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  • Committees

     
     
     
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    Advocacy

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


    Budget and Finance

    This committee recommends the budget and provides opinions concerning budget requests to the Board of Trustees yearly or as requested.

    Bylaws

    To maintain, prepare and administer in an orderly manner the functions of the Society as delineated in the Bylaws of the Society.

    Carotid Artery Stenting & Neurovascular

    To insure proper communication among all Society activities related to CAS and neurovascular issues, in collaboration with other professional organizations.

    Congenital Heart Disease Committee

    To further the education and information exchange within the pediatric interventional cardiology.

    Credentials

    This committee reviews applications for membership and recommends the applications to the Board of Trustees.


    Development

    This committee coordinates SCAI efforts to generate industry sponsorship for SCAI meetings and programs.


    Education/CME

    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.


    eSCAI

    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.

    Governors

    This committee helps the Advocacy Committee with SCAI efforts to advocate on behalf of SCAI members at the local, state and federal levels. Also helps the Credentials Committee review applications as needed.


    International Programs & Membership

    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

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

    Peripheral Vascular Disease

    To insure proper communication among all Society activities related to PVD, in collaboration with other professional organizations.

    Program

    To plan the scientific program for the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions and present these plans to the Board of Trustees and maintain documentation for CME.

    Public and Professional Communications

    To inform public and professional audiences regarding the activities, missions and goals of the Society through media interaction and information dissemination programs.

    Publications

    To research and develop new and existing areas of communications, oversee the Society's journal and other publications, and coordinate SCAI's guidelines development activities.Seconds-Count.org Editorial BoardTo develop www.Seconds-Count.org into THE preeminent website for patients of interventional cardiologists, families of those patients & non-interventional health professionals who interact with interventional cardiologists. The Editorial Board is charged with developing up-to-date, relevant information for these audiences.

    Simulation

    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

    To further the interest/education in pediatric/congenital/structural interventional cardiology.


    Training Program Directors and Standards

    To provide the means for training directors to share information and communicate with ACGME and other entities with one voice regarding critical issues facing training programs.

    Women in Innovations

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

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