2018

19/4/18: Spire Manchester Hospital. Evening Symposium to

GPs, providing them with an update about the management of
patients with Heart Failure.

11/4/18-12/4/18: Nice, France. Attendance at The International

Society of Heart Lung Transplant Annual Congress. Presented
an abstract about the use of LVADs in the UK as Bridge to
Transplant Candidacy. Attended Steering Committee meetings
for IMACS and ELEVATE Registry.

6/2/18: IMACS. A huge honour of Dr Shaw's to accept an

invitation to join the Steering Committee of IMACS, which is the
International Society's Registry of Mechanically Assisted
Circulatory Support. More international meetings on the way!

22/1/18: London, UK. Attendance at CTAG Heart Allocation

Working Group. This was a meeting to discuss and refine the
recipient criteria for Heart Transplantation (and their urgency) in
the UK.

18/1/18: Birmingham, UK. Attendance at CTAG Clinical Audit

Group with NHSBT to discuss Dr Shaw's current audit work on
LVADs in the UK.

16/1/18: Liverpool, UK. Presentation at Liverpool Heart & Chest

Hospital on Advanced Heart Failure Management.
2017

9/12/17. BBC NEWS. An expert commentary given about LVADs

to the BBC on the following News article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41981876

8/12/17. Newcastle, UK. Delivered a presentation about his

work on LVADs as bridge to candidacy at The Freeman
Hospital..

24//11/17. London, UK. Dr Shaw presented at the British Society

of Heart Failure Annual Meeting. He talked about the last 30
years of LVAD technology and also chaired a session on Sports
and Exercise in Heart Failure.

16/11/17-20/11/17. Asia Pacific Trip. Travelled to Seoul, South

Korea to be part of the teaching faculty at the KSHF Annual
Scientific Session. He also returned to Taipei (Taiwan) to lecture
on LVAD management.

Oct 2017. Article published about the case of one of his

patients normalising her heart function after an LVAD, allowing it
to be explanted.

31/8/17 - 3/9/17. India Trip. Travelled to India to lecture in the

cities of Chennai and Bangalore. Dr Shaw was invited to speak
about how to select good patients for LVAD and how to manage
them afterwards. He also visited the hospitals of Narayana
Health (Bangalore) and Fortis Malar (Chennai) to observe their
transplant and heart failure programs.

14/8/17 - 15/8/17. Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK. On a

lighter note, played for the England team over two days in the
NHS 4 Nations Golf Tournament. England were runners up,
narrowly beaten by Northern Ireland. Dr Shaw scored 91
stableford points in 3 rounds of golf, which he
considered reasonable given the conditions but not his best!
11/7/17 - 16/7/17. Asia Pacific Trip. Performed a series of
lectures in the Asia Pacific region about Advanced Heart Failure,
LVADs and Transplants. Cities visited included Kuala Lumpur
(Malaysia), Singapore and Taichung (Taiwan). This included
participation in the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology Annual
Meeting, where he had the difficult task in presenting what was
best, a Heart Transplant or an LVAD?

16/6/17. Manchester, UK. Lecture on Advanced Heart Failure at

The North West Heart Failure Nurses Forum. Dr Shaw always
tries to support the Heart Failure Specialist Nurses of the region,
who do a marvellous job looking after heart failure patients.

3/4/17 - 9/4/17: San Diego, USA. Attendance at The International

Society of Heart Lung Transplant Annual Congress. Attended the
Masterclass on Mechanical Circulatory Support. He
presented four Abstracts on the management of cardiogenic
shock during the meeting. Also was co-author on the first
presentation of The Elevate Registry 6 month findings (A study
of the Heartmate 3 LVAD).