OPTIMA

Prof James C Spratt has global experience in training physicians in complex and CTO PCI. He is the Director of Optimal CTO and the author of the Retrograde iBook and co-author of the antegrade iBook.

Simon Walsh is a Thoracic Radiologist and National Institute of Health Research Clinician Scientist working at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. He is also a Machine Learning scientist. His research interests include diagnosis and outcome prediction in pulmonary fibrosis and the application of artificial intelligence to image analysis and computer vision. He regularly lectures on the imaging of diffuse lung diseases, both nationally and internationally and is widely published. Dr Walsh is an Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal, Academic Imaging Lead for several international idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis registries and Cofounder and Imaging Lead for a global imaging repository for fibrotic lung disease imaging aimed at promoting machine learning research in pulmonary fibrosis, called The Open Source Imaging Consortium. He is also the founder of an early stage startup, Euclidean Diagnostics which focuses on developing novel computer-based medical imaging analysis technologies.

A consultant cardiologist at Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Features in 20 videos on Wondr Medical. Colm Hanratty generally speaks on Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Calcium Scoring, and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Dr Julian Strange is a consultant interventional cardiologist at Bristol Heart Institute, UK. His specialty and research interests are in coronary disease and include coronary angioplasty, complex PCI and chronic total occlusions (CTO) as well as advanced heart attack and cardiac arrest therapies.