Abbott launches Crossroads Institute

US health care major Abbott Laboratories announced the launch of the Crossroads Institute for cardiac and vascular medical education at the EuroPCR 2007 meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, and with established facilities in Tokyo, Japan, and Johannesburg, South Africa, the Institute features a teaching faculty of more than 100 worldwide experts focused on providing the latest in medical education to advance treatment of patients with cardiac and vascular disease.

Formerly the Guidant Institute for Therapy Advancement, the newly-named Crossroads Institute, a medical education initiative from Abbott Vascular, offers more than 70 courses on cardiac and vascular treatment developed and led by participating faculty members, with 50 of the courses CME-accredited. Featuring discussion forums with physician experts, the Institute offers high-tech teaching methodologies with virtual simulators and a virtual in-house catheterization lab to help physicians learn the latest in cardiac and vascular treatment methodologies. In addition, the Institute offers live case broadcasts from neighboring hospitals, to bring real-time catheterization lab events into forums for discussion, which are moderated by world-renowned cardiac and vascular disease treatment experts.