21st Annual Scientific and General Meeting Programme
Thursday 29th November 2012
8.00 – 8.45
8.50-10.30
Registration Open
Chair
Teresa Robinson
Louise Watt
8.50 - 9.00
SVT President Welcome
Jo Walker
9.00 - 9.25
The genetics of abdominal aortic aneurysm
9.30 – 9.55
Varicose vein treatment: The use of glue
10.00 – 10.25
Carotid plaque type identification using
contrast ultrasound
Matt Bown
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Session 1
10.30 - 10.55
Chair
11.00 – 11.10
11.10 – 11.20
11.20 – 11.30
11.30 – 11.40
11.00-13.00
Session 2
11.40-11.50
11.50 – 12.00
12.10 – 12.20
12.20 – 12.30
12.30 – 12.40
12.40 – 12.50
Tristan Lane
Imperial College London
Brahman Dharmarajah
Imperial College London
Coffee and exhibition
Jo Walker
Tanyah Ewen
Cuff free ABPI in ulcerated limbs
Dave King
One Stop Vascular Access Clinics:
Improving Patient Pathways
The value of repeated carotid Doppler
studies in acute stroke patients
Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in
premenopausal and postmenopausal
women and changes following Hormone
Replacement Therapy
Ultrasound Guided Foam Sclerotherapy
(UGFS) treatment for chronic venous
ulceration:
Is Duplex surveillance required?
Erythrocyte aggregation echogenicity
revisited
An assessment of patient imaging data as
seen at the Carotid MDT Meeting
Is duplex ultrasound more sensitive than
angiography for detection of proximal
occlusive disease in the aortic arch
branches? Case studies.
The Introduction and Application
of 3D Vascular Ultrasound
Transcranial Doppler use in carotid
endarterectomy patients - a case study of
ICA dissection and the role of intra-operative
monitoring
Matthew Bartlett
Alison Charig
Yasmin Khaleghi
Julia Howard
Keith Humphries
Crispian Oates
Vladimir Skulbedov
Lee Smith
Nicola Sedgwick
Andrew Pellew-Nabbs
Lunch and Exhibition
13:00 – 14.00
Annual General Meeting
14.00 – 14.45
14.45 –15.45
Chair
Kerry Tinkler
Session 3
14.45 – 15.15
Improving Quality in Physiological diagnostic
Services (IQIPS)
15.15 – 15.45
15.45 – 16.15
16.15 – 17.30
Julia Mapstone
Paul White
IQIPS for Vascular Science
Osama Ammar
Academy for Healthcare Science
Director of Education,
Training and Professional
Standards
Tea and exhibition
Chair
Teresa Robinson
Michelle Bonfield
16.15 – 16.45
NICE Clinical Guidelines: Venous
thromboembolic diseases
Professor Gerard
Stansby
Freeman Hospital Newcastle
16.45 – 17.15
Walton Lecture
Rachel Walker
17.15 – 17.30
Notices & close of meeting
Jo Walker
Session 4
Close of meeting
17.30
With thanks to AGM bag sponsors: Bracco UK Ltd
VS Annual Dinner 7.30 for 8pm Manchester Convention Centre