Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance President's page

I write this report as many of you have been, are presently on, or are about to take your summer vacation/holidays. I trust that they were safe and restful. The summer has been anything but restful for SCMR and your leadership team. It has been both exciting and challenging as new opportunities have arisen. The SCMR Board of Trustees had its annual summer meeting, this year at the London Heathrow Hilton. The agenda was quite full and I am happy to report that the future continues to look bright for SCMR.In regards to the SCMR '10 Annual Scientific Session, Program Chair Andrew Arai MD and Abstract Chair Sven Plein MD have a terrific program in store. Highlights will include an opening plenary on CMR and outcomes research, past, present, and future, and a closing plenary on the 5 best clinical indications for CMR. Three parallel tracks are planned for clinicians, basic scientists, and pediatric imagers. Both basic science/high field and introductory physician pre-courses will be held on the day prior to the start of the regular sessions. We suspect this will be one of the best annual meetings to date. Please remember the abstract deadline of September 15th and make your plans to come to warm, sunny Phoenix, Arizona from January 21–24, 2010.We continue to work closely with the nucleus of the European Working Group of CMR to finalize plans for the February 2011 meeting in Nice, France. In addition, SCMR is working with the European Working Group on a rewrite of the 2004 consensus paper on Clinical Indications for CMR. The 2012 meeting will likely be in Orlando, Florida, and the location of the 2013 meeting remains to be finalized, although San Francisco is the likely venue. Thus, an outstanding series of locales are planned for upcoming annual meetings.Great news was recently heard by Professor Dudley Pennell, editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, on the increase in the journal's impact factor from 1.87 to 2.15. This jump of 15% reflects both his