Research shapes innovation for doctors and patients. The concept of evidence based medicine emphasises the application of best available research for the care of patients. The challenge of evidence based medicine is in the transition between research and practice, from clinical trial to clinical problem, from study participant to patient, and back, from bedside to bench.
Yet, most cardiologists can barely keep pace with the rapid advances in cardiovascular therapy knowledge. Clinical trials are shaping every day's clinical practice and are likely to be the driving force for drug discovery. Yet there is no single specifically and fully dedicated setting where decision makers, trial designers, sponsors, regulators, investigators, study coordinators and cardiologists meet at once.