Credits
The “Credits” desk is at the disposal of participants at the Secretariat premises from Friday, June 17 to Tuesday, June 21.

UEMS-EAACME (Credits in evaluation)
The ESH Main Meeting obtains full accreditation from the Union of European Medical Specialties, which will assure the reciprocity of ESH-CME credits over Europe and the United States (American Medical Association).
Credits are given for all sessions and for participation in the Main Meeting in general.

Participants who wish to receive the UEMS credits must fill in the UEMS eva-luation form delivered at the “Credits” Desk and return it to the same desk before the end of the meeting.
Certificates of attendance indicating the UEMS credits obtained will be mailed to participants after the Meeting.

ITALIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH - CME CREDITS
The accreditation has been asked separately for each day of the Main Meeting:

ITALIAN CME EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Saturday, June 18 - Credits in evaluation
To obtain the Italian CME credits the participant must attend:
- one of the four Breakfast Workshops held from 7.15 to 8.15 hrs.
- one of the four parallel Oral Sessions held form 8.30 to 10.30 hrs.
- one of the three parallel Oral Sessions or the Topical Workshop held from 11.00 to 12.30 hrs.
- the Teaching Seminar, the "How to" Session, the Clinical Case or the Poster Session held in the time-slot included between 12.30 and 15.30 hrs.
- one of the three parallel Oral Sessions or the Topical Workshop held from 15.30 to 17.00 hrs.
- the Plenary Session held from 17.00 to 18.30 hrs. in the Auditorium
- one of the Working Groups to be held from 18.30 to 20.30 hrs.

Sunday, June 19 - Credits in evaluation
To obtain the Italian CME credits the participant must attend:
- one of the four Breakfast Workshops held from 7.15 to 8.15 hrs.
- one of the four parallel Oral Sessions held form 8.30 to 10.30 hrs.
- one of the three parallel Oral Sessions or the Topical Workshop held from 11.00 to 12.30 hrs.
- the Teaching Seminar, the "How to" Session, the Clinical Case or the Poster Session held in the time-slot included between 12.30 and 15.30 hrs.
- one of the three parallel Oral Sessions or the Topical Workshop held from 15.30 to 17.00 hrs.
- the Plenary Session held from 17.00 to 18.20 hrs. in the Auditorium.

Monday, June 20 - credits available nr. 8
To obtain the Italian CME credits the participant must attend:
- one of the four Breakfast Workshops held from 7.15 to 8.15 hrs.
- one of the four parallel Oral Sessions held from 8.30 to 10.30 hrs.
- one of the three parallel Oral Sessions or the Topical Workshop held from 11.00 to 12.30 hrs.
- the Teaching Seminar, the "How to" Session, the Clinical Case or the Poster Session held in the time-slot included between 12.30 and 15.30 hrs.
- one of the three parallel Oral Sessions or the Topical Workshop held from 15.30 to 17.00 hrs.
- the Plenary Session held from 17.00 to 18.20 hrs. in the Auditorium
- one of the two Working Groups to be held from 18.30 to 20.30 hrs.

Tuesday, June 21 - Credits in evaluation
To obtain the Italian CME credits the participant must attend:
- one of the five ESH Working Groups held from 9.00 to 13.00 hrs.

At the moment of registration, each participant is given the evaluation forms and learning questionnaires of the scientific sessions scheduled.
These forms and questionnaires must be filled in and returned to the “CREDITS” Desk.

Electronic tags are used to record the CME credits. The electronic readers are placed:
- at the entrance to the Poster Area (Ground floor)
- at the entrance to the Exhibition Area and Meeting Halls (1st floor)
- in the Auditorium premises (2nd floor)

After having collected their badge, Italian participants are asked to go to the Credits Desk in order to receive the electronic tag which will be instantly associated to the registrant name on the badge.

It is sufficient to pass through the electronic portals located in the Congress Venue (as indicated above) to have the credits recorded.

To obtain credits, Italian participants must:
- record both the entrance and the exit of each Meeting day
- return the electronic tag to the Organizing Secretariat at the end of the Congress (Credits Desk)
- return the evaluation form duly filled in to the Credits Desk
- fill in and return to the Credits Desk the learning questionnaires. The anagraphical data must compulsorily be indicated since required by the Italian Ministry of Health.

Please note that should you loose or fail to return the tag, you will be charged € 8,50 by the Organizing Secretariat.

ESH Credits
Attendance at this Meeting provides 3 credits for application as Hypertension Specialists of the European Society of Hypertension.

Faculty
Guidelines for Speakers and Chairs
Guidelines for Chairs
- Locate your Session Room in due time
- Be in the Room assigned for presentation at least 10 minutes before the beginning of the Session
- Respect the timing allowed to the session and to each presentation
- All presentations, discussions and questions will be in English

Guidelines for Speakers
- Follow the instructions indicated at the paragraph “Audiovisual Instructions”
- Locate your Session Room in due time
- Be in the Room assigned for presentation at least 10 minutes before the beginning of the Session to meet the
Chairs
- Respect the timing allowed for your presentation
- All presentations, discussions and questions will be in English

Audiovisual instructions
A Multimedial Slide Center is located on 2nd floor of the Congress Centre.

ONLY PC DATA PROJECTION WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE CONGRESS.

Each session or symposium room is provided with a laptop. Use of one’s laptop is not allowed.

Should speakers have their personal laptop, a floppy disk, a CD Rom or a USB key, they are kindly requested to go to the multimedial slide center to have their presentation copied. The presentation will be then forwarded
through a LAN network from the Multimedial Slide Center directly to the computer in the presentation room.

We recommend to contact the Multimedial Slide Center the day before your presentation. At any rate, presentation material must be available:

• 45 minutes before for PowerPoint presentation on floppy disk, CDRom or USB key
• 1 hour before for presentations on Personal Computer

Poster Sessions
All participants are invited to come and view the posters which are displayed in the Congress Center (FIERA MILANO CONGRESSI) - Ground Floor from Saturday, June 18 to Monday, June 20, 2005.
Poster must be hanged on at 18.00 hrs. on the day preceding the Session assigned for display and removed at the end of the day assigned for the exhibition, according to the following schedule:

Saturday, June 18
• Sessions 1-11 (Poster from 1 to 384): put on June 17 from 18.00 hrs. and remove on June 18 at 17.00 hrs.

Sunday, June 19
• Sessions 12-22 (Poster from 1 to 391): put on June 18 from 18.00 hrs. and remove on June 19 at 17.00 hrs.

Monday, June 20
• Sessions 23-33 (Poster from 1 to 386): put on June 19 at 18.00 hrs. and remove on June 20 at 17.00 hrs.

Guidelines for Poster display
- Poster size must be: 90 width x 150 height.
- Your poster has been given a number and should be fixed on the board marked with the same number
- You are kindly requested to stand by your Poster from 12.30 to 15.30 for possible questions by the Congress delegates. Otherwise, hang a note to inform when you will be available
- All presentations, discussions and questions will be in English

Please note that for each accepted abstract, the registration fee of at a least one of the Authors is required.

Certificate of Attendance
Attendance certificates are issued on request to all regularly registered participants at the Secretariat Desk at the end of the meeting.