Learn how patients, families and clinicians are changing the outlook for the life-threatening condition aortic dissection with Professor Colin Bicknell, Professor of Vascular Surgery in the Department of Surgery and Cancer.
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Abstract
Aortic dissection is a unique condition that is the poor cousin of other cardiovascular diseases, but together patients, family members, clinicians and policy makers are changing the outlook for those with the condition. Increased funding has become available in the past few years with a large increase in the number of dissection specific studies being run. Patients and physicians have joined together to design and deliver research and education.
The future is certainly brighter for patients and families of patient with this important condition. This lecture is a celebration of all the work that has been done by patients, families, clinicians and everyone who works in this area to try and change the outlook for patients with aortic dissection.
Biography
Colin Bicknell is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Imperial Vascular Unit, London.
He is clinical lead for the National Vascular Registry, co-chair of the Aortic Special Interest Group to lead patient prioritised aortic research in the UK, ex-President of the British Society of Endovascular Therapy and ex-Chair of The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust Research Advisory Group.
He directs a translational aortic clinical research programme, leading research trials, including the EARNEST trial, a long-term trial of the benefits of early stenting after acute uncomplicated type-B aortic dissection.
