《国际循环》：您是2010年美国高血压学会年会的主席，能否谈谈您最感兴趣的讲题有哪些？

     <International Circulation>:  As president of this years ASH could you outline what are the key sessions you are most looking forward to?

    Henry Black教授：本次ASH大会将会延续以往年会中办得成功的论坛。大会的第一天（2010年5月1日）是一整天的高血压热点话题讨论。我们就重要的话题邀请专家来讲。看到能够容纳600人的演讲厅座无虚席，我深受鼓舞。明天上午设有初级保健医生论坛，将主要讨论对于初级保健医生来讲重要的话题。这个论坛在往届的ASH年会中办得非常成功，我希望今年也能如此。明天12点我将会进行大会主席致辞。Eugene Braunwald博士将在下午1点做主旨演讲。Eugene Braunwald博士是公认的美国最知名的心脏病学专家。我想，可能世界各地的学者都需要一同回顾高血压治疗的历史，同时展望这一领域的发展前景。我将从美国国家高血压教育计划（National High Blood Pressure Education Program，NHBPEP）谈起。NHBPEP始于1972年，于本世纪初结束。我想大家对NHBPEP还不是很了解，而ASH年会可以为大家介绍。我想，这是一个自然演进的过程，就像ASH已经诞生25年了。而NHBPEP则已有30年的历史，这一计划与美国国家高血压预防、检测、评价和治疗委员会的数次报告和其他的创新举措紧密相连。另外，在本次大会上，我们也会就限盐倡议展开深入探讨，更多的是在与专家面对面论坛上。大会组委会选出一些专家，分成小组展开讨论，提出并解答问题。本次ASH年会同样设有颁奖环节。总的来说，我认为本次ASH年会将是一届非常激动人心的会议。目前大会的注册人数已经远远超过往届。

       Professor Henry Black: We are doing some things which have been successful in the past， For the first day of the meeting we have a full day of hypertension highlights， these are invited talks on topics which we thought were important. I am encouraged that for a 600 seat auditorium all seats have been filled to full capacity. Tomorrow in the early part of the day we are going to have a primary care track session where we devote time to issues which we think are of interest to primary care physicians. This has been quite successful in the past and we hope it will continue to be so. The president’s welcome and the keynote speech will begin at noon and one o’clock respectively and myself and Dr Eugene Braunwald who is widely recognized as the most prominent cardiologist in the United States and possibly the world is going to review the history of hypertension and outline what the future holds. I am going to talk about the National High Blood Pressure Education Program which began in 1972 and ended earlier this decade and we feel that ASH is filling that void. We believe this is a natural evolution since ASH is 25 years old and that program latest for about 30 years and had a lot to do with the joint national committee reports and many other innovations. We are also going to talk a lot about the salt initiative， we will focus a lot on meet the expert sessions where we select certain experts and talk in very small groups where questions will be raised and answered and we will also have our award sessions so I think it will be a very exciting meeting and our registration figures is already much higher than it has ever been.