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Bruce Keogh

Bruce Keogh is renowned for his work on cardiac surgical outcomes. As NHS Medical Director he is charged with clinical delivery and clinical outcomes for the entire NHS. He is uniquely able to provide a front line clinician’s view of the top echelons of the Department of Health, and ponder the question (from an informed and well connected perspective) whether the NHS is really falling apart…
Bruce is Medical Director of the NHS and Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Other positions include President of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, Commissioner - Healthcare Commission, International Director of the  Society of Thoracic Surgeons (USA), Secretary General of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Professor of Cardiac Surgery Univesity College London and President of the Cardiothoracic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Marc de Leval

Marc de Leval is one of the worlds most experienced and well known congenital cardiac surgeons.  His work encompasses pioneering clinical developments such as the modification of the Blalock Taussig shunt and rationalising and developing the total cavopulmonary shunt for Fontan patients. However perhaps uniquely amongst cardiac surgeons he is an eminent academic in the area  of the role of human factors in medical outcomes and errors. His work famously includes introducing Formula 1 Ferrari pit stop engineers to the operating room. He will provide a summary of his work in this field.
Marc is Medical Director of the International Congenital Cardiac Centre, London and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of London. He has authored and edited numerous scientific papers and several leading textbooks.

Philipp Bonhoeffer

In 1999 Philipp Bonhoeffer began a pioneering research program with the aim of replacing a pulmonary valve without open heart surgery. He performed the world’s first catheter based valve implantation on a 12 year old in France in 2000. He is now a leading authority in interventional cardiology and perhaps the most widely recognised authority in the world on percutaneous valve implantation. He will be outlining his experience in pulmonary valve implantation and commenting on future developments.
Philipp is the Chief of Cardiology and Director of Catheterisation Laboratory at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. He is Professor of Cardiology at the Institute of Child Health, University College London

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Mike Grocott

As Director and Expedition Leader of Caudwell Extreme Everest Mike Grocott led a research team to the summit of Mount Everest. He made the first ever measurement of oxygen levels in human blood at 8400m. Mike will outline how his high altitude research into hypoxia and human systems in extreme environments can improve care of critically ill patients.
Mike is Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, University of London. Co-Founder and Co-Director of University College London Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment medicine (CASE) and Deputy-Director Institute of Human Health and Performance, University College London.

George Shorten

George Shorten is an eminent academic scientist and anaesthetist and an inspirational speaker. He is a world authority in pain management and research. He will focus on the complexities and conflicts inherent in treatment producing injury rather than benefit. He will look at persistent pain after cardiac and thoracic surgery in the context of other overlooked iatrogenic stories such as rofecoxib, post-operative neurocognitive deficit and (perhaps) aprotinin.
George is Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at University College Cork and Cork University Hospital, Ireland. Committee member of Irish, European and USA government health organisations. Author of over 150 peer review articles and several textbooks. Organiser European Society of Anaesthesiologists Refresher Course. George has published poetry in literary magazines and anthologies.

Sue Wright

In collaboration with colleagues from UCL and Great Ormond Street hospitals, industry and healthcare investors, Sue Wright has constructed a 3-D virtual heart model, developed from anatomical specimens and sophisticated 3-D imaging reconstructions. It allows the viewer to manipulate and “fly through” the heart in any direction from any perspective. Allowing detailed anatomical interrogation and understanding it contains a unique trademarked process which allows the viewer to manipulate and choose any 2-D interrogation plane of the heart and produce a corresponding real time echocardiographic image. Sue will demonstrate the images and potential uses of the model.
Sue is well known in UK echocardiography and is Director of Perioperative Echocardiography at University College London.

Judith Hulf will open the meeting and provide an update on College related issues. Dr Hulf is President of the Royal College of Anaesthestists.
The ACTA Spring Meeting will formally launch the NCEPOD final report on Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, published June 4, 2008.

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