Dear Colleagues,
The 8th Cardiology Highlights – the International Update Meeting initiated by the ESC Committee on Education from 2009 as a biennial meeting, is awaiting you to join, present, discuss, network, and enjoy the selected hottest topic in cardiovascular medicine in Dubrovnik, October 23-26, 2025.
Our on-site audience will be up to 300 participants, ranging from cardiology fellows to top, world-renowned experts. As the entire Meeting will be recorded, many more interested people will have the opportunity to view the Programme recordings posted to the web page of the Croatian Cardiac Society -www.kardio.hr.
We have tried to compose our sessions to be diverse, attractive, and to provide inspirational lectures, education on guidelines and other essential novelties for daily practice, as well as selected cutting-edge science in cardiology. As is tradition, there will be some time devoted to original contributions and challenging case presentations, to set the stage for our young cardiologist community. In addition to that, our young cardiologists have prepared a Cardiology Quiz for the first time, which I am sure we are going to enjoy.
Despite many congresses and meetings taking place in parallel, we have gathered impressive international faculty from 21 countries, from neighboring Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, and Baltic and Nordic countries, and also from the USA and Canada. This makes us very proud and grateful to all who will join us – both to our Founding Directors and other old friends who have experienced Dubrovnik Meetings before and to our distinguished guests coming here for the first time.
As a reminder, Cardiology Highlights has remained the only ongoing congress from the ESC Update Meetings family (Davos, Rome, Rotterdam, Dubrovnik). It is organized by the Croatian Cardiac Society under the high auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. We are also grateful to the ESC President, Prof. Thomas Luescher, who has continuously supported our Meeting since its very beginning.
I hope you will enjoy the Meeting and its atmosphere, and take home some wonderful memories.
Sincerely,
Professor Davor Miličić, MD, PhD, FESC, FHFA, FACC
Vice President, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
President Croatian Cardiac Society
Director, 8th Cardiology Highlights – The International Update Meeting