Welsh Cardio-Thoracic Society – Annual Meeting 2025
The Orangery, Margam Park Conference Centre, Port Talbot SA13 2TJ
27th September, 2025
8.30 – 9.15 Registration & Coffee
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome & Introduction, Prof Indu Deglurkar, President Welsh Cardiothoracic Society.
Plenary Session 9.30 – 11.00 AM
Chair: S Ashraf, M Kornaszewska, R Nicolae
09.30 – 09.45 Enhanced Recovery after Cardiac Surgery Pathway, the successes, the constraints, and the plans for further implementation incorporating the whole MDT within SBUHB.
Kaylee Marson and Dr Sameena Ahmed
09.45 – 10.00 Outcomes of Isolated Aortic Valve Replacements: A Single Centre Analysis in the Era of TAVI
Nada Dahan, Syed Aidil Syed, Nong Chek, Indu Deglurkar
10.00 – 10.15 Implementation of a prevention care bundle reduces the incidence of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery (AFACS): A single centre study results
Manjuladevi Sajeevan, Ross Phillips
10.15 – 10.30 From Frailty to Fixation: The Role of Rib Fracture Displacement in Surgical Decisions and Hospitalization
Ms. Bedi, Dr Mehwish, Mr. Nicolae, Dr Battle
10.30 – 10.45 Green Cardiac ITU
Lisa Coe, Carly McNeil
10.45 – 11.00 New Innovations, New Operations, and Lessons Learnt.
Aidil Syed, Kamran Inamdar, Indu Deglurkar
Coffee Break & Exhibition 11.00-11.20 AM
Session II 11.20 – 1.00 PM
Chair: A Youhana, P Kumar (TBC), A Pirtnieks
11.20 – 11.45 Is Patient-Surgeon Gender Concordance Important?
Prof Indu Deglurkar, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon UHW Cardiff Wales
11.45 – 12.10 Neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy in resectable lung cancer
Prof Ira Goldsmith, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, SBUHB, Swansea, Wales
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12.10 – 12.30 Presidential Address: Prof Indu Deglurkar
12.30 – 13.00 Announcing the new office bearers: Mr Nihal Kulatilake
Lunch, Networking & Exhibition, 1.00-2.00 PM
Session III 2.00 – 3.20 PM
Chair: D Sitaranjan, V Valtzoglou,
02.00 – 02.15 Ten Years of Endobronchial Valves: Real-World Experience from the University Hospital of Wales
Ahmed Mandisha, Kamran Inamdar, Qingzi Guo, Bortecin Eygi, Abdelhadi Ismail, Mohammad Ibrahim, Musab Mohammed, Joshua Samuel, Anfal Farah, Anastasia Efstathiou, Sanya Nair, Ramsey Sabit, Malgorzata Kornaszewska
02.15 – 02.30 Surgical site skin preparation audit
Abdelhadi Ismail, Ahmed Mandisha, Mohammed Ibrahim, Ahmed Nasr, Musab Mohammed, Joshua Samuel, Anfal Farah, David Kumar, Ann Marie Payne, Vasileios Valtzoglou, Tom Combellack, Malgorzata Kornaszewska, Ainis Pirtnieks, Ulrich Von Oppell, Dheeraj Mehta, Indu Deglurkar, Mesbah Rehman
02.30 – 02.45 An analysis of post-operative deaths after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft procedures 2012-24.
Zainab Sheikh, Professor Indu Deglurkar
02.45 – 03.00 Optimising Surgical Outcomes in Older Adults: A Cardiac Prehabilitation Quality Improvement Project
Elizabeth Ford
03.00 – 03.20 Standard pathway for type A aortic dissection preoperative management in SBUHB Cardiac centre
Fabio Falconieri and Hani Taman
03.20 – 03.30 Closing remarks: Prof Ira Goldsmith, Honorary Secretary, Welsh Cardiothoracic Society
Coffee Break & Exhibition 3.30 – 3.50PM
Networking and Photographs
On arrival, please drive up to the barrier and gain access to the exclusive Orangery gravel car park. Contact number 01639 883553
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