• Establishment of the Saudi Cardiac Surgery Society (SSCS).
• Establishing the bylaws of the SSCS.
• Establishment of national DATA base to improve national cardiac surgery services.
• Propagating the spirit of collaboration among Saudi cardiac surgeons.

• The Saudi Arabian Cardiac Interventional Society (SACIS) is home to all interventional cardiologists in the Kingdom. It serves as a vehicle to deliver the latest science and controversies. More importantly, SACIS is the hub for each and every operator in the Kingdom whereby SACIS seeks to sponsor research projects, elaborate guidance statements, promote education and explore novel technologies. SACIS aims to ensure that projects are inclusive with representation from all regions and centers as well as from diverse group of operators with different interests and levels of experience.

Under the umbrella of the Saudi Heart Association (SHA), the primary objectives of SACIS are to harness the collective efforts of practicing and training interventional cardiologists in the Kingdom and forge collaborations both regionally & internationally to propel our field forward by the following initiatives:

1. Training & Education: SACIS aims to partner with national, regional and international bodies & societies to provide training opportunities and continuous medical education through proctorships, scientific forums, grand rounds, regional chapters and catalogued SACIS Virtual Cathlabs.
2. Dissemination of Knowledge: SACIS will elaborate a regular newsletter, The SACIS Tribune, to dissect current data, share cases and technical tips as well as announce society sponsored events. A digital platform to debate and discuss late breaking trials will be launched, The SACIS Lens. Finally, SACIS will also provide an Arabic infographics aimed to improve patient awareness.
3. Research: SACIS will encourage research endeavors. It will also identify and prioritize research needs. Several projects are underway and SACIS is sponsoring them from inception to completion.
4. Guideline Elaboration: In collaboration with other societies & authorities SACIS will prioritize guidance statements depending on practice needs & disseminate them widely. Several projects are underway and SACIS is sponsoring them from inception to completion.

• • Riyadh interventional cardiology club semimonthly   meetings.
  • 1st  SACIS Annual Conference
  • 2nd SACIS Annual Conference
  • EPICC semimonthly regular meetings in eastern province with more than 100 attendee and 4 CME hours were accredited.
  • Jeddah interventional cardiology club semimonthly   meetings.
  • Qassim interventional cardiology club semimonthly   meetings.
  • Collaboration with international organizations, such as Euro PCR, and Malaysian society of interventional cardiology.
  • Organizing workshops and courses e.g.
  – Transradial workshop in collaboration of International Medical center in Jeddah.
  – The fifth annual Radial and CTO workshops in King Abdulaziz Medical city organized by Dr. Mohammed Balghith.

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• Saudi Pediatric Cardiology Society (SPCS) serves as a vehicle to promote collaboration and communication between physicians and trainees across the country within this diverse and rapidly expanding field.
  The SPCS network helps facilitate development of clinical care guidelines, pan-Saudi research initiatives, educational programs for trainees and cardiologists and other health care members.

Council of Saudi Pediatric Cardiology Society:

Nine board members, including the president representing Saudi pediatric cardiologist with their geographic and major health sectors in kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The President shall preside over the affairs of the Society, the Council and the Annual Business Meeting, and shall represent the Society or delegate this representation.

with in the council, the president appoint thee members as follow:

The Secretary – General shall be responsible for the business of the Society, summon all the meetings, circulate programs to members at least one month before meetings, keep records of the proceedings and transactions of the Society.

The Treasurer shall be responsible for the financial affairs of the Society, collect subscriptions, keep accounts and upon request will present a statement of account in the annual business meeting.

The Scientific Secretary will organize the abstract collection and selection for the annual SHA meeting and should promote and facilitate the scientific activities and continuous medical education.

SAUDISCT Core Values

The SAUDISCT is dedicated to achieve its mission in an open, transparent and democratic manner according to the highest standards of ethics

Our Mission Statement

The Saudi Society of Cardiovascular Technologists SAUDISCT is a non- profit organization that promotes and encourages participation of the invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular technologists in their professional organizations. Their participation in the SAUDISCT will serve to enhance the perception of professionalism and high quality of care deliver to the undergoing procedures in invasive and non-invasive laboratories.
The SAUDISCT is committed to provide education-networking opportunities to all members of cardiovascular technologists.

Core values define the fundament beliefs and principles that guide the group. The core values guiding the cardiac technologists are;

• Collegiality
• Integrity
• Stewardship

Using these core values to direct the development of this Society; the following statement reflects those…

The SAUDISCT:

• Promotes the highest quality care to patients undergoing invasive and non-invasive procedures by providing scope of practice, orientation guidelines, position statements and written standards.
• Provides premium educational offering to invasive and non-invasive specialists at reasonable costs.
• Acts as an advocate for the profession.
• Supports invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular leaders.
• Update and publish studies and researches for accredited CVT programs, and medical journals.
• Community awareness, and preventive Heart diseases education for public and School students.

Saudi Arabia Cardiac Interventional Society (SACIS)will represent the Cardiovascular Intervention in Saudi Arabia and will be an active transparent and dynamic organization of high impact on its members.

Research Activities

The Society should support, co-sponsor and initiate registries/surveys of interest to be implemented across the country.
Develop programs aimed to improve quality of care through specific tools implemented in the structure of the existing databases of surveys & registries.
The SAUDISCT can initiate and maintain a culture of clinical trials and observational studies performed in the field of Cardiac Technology.

Promote Exceptional, vigilant, highest quality care in Anesthesia, perioperative medicine and cardiac critical care for both pediatric and adult. As well as, support and advance patient safety culture, knowledge and create initiative and recommendation to implement.

No one harmed by anesthesia.

Deliver unique pleasant experience to patients and their families.

Aspire to shape the future of perioperative cardiac care by providing unmatched measurable results through gathering and sharing the experiences of our centers and move forward with collaborative education and research.

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• Adults >14 year of age

• ACHD E. mail communication and Logo in the SHA APPs
• Budget 2011-2012 (aronde 25,000 in the ACHD Working group )
• ACHD working group meeting in Riyadh (July KFSH -March NGH – frequency: Twice- 60 attended)
• ACHD working group meeting in Jeddah (June- KFSH frequency: Once- 40 attended)
• ACHD working group meeting in Al-Khobar (Dec- SAAD hospital frequency :Once-50 attended)
• The first ACHD awareness day KFSH Riyadh (Oct–2011 and >500 attended (physicians, nurses, and patients)
• The second ACHD awareness day KAMC Makkah (Dec 21-2011 and > 400 attended (physicians, nurses, and patients)
• ACHD sessions for 2 hours in the SHA 22 and 23.

The Group is looking forward to see a comprehensive structural cardiac rehabilitation programs are well established in each cardiac center in Saudi Arabia and major hospitals which run a full cardiac service , As an obligatory service rather than being an option.
Using the home visit as an adjunctive facilities to improve the low referral rate to this outpatient program and using different strategy to establish an appropriate community based program to maintain what was gained in this comprehensive program.

Going back to the history and looking at the evolution of CRP and preventive cardiology initially, exercise based program proved its efficacy in improving CVD morbidities and mortalities but later on the randomized clinical trial proved that this will be more efficient if combined with a comprehensive secondary prevention concentrate, which have been declared by the AHA in 1995.

• Our group is not going to invent the wheel again, but we are going to start from where the world ended and our goal would be the same as the former global advocacy panel of Cardiac rehabilitation and currently called the International Collaboration for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

( ICCPR ); is to make this service as an essential service for any eligible patient suffering from CVD at any cardiac center within the Kingdom.

• Low referral rate to this program is recognizable worldwide despite proven efficacy with an expected lower referral rate in our area with newly born comprehensive structural program with probably lower capacity to accommodate the huge number of all cardiac patients, and also with other cultural consideration therefore, our second mission and objective is to overcome this by studying and analyzing this problem and create and probably enhance to use a new adjunctive facility to this outpatient program, such as the Home Visit and create specific patient criteria for them to be enrolled into this adjunctive program.

3) Our last but not the least target and objective is to establish a community- based program which have been used to maintain what have been gained at the oupatient program, in most industrialized country. Our goal here will probably be a little bit different, as we will be aiming to use this community –based program as an adjunctive facility; the same as the Home Visit by creating again specific patients criteria to be enrolled into this program in addition to its former use as a maintainance program.
I believed that these three main missions and objectives can be achieved by our group through our regular meeting whether scientific or business as following:

• Through this meeting we share and participate opinion, identify obstacles and indulge into finding a solution. Create ideas which will be tailored by the most updated recommendations and guidelines, and to get expert influences and opinions by inviting other partner’s members of similar international group/society or association.
• Increase awareness of health professionals, health administrators, and health providers in the area about the crucial need for such a comprehensive program to reduce cardiovascular outcome and emphasizing on the cost effectiveness of this service. Subsequently, a call for action to help and facilitate achieving our goal to recognize this CRP and prevention as an obligatory service in each cardiac center within Saudi Arabia and looking forward to improve the service to its state of art.
• Increase the awareness of the cardiac patients and public about the significant importance of primary and secondary preventions and method to improve the life styles with emphasis on how effective this comprehensive CRP in improving CV outcome and improving quality of life.

Subsequently,this will encourage patient to participate in this program and lead to the improvement of low referral rate.

• Encourage, supervise and design research and national project related to this field which help to produce a new recommendation and modification of guidelines that suite our ethnic group and our culture.
• Involved health administrator and businessmen, charity and industry to participate as honor members or through partnership to achieve our goal through moral, intellectual and financial support.

To improve the standards of practice, and proper utilization of echocardiography by cardiovascular care providers in Saudi Arabia.

Activities:

1. Conducting specialized echocardiography workshops, courses and hands on training for health care providers in the field of cardiovascular specialty
2. Generate data base for echocardiographers and echo technologists in Saudi Arabia, and build a network of communication among them.
3. International collaboration with worldwide echo societies, through conducting joint symposia, and scientific meetings.
4. Organizing a 2 yearly conference in the field of echocardiography.

Achievements:

1. Establishing the group bylaws.
2. First Echo workshop in Riyadh Military hospital, on 6/2012, with 120 attendees. 3 CME hours were issued.
3. 2nd Echo workshop in National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, on 10/2012, with 180 attendees. 3 CME hours were issued.
4. Organizing the Echo program in the SHA24, and inviting distinguished international speakers in the field.
5. Organizing the 3rd Echo workshop in Jeddah
6. Organizing the 4th Echo workshop in Dammam
7. Organizing the 5th Echo workshop in Jeddah
8. Organizing the Echo program in SHA25

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The Saudi Heart Failure Group (SHFG) will represent the first organized effort by heart failure experts from Saudi Arabia to provide a forum for all those interested in heart function, heart failure, and congestive heart failure (CHF) research and patient care.
A group dedicated to heart failure in Saudi Arabia would bring together health care professionals, with interest in heart failure, to learn more, discuss treatment options, and bring new ideas to help improve care and reduce disease burden on the community. is
The objective is to improve quality of life and longevity, through better prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, including the establishment of networks for its management, education and research.

Achievements

• 1st Journal club May 1st 2012
• 1st Saudi Heart Failure Group Conference Dec 5-6, 2012
•  2rd SHFG Annual Conference
• 3rd SHFG Annual Conference

Activities 1) Heart Failure Journal Clubs: 2-3 meetings will be conducted annually to discuss recent articles and breaking news. 2) Heart failure case presentation: Interesting and difficult controversial cases in heart failure. 3) Heart Failure Annual Conference: Once a year with updates and reviews. 4) A fixed session in the annual Saudi Heart Association meeting, and to consult on the heart failure topics and plans 5) Heart Failure training courses: Directed to different levels of professionals interested in heart failure care 6) Heart failure awareness day: Directed to the public for introduction, definition and better awareness of heart failure prevention and management.

• Setting cardiac imaging standards that ensure quality patient care.
• Creating educational programmers and resources tailored to the needs of cardiac imaging professionals.
• Being a strong, effective and credible advocate for cardiac imaging in Saudi Arabia.
• Education of the Medical, technical, Nursing and other related
  Professionals for the public benefit by undertaking national training seminars, conferences and any other appropriate educational activities about the practice of cardiac imaging.
• Collaborate with major international cardiac imaging societies.
• Start cardiac imaging data registry allover the kingdom, since you can’t improve any thing you can’t measure.
• To encourage local cardiac imaging research and publishing in local/international meetings and journals.
• To have standards and benchmarks for training in cardiac imaging in Saudi Arabia.
• There will be a monthly newsletter to the SHA members from each subcommittee

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• The Saudi Cardic Nurses Group aspire to achive high quality cardiovascular nursing care through promoting research and advancements to both Kingdom’s nursing population and patients alike.

• To serve cardiology professionals, and to pursue improvements in the care of patients, by offering and continuously improving our unique evidenced based full-service to provide an environment where excellence in patient care is valued and encouraged.

• 1st Saudi Cardio Clinical Pharmacy Group Conference Dec 5-6, 2016
• 2nd Saudi Cardio Clinical Pharmacy Group Conference Dec 5-6, 2017
• 1st SCOPE Annual group conference 2019
• SCOPE website
• Specialized Anti-coagulant group 2019
• 2nd SCOPE Annual group conference 2020
• 14 different webinars 2020-21
• 3rd SCOPE Annual group conference 2021
• Amyloidosis Module 2021
• Specialized Anti-coagulant, workshop 2021
• COVID-19 Documentation and recommendations 2022
• Digitalize and social media Ramadan campaign 2023
• 4th SCOPE & Heart Failure Conference 2023

• To serve cardiology professionals, and to pursue improvements in the care of patients, by offering and continuously improving our unique evidenced based full-service to provide an environment where excellence in patient care is valued and encouraged.