Antegrade Dissection Re-Entry Part 2: Step by Step and Troubleshooting

Dr Hung is a Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, and the co-host of “Penetrating CTO – from cap to completion” on Wondr Medical. He specialises in complex PCI and chronic total occlusion and education in coronary intervention. He is a graduate of the University of Liverpool, where he did much of his postgraduate medical training, before undertaking a period of research at the BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science in Edinburgh. Currently based at St George’s Hospital, London he is an active clinician, researcher and road cyclist.

Dr Simon Walsh has been working as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Belfast Trust for over 10 years. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. The centre performs ~2750 PCI per year, with 650-700 STEMI and calcium modification in ~10% of our PCI cases. Dr Walsh also works internationally as an educator, teaching advanced techniques for complex PCI and CTO PCI. This involves training visiting Cardiologists in Belfast retrograde CTO techniques, antegrade dissection and re-entry CTO techniques and other advanced PCI procedures. He has visited multiple centres in the UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, Asia and North America to act as a visiting proctor for complex PCI and CTO PCI cases. Dr Walsh’s research interests include PCI, coronary artery disease, defibrillation, acute coronary syndromes and chronic total occlusions. Research responsibilities have included acting as a recruiting investigator for the >25 multicentre studies over the last 17 years. He acted as a primary investigator for numerous international trials including the Evolve, Noble, Leaders Free and Ischemia multicentre studies. He has been the lead UK investigator for the October trial, Syntax 2, Recharge and Ischaemia-CTO. He is also the Chief Investigator for the Consistent CTO, Celtic Bifurcation and Discrete CTO trials.

Sinjini Biswas is an Interventional Cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute, having recently finished a CTO and complex PCI fellowship at the same institution. She graduated from the University of Melbourne and completed her cardiology training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. She was awarded a scholarship from the National Heart Foundation of Australia to undertake a PhD at Monash University/The Alfred Hospital. She subsequently completed a fellowship in PCI and TAVI at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to Bristol. She has clinical and research interests in intravascular imaging, treatment of calcific coronary artery disease and cardiovascular outcomes research.