ISH2024 in review



The location


ISH2024 took place in the beautiful and historic city of Cartagena, Colombia.


ISH2024 in numbers


  • 4 days - plus a 1-day pre-event symposium
  • 4 scientific themes
  • 1500+ attendess
  • 107 oral presentations
  • 227 poster presentations
  • 26 sponsors
  • 27 awards (21 ISH Society awards and 6 meeting awards)
  • Up to 6 parallel sessions each day
  • 3 lunchtime 'speed mentoring' sessions for early and mid career researchers

ISH Award Winners




The scientific programme


The programme revolved around four key themes:

  • Hypertension care with multidisciplinary teams and standardized processes
  • Predictive and analytical models of response to non-pharmacological and pharmacological therapies
  • Evaluation and treatment of special populations
  • Applied research and translational medicine

Real-time translation


For the first time at an ISH Meeting, attendees could listen to real-time translation of presentations, from English to Spanish and vice-versa, using a special application based on artificial intelligence.


A call to action on treatment adherence


At ISH2024, the ISH highlighted the development of a global awareness day as a call action to improve antihypertense treatment adherence around the world. The first day will be on 27 March 2025.


What's next