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Second Joint Scandinavian Conference in Cardiothoracic Surgery

 Dear Colleagues

The very best time of the summer and for some of us even the best time of the year is at hand. Many  Scandinavian people have their vacations in July when the days are still long and the weather presumably warm. We have so much waited for the sunny days during the long and dark winter time. This year the winter was especially hard at least in Finland and the more there is longing for the summer.

 My summer  has traditionally  also contained the annual meeting of SATS. This year we will meet in late August in the beautiful surroundings of Holmenkollen in Oslo. Odd Geiran and his team. have done an  good job with the excellent scientific as well as with the interesting social program  I am very much looking forward  to seeing there. Also this year it will be a joint meeting of five organisations: Scandinavian Association for Thoracic Surgery, Scandinavian Society for Extracorporeal Circulation, Scandinavian Association for Thoracic Nurses, Scandinavian meeting for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and Scandinavian meeting for Physiotherapy in Cardiothoracic Surgery. The cooperation in our meetings very well reflects   the feature of our daily work: it is teamwork.

  I once again want to say some words dealing with membership issues. In three Nordic countries; in  Norway, Sweden and Finland all members of the national societies automatically also are members of SATS. If you are a fresh member of a national society and you want to speed up the SATS membership process you send a  membership application through e-mail to me. The lists of the members I get by request from the national societies are not necessarily up to date. We have not come to any agreement with the Danish national society. That means the Danish colleagues  have always to do the membership application individually. Also the members from any other country  get the membership  the same way.

  I  have a privilege and pleasure to thank Jan Hultman, Dan Lindblom and all the members of the team for the last year meeting in Stockholm even I have done it before. I t was an excellent example of the Scandinavian meeting as its best. The economies of the meeting were outstanding with a  nice surplus to  all of us. A couple of notices concerning the finances of the society. We pay now the fee for the Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal for all the members. We also have decided to support  some younger colleagues from Iceland to attend the meeting in Oslo supposing they have a presentation to give.

  Next year meeting  (2011) will take place in Tampere, Finland,  and in two years( 2012) in Vilnius, Lithuania.

I wish to all of you beautiful summer days!

We will see in Oslo!

Timo Savunen                                                 

Secretary General

SATS