue, Pacifico Yokohama North, and delivered on-demand until June 30, 2021, together with all the general abstracts and some designated prerecorded presentations.Due to the large scale of the meeting, the board of the JCS decided to hold the annual scientific meeting at 3 designated cities in Japan, and this meeting was the first to be held at one of these cities.Twenty presentation rooms were arranged in the venue, with the same number of live-streaming tracks available online.In addition, this meeting was the first in JCS history to be hosted by a public university.The central theme of this meeting was "NEXT STAGE -Future of Medicine and Community -".This theme was selected for the following reasons.As the Japanese calendar changes from the Heisei to Reiwa era, a period of significant change is coming not only in cardiology, but alsoThe opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the Japanese Circulation Society.
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Onoue et al. (2021) studied this question. The 85th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society was held in a hybrid format with 16,022 participants, focusing on the future of cardiovascular medicine and community care.
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