SCAI Launches 5-Year Strategic Plan

May 4, 2016—The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) announced the adoption of its 5-year strategic plan, which was officially launched during the opening session of the SCAI 2016 scientific sessions in Orlando, Florida.

According to SCAI, the 2016–2021 plan charts the direction for the society’s growth and continued success over the next 5 years and will serve as the blueprint for achieving SCAI's vision to save and enhance lives. SCAI has defined its mission to lead the global interventional community through education, advocacy, research, and quality patient care. 

The strategic plan provides a blueprint for SCAI activities that include its traditional focus on quality, education, and advocacy, as well as new efforts to encourage interventional research and to be the home and voice of all interventional cardiovascular professionals throughout the world.

The strategic plan’s key goals are:

• Advocacy: Be the trusted voice of the interventional community worldwide.
• Community: Be the global home for interventional cardiovascular professionals.
• Education: Be the leading source of premier interventional cardiovascular education and training.
• Quality: Promote excellence, accountability, and innovation in interventional cardiovascular medicine.
• Research: Advance evidence-based practice through research in interventional cardiovascular medicine.
• Sustainability: Ensure a dynamic and fiscally responsible organization.

In the announcement, SCAI 2015-16 President James C. Blankenship, MD, stated, “Last year at this time we were just starting to develop our first strategic plan in a decade. Looking back on the last strategic plan, developed in 2005, we noted that SCAI had accomplished most of the objectives laid out then. That gave us the confidence to think big as we looked to the future. We went through 9 months of work by a Strategic Planning Work Group and the Board of Trustees that concluded with the Trustees approving a new strategic plan last fall. Since then we have been working on translating its goals into action.”

Dr. Blankenship continued, “We have brainstormed and developed plans to achieve these six goals, prioritized them, and started to implement them. For example, we have started a membership committee tasked with improving the value of SCAI to its members. We have developed plans for international chapters and are creating our first international chapter in India. We are also discussing plans to initiate registries specific to interventional patients with national and international partners.”