About CRF

Pioneering New Therapies for the Treatment of Heart Disease

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) is an independent, academically focused nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the survival and quality of life for people with cardiovascular disease through research and education. Since its inception in 1990, CRF has played a major role in realizing dramatic improvements in the lives of countless numbers of patients by establishing the safe use of new technologies and therapies in the subspecialty of interventional cardiology and endovascular medicine.

CRF carries out its mission by following three basic principles:

Investigate

The Jack H. Skirball Center for Cardiovascular Research (SCCR) at CRF is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the investigation of novel concepts, treatments, and devices. Our team of interventionalists, surgeons, and pathologists guide early ideas and inventions through comprehensive research programs in order to introduce practical clinical therapies to patients.

Evaluate

CRF's Clinical Trials Center (CTC) plans and executes clinical investigations from first-in-man studies to large, multicenter international trials and provides expert, independent qualitative and quantitative analyses of clinical and imaging data.

Educate

CRF is committed to educating health care professionals and the public to ensure that the work of physicians and researchers is translated to improved care for patients with cardiovascular disease. With a worldwide reputation for excellence in training clinical practitioners in advanced techniques and innovations, CRF conducts more than 50 educational meetings, conferences, and teaching symposia annually including CRF’s annual scientific symposium, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics.

CRF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

CRF designs and sponsors numerous educational meetings, workshops, symposia, and expert panels. Clinical training sessions provide hands-on training in advanced interventional therapeutics such as controversies in interventional cardiology, vascular brachytherapy, distal protection devices, adjuvant drug therapies, arteriotomy closure devices, carotid stenting, and management of peripheral vascular disease.

2010 Conferences
	Sixth International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease 2010 New York, NY
	Seventh International Chronic Total Occlusion Summit February 4-5, 2010 New York, NY
	The Drug-Eluting Stent Summit at ACC.10 March 13, 2010 Atlanta, GA
	Transcatheter Valve Therapies Spring, 2010 Seattle, WA
	16th Annual Interventional Cardiology Fellows Course May 9-12, 2010 Miami, FL
	Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 September 21-25, 2010 Washington, DC

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