• Committees

     
     
     
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    Advocacy & Government Relations

    Primary Goal: To ensure that the Society’s members have a strong, independent voice advocating on behalf of members and their patients.

    Budget, Finance & Management

    Primary Goal: To monitor the financial affairs of the Society, recommend the budget, and provide opinions concerning budget requests to the Board of Trustees.

    Bylaws

    Primary Goal: To address matters and answer questions related to the Society’s Bylaws, and to recommend amendments as warranted.

    Carotid Artery Stenting & Neurovascular

    Primary Goal: To ensure proper communication among all Society activities related to carotid artery stenting and neurovascular issues, in collaboration with other professional organizations.

    Congenital Heart Disease Council

    Primary Goal: To promote highquality patient care and represent the legal, regulatory, and clinical interests, and educational goals of pediatric interventional cardiologists.

    Credentials

    Primary Goal: To review applications for membership and recommend updates to membership criteria as appropriate.

    Development / Industry Relations

    Primary Goal: To develop and maintain proper relationships with industry partners in accordance with SCAI’s and other organizations’ policies.

    Education

    Primary Goal: To maintain accreditation of continuing medical education by the appropriate certifying agencies, review proposed educational programs for approval, and advise the Board of Trustees on all matters concerning CME within the Society.

    Education: Interventional Fellows Institute / Interventional Cardiologists Institute Subcommittee

    Primary Goal: To manage all aspects of the Interventional Cardiologists Institute and Interventional Fellows Institute eLearning programs while ensuring the programs foster continuing professional education for fellows-in-training and physicians.

    eSCAI

    Primary Goal: To assist the Society in applying the latest information technologies to the Society's many educational programs, and ensure that the Society's web-based offerings fully meet the needs of members and other audiences.

    Ethics

    Primary Goal: To develop, update, and oversee enforcement of the Society’s code of ethics and related policies.

    International Programs & Membership

    Primary Goal: To develop and foster SCAI’s close, productive, and respectful partnerships with interventional organizations and working groups worldwide on issues in interventional cardiology of global interest, including, but not limited to, professional education, guidelines, and leadership.

    Interventional Career Development

    Primary Goal: To provide resources and a forum for early career interventionalists in order to assist them during the formative stages of their careers.

    Interventional Career Development: Emerging Leadership Mentoring Subcommittee

    Primary Goal: To foster comprehensive mentoring relationships between senior interventionalists and future leaders.

    Interventional Heart Failure Working Group

    Primary Goal: To provide a vehicle from the Interventional Community and related disciplines to provide an organized approach to interventional methods for CHF, to produce supportive disease-specific outcomes data, educate the wider community, coordinate treatment with relevant societies and organizations, encourage clinical research, stimulate disease-specific biomedical device and drug development, and publish multi-disciplinary consensus statements and guidelines.

    Interventional Training Standards & Directors

    Primary Goal: To develop and update relevant training standards and to provide a forum for training directors to share information and communication regarding training programs issues, policies and practices.

    Lab Survey

    Primary Goal: To serve as a resource for physicians and administrators, providing comprehensive, independent outside review services for cardiac catheterization laboratories regarding all aspects of laboratory function, including facilities, equipment, personnel, policies, procedures, and quality assurance.

    Multispecialty Occupational Health Group

    Primary Goal: In coordination with other societies, to develop recommendations for the reduction of occupational safety risks in the cath lab.

    Nominating

    Primary Goal: To prepare lists of nominees for consideration to become Trustees and Officers of the Society.

    Peripheral Vascular Disease

    Primary Goal: To ensure proper communication among all Society activities related to peripheral vascular disease, in collaboration with other professional organizations.

    Program

    Primary Goal: To plan the scientific program for the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions and present these plans to the Board of Trustees, and to maintain documentation for continuing medical education.

    Public Relations

    Primary Goal: To inform and educate media, the public, and non-interventional healthcare providers about the important role of invasive/interventional cardiology in optimal cardiovascular care and outcomes; and to expand SCAI’s visibility and credibility among these audiences.

    Public Relations: Know What Counts Subcommittee

    Primary Goal: To develop regional education/awareness programs for patients, healthcare providers, and policymakers, and to encourage dialogue about topics affecting optimal cardiovascular care and outcomes.

    Public Relations: Seconds Count Editorial Board

    Primary Goal: To develop SCAI’s patient/ public education website into the preeminent online resource for cardiovascular patients, their families, and the public.

    Publications

    Primary Goal: To promote optimal patient care through educational, policy, and clinical/scientifi c documents that refl ect the current state-of-the-science in interventional cardiology.

    Quality Improvement

    Primary Goal: To provide guidance and recommendations for development of the Society’s policies and positions related to healthcare quality improvement initiatives, with emphasis on quality measures, public reporting of quality measures, pay-for-performance initiatives, interventional cardiology standards development, and radiation issues.

    Simulation

    Primary Goal: To partner with other interested societies in developing standards for applying medical simulation technology to professional education programs of the highest quality and relevance.

    Structural Heart Disease Council

    Primary Goal: To provide a forum for structural heart disease specialists to collaborate on issues facing cardiovascular specialists who treat structural heart disease so that patients receive optimal care.

    Transradial Working Group

    Primary Goal: To develop and promote educational programs that expands the use of the radial approach to improve patient safety and outcomes.

    Women in Innovations

    Primary Goal: To foster professional development, education, collaboration, and research by and on behalf of women in interventional cardiology and their patients.

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