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Volume 17 Supplement 3 June 2015
ISSN 1099-5129 (Print) ISSN 1532-2092 (Online)
EUROPEAN
SOCIETY OF
CARDIOLOGY ®
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EHRA EUROPACE - CARDIOSTIM 2015
June 21–24
Milan, Italy
Editor-in-Chief: John Camm
Co-Editor: Luc Jordaens and Antonio Zaza
Supplements Editor: Panos Vardas
www.europace.oxfordjournals.org
Europace
European Pacing, Arrhythmias
and Cardiac Electrophysiology
Journal of the European Heart Rhythm Association,
a Registered Branch of the ESC and the ESC Working
Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology
June 21–24, 2015 – Milan – Italy
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Prof. Cecilia Linde, EHRA Chairperson, Prof. Michael Glikson, EHRA Vice-Chairperson, Dr. Philippe Ritter,
Cardiostim Chairperson, Prof. Pierre Jais, Cardiostim Vice-Chairperson
MEMBERS
Prof. Jean-Jacques Blanc, Prof. Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Dr. Lucas Boersma, Dr. Maria Grazia Bongiorni,
Dr. Giovanni Luca Botto, Prof. Giuseppe Boriani, Dr. Michele Brignole, Prof. Josep Brugada, Prof. Jean-Claude
Daubert, Dr. Tom de Potter, Prof. Jean-Claude Deharo, Dr. Paolo Della Bella, Prof. Joachim Ehrlich, Dr. Maurizio
Gasparini, Dr. Peter Geelen, Prof. Andreas Goette, Prof. Bulent Gorenek, Dr. Moti Haim, Dr. Franck Halimi,
Prof. Jesper Hastrup Svendsen, Dr. David Hayes, Prof. Hein Heidbuchel, Dr. Meleze Hocini, Assoc. Prof. Carsten
Israel, Prof. Tiny Jaarsma, Prof. Jan Janousek, Prof. Werner Jung, Prof. Rose Anne Kenny, Dr. Valentina Kutyifa,
Prof. Gregory Y.H. Lip, Prof. Ignacio Fernandez Lozano, Prof. Marek Malik, Prof. Bela Merkely, Prof. John
Morgan, Dr. Francis Murgatroyd, Dr. Carlo Napolitano, Dr. Jonas Oldgren, Dr. Mark O’Neill, Prof. Luigi Padeletti,
Dr. Renato Pietro Ricci, Dr. Alessandro Proclemer, Prof. Vincent Probst, Dr. Eric Rosenthal, Dr. Frederic Sacher,
Dr. Andrea Sarkozy, Dr. Magnus Settergren, Dr. Win Kuang Shen, Prof. Georg Schmidt, Prof. Christian
Sticherling, Prof. Isabel van Gelder, Dr. Sami Viskin, Dr. Paul Volders, Prof. Hein J.J. Wellens, Prof. Christian
Wolpert, Prof. Douglas Zipes
EP — Europace
www.europace.oxfordjournals.org
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
A. John Camm
REVIEW EDITOR
Angelo Auricchio
FOUNDING EDITOR
Richard Sutton
DEPUTY EDITORS
Luc Jordaens (Clinical Cardiology)
Antonio Zaza (Experimental Cardiology)
SUPPLEMENTS EDITOR
Panos Vardas
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Irina Savelieva
COVER EDITOR
Jerónimo Farré
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Sharon Batty
europace.editorialoffi[email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Lucas V. A. Boersma
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Werner Jung
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Philippe Chevalier
eCardiology
Gregory Lip
Atrial Fibrillation, Clinical Trials, and
Thromboembolism
Lars Eckardt
Clinical and Experimental Electrophysiology
Andreas Goette
Basic Science
Andrew Grace
Translational Research
Lluis Mont
Ablation
Angel Moya
Syncope
Maximo Rivero-Ayerza
Clinical Electrophysiology
Carsten Israel
Monitoring and Electrocardiology
Stefano Severi
Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology
Godfrey Smith
Calcium Handling and Arrhythmias
Dominic Theuns
Device Software, Programming, and
Algorithms
Isabelle van Gelder
Atrial Fibrillation
Stefan Kääb
Cardiogenetics
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD
Pedro Adragao, Portugal
Etienne Aliot, France
Jesus Almendral, Spain
Angel Arenal, Spain
Eduardo Back Sternik, Brazil
Adrian Baranchuk, Canada
Mirko Baruscotti, Italy
David Benditt, USA
Connie Bezzina, Netherlands
Jean-Jacques Blanc, France
Carina Blomstrom Lundqvist, Sweden
Martin Borgreffe, Germany
Johannes Brachman, Germany
Gunter Breithardt, Germany
Michele Brignole, Italy
Josep Brugada, Spain
Francesco Cantu, Italy
Alessandro Capucci, Italy
Ma Chang-Sheng, China
Flavien Charpentier, France
Jian Chen, Norway
Shi-Ann Chen, Taiwan
Jean-Claude Daubert, France
Paolo Della Bella, Italy
Stephan Dhein, Germany
Dobromir Dobrev, Germany
Firat Duru, Switzerland
Hugo Ector, Belgium
Sabine Ernst, UK
Guilherme Fenelon, Brazil
Johnson Francis, India
Clifford Garratt, UK
Maurizio Gasparini, Italy
Michael Glikson, Israel
Antonio Gonzales-Hermosillio, Mexico
Bulent Gorenek, Turkey
Blaire Grubb, USA
Michel Haissaguerre, France
Hein Heidbuchel, Belgium
Ellen Hoffmann, Germany
Stephan Hohnloser, Germany
Chris Huang, UK
Heikki Huikuri, Finland
Raymond Ideker, USA
Pierre Jais, France
José Jalife, USA
Stephan Kaab, Germany
Jonathan Kalman, Australia
Bharat Kantharia, USA
Demos Katritsis, Greece
Joseph Kautzner, Czech Republic
Paulus Kirchhof, Germany
Karl Heinz Kuck, Germany
Piotr Kulakowski, Poland
Goran Krstacic, Croatia
Chu-Pak Lau, Hong Kong
Alexandras Laucevicius, Lithuania
Christophe Leclercq, France
Thorsten Lewalter, Germany
Cecilia Linde, Sweden
Adalberto Lorga Filho, Brazil
Calum Macrae, USA
Marek Malik, UK
Jose Luis Merino, Spain
John Morgan, UK
Carlos A Morillo, Canada
Andrea Natale, USA
Brian Olshansky, USA
Mark O’Neill, UK
Oscar Oseroff, Argentina
Ali Oto, Turkey
Eli Ovsyshcher, Israel
Frits Prinzen, Netherlands
Siliva Priori, Italy
Helmut Purerfellner, Austria
Anis Rassi Jr, Brazil
Ursula Ravens, Germany
Antonio Raviele, Italy
Amiran Revishvili, Russia
Philippe Ritter, France
Nicholas Sadoul, France
Nadir Saoudi, France
Sanjeev Saksena, USA
Massimo Santini, Italy
Martin Schalij, Netherlands
Georg Schmidt, Germany
Uli Schotten, Netherlands
Peter J Schwartz, Italy
Eric Schulze-Bahr, Germany
Bob Sheldon, Canada
Wataru Shimizu, Japan
Neil Sulke, UK
Andrew Thornton, South Africa
Andy Trafford, UK
Hung-Fat Tse, Hong-Kong
Enno van der Velde, Netherlands
Harold Van Rijen, Netherlands
Marc Vos, Netherlands
Zhang Shu, China
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