August 2018
83rd Annual SCTS and CT Forum Meeting and Ionescu University The 83rd Annual SCTS and CT Forum meeting will be held 10th–12th March 2019 and will return to London. Clinton Lloyd (on behalf of the meeting team)
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he QEII Centre is centrally located opposite Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and will provide another excellent venue for the Ionescu University on the Sunday and main SCTS meeting and CT Forum (Nursing and Allied Health professionals) on the Monday and Tuesday. New techniques in Cardiothoracic surgery, updates and controversies in all aspects of care will be covered and we have another exciting faculty of invited European and American guest speakers over the course of the three days - this is your chance to meet them and pick their brains in their area of expertise.
Last year we had a record number of abstract submissions with ever increasing interest in submissions from the CT Forum, trainees and medical students. Abstract submission will open on 1st September 2018 and deadline for submission will be 5th November 2018. Registration for the meeting will open on 1st December 2018. See https://scts.org/annual-meeting/ for links to the meeting and abstract submission. The conference dinner will be held in the Underglobe – beneath Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and we look forward to providing another memorable evening of entertainment.
We welcome Cha Rajakaruna (Bristol) to the meetings team who will work as deputy secretary along with Maninder Kalkat (Birmingham) and Clinton Lloyd (Plymouth) from the surgical team and Helen Munday (Papworth) who represents the CT Forum. Please contact any of us for any areas of interest or ideas that you may wish to be considered for the meeting. Please contact Isabelle Ferner at sctsadmin@scts.org for any administrative queries and we look forward to seeing you in London 2019. n
Congratulations for our new roles
Marjan Jahangiri, Elected Trustee/Co-Chair, Cardiac Committee
Mahmoud Loubani, Elected Trustee
Richard Page, President
Simon Kendall, President-elect
Narain Moorjani, Honorary Secretary
Juliet King, Co-opted as Thoracic Trustee
Cha Rajakaruna, Deputy Meeting Secretary
Indu Deglurkar, Publications Secretary
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