Cardiothoracic Surgery Registrar Research Presentation Day

Sunday 14 November 2021

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Session 1: Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Chair: Dr Emily Granger

“Novel cardiothoracic surgery- what area you should specialise in!”

Speakers: Dr Jazmin Eckhaus, Dr Livia Williams, Dr Christine Goh

Avant Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery Training Scholarship 2022

NZDT: 12:00pm

AEST: 9:00am

AEDT: 10:00am

ACDT: 9:30am

AWST: 7:00am

This session was not recorded

Session 2: Mini Oral Presentations

Chair: Dr Chris Cole

NZDT: 1:30pm

AEST: 10:30am

AEDT: 11:30am

ACDT: 11:00am

AWST: 8:30am

Navneet Singh (Cardiac) Del Nido Cardioplegia - Auckland Experience 2018-2020

Sally Harrison (Cardiac) Pre and Postoperative Considerations for New Zealand Maori and Pacific Island Patients Undergoing Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement

Adrian Pannekoek (Cardiac Basic Science) Syndecan-1 As a Measure of Endothelial Glycocalyx Degradation in Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Liam Bibo (Thoracic) Strategies for Management of Massive Airway Haemorrhage Complicating Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy

Matheus Carelli (Cardiac) The experience of incorporating computed tomography of the chest as a routine pre-operative investigation for patient undergoing coronary artery bypass graft.

Lucy Manuel (Cardiac) Twenty-year Outcomes Following Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB)

Navneet Singh (Cardiac) Ethnicity and Aortic Surgery NZ Experience 2015-2019

Damian Gimpel (Cardiac Transplant) Development of an organ procurement team in South Australia due to COVID-19

Jarrod Joliffe (Thoracic) Surgical Intervention as Initial Management for Empyema: A Systematic Review and Analysis

Abbey Knox (Cardiac) Transcatheter Mitral Valve-in-valve: Treatment of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Young Aboriginal Patients

Nicholas Bayfield (Cardiac) Postoperative stress hyperglycaemia and glycaemic control following cardiac surgery: relaxed targets in diabetes may be appropriate

Francis Cheung (Thoracic) Traditional underwater seal versus digital chest drainage following pulmonary resection.

Session 3: Oral Presentations

Chair: Dr Ben Dunne

NZDT: 3:00pm

AEST: 12:00pm

AEDT: 1:00pm

ACDT: 12:30pm

AWST: 10:00am


Umar Ali (Cardiac) Mechanical versus Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement in Middle-aged adults: Western Australian Experience

Aashray Gupta (Cardiac Periop) Endovascular Thrombectomy for Large Vessel Occlusion Acute Ischaemic Stroke after Cardiac Surgery

Lewis Murray (Cardiac) Novel Oral Anticoagulants vs Warfarin therapy for new atrial fibrillation post valvular surgery

Timothy Surman (Cardiac) Clinical outcomes in Surgical and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. An ANZSCTS Database review 2001-2019

Damian Gimpel (Cardiac) Dedicated computed tomography coronary angiogram to assess adequate left atrial appendage closure via percutaneous and surgical technique

Reece Davies (Thoracic) Lung Neuroendocrine Neoplasms. A Single Centre Surgical Series and Analysis of Staging

Sam Emmanuel (Cardiac Transplant) Marginal cardiac donors and transplant outcomes: an 11 year experience

Session 4: Patrick Pritzwald-Stegman Prize Presentations

Chair: Dr James Edelman

NZDT: 4:30pm

AEST: 1:30pm

AEDT: 2:30pm

ACDT: 2:00pm

AWST: 11:30am

Fiona Doig (Congenital) Surgical Management of Ebstein’s Anomaly in the Adult

Amalan Thuraisingam (Congenital) A 30 year survival analysis of 232 patients (using National Death Index) of Right Ventricle to Pulmonary artery conduit insertion in adults with congenital heart disease.

Maggie Szpytma (Cardiac) Optimal Conduit Diameter Selection in Coronary Bypass Grafting Using Saphenous Vein

Timothy Surman (Cardiac) The susceptibility of the Aortic Root. Porcine Aortic Rupture testing under cardiopulmonary bypass

Steve Waqanivavalagi (Cardiac Basic Science) The Green Lane Valve: a Novel Tissue-Engineered Heart Valve for Valve Replacement Surgery

Session 5: Award Presentation