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September 2022

Piezofest: 26th - 30th September 2022

Piezofest: 26th - 30th September 2022

Piezofest: 26th - 30th September 2022

Piezofest: 26th - 30th September 2022

Piezofest: 26th - 30th September 2022

Piezofest: 26th - 30th September 2022

In Association with

Supported by

Five Days of Hands-On Ultrasound and Echo Workshops

Piezofest 2022 was Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Partnership's inaugural programme of high quality practical workshops focusing on cardiothoracic perioperative ultrasound and echocardiography.

Piezofest was held from Monday 26th September to Friday 30th September 2022 at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Guy's Campus, King's College London.

With expert faculty from across the UK we delivered six premium workshops (and one educational meeting):

  • Monday 26th September - Regional anatomy for cardiothoracics (with cadaveric needling)
  • Tuesday 27th September - FUSIC HD and Focused TOE (parallel workshops)
  • Wednesday 28th September - Perioperative lung ultrasound
  • Thursday 29th September (morning) - Basic perioperative TOE and dissection
  • Thursday 29th September (afternoon) - CAP perioperative TOE meeting (also on MS Teams)
  • Friday 30th September - Advanced perioperative 3D TOE and dissection


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Course organisers

Dr Anders Hulme

ST7 Anaesthetist, Harefieldd Hospital


Anders Hulme is in his final year of training in Anaesthesia in North Central London. His primary clinical interest is in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and is a co-founder of the Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Partnership. He has interests in major surgery, airway and interventional radiology. His non-clinical interests include education, human factors and green anaesthesia. Outside of work, Anders is a keen runner and cyclist, a very amateur woodworker and a loving but antagonistic dad to Lena (aged 2 1/2).

Dr Paul Balfour

Senior Clinical Fellow, Harefield Hospital


Co-founder and organiser of the Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia Partnership and Piezofest. I am completing my training in Cardiothoracic anaesthesia as a post-CCT fellow at Harefield Hospital. I have enjoyed creating educational opportunities in Cardiothoracics. 

Dr Mani Bahra

ST6 Anaesthetist, University College London Hospital


I am an Anaesthetic ST6 trainee in the Central London School of Anaesthesia currently working at UCLH. My clinical interests include regional anaesthesia, perioperative medicine and medical education.  

Faculty

Dr Emilie Martinoni Hoogenboom

Consultant Anaesthetist, UCLH

Twitter: @emhoogenboom


Dr Emilie Martinoni Hoogenboom is a consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospitals. She trained in anaesthesia in Switzerland and the UK. Her special interests are thoracic anaesthesia, airway management and regional anaesthesia. Her commitment to the delivery of high quality education in a multidisciplinary setting has fuelled the development of numerous successful courses and higher educational programmes (MOOCs, MSCs), including the use of digital education platforms.

Dr Amit Pawa

Consultant Anaesthetist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Twitter: @amit_pawa


Amit is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Lead for Regional Anaesthesia at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

Amit is an Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia (UGRA) enthusiast and was the first ever fellow in Regional Anaesthesia at Guy's & St Thomas'. He holds the ESRA European Diploma in Regional Anaesthesia (EDRA)

Additionally, Amit has been:
*President of the London Society for Regional Anaesthesia (LSORA), October 2010 - October 2013
*Board member of RA-UK (Regional Anaesthesia-UK), May 2014 – May 2023
*President RA-UK, May 2018 to May 2021
* Council member European Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA), May 2018- May 2021

He is extremely passionate about the delivery of education in USRA and has been fortunate enough to teach nationally and internationally. 

Dr Aidan Devlin

Consultant Anaesthetist, King’s College Hospital

Twitter: @aidanpdevlin


Consultant anaesthetist with interests in regional, vascular and hepatobiliary anaesthesia at King's College Hospital

Dr Sioned Phillips

Consultant Anaesthetist, Frimley Park Hospital


I am a consultant anaesthetist and college tutor. I have an interest in regional and obstetric anaesthesia. During my training I completed an obstetric research fellowship at UCLH, the regional fellowship at Frimley Park Hospital and the EDRA diploma. I teach on national courses for regional anaesthesia and organise the Frimley Continuous Regional Anaesthesia course, specialising in peri neural catheters.

Dr Madan Narayanan

Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive care, Frimley Park Hospital

Twitter: @madannarayanan


Dr.Madan Narayanan is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & ICU at Frimley Park Hospital. His special interests are regional anaesthesia in ICU and lung ultrasonography. He is an honorary lecturer in the MSc programme run by University of East Anglia. He is faculty in many regional anaesthesia courses. He runs a Youtube channel to promote education in regional anaesthesia and has authored many reviews in BJA Education.

Dr Matt Sinnott

Anaesthetic Registrar, Frimley Park Hospital


ST6 anaesthetics registrar in SW London deanery. Currently undertaking the regional anaesthesia fellowship at Frimley Park hospital.

Dr Cheng Ong

Consultant Anaesthetist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Website: TAGGUK.com


Cheng Ong is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Educational Lead in Thoracic Anaesthesia at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Hospitals. She is the founder of the Guy’s One Lung Thoracic Simulation course and is the Thoracic Fellowship for Stage 3 training. She is the PI for the Paravertebral in Surgery of the Lung ( ParaSOL) clinical trial.

Dr Lauren Tully

 Consultant Anaesthetist, Barts Heart Centre 

FUSIC HD Faculty

Dr Hatem Soliman Aboumarie

Consultant in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care, Harefield Hospital

Twitter: @EchoSoliman


Consultant in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care. Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences, King's College London. Deputy Chair EACVI HIT Committee. Member EACVI Education Committee. Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. Fellow of the EACVI. EACVI Excellence in Education Award Winner 2021.

Dr Hazem Lashin

 Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @drhazemlashin


I have been a consultant in Critical Care Medicine at Barts heart centre for four years. My particular interest is echocardiography in the critically ill, and I am BSE TTE level 2 accredited. I also undertake research projects to understand better the role of echocardiography in cardiogenic shock and the critically ill. 

Dr Segun Olusanya

 Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @iceman_ex


Segun is a newly appointed Intensive Care Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, with special interests in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), clinician wellbeing, point of care ultrasound, equality/diversity/inclusion, and online education. His real claim to fame is running a wedding cake and confectionery business with his wife, Fehintola; he primarily functions as Chief Taster, and occasional Dish Washer.

Dr Alexa Bond

 Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Email: Alexandra.bond1@nhs.net


Alexandra Bond is a critical care consultant and has just joined the team at St Bartholomew’s hospital. She is BSE level 2 TTE accredited and is an examiner for BSE level 1 TTE accreditation.

Dr Jonny Aron

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, St George's Hospital

Email: @aron_jonny


Dr Jonathan Aron is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM). He has had extensive experience in all areas of ICM practice, including acute emergencies and peri-operative care. He specialises in cardiac intensive care and has a particular interest in cardiogenic shock management, related to surgery, intervention or acute illness. Dr Aron also specialises in medical education. After undertaking training in simulation and education delivery, he teaches safety, communication and decision-making in challenging circumstances, to varied clinical learners. He has created and runs several international, national and local courses covering a variety of clinical topics. He is responsible for, and supervises, training for Doctors learning intensive care medicine. Dr Aron holds an advanced qualification in critical care echocardiography and uses this to optimise his patient's treatment. He is a member of the Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee that sets the standards for training in this area in the UK and a sub-committee member of the European Diploma in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography (EDEC) group, the European equivalent. He is a supervisor for doctors learning advanced qualifications in this field. He is medical director of a society that trains critical care ultrasound and runs several, highly acclaimed international courses a year. He has been involved in research and has published articles in this area. His other clinical areas of interest include advanced haemodynamic monitoring, advanced ventilation techniques and medical equipment.

FTOE Faculty

Dr Antonio Rubino (Course Director)

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Papworth Hospital

Twitter: @AEA_rubino


Antonio Rubino is a consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge. His clinical and educational interests are around organ donation, transplantation and ECMO as well as ultrasound and echocardiography. He is a member of the Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee and has led the work around the focused Transoesophageal (fTOE) accreditation in the UK. He is also clinical lead for Organ Donation and often combines his main area of interest within his active research and educational activity.

Dr Richard Fisher

Consultant in Critical Care, King’s College Hospital

Twitter: @EchoFoundations


Richard is a Consultant at King's College Hospital. He undertook a post-CCT fellowship in peri-operative and critical care echocardiography at the Royal Brompton Hospital and holds accreditations in TTE and TOE. He is a member of the BSE’s Education Committee where he is lead for training in level 1 echo.

Dr Sue Wright

Consultant Anaesthetist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital


Consultant anaesthetist, co-creator of HeartWorks simulator.

Dr Segun Olusanya

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @iceman_ex


Segun is a newly appointed Intensive Care Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, with special interests in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), clinician wellbeing, point of care ultrasound, equality/diversity/inclusion, and online education. His real claim to fame is running a wedding cake and confectionery business with his wife, Fehintola; he primarily functions as Chief Taster, and occasional Dish Washer.

Dr Carlos Corredor

 Consultant Cardiothoracic ICU/Anaesthesia, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @DrCCorredor


Dr Carlos Corredor is a consultant in Cardiothoracic Critical Care and Anaesthesia at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London since 2017. He completed medical school at Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia in 2000. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in London rotating trough major tertiary centres. He then undertook a post CST fellowship in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care at Toronto General Hospital.

His special interests include the perioperative care of patients undergoing major aortovascular surgery, neurological protection and monitoring, haemostasis and blood conservation and the use of perioperative point of care ultrasound. 

Dr Stephen Shepherd

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @sj_shepherd


Stephen Shepherd is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia working within Barts Health. His special areas of interest are echocardiography, severe heart and lung failure, mechanical circulatory support and major aortic and vascular surgery. He is accredited in transoesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography by the European Society of Cardiovascular Imaging.

Perioperative Lung ultrasound Faculty

Dr Giampaolo Martinelli (Course Director)

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St Bartholomew’s Hospital


Anaesthesia and ICU consultant with a special interest in lung ultrasound imaging and 3D TOE

Dr Segun Olusanya

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @iceman_ex


Segun is a newly appointed Intensive Care Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, with special interests in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), clinician wellbeing, point of care ultrasound, equality/diversity/inclusion, and online education. His real claim to fame is running a wedding cake and confectionery business with his wife, Fehintola; he primarily functions as Chief Taster, and occasional Dish Washer.

Dr Carlos Corredor

Consultant Cardiothoracic ICU/Anaesthesia, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @DrCCorredor


Dr Carlos Corredor is a consultant in Cardiothoracic Critical Care and Anaesthesia at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London since 2017. He completed medical school at Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia in 2000. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in London rotating trough major tertiary centres. He then undertook a post CST fellowship in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care at Toronto General Hospital.

His special interests include the perioperative care of patients undergoing major aortovascular surgery, neurological protection and monitoring, haemostasis and blood conservation and the use of perioperative point of care ultrasound.

Dr Hatem Soliman Aboumarie

Consultant in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care, Harefield Hospital

Twitter: @EchoSoliman


Consultant in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care. Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences, King's College London. Deputy Chair EACVI HIT Committee. Member EACVI Education Committee. Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. Fellow of the EACVI. EACVI Excellence in Education Award Winner 2021.

Dr Serena Rovida

 Consultant in Acute Medicine and Intensive Care, St George’s Hospital 

Dr Samson Kendall

Anaesthetics/ICM ST4, St Bartholomew’s Hospital


Samson is an ST4 in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, training in Barts and the London School of Anaesthesia. Whilst early on in his POCUS journey, Samson has been interested in POCUS since starting training, and is currently part of a team of people trying to develop a school-wide perioperative POCUS syllabus. In his free time, Samson does a lot of exercise, dances, runs a WASH-focussed NGO called 4Water and hangs out with his cat.

Dr Giovanni Volpicelli

 Emergency Physician, San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, Turin 

Perioperative TOE Faculty

Dr Stephen Shepherd (Course Director)

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @sj_shepherd


Stephen Shepherd is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia working within Barts Health. His special areas of interest are echocardiography, severe heart and lung failure, mechanical circulatory support and major aortic and vascular surgery. He is accredited in transoesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography by the European Society of Cardiovascular Imaging.

Dr Sue Wright

Consultant Anaesthetist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital


Consultant anaesthetist, co-creator of HeartWorks simulator.

Dr Andrew Smith

Consultant in Anaesthesia and ICU, St Bartholomew’s Hospital


I have been a consultant in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and ICU for over 20 years. During that time I have been performing and teaching perioperative echocardiography and am one of the creators and developers of the Heartworks simulator. Current clinical areas of interest are echocardiography for percutaneous valve interventions and echocardiographic parameters of cardiac performance on ICU.

Dr Giuseppe Bozzetti

Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow


Twitter: @GiuseBozz

Two decades of experience in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, ICU and imaging.

Dr Giampaolo Martinelli

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St Bartholomew’s Hospital


Anaesthesia and ICU consultant with a special interest in lung ultrasound imaging and 3D TOE

Mr Martin Yates

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital


Martin Yates is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London with a specialist interest in surgery for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He went to medical school at the University of Edinburgh, did his general surgery and cardiac surgery training in London and spent a year’s fellowship in New York City. 

Mr Alex Shipolini

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital


Consultant cardiac surgeon with a special interest in cardiac myectomy. 

Mr Ben Adams

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital

Twitter: @BenjaminAdamsMD


Ben Adams was appointed as a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Barts in August 2018 and has a special interest in complex aortovascular surgery. Ben read medicine at Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ School of Medicine graduating in 2005 with a first-class BSc in Radiological Sciences in 2002 in addition. His cardiothoracic training was in the London Deanery rotating through St Thomas’, the Brompton, the Heart Hospital and finally Barts. He undertook a period of research at King’s in endothelial progenitor cells as part of his academic foundation training and was appointed Quality and Safety Lead for Cardiac Surgery at Barts in 2019.

3D TOE Faculty

Dr Giuseppe Bozzetti

Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow


Twitter: @GiuseBozz

Two decades of experience in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, ICU and imaging.

Dr Giampaolo Martinelli

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, St Bartholomew’s Hospital


Anaesthesia and ICU consultant with a special interest in lung ultrasound imaging and 3D TOE

Mr Martin Yates

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital


Martin Yates is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London with a specialist interest in surgery for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He went to medical school at the University of Edinburgh, did his general surgery and cardiac surgery training in London and spent a year’s fellowship in New York City. 

Mr Damian Balmforth

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Royal Sussex County Hospital

Mr Ben Adams

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital

Twitter: @BenjaminAdamsMD


Ben Adams was appointed as a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Barts in August 2018 and has a special interest in complex aortovascular surgery. Ben read medicine at Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ School of Medicine graduating in 2005 with a first-class BSc in Radiological Sciences in 2002 in addition. His cardiothoracic training was in the London Deanery rotating through St Thomas’, the Brompton, the Heart Hospital and finally Barts. He undertook a period of research at King’s in endothelial progenitor cells as part of his academic foundation training and was appointed Quality and Safety Lead for Cardiac Surgery at Barts in 2019.

Dr Carlos Corredor

Consultant Cardiothoracic ICU/Anaesthesia, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Twitter: @DrCCorredor


Dr Carlos Corredor is a consultant in Cardiothoracic Critical Care and Anaesthesia at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London since 2017. He completed medical school at Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia in 2000. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in London rotating trough major tertiary centres. He then undertook a post CST fellowship in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care at Toronto General Hospital.

His special interests include the perioperative care of patients undergoing major aortovascular surgery, neurological protection and monitoring, haemostasis and blood conservation and the use of perioperative point of care ultrasound.

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