Joint Meeting of the Mersey and M60 Vascular Specialists

The M60 Vascular Group are pleased to present the 'Joint Meeting of the Mersey and M60 Vascular Specialists', on Wednesday 10 October, 2007 at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Haydock.

The programme for the meeting will be:

09:00	Golf - Ashton Golf Club Garswood Park, Ashton in Makerfield What is new?	Mr J V Smyth Chair - Mr Sameh Dimitri Countess of Chester
15:00	Thrombolysis for strokes	Dr Pippa Tyrrell Stroke Research Network, Hope Hospital
15:15	Carotid artery stenting	Dr Steve De Soussa Royal Preston
15:30	Surgery for asymptomatic carotid disease	Mersey
15:45	Drug eluting stents	Dr F Ordoubadi Manchester Royal
16:00	Medical management of renal artery disease	Dr Graeme Wood Hope Hospital
16:15	Surgical management of renal artery disease	Prof G Hamilton Royal Free Hospital
16:30	Afternoon Tea
17:00	Audit Chairman Mr V Smyth
	NofthWest Vascular	Audit Mr S Garbutt S. Manchester
17:30	Northwest Amputation Audit	Dr E Van Ross DSC, Withington
18:00	Research Papers	Chairman Mr S Hardy Blackburn Royal Infirmary
19:30	Debate Participants — Professor George Hamilton, President, Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Mark Adams, CEO, Netcare (Netcare are the largest provider of private healthcare in the United Kingdom, besides the treatment centres they operate in their own name. They also have a controlling interest in BMI and Caprio. Netcare are working closely with the government to provide private health care, funded by central taxation).	Chairman - John Mosley, Leigh Infirmary
20:00	Dinner