FREMONT, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/13/09 -- Cardima, Inc. (OTCBB: CADM) will showcase its products and technologies at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) conference January 26-28, 2009 in San Francisco and the 14th Annual International Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium January 15-17, 2009. Both conferences feature innovations in the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

At the STS conference, Cardima will sponsor a breakfast symposium, "Surgical Ablation - Keys to Success," highlighting the Company's Surgical Ablation System and featuring prominent physician speakers:

--  Li Poa, M.D., FACS, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiac
    Surgery Program Director at Stamford Hospital and faculty member of
    Columbia University, who is among the world's leading authorities on
    surgical ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF).  Dr. Li
    Poa is head of the Cardima Center of Excellence and Training Program at
    Stamford Hospital.  He has conducted extensive work perfecting
    thoracoscopic surgical techniques, and will train cardiothoracic surgeons
    in the use of the Cardima Surgical Ablation System.
--  Dr. Sanjeev Saksena, MD, FHRS, FACC, FESC FAHA, Clinical Professor of
    Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine and Medical Director of
    the Electrophysiology Research Foundation, has been the Director of the
    Cardiovascular Institute, Atlantic Health System (Eastern Campus) from 1999-
    2004 and is a Past President of the North American Society of Pacing and
    Electrophysiology (NASPE).  He is the Founding editor and current Editor-in-
    Chief of the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology that
    recently published an entire issue devoted to surgical ablation of atrial
    fibrillation in December 2007.  He has been and is a Planning/Steering
    Committee member of the National Institute of Health AFFIRM & TOPCAT trials
    that have focused on atrial fibrillation.
    

The breakfast symposium will be held at the San Francisco Marriott beginning on January 27 at 6:00 a.m. For additional details, please contact Dilyana Hadjeva at dilyana.hadjeva@cardima.com. Cardima products and technology will be on display on the exhibition floor at booth #414 at the STS conference, which is being held at the Moscone West Convention Center.

"Our presence at STS and our symposium featuring two preeminent physicians in the field of AF provide an opportunity to showcase our Surgical Ablation System with many thought-leaders, both nationally and internationally, who attend this meeting," said Cardima's CEO, Robert Cheney.