Welcome letter

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

Dear colleagues,

The 8th Cardiology Highlights – the International Update Meeting initiated by the ESC Committee on Education from 2009. as a biannual meeting, is happily 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, from cardiology fellows to the top, world renowned experts. The Meeting is designed as a primarily F2F, but also as a hybrid one, to allow much more interested people to be plugged in and interactively follow the Programme.

We have tried to compose our sessions to be diverse, attractive and provide both - inspirative lectures, education on guidelines and other essential novelties for daily practice, as well as selected cutting edge science in cardiology. Traditionally, there will be some place for original contributions and challenging case presentations, to set the stage for our young cardiologists community. Beside that, they have prepared for the first time Cardiology Quiz, which I am sure we are going to enjoy.

Despite many congresses and meetings in parallel, we have gathered impressive international faculty from 21 countries, from neighbouring Slovenia, Italy, Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina, to Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, France, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, UK, Baltic and Nordic countries, and also from USA and Canada. That makes us very proud and grateful to all who will join - from our Founding Directors, and other old friends who had experienced Dubrovnik Meetings before, to our distinguished guests coming here for the first time.

Just to remind, 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 high auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. We are also grateful to the ESC President, Prof. Thomas Luescher, who has continuously supporting our Meeting, since its very beginning.

I hope you will enjoy the Meeting and its atmosphere, and take home nice memories.

Sincerely,