When I started painting ghoulish politicians it was things like Theresa May running through wheat fields but it's now impossible to keep up with the many horrors unleashed each day.

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Thx #CTO2025. Thought provoking session on CTO wire skills. DRaW (Differential Resistance Wiring): a conceptual framework to navigate CTO. Think different. ADR & Parallel not opposites. Knuckling a wire skill. Stéphane Rinfret, MD SM Cardiovascular Research Foundation Barts Interventional Group (B.I.G.) Kambis Mashayekhi VP Med Group

Spirit animal.

Dr Asif Qasim MA PhD FRCP Medical Research Council Prof Chris P Gale Mamas A. Mamas Trisha Greenhalgh Dr Rachel Clarke Prof. Devi Sridhar Professor Azeem Majeed A/Prof Sonya Burgess Prof Derek Connolly Prof Shafi Ahmed PhD FRCS Professor Farah Bhatti OBE Taryn Youngstein Bluntly speaking the behaviours of some senior figures has been directly injurious to early career progression This takes many forms Clining to local power Allows selective institutional fund use Sustains working beyond retirement age. Older= expensive= less in the pot 4/

Ever wondered what Ivor Cummins, the pandemic’s wrongest man, is up to these days?

Excellent point.

Great round-up, thanks!

Our paper from the Pumping Marvellous Foundation #BEATHF project in JACC Journals “Earlier Detection of Heart Failure at Community Heart Health Events Using the BEAT-HF tool” kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2… Carys Barton 💙🫀#25in25 #Freedomfromfailure BeckyHyland Dargoi Satchi Nick Hartshorne-Evans 🇺🇦 Prof Clare J Taylor

Wow history! The actual photo plate & toy train used (with electrometer) to generate the first human ECG. Thanks BCS President British Cardiovascular Society Shouvik Haldar for showing us Abhishek

(((David Bennun))) in the sense we treat it as a medieval peasant treats the rites of the church, this dimly understood thing that you only encounter at extreme moments in life, hatching and marching and despatching, it is absolutely a fair critique.

Looks like a great opportunity for a higher imaging cardiology registrar or post CCT fellow in Worcester. Pls RT. BJCA 📊 beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

We always welcome all and any survey responses but just a quick plea to subspecialty trainees - please also complete! Makes the data more impactful when we get a good response rate from all training levels + ensures we can also highlight any deficiencies in subspec training! 🙏

What are the units of subtraction anxiety?

In today's The Guardian Health Awareness supplement on cardiovascular health for women from Mediaplanet UKIE, British Cardiovascular Society president G. Andre Ng says we are committed to making every woman feel her heart matters: healthawareness.co.uk/cardiology/wom… #cardiotwitter

Today, we celebrate an incredible milestone — the clearance of our investigational new drug application (IND) for VERVE-102 by the U.S. FDA. VERVE-102 is an investigational in vivo #baseediting medicine designed to permanently turn off the PCSK9 gene in the liver to durably lower

Colin Berry Dawn Adamson Sital Harris Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Navin Chandra 🫀 British Cardiovascular Society INOCA INTERNATIONAL C Bucciarelli-Ducci CardiacJoshi Thanks Maria for interviewing me about Angina and Concordance/adherence #WorldAdherenceDay

It’s been great working with you Cathie Biga! You’ve done a fantastic job as American College of Cardiology President! You’ve set the bar high for Christopher Kramer MD! Looking forward to our continued journey together British Cardiovascular Society and the global village we’re all in! 🥂

.Wes Streeting our colleagues from abroad have come in good faith, many of them fought a deadly pandemic for our country. Prioritisation of British/UK graduates is inevitable, and increasing training numbers could also accommodate IMGs already here.

We are delighted that the 2025 BJCA Survey received a record 600 responses from trainees across the UK! 📈 Join us to hear the results on Mon 2nd June at 3.15pm Hot Topics 2 British Cardiovascular Society conference, where we will also be awarding the prizes to this year's top trainers! 📣🏆