Vol. 18 No. 4 • December 2019 In this Issue Page # Food Decides your Innings 2 Report of the 6th Meeting of the European Section and 7th Meeting of the North American Section of the IACS, Serbia 3 Awardees for Poster Presentations 7 Academy Honours Several Distinguished Scientists at the Serbia Meeting 8 Academy Awards at the IACS Serbia Meeting 11 Serbian Physiological Society Honors IACS Presidents with Gold Medals 14 Report of the International Symposium on Cellular Therapy in Cardiovascular Medicine: Stem Cells Opportunity, Turkey 15 Officers of Different Sections of the Academy 17 Academy and Named Awards Presented at the IACS Meeting in Ankara, Turkey 18 21st Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Naranjan Dhalla Cardiovascular Awards Day, Winnipeg, Canada 19 Passing of Mr. Jack Litvack, Former President & CEO, St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada 20 IACS Bestows Medal of Merit to Dr. Jeffrey Robbins 20 IACS Fellow at the Helm: Office of Senior Vice President for Research & Biotechnology 21 IACS-India Section International Conference of Cardiovascular Sciences – Confirmed Invited Speaker List 23 Special Recognition for IACS President 25 CV Network Vol 18 No 4 • December 2019CV Network Editorial Board www.heartacademy.org 1 25 Partnering Journals of the IACS 26 Food Decides your Innings Shridhar Dwivedi Senior Consultant Cardiologist National Heart Institute, New Delhi -110065, India Email: [email protected] Preamble: Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, coronary artery disease (heart attack), hypertension, stroke and cancers have emerged as an epidemic in entire world. They are said to be a major cause of mortality and morbidity across the globe. Faulty diets filled with chemicals, pesticides and environmental pollutants is one of the principal factors responsible for above epidemic. Fruits, vegetables and other natural foods are healthy options to mitigate these diseases. Highlighting these issues is the following poem – ‘Food decides your innings’. Food as medicine, Medicine as food, Nectar or poison, Thy choice evil or good. II1II An apple a day, Keeps doctor at bay, Burger Samosa a day, Fatty sugary all way I Goose berry papaya pomegranate, Black plum fenugreek coarse grain lemon, Tomato turmeric garlic onion, Ginger clove curry leaves in Kitchen. II Green veg or red meat, Plenty fruits or junk, Stay slim sleek or fat Pink health or sunk. II2II Flat tummy big tummy, Look healthy or funny, Fighting fit or dummy, Option yours dear honey II3II Agile long life still running, Stay in ICCU on ventilators, Look charming gracious & stunning, Food decides your innings. CV Network Vol 18 No 4 • December 2019 www.heartacademy.org 2 Report of the 6th Meeting of the European Section and 7th Meeting of the North American Section of the IACS, Serbia Vladimir Jakovljevic, Ivan Srejovic and Dragan M. Djuric1 Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia and 1Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] The 6th Meeting of the European Section and 7th Meeting organized a pre-meeting on clinical cardiology topics at of North American Section of the IACS entitled Hotel “Sumarice”, Kragujevac, Serbia. “Cardiometabolic diseases: how new research may lead to new cardioprotective therapy” was organized by the The meeting was attended by a large number of leading IACS-European and North American Sections and the cardiovascular researchers from all over the world. Serbian Association for Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Researchers from 5 continents and 33 countries, including Vascular Biology Research. The meeting was held at the Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Hotel “Fontana”, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia on September Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Opening Ceremony: L to R-Drs. Vladimir Young investigators attending the meeting Jakovljevic, Dragan Djuric, Naranjan Dhalla, Roberto Bolli, Bohuslav Ostadal, Grant Pierce, Nebojsa Lalic, Gary Lopaschuk and Andras Varro 11th-14th, 2019, with a pre-meeting at the “Medical and Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Spa Resort Merkur” on new insights into Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Poland, Qatar, pathophysiological and clinical aspects of cardiovascular Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, South disease in diabetes mellitus. On September 10th it was Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Young investigators participating in the meeting Young Investigator competition participants CV Network Vol 18 No 4 • December 2019 www.heartacademy.org 3 Group photo showing some of the participants of the meeting Kingdom, and USA, presented results of their research epidemiology, nutritional and dietary approaches for through a presidential address, an honorary lecture, two personalized cardiovascular treatment, as well as keynote lectures, 89 invited talks, 12 young investigator interconnection between environmental factors, competition talks (total 105 oral presentations) plus 110 environment-gene interactions and cardiovascular health. poster presentations during two poster sessions. The Meeting Co-Chairs were Vladimir Jakovljevic (Faculty of meeting was supported by numerous institutional and Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Serbia) and pharmaceutical sponsors, and by private donations. It was Dragan M. Djuric (Institute of Medical Physiology CME accredited for health professionals by the Health “Richard Burian”, Faculty of Medicine, University of Council of Serbia. The abstract book with final program Belgrade). Honorary Co-Chairs of the meeting were was published and accepted for indexing by the National Roberto Bolli (Jewish Hospital, Heart and Lung Institute, Library of Serbia. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Cardiology, The joint 6th Meeting of European Section and 7th Meeting Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, University of of North American Section of the IACS brought together Louisville School of Medicine and Physicians Outpatient some of the most important cardiovascular scientists of Center, Louisville, USA), Naranjan S. Dhalla (Institute of our time. They deal with various aspects of cardiovascular Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manitoba and St. physiology and pathophysiology, including cardiovascular Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre, biology, coronary artery disease, heart failure, stroke, Winnipeg, Canada), Gary Lopaschuk (Department of peripheral vascular disease, cardiac arrhythmia, Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University cardiometabolic disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Bohuslav Ostadal cardiovascular surgery, cardiovascular diagnostics and (Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of biomarkers research, cardiovascular drugs and toxicity, Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic), Grant Pierce cardiovascular rehabilitation, cardiovascular (Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and L to R: Roberto Bolli, Vivien Demeter-Haludka, Arpad L to R: Roberto Bolli, Mihir Parikh, Raghu Kovacs and Dragan Djuric Nagalingam, Istok Menkovic and Vladimir Jakovljevic CV Network Vol 18 No 4 • December 2019 www.heartacademy.org 4 and Implication to Arrhythmogenesis, 7. Advances in Cardiovascular Biology, Atherosclerosis and Hypertension I, 8. Cardioprotective Strategies in Diabetes, 9. Hyperbaric Oxygenation in Cardiometabolic Disease, 10. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Heart Disease, 11. Advances in Cardiovascular Toxicity, 12. Exosomes and Stem Cells in Cardiovascular Therapy, 13. Brain-Heart Axis and Advances in Adipobiology, 14. Mechanisms Contributing to Heart Failure and Ischemic Heart Disease, 15. Advances in Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Treatment, 16. Pathology of Heart Failure, 17. Advances in Cardiovascular Biology, Atherosclerosis and Hypertension II, 18. Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Academy Honours Organizers and their spouses: Stress, 19. Advances in Cardiovascular Protection and L to R: Dr. and Mrs. Dragan Djuric, as well as Therapy II, 20. Miscellaneous, and 21. Concluding Dr. and Mrs. Vladimir Jakovljevic Remarks & Take Home Message. Medicine, and the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, The first session included Presidential Address “Current St. Boniface Hospital, and the Department of Physiology Status of Cell Therapy for Heart Disease” held by Roberto and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Bolli, and then followed by the Naranjan Dhalla Honorary University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada) and Andras Lecture “A Journey from Basic Research to Clinical Varro (Department of Pharmacology and Trials on the Effects of Dietary Flaxseed on Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cardiovascular Health” held by Grant Pierce, and two Szeged and MTA-SZTE Research Group of Keynote Lectures, “Stimulating Cardiac Ketone Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Hungarian Academy of Oxidation as an Approach to Treat Heart Failure” by Gary Sciences, Szeged, Hungary). Lopaschuk and “Sudden Death of Top Athletes: Possible Mechanism Based on Cellular Electrophysiological The Scientific program consisted of the opening session Consideration” by Andras Varro. During the opening beginning with presidential address, honorary and two ceremony Vladimir Jakovljevic, as the president of the keynote lectures plus 19 sessions including nine from Executive Board of the Serbian Physiological Society, European Section and nine from North