The Annual Thrombectomy Symposium is a partnership between the Stroke department at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Stryker.

Our event aims to highlight the national perspective and current challenges on delivering a thrombectomy service, bringing together current thrombectomy models and and future directions in this treatment.

This event is aimed at healthcare professionals that work in stroke and intervention neuroradiology.

The following programme may suffer modifications

Programme at a glance

09.30 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments

10:00 – 10.10 Welcome & Introduction

Dr Soma Banerjee

10.10 – 10.50 Thrombectomy: National Perspective

Professor Tony Rudd

10:50 – 11:00 Stroke Association perspective on Thrombectomy in the UK

Mark Macdonald

11.00 – 11.20 Refreshments

11:20 – 11.50 National Nursing Challenges

Ismalia de Sousa & Dr Gill Cluckie

11.50 –12:10 Patient selection: current practices

Dr Lucio D’Anna & Dr Kyriakos Lobotesis

12.10 – 13.00 KEYNOTE Speech: DAWN TRIAL

Dr Raul Nogueira

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.30 Helsinki Thrombectomy model

Professor Atte Meretoja

14.30 – 15.15 Dublin Thrombectomy Model

Dr Barry Moynihan & Roisin Walsh

15.15 – 15.30 Refreshments

15.30 – 15.50 Developing a business case for Thrombectomy: the Imperial Perspective

Amrish Mehta

15.50 – 16.20 Challenges and potential solutions to the delivery of a nationwide 24/7 stroke

thrombectomy

Dr Peter Flynn

16.20 – 16.30 Discussion and Closing Remarks

Dr Kyriakos Lobotesis & Dr Soma Banerjee