Why IVUS is Essential in Deep Venous Procedures

Dr O’Sullivan received his medical degree from the University College Cork, Ireland in 1990. After 2 years in internal medicine (MRCPI) he went into Radiology in Derriford Hospital Plymouth, UK, in 1993, transferring to St. George’s Hospital London in 1995. He passed the FRCR in 1997; and obtained CCST in 1998. He undertook a IR fellowship in the world-renowned Stanford University Medical Centre, Stanford, California in 1998-1999. Dr O’Sullivan was Consultant at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Chicago from 1999-2002 and has been a full time IR in Galway since 2002. Dr O’Sullivan’s expertise in interventional radiology is one of contributing factors that make University Hospital Galway one of the key centres in Europe for endovascular reconstruction. Beside his work on deep venous disease therapies, he is also collaborating on several novel medical devices’ developments. His particular interests include venous thrombolysis and thrombectomy, venous stenting, venous stent design, IVC and iliac venous reconstruction. Dr O’Sullivan was inducted as a fellow to the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) in 2016. Dr O’Sullivan is a Fellow and Examiner for the European Board of Interventional Radiology.

Dr. Nijjer is a Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. He works at both the Hammersmith Hospital and Chelsea & Westminster Foundation NHS Trust, as well as leading private Hospitals in London including the Wellington and Cromwell Hospitals. He is the President-elect of the Cardiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and he was selected as an Emerging Leader for the British Cardiovascular Society. He specialises in coronary intervention and focused his clinical practice in the management of ischaemic heart disease. His practice encompasses all aspects of cardiology. In his PhD research, funded by the Medical Research Council (UK) and awarded by Imperial College he developed of new intracoronary physiology techniques, specifically iFR and iFR-pullback and Co-registration. He has published almost 100 peer-reviewed papers in respected journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. He has also written several books.