Thank you for your overwhelming response to ACT 2008. It gives us great pleasure in announcing ACT 2009 to be held at the Madras Medical Mission from 17th to 19th July 2009. As you are indeed aware ACT has become the common meeting ground for adult and pediatric interventional cardiologists, radiologists and vascular surgeons. The meeting will have renowned international and national faculty perform complex live interventional procedures and deliver state of the art lectures. ACT 2009 would also feature satellite transmission from within and outside the country providing physicians and cardiologists with the newest in diagnosis, non-invasive imaging and management of coronary artery disease, congenital heart disease and peripheral arterial disease. We invite you to this exciting platform to explore interactively the very latest developments in interventional cardiology.