Commercial Support Acknowledgement

TCT 2009 is sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and partially funded through educational grants from commercial supporters.

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation strives to ensure that its programs are as educational as possible and free from bias. To support this endeavor, TCT directors and co-directors create organizational and scientific committees to assist in educational content development and content oversight for live cases, concurrent sessions, case reviews, practical workshops, and scientific symposia. These sessions are developed without influence from commercial supporters.

The educational grant support of our industry colleagues, who, like the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, are dedicated to educating medical professionals and the public to enhance patient outcomes, helps to make each TCT possible.

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation gratefully acknowledges the TCT 2009
MAJOR BENEFACTORS

• Abbott Vascular
• Boston Scientific Corporation
• Cordis Cardiac & Vascular Institute^SM
• Medtronic CardioVascular
• The Medicines Company

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation appreciates the educational grant support for TCT 2009 provided by:

• ABIOMED, Inc.
• AngioScore, Inc.
• Atrium Medical Corporation
• BIOTRONIK GmbH & Co. KG
• Cappella, Inc.
• CardioMind, Inc.
• Cook Medical
• Datascope Corp. now MAQUET
• Edwards Lifesciences
• Invatec SpA
• Prescient Medical, Inc.
• Quintiles Transnational
• St. Jude Medical
• Stentys
• Swissimplant AG
• Terumo Medical Corporation
• Tryton Medical, Inc.
• Viacor, Inc.

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation gratefully acknowledges the Emerging Directions for the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon
MAJOR BENEFACTORS

• Edwards Lifesciences
• Medtronic CardioVascular

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation appreciates the educational grant support for Emerging Directions for the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon:

• ATS Medical, Inc.
• Direct Flow Medical, Inc.
• ESTECH
• Evalve, Inc.
• Guided Delivery Systems, Inc.
• Sadra Medical, Inc.
• St. Jude Medical
• Thoratec Corporation

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation appreciates the educational grant support for the 18th Nurse Technologist Symposium provided by:

• Abbott Vascular
• Boston Scientific Corporation
• Cordis Cardiac & Vascular Institute^SM
• Medtronic CardioVascular
• The Medicines Company
• Terumo Medical Corporation

For more information regarding how you can help to support TCT, please contact:

Lisa Hathaway Stella
Sr. Manager, Grants & Exhibits
Tel: 212-851-9354
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Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its sponsored educational programs. Commercial support from industry does not influence educational content, faculty selection, and/or faculty presentations, and, therefore, does not compromise the scientific integrity of the educational activity.

Discussion of off-label product usage and/or off-label product use during live or taped cases is made at the sole discretion of the faculty and is not endorsed by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation or the program directors for this activity.

Faculty participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentation(s). Faculty not complying with this policy are not permitted to participate in this activity.