From the Desk of the President President’s page: Cardiovascular CT Numbers Dear Colleagues, Numbers define our lives. Cardiovascular CT has been measured in numbers: as slices, temporal resolution, and accuracy, just to name a few. I would like to share with you a few more numbers, mostly in descending order, reflecting measures of success of the recent SCCT Fourth Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. 3,100,000: Not quite a googol (10 100 ), yet it is very large. It represents the number of identified items using the Google search engine for the term ‘‘cardiovascular CT’’ (Fig. 1). Our field has certainly grown in importance for patient health care, as well as availability of information to the public. Importantly, the SCCT appears as the first item of such a Google search (not as a sponsored link), reflecting its recognition of preeminence in the field, for a society younger than 5 years of age. 18,803: The number of articles recognized in a PubMed search of the term ‘‘cardiovascular CT.’’ It would take more than 50 years to accumulate that body of knowledge, if one paper were published every day, 7 days per week. The body of knowledge that has been developed and accumulated is clearly substantial. The quality of that body of evidence is evident in the accompanying pages of this journal, under the continuing leadership and chief-editorship of Allen J. Taylor, MD. 313: The quantity of scientific abstracts, both written and oral, presented at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the SCCT in Orlando, FL. Whereas other quantitative measures are important in defining the success of the annual meeting to our field and membership, I believe this number is most revealing. It reflects a continuing transition of the meeting from its origins as a predominately educational event, to a broad-based and dynamic congress at which the latest science is presented and debated. The science is of world- class and international in scope, reflecting research pre- sented from more than 20 countries. The science is being pursued by many young, insightful investigators, which bodes well for our future. Two researchers were recognized with the Young Investigator’s Award: Thananya Boonya- sirinant, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic for work on cardiac resynchronization and Chirapa Puntawangkoon, MD, of Wake Forest University School of Medicine for geometric analysis of the left ventricular outflow track with CT. The quality and depth of the research, and the rapidity in which our field is developing both technologically and clinically, were very clear at the meeting. The base of clinical applications of cardiovascular CT is clearly broadening. 120 and 16 (as percentages): The most recent annual meeting saw a more than doubling of the number of interna- tional attendees, as a 120% increase. More than 16% of the invited speakers were of international origin. As CT becomes a universal approach in working-up cardiovascular disease, the annual meeting will become even more important as the destination to learn and present the latest research as well as to achieve the most relevant education. The SCCT is paralleling the scope of the meeting, embarking on a program of internationalization with international committees from Ger- many and Japan having been established, to name just a few. 26: Under the leadership of Matthew J. Budoff, MD, the SCCT Fellowship program was inaugurated, recognizing important scientific and educational leaders in the cardio- vascular CT field. Twenty-six persons were honored at the 1934 5925/$ see front matter Ó 2009 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jcct.2009.08.005 Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (2009) 3, 357 358