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ASPC Congress cancelled due to Hurricane Irma aftermath
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The American Society for Preventive Cardiology has announced that its annual Congress on CVD Prevention has been cancelled due to Hurricane Irma aftermath at the meeting location in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Congress on CVD Prevention was scheduled to take place Sept. 15 to 17 at the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach.
The decision was “made in the best interest of the safety of meeting attendees, faculty, vendors and staff,” according to an official statement from ASPC.
Hurricane Irma developed in late August, before continuing a path that resulted in catastrophic damage in the Caribbean and much of Florida, including southern Florida.
“[Irma] was a massive and devastating storm. One of the many casualties was the cancellation of our annual ASPC Congress,” Seth J. Baum, MD, FASPC, chief medical officer of Excel Medical Clinical Trials; clinical affiliate professor of biomedical science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton; and president and co-chair of the ASPC Congress, told Cardiology Today via email. “We had a wonderful agenda in store for attendees as well as remote viewers.”
ASPC Congress co-chair, Amit Khera, MD, MSc, FASPC, director of preventive cardiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, also weighed in on the decision on Twitter. “Disappointed the ASPC congress was cancelled this year, but there are far worse repercussions of Hurricane Irma,” Khera tweeted to his followers.
Registration fees will be refunded within 30 days or transferred to next year’s congress, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, from July 27 to 29, 2018, according to the official statement.
“Our team is already actively developing a plan to disseminate all the invaluable information we have compiled,” Baum said. “It will not be the 2017 Congress, but it will be exceptional nonetheless. The ASPC will not disappoint our members and faculty. … Within a few weeks, we will release our new initiative.”
Visit the ASPC website for further details. – by Darlene Dobkowski
For more information:
American Society for Preventive Cardiology. www.aspconline.org.
Disclosure: Baum and Khera are chairs of the 2017 ASPC Congress on CVD Prevention. Cardiology Today is an official media partner of the ASPC.