I am very happy to share that I have completed my medical degree, receiving an MBBChir with Distinction @Cambridge_Uni. It has been an incredible three years in Cambridge and such a privilege to learn and work alongside my colleagues as the class of 2024.
“Unless you keep examining your outcomes, you cannot become a better surgeon”. Words to remember from Dr. Tirone David’s State-of-the-Art Lecture on Mitral Valve Repair with Concomitant Valve Sparing Root Replacement ✨🫀
Cardiothoracic Surgery Elective Bursary Competition!✈️🫀
Prizes:
🥇 First Place: £500 bursary (sponsored by Concentric Health)
🥈 Second Place: £120 bursary (sponsored by MDU)
For more details and to APPLY-
https://t.co/WwcTohMhqB
📅 Deadline:
🕛 31st March 2025
🚨 Attention all cardiac surgeons and trainees! 🚨
With support from @AATSHQ Foundation, @PMunkCardiacCtr is hosting the "Tirone David Symposium on Operative Techniques" in Toronto June 6-7, 2025.
Do not miss this unique highly technical meeting focused on valve repair!
2024 was Liz’s year. In an interview she once said she’d had one piece of bad luck, followed by a hundred pieces of good luck.
Liz lived life to the full. She took photographs at castles and red carpets, at theatres and movie studios, she captured in her lense the emotions of actresses and comedians, of her very best friends and of total strangers. But more importantly she understood what it meant to truly be alive.
Liz was passionate, kind and brave, the best big sister and the truest friend anyone could hope for.
2024 was the year Liz fulfilled her dreams. It was also the year she was taken from us.
Liz was 17 when she died, just 10 months after being diagnosed with Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour. She was brilliant and beautiful, though she would have denied being either. She fought every single day, determined not to leave her brother behind, determined that she would leave him with a lifetime of memories even if she had only months to achieve it.
As 2025 rolls in at midnight, please consider buying a drink for Liz. The final item on her bucket list was to improve DSRCT treatment - a cancer that gets funding from neither governments or pharmaceutical companies. If everyone celebrating tonight chose to buy one for Liz and donate to the fund we could make a huge difference. It doesn’t take one powerful person. It takes lots of ordinary people to stand up and do what’s right.
In 2025 young people should not be dying of cancer, simply because no one has invested in researching it.
Terry Pratchet once said “No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away”
Let’s make Liz’s ripples the biggest we have ever seen.
Will you join us for just one drink?
https://t.co/iSsJO83LLs
#LizHatton #BuyLizADrink
(N.B. If you can please add Liz to your Facebook or Instagram story or talk about her as you sit with friends tonight. Let’s make Liz’s impact in 2025 even bigger than it was in 2024)
✨️WEBINAR 2: The journey through cardiothoracics✨️
Mr Jason Ali - Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Ms Alina Budacan - Thoracic Registrar
Date: Wednesday 11th December
Time: 7pm
Sign up using the link: https://t.co/TXcTEKTiLx
#liftasyouclimb#cardiothoracicsurgery#SCTS
I am very happy to share that I have completed my medical degree, receiving an MBBChir with Distinction @Cambridge_Uni. It has been an incredible three years in Cambridge and such a privilege to learn and work alongside my colleagues as the class of 2024.
This is Odysseus (the cat). Only now do we realise that his epic journey led not, as Homer believed, to Ithaca — but to Cambridge University Library 📚🐈
🌟 INTRODUCING the INSINC Cardiothoracic Surgery Journal Club 🌟
Open to all medical students and foundation years! 🩺
Papers and prompting questions will be circulated in advance together with the zoom link, so make sure you sign up! 💻
Stay tuned!🙌🫀🫁
#scts#cardiothoracic
EXCITING NEWS!🫀
This year our annual student engagement day will be hosted @Cambridge_Uni!💫
AND we have an oppertunity for you to present your project abstracts!
Do get involved, see you there!🙌🫀
📢We are excited to launch the first event for the SCTS INSINC Mentorship Program!🤩
🌟3rd October 6-8pm on MedAll!🌟 https://t.co/3cguQloGhl
SEE YOU THERE!🙌
#mentorship#liftasyouclimb
Our weekly Academic Half Day: Insightful session on using CT and MRI for surgical decisions and postoperative follow-up by Dr. Shi-Joon Yoo and Dr. Rodolfo Rocha. #3Dhearts#reconstruction
Maybe it’s because of my cardiac arrest, but I don’t understand why patients get upset when I say their symptoms are due to aging. 95% of what I diagnose is because we get old. I always bring it up as delicately as possible, but like do you know how lucky you are? I see patients in their 80s and think, “man I hope I get there one day.” So many things in this world can kill you. You���ve beaten the odds. Honestly, congratulations, you’re old.
What’s something you were taught & never forgot? I’ll start.
On ICU rounds one day a family was screaming after their loved one died.
My attending looked at us all & said, “Understand that for you it’s Thursday. For them it’s the worst day of their life.”
I never forgot that.
Thank you so much for sharing my story with others. Organ donation saved my life and has potential to save others’ as well. Plz register as an organ donor today!
TY to all donors (including living donors 🙌), families, & the txp community. 💚💙
ROUND 2 OF APPLICATIONS
📢Calling all Medical Students!📢
🌟Apply to be an SCTS INSINC Regional Publicity Lead!🌟
🚨Deadline August 1st.
https://t.co/l5Uvl55h4p