{"id":38471,"date":"2013-09-02T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=38471"},"modified":"2013-09-02T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:56:13","slug":"living-history-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/09\/02\/living-history-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Living History and a Glimpse into the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending ESC.13 in Amsterdam this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Paddy Barrett<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Louis Handoko<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0\u00a0Amanda Vest<\/a><\/strong>. For more of our ESC.13 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our\u00a0Coverage Headquarters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

My Monday morning started with an historic overview on the milestones in cardiovascular medicine. Who better to give this lecture than Dr. Eugene Braunwald<\/a> himself, whom I consider the Godfather of Cardiology. Of course I know his legacy, but I have never seen him in person. Despite his fragile appearance (84-years old!), his presentation was energetic and very inspirational. It made me feel proud to be a member of the cardiovascular community that has accomplished such major achievements in just a few decades.<\/p>\n

Braunwald\u2019s talk made me think about my (near) future as cardiologist. Although I just started my training in cardiology, I’ve already developed something of a preference for electrophysiology. By mere luck, I came across a live demonstration of the human cardiac anatomy by Dr. Ho, with specific emphasis on anatomical structures relevant to electrophysiology.<\/p>\n

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This is better than any atlas on clinical anatomy! I got even more enthusiastic after following a session about the emerging role of catheter ablation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. I think today I had a glimpse of my future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louis Handoko encounters Eugene Braunwald and finds himself drawn toward electrophysiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[676,308,326,195],"class_list":["post-38471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrophysiology","category-general","tag-braunwald","tag-electrophysiology-2","tag-esc","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}