BCIS is committed to improving educational opportunities for all its members and to addressing the gender gap in Interventional Cardiology and therefore have launched bi-monthly meetings for WIIC. This will allow for education and discussion, the opportunity to network and for mentoring of junior consultants and trainees. The webinars will focus on key issues faced by WIIC as well as sharing key skills and tips to help women working in the speciality to advance their career.

Webinars will take place every other month starting with March, on the fourth Tuesday in that month from 8-9 pm. Each session will take the format of a 15-minute case presentation with a speaker and discussant, followed by a 30-minute presentation on a key topic by a second presenter, and closing with a discussion. The topics for the presentations include key soft skills such as presenting to large audiences, managing childcare, how to say no, and improving cath lab culture.

The first session will take place on Tuesday 22^nd March 8-9 pm and features Dr Shazia Hussain, Consultant Cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital Leicester and Dr Dan McKenzie, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust as case presenters. Prof. Nick Curzen, BCIS President will then present his talk titled “Supporting women in interventional cardiology”.

To sign up to the first session, click  the link below.

Dear BCIS Members,

After elections for these pivotal roles within BCIS, I am delighted to announce the successful appointment of the following members:

Treasurer

Dan McKenzie, who will take over from Doug Fraser in Jan 22.

Training and Education Group Lead

Dougie Muir, who will take over from Raj Kharbanda in Jan 22.

Structural Intervention Group Lead

Dave Hildick-Smith, who will take over from Phil McCarthy in Jan 22.

On behalf of BCIS, I’d like to congratulate the successful candidates, and to thank all those who applied for their continued interest and support of our society.

It goes without saying that the work of the society could not be done without the sterling effort and commitment shown by Doug, Raj and Phil over the past few years and I thank them on behalf of council.

With very best wishes,

Clare Appleby

BCIS Honorary Secretary

Dear BCIS Members,

After elections for these pivotal roles within BCIS, I am delighted to announce the successful appointment of the following members:

Treasurer

Dan McKenzie, who will take over from Doug Fraser in Jan 22.

Training and Education Group Lead

Dougie Muir, who will take over from Raj Kharbanda in Jan 22.

Structural Intervention Group Lead

Dave Hildick-Smith, who will take over from Phil McCarthy in Jan 22.

On behalf of BCIS, I’d like to congratulate the successful candidates, and to thank all those who applied for their continued interest and support of our society.

It goes without saying that the work of the society could not be done without the sterling effort and commitment shown by Doug, Raj and Phil over the past few years and I thank them on behalf of council.

With very best wishes,

Clare Appleby

BCIS Honorary Secretary

Dear BCIS Members,

After elections for these pivotal roles within BCIS, I am delighted to announce the successful appointment of the following members:

Treasurer

Dan McKenzie, who will take over from Doug Fraser in Jan 22.

Training and Education Group Lead

Dougie Muir, who will take over from Raj Kharbanda in Jan 22.

Structural Intervention Group Lead

Dave Hildick-Smith, who will take over from Phil McCarthy in Jan 22.

On behalf of BCIS, I’d like to congratulate the successful candidates, and to thank all those who applied for their continued interest and support of our society.

It goes without saying that the work of the society could not be done without the sterling effort and commitment shown by Doug, Raj and Phil over the past few years and I thank them on behalf of council.

With very best wishes,

Clare Appleby

BCIS Honorary Secretary

Dear BCIS Members,

After elections for these pivotal roles within BCIS, I am delighted to announce the successful appointment of the following members:

Treasurer

Dan McKenzie, who will take over from Doug Fraser in Jan 22.

Training and Education Group Lead

Dougie Muir, who will take over from Raj Kharbanda in Jan 22.

Structural Intervention Group Lead

Dave Hildick-Smith, who will take over from Phil McCarthy in Jan 22.

On behalf of BCIS, I’d like to congratulate the successful candidates, and to thank all those who applied for their continued interest and support of our society.

It goes without saying that the work of the society could not be done without the sterling effort and commitment shown by Doug, Raj and Phil over the past few years and I thank them on behalf of council.

With very best wishes,

Clare Appleby

BCIS Honorary Secretary

The BJCA are putting on a Webinar Series throughout September titled Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation – Essential Knowledge for Every Cardiology Trainee.

An outstanding panel of speakers will join in virtually to discuss the current and future direction of TAVI in the UK, how to become confident in assisting as an operator, developing your skills in managing post procedural complication and more. This will be an interactive event where delegates will be able to participate via the Q&A function and Sli.Do.

The webinars take place 17:30-19:30 on Wednesday the 1st, 8th and 15th September, further details on each are below:

Webinar 1 – 1st September – Optimal patient selection and work-up for TAVI in 2021

Webinar 2 – 8th September – From scrub-in to scrub-out – procedural steps in contemporary transfemoral TAVI

Webinar 3 – 15th September – Complications and longer term management after TAVI – what every trainee should know

Find out more and register your place below.

The second in the series of the BCIS Educational Forum webianrs took place on Tuesday 11th May.

Titled “Bifurcation PCI”, the speaker for the session was Dr Mark Mariathas, Interventional Fellow – University Hospitals Dorset. The supervisor for the session was Dr Peter O’Kane, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist – University Hospitals Dorset.

You can watch the full webinar on-demand below

The first in the series of the BCIS Educational Forum webinars took place on Tuesday 13th April and was titled Basic Equipment Talk

Dr Tom Gilpin or Southampton University hospital led the talk, supervised by Dr Jeremy Langrish of John Radcliffe Hospital.

Topics covered include; Angioplasty wires, Balloons (Semi-compliant, NC, cutting), and Stents – platform design – how do I decide which stent to use?

You can watch the full webinar on-demand below

Dear BCIS member,

We would like to invite expressions of interest from enthusiastic and committed BCIS members keen to have a role in the educational development of the allied healthcare professional members of our Society.

The AHP Annual Summer Conference 2021

The AHP Group Summer Conference is traditionally a two-day face to face conference held in June each year, attracting around 175 attendees.  Due to the continued disruption caused by the COVID pandemic, for the second year, this conference will be held as a live virtual experience for two half days.

This year’s conference will be held on the afternoons of Monday 28^th and Tuesday 29^th June.

Expressions of Interest are invited from surgical centres to partner up with a pre-selected non-surgical centre.

The programme for 2021 has not yet been developed but previously combines pre-recorded live cases, lecture presentations and industry training demonstrations.  It is intended that the successful applicants will join a ZOOM meeting to agree the content of the programme and their role in it. The next meeting of this group will be on Tuesday 30 March between 09:30 and 15:30.

Eligibility/Unit and nominee Specification

Applications are open from the BCIS membership, and it is expected that the lead applicant will be an allied health professional from a surgical centre who has attended previous BCIS AHP Conferences and experienced in the clinical practice of interventional cardiology.  The AHP submitting this nomination will be supported by a consultant interventional cardiologist who is also a BCIS member.  Both interested parties must be named individuals.

Application

Application is by self-nomination, with reference to the specification above. A supporting statement from the candidate, no more than 1 side of A4, which includes the details of the supporting consultant cardiologist and specifically addresses their Unit’s suitability for co-hosting this year’s conference must accompany the nomination in order for the application to be valid.

The closing date is Tuesday 2^nd March at 5pm.

If you wish to apply please do so by e-mail to BCIS@millbrookconferences.co.uk   by the closing date of Tuesday 2^nd March at 5pm, including a statement in support of your application.

If you have any questions relating to this role, please feel free to contact us for further information (douglasmuir@nhs.net or sarah.carson@uhbw.nhs.uk ).

With kind regards,

Douglas Muir
BCIS AHP Group Lead