International Symposium for Cardiac Care Teleconference Lecture Series

A teleconference training series in collaboration with the World Heart Foundation (WHF) and the World Bank Global Development Learning Network (GDLN).

The VinaCapital Foundation sponsors the International Symposium for Cardiac Care, a series of training conferences to improve capacity for cardiac care and cardiac surgery in Vietnam and other Asian countries. In December 2008 the program was accepted as a Clinton Global Initiative and praised by former President Clinton during a Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Hong Kong as a model health program which should be replicated across the world.

The International Symposium for Cardiac Care is a regional program that links surgeons and doctors involved in cardiac care in developing countries with the world's best in cardio-thoracic surgery, cardiology, and pediatric cardiac care during three series of symposia. It allows doctors from all over Vietnam to congregate in teleconferencing centers in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Danang, and Hue for a series of lectures by exemplary leaders in the field of cardio-thoracic surgery.

The lectures are interactive, enabling participants to ask questions after the presentation. Learning centers in Indonesia, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh are also connected interactively, and the lectures are then compiled by World Bank into a DVD learning series and distributed by World Heart Foundation to surgical programs in developing countries around the world.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Clinton Global Initiative
• VinaCapital Foundation
• Vietnam
• World Heart Foundation
• WHF
• GDLN