News

January 2011: Heart surgery: story of the aortic jacket

Tal Golesworthy and Professor John Pepper are giving a talk at the NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit's Cafe scientifique on Wednesday 8 February between 6.30 and 8.00pm at Sydney Street coffee shop at the Royal Brompton Hospital SW3 6NP. To reserve a place or find out more, please contact Julia Coffey at j.coffey@rhbt.nhs.uk or 020 7352 8121 ext. 2746.

December 2011: Tal Golesworthy appears on BBC Radio Gloucestershire

Tal Golesworthy appeared on Manny Masih's Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio Gloucestershire on 11 December 2011.

Play Tal's BBC Radio Gloucestershire interview with Manny Masih

December 2011: External Aortic Root Support Project  winner of the Medical & Healthcare category of The Engineer's Technology and Innovation Awards 2011

The EARS project has won The Engineer’s Medical & Healthcare Award for Technical Innovation. Last Friday Tal Golesworthy and Peter Gibson attended the awards ceremony at The Royal Society in London to receive the award on behalf of the EARS team. You can download a copy of the article here. You can also read more at The Engineer website.

December 2011: Exstent wins award

Exstent has been chosen as the winner in the Medical & Healthcare category of The Engineer's Technology and Innovation Awards 2011. Details of the award and the runners up can be found at The Engineer website.

November 2011: Exstent shortlisted for an award

Exstent has been named as a finalist in the Medical & Healthcare category of The Engineer's Technology and Innovation Awards 2011. The winner will be announced at an awards dinner in December. Take a look at the article on The Engineer website.

October 2011: NICE guidance published in Heart Journal

Just published in Heart is "External aortic root support: NICE guidance" by Tom Treasure, John Pepper, Tal Golesworthy, Raad Mohiaddin and Robert H Anderson. You can download a copy of the article here. You can also visit the Heart website.

20 October 2011: Tal Golesworthy at TEDxKraków

Tal Golesworthy gave a paper at TEDxKraków on 20 October entitled Barriers and benefits in multidisciplinary innovation. The day combined TEDTalks video and live speakers, of which Tal was one, to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

You can see the presentation slides here. You can read an article about the event here. You can also visit the TEDxKraków website.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

September 2011

Just published in the Italian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery is an article by T. Treasure, T. Golesworthy, J. Pepper, F. Ruiz and S. Gallivan called "Prophylactic surgery of the aortic root in Marfan Syndrome: reconsideration of the decision making process in the era of customised external aortic root support". You can download a copy of the article here. You can also visit the Italian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery website at http://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/vascular-endovascular-surgery/index.php

25 May 2011: NICE publishes it full guidance on the ExoVasc^®

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on External aortic root support in Marfan syndrome. To read the guidance visit http://guidance.nice.org.uk/IPG394.