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Balimkiz Senman, P. Elliott Miller, Ann Gage, David M. Dudzinski, Carlos Alviar, Diego Araiza-Garaygordobil, Alexandra Arias-Mendoza, Alexis Barnes, Christopher Barnett, Mir B. Basir, David D. Berg, Samuel Bernard, Samuel Brusca, Kristin M. Burkart, Francisco Chacón-Lozsán, Neal F. Chaisson, Michael Cutrone, Garima Dahiya, Cameron Dezfulian, Allison Dupont, Andrea Elliott, Cate Enstrom, Luis Farfan, Amy Fiedler, Ashley Franko, Cory Fry, Eric Hall, Barinder Hansra, Andrew Higgins, Steven M. Hollenberg, James Horowitz, Zachary J. Il’Giovine, Marwan Jumean, Yoav Karpenshif, Adnan Khalif, Ajar Kochar, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, Sundar Krishnan, Patrick Lawler, Ran Lee, Boyangzi Li, Adrianna Luk, Jordan McKenzie-Solis, Laura Methvin, Nima Moghaddam, Sanjana Nagraj, Connor G. O’Brien, Deepika Potarazu, Alyssa Rabon, Aniket Rali, Israel Safiriyu, Sinan Sayood, Hannah Schimmer, Benedikt Schrage, Shashank S. Sinha, Lakshmi Sridharan, Carolina Tennyson, Rosy Thachil, Annemarie Thompson, Matthew I. Tomey, Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, Sean van Diepen, Thelsa T. Weickert, Brandon Wiley, Emily Zern, Yuhui Zhang, Yusuf Z. Sener, Jason N. Katz, The Society of Critical Care Cardiology—Rationale, blueprint, and lessons learned in the creation of a new multidisciplinary professional organization, American Heart Journal, Volume 301, 2026, 107521, ISSN 0002-8703, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2026.107521. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002870326001833) Abstract: ABSTRACT Importance Since the cardiac intensive care unit was first introduced into the medical landscape, patient complexity, comorbidity, and illness severity have increased substantially over time. This evolution has required and informed the cultivation of new tools and an expanding skill set for those who deliver care in these units, and has paved the way for the emergence and growth of a distinct discipline—Critical Care Cardiology. With the genesis of this field and the need to care for comorbid and critically ill patients, numerous questions have been posed, including those related to optimal staffing models, appropriate training pathways, and the development of best practice principles to guide patient management. To address these and other challenges, to foster necessary collaborations, and to galvanize a maturing field, the Society of Critical Care Cardiology (SoCCC) was born. Observations SoCCC was created to provide an independent, yet complementary home for stakeholders within this rapidly growing discipline. Its mission is to address the unique needs and concerns of Critical Care Cardiology through an inclusive approach that prioritizes the development of early career faculty, actively engaging them to help to shape the field and to strengthen its unique practice environment—the cardiac intensive care unit. While collaborations with larger professional societies remain essential, an independent subspecialty society like SoCCC intends to capitalize on the historical precedent and experiences shared by other successful organizations, while leveraging its nimble structure to advocate for and advance the needs of its constituency. Conclusions/Relevance While this document primarily details the history and rationale that led to the establishment of SoCCC, it also endeavors to be a practical blueprint to support future leaders who might be considering a new society for their own subspecialty.

Karen G. Hirsch, MD, Chair, Edilberto Amorim, MD, Patrick J. Coppler, PA-C, MSPAS, Ian R. Drennan, ACP, PhD, Andrea Elliott, MD, Alexandra June Gordon, MD, Jacob C. Jentzer, MD, MS, Nicholas J. Johnson, MD, Ari Moskowitz, MD, MPH, Bryn E. Mumma, MD, MAS, Alexander M. Presciutti, PhD, MS, Amber J. Rodriguez, PhD, Albert F. Yen, MD, and Jon C. Rittenberger, MD, MS, Vice Chair Volume 152, Number 16_suppl_2 https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001375

Marina Del Rios, Jason A Bartos, Ashish R Panchal, Dianne L Atkins, José G Cabañas, Dazhe Cao, Katie N Dainty, Cameron Dezfulian, Aaron J Donoghue, Ian R Drennan, Jonathan Elmer, Karen G Hirsch, Ahamed H Idris, Benny L Joyner, Beena D Kamath-Rayne, Monica E Kleinman, Michael C Kurz, Javier J Lasa, Henry C Lee, Mary E McBride, Tia T Raymond, Jon C Rittenberger, Stephen M Schexnayder, Edgardo Szyld, Alexis Topjian, Jane G Wigginton, Jeanette K Previdi PMID: 41122893 DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001372

Lauralyn McIntyre 1 2, Dean Fergusson 1 2, Tracy McArdle 1, Shane English 1 2, Deborah J Cook 3, Alison E Fox-Robichaud 3, Claudio Martin 4, John Marshall 5, Michael Pugliese 1 6, Kusum Menon 2 7, Kednapa Thavorn 1 2, Ian D Graham 1 2, Steven Hawken 1 2, Akshai Iyengar 2, Kwadwo Kyeremanteng 1 2, Raphael Saginur 1 2, Andrew J E Seely 1 2, Ian G Stiell 1 2, Daniel Bainbridge 4, Charles Weijer 4, Monica Taljaard 1 2; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group PMID: 40503714 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2416761

Shashank S Sinha, David A Morrow, Navin K Kapur, Rachna Kataria, Robert O Roswell PMID: 40100174 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2025.02.018

Sunil V Rao, Michelle L O'Donoghue, Marc Ruel, Tanveer Rab 1, Jaqueline E Tamis-Holland 1, John H Alexander, Usman Baber, Heather Baker 2, Mauricio G Cohen, Mercedes Cruz-Ruiz 2, Leslie L Davis, James A de Lemos, Tracy A DeWald, Islam Y Elgendy, Dmitriy N Feldman 3, Abhinav Goyal, Ijeoma Isiadinso, Venu Menon, David A Morrow, Debabrata Mukherjee, Elke Platz, Susan B Promes 4, Sigrid Sandner, Yader Sandoval, Rachel Schunder 5, Binita Shah, Jason P Stopyra 6, Amy W Talbot 5, Pam R Taub, Marlene S Williams 7 PMID: 40014670 DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001309

BALANCE Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada Clinical Research Network, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network; Nick Daneman 1, Asgar Rishu 2, Ruxandra Pinto 3, Benjamin A Rogers 4, Yahya Shehabi 5, Rachael Parke 6, Deborah Cook 7, Yaseen Arabi 8, John Muscedere 9, Steven Reynolds 10, Richard Hall 11, Dhiraj B Dwivedi 12, Colin McArthur 13, Shay McGuinness 6, Dafna Yahav 14, Bryan Coburn 15, Anna Geagea 16, Pavani Das 17, Phillip Shin 16, Michael Detsky 18, Andrew Morris 19, Michael Fralick 20, Jeff E Powis 21, Christopher Kandel 21, Wendy Sligl 22, Sean M Bagshaw 23, Nishma Singhal 24, Emilie Belley-Cote 25, Richard Whitlock 26, Kosar Khwaja 27, Susan Morpeth 28, Alex Kazemi 29, Anthony Williams 30, Derek R MacFadden 31, Lauralyn McIntyre 32, Jennifer Tsang 33, Francois Lamontagne 34, Alex Carignan 35, John Marshall 36, Jan O Friedrich 37, Robert Cirone 38, Mark Downing 39, Christopher Graham 40, Joshua Davis 41, Erick Duan 42, John Neary 43, Gerald Evans 44, Basem Alraddadi 45, Sameera Al Johani 46, Claudio Martin 47, Sameer Elsayed 48, Ian Ball 49, Francois Lauzier 50, Alexis Turgeon 51 52, Henry T Stelfox 53, John Conly 54, Emily G McDonald 55, Todd C Lee 56, Richard Sullivan 57, Jennifer Grant 58, Ilya Kagan 59, Paul Young 60, Cassie Lawrence 61, Kevin O'Callaghan 62, Matthew Eustace 63, Keat Choong 64, Pierre Aslanian 65, Ulrike Buehner 66, Tom Havey 67, Alexandra Binnie 68, Josef Prazak 69, Brenda Reeve 70, Edward Litton 71, Sylvain Lother 72, Anand Kumar 73, Ryan Zarychanski 74, Tomer Hoffman 75, David Paterson 76, Peter Daley 77, Robert J Commons 78, Emmanuel Charbonney 79, Jean-Francois Naud 80, Sally Roberts 81, Ravindranath Tiruvoipati 82, Sachin Gupta 83, Gordon Wood 84, Omar Shum 85, Spiros Miyakis 85, Peter Dodek 86, Clement Kwok 87, Robert A Fowler 88; The BALANCE Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada Clinical Research Network, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network PMID: 39565030 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2404991

Shashank S Sinha, Bram J Geller, Jason N Katz, Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, Christopher F Barnett, Erin A Bohula, Abdulla A Damluji, Venu Menon, Robert O Roswell, Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, Amanda R Vest, Sean van Diepen, David A Morrow; American Heart Association Acute Cardiac Care and General Cardiology Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation; Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; and Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease PMID: 39945062 PMCID: PMC12063187 DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001300

Keith Couper 1, Chen Ji 1, Charles D Deakin 1, Rachael T Fothergill 1, Jerry P Nolan 1, John B Long 1, James M Mason 1, Felix Michelet 1, Chloe Norman 1, Henry Nwankwo 1, Tom Quinn 1, Anne-Marie Slowther 1, Michael A Smyth 1, Kath R Starr 1, Alison Walker 1, Sara Wood 1, Steve Bell 1, Gemma Bradley 1, Martina Brown 1, Shona Brown 1, Emma Burrow 1, Karl Charlton 1, Andrew Claxton Dip 1, Victoria Dra'gon 1, Christine Evans 1, Jakob Falloon 1, Theresa Foster 1, Justin Kearney 1, Nigel Lang 1, Matthew Limmer 1, Adam Mellett-Smith 1, Joshua Miller 1, Carla Mills 1, Ria Osborne 1, Nigel Rees 1, Robert E S Spaight 1, Gemma L Squires 1, Belinda Tibbetts 1, Michelle Waddington 1, Gregory A Whitley 1, Jason V Wiles 1, Julia Williams 1, Sarah Wiltshire 1, Adam Wright 1, Ranjit Lall 1, Gavin D Perkins 1; PARAMEDIC-3 PMID: 39480216 PMCID: PMC7616768 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2407780