Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching at Ulster University

1st and 2nd March 2017

Thanks to Janette Connolly, Jacqui Crawford and Jill Cundell for the invitation to present a number of lectures to Podiatry and Allied Healthcare Undergraduate Students on a range of vascular pathologies.

ELHT Amputation Study Day

8th March 2017

Thank you to Georgina Leaver and Mr Haytham Al-Khaffaf for their invite to discuss “A Surgeon’s Perspective of Major Limb Amputation”. This annual event is attended by all members of the vascular multi-disciplinary team and an informal atmosphere encouraged lots of questions.

NorthWest Vascular Society Annual Meeting

11th October 2016

Presenting “Outcomes and Prognosis of Mesenteric Ischaemia” at the Annual North West of England Vascular Society Annual Meeting.

ASiT MRCS Part B (OSCE) Course

7th September 2016

Thanks to Mr Adam Haque and Professor Mo Baguneid for their invite to present. This course was delivered at a very high level combined with anatomical teaching at Manchester University. My educational remit was to cover the major vascular systems encompassing disease definition and pathogenesis, clinical presentation, investigation and subsequent therapeutic strategies combined with an update of the current clinical evidence.

Life in a Surgical Career

21st April 2015

Thanks to Mr Robin Baker for the invite to return to the Medical Biology Centre at Queen’s University Belfast to present at the QUB Final Year Medical School Careers Evening.

Joint Irish Association of Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting, Newcastle, Northern Ireland

6th May 2016

A selection of posters was presented by the ELHT Vascular Team;

Assessment of Carotid Plaque Ultrasonic Morphology for Predicting Ischaemic Stroke Risk in Symptomatic Carotid Artery Disease. Ravi R.Goel, Meenakshi Goel, Mark E. O’Donnell, Haytham Al-Khaffaf.

Evaluating the potential for a new specialist Central Vascular Access Service: Are we using too many Hickman Lines? Alexander Seager, Jane Dean, Clare-Marie Owen, Robert A. Salaman, Mark E. O’Donnell.

Rescue Management of Vascular Graft Infections using Sartorius Muscle Flaps. Louise Cousins, Adam Haque, Asad Rahi, Haytham Al-Khaffaf, Simon Hardy, Robert Salaman, Mark E. O’Donnell.

The Successful Treatment of a Proximal Type I Endoleak using the Aptus HeliFX EndoAnchor System – A Useful adjunct in EVAR Re-intervention. Louise Cousins, Johnathan Porter, Adam Haque, Sharath Hosmane, Neil Wilde, Peter Woodhead, Haytham Al-Khaffaf, Robert Salaman, Mark E. O’Donnell.

Joint Irish Association of Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting, Newcastle, Northern Ireland

9th May 2015

After return from my Vascular Surgery Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, we were able to present some research conducted over the last two years.

Operative Explantation of Inferior Vena Cava Filters. Mark E. O'Donnell, Cristine Velazco, Ryan Day, William M. Stone, Richard J. Fowl, Thomas C. Bower, Peter Gloviczki, Samuel R. Money.

ELHT FRCS Program

January to September 2016

Our Surgical Directorate delivered an excellent teaching program for our senior surgical trainees one to two times per week. We were fortunate to be able to cover all aspects of the FRCS Surgical Curriculum and I wish to express my gratitude to our faculty who attended early in the morning in their own time to deliver their training sessions.

The faculty included; Mr Adnan Sheikh Consultant Laparoscopic and Robotic Colorectal Surgeon; Mr Daren Subar Consultant Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeon; Ms Ambareen Kausar Consultant Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeon; Ms Jennifer Smith Consultant Colorectal Surgeon; Mr Colin Harris Consultant General Surgeon; Ms Suzanne Gawn Consultant Breast Surgeon; and Ms Trish Duncan Consultant Surgeon.