A Fresh Start: Charting the Future of ICCK

Respected Members of the Interventional Cardiology Council of Kerala,

It is with immense humility and enthusiasm that the new Executive Committee, including myself, the General Secretary, assumes office. We are profoundly grateful for the trust you have placed in us. We fully intend to bring a “breath of fresh air” - perhaps lightly scented with that familiar cath lab iodine - to the running of the council’s affairs and governance.

We recognize the weight of your expectations, and our commitment is simple: we will strive every day to live up to them.

The strength of ICCK lies in its 375 members, and our core operating principle will be inclusivity. This council is not a closed circuit. We want to ensure that every single member has a voice and a say on policy matters. Please feel completely free to air your opinions, whether through the official website forum or our active WhatsApp groups. Your insights are essential, and constructive criticism is the lubricant of progress.

Most importantly, we are launching our flagship initiative: the establishment of a comprehensive data registry of all interventional procedures performed across every cath lab in Kerala. This is the future. Imagine: solid, authentic, and publishable data generated by us, for us. This collective data will be the bedrock of our scientific presentations at the next ICCK Annual Meeting and will ultimately elevate our state’s standing in national cardiology. We cannot achieve this monumental task without 100% participation.

For a truly productive and impactful tenure, we sincerely solicit your active cooperation and blessings. We look forward to working together to make the coming year the most successful in ICCK history.

As we commit to working smarter and together, we are guided by the sentiment of systems-focused physician Dr. Atul Gawande: “A truly great physician has less to do with the tools at hand and more to do with the precision in their data and the compassion in their heart.”

Louie Fischer MD DM(Card) MRCP(UK)
FRCP(Edin) FACC FESC FSCAI
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
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