A Letter dated November 17, 2009 from the Editor of INNOVATIONS. Dear ISMICS Members, I am writing to update you on your journal, Innovations, and recent developments. Due to the hard work of the members of the Editorial Board and many of you, the journal has had a successful year. All six issues have been published on time, and the content of the journal has improved. We have had a number of interesting review articles that have received positive feedback from our readers. I have no doubt with continued success in publishing high-quality issues that we will achieve our goal in the coming year of receiving indexing by the National Library of Medicine. I would like to urge all of you to consider submitting work to Innovations. It is only with continued excellent content that this journal will be successful and provide an appropriate publication forum for all of our members. Please strongly consider submitting your work. I look forward to seeing many of you at the ISMICS Winter Workshop. Sincerely yours, Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., M.D. Editor

INNOVATIONS is the official journal of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery. It will publish papers that are presented at the Society's meetings and the discussions that follow and invites submissions from other authors.

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INNOVATIONS will publish articles about developments that offer to make the treatment of cardiothoracic and vascular disease less invasive than it has been.
Cardiothoracic and vascular clinicians as well as physicians from other specialties and scientists from disciplines other than medicine are invited to submit descriptions of their findings and observations for consideration. The submissions will be reviewed by the Editors or their designated referees.

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