ISHLT 30th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions
April 21-24, 2010
Hilton Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
ISHLT Members: please complete the Call for Symposium Proposals form to submit your symposium proposals.
The Call for Abstracts will be mailed on July 13, 2009 and will be available to view online soon. The Abstract Submission Link will be live at this site on July 14, 2009. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 2, 2009.
This meeting will be CME accredited. Details will be provided in the Preliminary Program, which will be mailed in December 2009.
Chicago, also known as The Windy City, the Second City, the City of Big Shoulders, is a city of world-class status and unsurpassed beauty. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan in the heart of the Midwest, Chicago is home to world-championship sports teams, an internationally acclaimed symphony orchestra, renowned architecture, award-winning theater and much more. Today, Chicago has become a global city, a thriving center of international trade and commerce and a place where people of every nationality come to pursue the American dream.
The is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 110 stories high. Its elevators are among the fastest in the world operating as fast as 1,600 feet per minute. Four states are visible from the Sears Tower Skydeck (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin). | 
The has one of the largest and most extensive collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world.
The first Ferris wheel made its debut in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Today, is home to a 15-story Ferris wheel, modeled after the original one.
The game of , which is played without gloves, was invented in Chicago.
The , one of only three major free zoos in the country, is the country's oldest public zoo with an estimated annual attendance of three million.
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