Building Modern Medical Societies Through Watching and Listening：通过观察和倾听建立现代医学社会.pdf

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY VOL. 65, NO. 7, 2015
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EDITOR’SPAGE
Building Modern Medical
Societies Through Watching
and Listening
Valentin Fuster, MD, PHD
believe that positive growth can only evolve structural formation of the institution—as an agent of
I from active watching and listening. These are change. He listened to the need to modernize the
oft-forgotten skills, but ones that are necessary Society’s educational offerings and the need to unify
for collective or personal growth. In this issue of the various ESC factions, including guideline develop-
Journal, we celebrate the recent esses of the ment. He also responded to the changing European
European Society of Cardiology (ESC), which has economic and regulatory environments by expanding
solidified its structural and functional modern pres- the Society’s physical presence to Brussels through
ence—mainly through watching and listening to the the development of the European Heart Agency
needs of its constituents. The Immediate ESC Past initiative. In the second section, Dr. Pinto focuses on
President Panos Vardas, MD, PhD, and current ESC how the Society will functionally execute its strategic
President Fausto J. Pinto, MD, PhD, coauthor