ISMCS 2023 - Abstract Submission and Registration
Abstract submission and registration for the upcoming 29th Annual Meeting of the ISMCS, which will be held from October 30th to November 1st, 2023, is open! Abstracts can be sumbitted here until the submission deadline on July 15th 2023!
You can find all the details under "ISMCS 2023".
1st ISMCS Webinar - Recording Available
Take the opportunity to get insights into the research of our society members & award winners Kar Ying Thum and Maria Rocchi. Listen to their talks about “The Effect of RVAD Implantation Site on the Risk of Right Intracardiac Thrombosis” and “Anatomical and Functional Optimization of a Hybrid Simulator to Support Medical Device Testing”.
Access the recording here!
Want to know more about ISMCS?
The focus of ISMCS is to provide a broad and international forum for intensive discussion of research, development, clinical use and social
acceptance of rotary blood pumps and all related forms of mechanical circulatory support!
Watch our ISMCS Board Member, Ina Laura Perkins explaining the backgorund, goals, missions and current projects of our society.
Click here for further information!
29th Annual Meeting of the ISMCS
from 30th October to 1st November 2023
Preparation for ISMCS 2023 in Texas in late October/early November is already underway. Save the date!
For furhter information please visit the Next Conferences page of this website.
2022 Critical Heart Disease Congress & ISMCS Parallel Session
Represented by our President Elect Antonio Loforte, by our Secretary General Thomas Schlöglhofer and our Board Members Ina Laura Perkins and Shaun Gregory, we participated in the 2022 Critical Heart Disease Congress & International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support parallel session.
ISMCS Webinar Announcement
The first event in the ISMCS Webinar Series will be held on November 3, 2022 at 12:00pm UTC (noon). Join us to learn about the latest accomplishments of ISMCS poster award winners and scholarship recipients.
All ISMCS members have access! Not yet an ISMCS member? Use our online form to become a member.
EUMS-ISMCS 2022 Congress Recordings
are now available online!
Take the opportunity to (re)discover the EUMS-ISMCS 2022 sessions. To access the content:
Management Changes 2022
The following rotational changes in the management of our Society took place at the General Assembly in Hannover in 2022:
Professor Toru Masuzawa from Ibaraki University, Japan, has become President.
Aly El Banayosy MD, a Critical Care Expert at Integris Nazih Zuhdi Transpland Institute is now Immediate Past President.
Antonio Loforte MD, Staff Surgeon and Chair of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program in the Division of Cardiac Surgery, S. Orsola University Hospital, IRCCS Bologna is President Elect and will move to President in 2023. Dr Loforte also take on the new role of Society Representative to Artificial Organs (the official journal of ISMCS).
Thomas Schlöglhofer, MSc, of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, becomes Secretary General.
Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Nix, Director of Medical Science at Abiomed Europe, has taken over the role of Treasurer.
We welcome the new Board members Katrin Lunze, Ina Laura Perkins, Steven Jacobs, Tomonori Tsukiya and Rob Dowling on to the Board of Trusteesof our Society, and thank Daniel Timms, and Osamu Maruyama for their great contributions to the Board of Trustees during the past six years and Geoff Tansley and Tomonori Tsukiya for their support as Secretary General and Treasurer over the last four years.
The Joint Conference of ISMCS and EUMS in Hannover in May 2022 was a great success. Thank you to the ~300 attendees who came to Hannover, to the organising committee and conference organisers - Overcome.
ISMCS is pleased to support the Heart Hackathon competition for students. The programme will be formally announced at ISMCS/EUMS 2022 in Hannover, Germany in May 2022. Details are available at the Heart Hackathon website.
2022 Congress (postponed from December 2021 due to covid-19) will be held in Hannover, Germany 24 - 27 May 2022.
This will be an in-person meeting held jointly with EUMS.
Please go to the website to see details of the conference and to register.
Artificial Organs (May 2020)
Our official journal is able to publish a diverse range of articles including "white papers", guidelines, position papers, reviews, surveys and registries, and others alongside the technical papers we are used to seeing in Artificial Organs.
The journal will increase capacity in 2021 for electronic-only publication to complement the print journal.
Please consider publishing here as this is where our Society and community look for relevant publications.
October 29, 2017
The General Assembly has approved the Changes in Management 2017.
Next ISRBP/ISMCS conference (26th) will be held in Tokyo, Japan on October 31 (WED) - November 02 (FRY), 2018.
April 30, 2017
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONOPENS starts on MAY 4, 2017
March 19, 2017
Conference date changed
Next ISRBP/ISMCS conference (25th) will be held in Tucson, Arizona, USA on October 16 (MON) – 18 (WED), 2017
November 26, 2016
Call for Papers for Artificial Organs ISRBP Special Issue
The deadline to receive manuscripts for the ISRBP Special Issue is December 31, 2015
October 02, 2016
The General Assembly has approved the Changes in Management 2016.
Next ISRBP/ISMCS conference (25th) will be held in Tucson, Arizona, USA on September 12(TUE) – 14 (THU), 2017.
The 26th conference will be held in Tokio, Japan in 2018.
July 09, 2016
The International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps is changing name and will soon become the International Society of Mechanically Circulatory Support - stay tuned and see you on www.ismcs.org
June 09, 2016
EXTENDED Deadline for Abstract Submission, June 12th, 2016
June 01, 2016
EXTENDED Deadline for Abstract Submission, June 7th, 2016
April 10, 2016
The conference website for abstract submission and registration is opened.
Please visit the ISRBP2016 website for further information: http://www.isrbp2016.org/
Important dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submission, May 31st, 2016
Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2016
Deadline for Early Bird Registration, August 1st, 2016
Deadline for Pre-Registration, August 31st, 2016
November 16, 2015
Call for Papers for Artificial Organs ISRBP Special Issue
The deadline to receive manuscripts for the ISRBP Special Issue is December 31, 2015
September 29, 2015
The General Assembly has approved the Changes in Management 2015.
The website for the conference in Mito in 2016 is online now. Please refer to www.isrbp2016.org.
Next ISRBP conference (24th) will be held in Mito, Ibaraki, JAPAN on September 20 (TUE) – 22 (THU), 2016.
The 25th conference will be held in Tucson, AZ, USA in 2017.
July 30, 2015:
The conference program is now online ! Please refer to www.isrbp2015.org.
Jul 25, 2015:
The call for the ISRBP YOUNG RESEARCHER SCHOLARSHIP is now open. If you are younger than 35 and an ISRBP member, you are encouraged to apply and receive a travel grant of US$ 5.000 for
an excellent project in a joint cooperation between two institutions. Please find more information here.
Jun 19, 2015:
Abstract submission for the 2015 conference in Dubrovnik has ended on June 15, 2015 ! The review and selection process is currently ongoing. Notifications will be sent out until July 31, 2015.
Jun 1, 2015:
Abstract submission for the 2015 conference in Dubrovnik is extended until June 15, 2015 ! Click here to find out more and submit your abstract
Apr 1, 2015:
Abstract submission for the 2015 conference in Dubrovnik is now open ! Submission ends on May 31, 2015. Click here to find out more and submit your abstract
Mar 15, 2015:
Our new homepage is now online ! Your feedback is welcome !
Feb 25, 2015
The Gordon Research Conference on Assisted Circulation is taking place in Lucca, Italy, from June 14 to 19, 2015. Click here to find out more and apply for your attendance
Jan 30, 2015:
The 24th conference will be held in Mito, Ibaraki, JAPAN on September 20 (TUE) – 22 (THU), 2016
Oct 15, 2014:
Next ISRBP conference will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia on September 27 (SUN) – 29 (TUE), 2015
Oct 15, 2014:
The General Assembly has approved the Changes in Management
2014.
Oct 07, 2013:
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