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Table 1. PICS-AICS Attendance by Year and Location.
1997 Boston 87
1998 Boston 275
1999 Chicago 349
2000 Chicago 400
2001 Toronto 405
2002 Chicago 502
2003 Orlando 614
2004 Chicago 678
2005 Argentina 727
2006 Las Vegas 994
2007 Las Vegas 807
2008 Las Vegas 703
2009 Australia 400
2010 Chicago 783
2011 Boston 784
2012 Chicago 741
2013 Miami 773
2014 Chicago 829
2015 Las Vegas 852
2016 Dubai 500
2017 Miami
reach that goal. In 2016, PICS collaborated with CSI to hold a joint meeting in Dubai with over 500 health- care professionals attending didactic sessions and viewing live cases transmitted from venues in the Middle East and Asia.
Live Case Presentations
Over the years the number and complexity of the live cases presented at PICS has steadily grown as has the international scope of the live case venues. Over the past 2 decades PICS has hosted over 250 live cas- es without a single serious adverse outcome Opera- tors in catheterization labs and surgical suites from North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East have all contributed to make PICS the live case meeting of its kind. The ability to learn from
Figure 3. Dr. Chuck Mullins preparing a stent for Dr. Hijazi at the rst PICS in Boston, 1997. Also present: Dr. Robert Geggel, Cath Lab Director at the Floating hospital and Dr. Wade Hamilton, in- terventional cardiologist at Maine Medical Center.
Figure 4. Dr. Hellenbrand along with Dr. John Fahey performing a live case from Yale during the rst PICS in 1997.
Figure 5. Live case broadcast at PICS 2015.
Year
Place
Attendance
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