Calcium webinar with Boston Scientific

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.

Claudia Cosgrove is an interventional cardiologist working at St George’s Hospital in London. She trained in Australia before undertaking a fellowship in complex and CTO PCI at St George's. She is involved in research in calcific coronary artery disease, left main stem PCI and intravascular imaging.

Dr Yoshifumi KASHIMA is a member of Japanese Board of CTO interventional specialist. He is also an expert ROTABLATOR operator. He is called ROTAMONSTER.

James Spratt Professor of Interventional cardiology with a sub-speciality interest in complex PCI, intravascular imaging and CTO. He is widely published within this area and has performed live case demonstrations globally. He has an interest in medical education and is the Founder of Optima Education.

After training in Scotland, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at CUMC, and Clinical Research Fellowship at Harvard University, she was a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital and Associate Professor of Cardiology at the University of Glasgow, prior to moving back to New York in 2022.