Dear colleagues, members and friends of the Society,
Dear sponsors and partners,
After the successful tenth congress of our Society and the election of a new leadership, we continue
with our activities. First up is the meeting dedicated to artificial intelligence in cardiovascular surgery.
We are organizing this meeting in cooperation with the European Society for CardioVascular Surgery
(ESCVS) in the format of a Winter School. Namely, the ESCVS organizes a winter or summer school every
year, covering topics important to cardio and vascular surgeons, especially younger ones. We believe
that artificial intelligence has already become a significant part of not only our lives but also our
professional activities, scientific projects and the new technologies that we already use. However, the
use of artificial intelligence comes with various challenges. Not all of us are familiar with this technology,
there are certain legal and ethical restrictions on how and where it can be used, and, of course, we’d
love to know if it could be used for some of our new ideas. The ESCVS Winter School, in cooperation
with our Society, will try to open up these and many other questions and perhaps give answers to some
of them.
From January 23 to 25, 2025, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belgrade, many topics on AI will be covered
within the framework of a two-day meeting, where lectures and small-group workshops will be held by
local and international experts in this field. The guest lecturers who have confirmed their arrival are:
Dimitrios Fotiadis, an engineer (with his team from Ioannina, Greece) who has extensive experience in
the field of simulations and the organization of scientific projects; then Kakkhee Yeung, a vascular
surgeon from Amsterdam who is the coordinator of several large Dutch and European projects in the
fields of vascular biology and artificial intelligence, as well as an expert in aortic endovascular surgery; Fabien and Juliette Lareyere, a married couple from France: she is an engineer and he is a vascular
surgeon, and together they have extensive experience in the field of artificial intelligence; Christian
Gasser, an engineer from Stockholm who has been assessing the risk of aneurysm rupture for the past
twenty years and who has created software that uses artificial intelligence to assess this risk; Donatien
Le Liepvre, an IT specialist from France who created software that uses artificial intelligence to help
doctors plan the placement of stent grafts; and there are also Miltos Matsagkas, Domenico Palombo,
Efthymios Avgenrinos, Ivana Šehić, Gian Antonio Boschetti, Anja Berić, Ljubomir Kljajić, Ratko Bojović,
Nabil Chakfe, Paula Keschenau and Kaja Damnjanović.
This is an invitation for all those who want to present their work in this field to contact us. Send a brief
description of your activities in the field of artificial intelligence to srscvscongress@gmail.com.
Also, please fill out the attached registration form in order to register as a participant. We hope that you
will respond and participate in our congress.
Registration form: https://forms.gle/gz942cZaEyyL2tmE9
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Tomić Ass.
President
Ass. Dr. Miloš Matković
General Secretary
Asst. prof. Dr. Igor Končar
President of the Organizing Committee of the Winter School
