TY - JOUR AB - VII The Working Group on Echocardiography of the ESC warmly invites you to attend our Seventh Annual Meeting, which will be held in Barcelona from 3 to 6 December 2003. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the development of echocar- diography by Inge Edler and Hellmuth Hertz in Lund, and it is also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Christian Doppler (and 150 years since his death). There will be special events to commemorate these important anniversaries, and so we hope that you will be able to join us in reviewing the past and contemplating the future of non-invasive investigations in clinical cardiology. EUROECHO is now firmly established as the major event in cardiac ultrasound in Europe, for clinical education through symposia and case discussions, and for review of progress in research through invited and abstract presentations. We are confident that you will enjoy and benefit from the interesting and varied programme that has been arranged. Our local hosts, the Spanish Working Group on Echocardiography, have organised a course on stress echocardiography on Wednesday 3rd December (in Spanish), before the formal opening of the meeting. Three other intensive courses will be repeated – each with revised programmes TI - Welcome Address JO - European Journal of Echocardiography DO - 10.1016/S1525-2167(03)90561-0 DA - 2003-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/welcome-address-6DVFIM2Km5 SP - VII EP - VII VL - 4 IS - suppl_1 DP - DeepDyve ER -