Medical Director & Consultant Surgeon UPMC Whitfield. Former President Irish Medical Organisation 2005/06. Tweets are personal and re-tweets not endorsement
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A great day of learning & meeting colleagues in Galway #Freyer2026 Thanks @Galway Surgery
Excellent letter from President of @MDCA_Ireland in @IrishTimes . Please note @IMT_latest @IMO_IRL
@DrJohnCurran
Letters to the Editor, February 3rd: On rising health premiums, O’Leary and Ukraine and no Trump month
irishtimes.com/opinion/lette…
Some great moments from @RCSI_Irl Millin meeting 2025
RCSI president, Professor Deborah McNamara, welcomed attendees from the surgical community to the 2025 RCSI Millin Meeting this morning.
The annual meeting is held in honour of Terence J Millin, former president of RCSI.
Explore the programme ➡️rcsi.com/dublin/news-and-eve…
An absolute pleasure to meet in person a Legend of Surgery Prof Brendan Moran at #WSOM 25. Thank you @peterneary7 @SurgeryUhw for a great program as always. Thanks also to sponsors @UPMCinIreland & @RCSI_Irl & others
Proud to be a founding member of @MDCA_Ireland #togetherWeRstronger
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Onwards & forwards for Team Whitfield
A very worthy recipient of well deserved recognition
Onwards and forwards. Many thanks to all my colleagues involved with this important Accreditation milestone
A proud moment for UPMC in Ireland! All 3 of our hospitals — UPMC Aut Even Hospital, UPMC Kildare Hospital, and UPMC Whitfield Hospital — now hold JAG accreditation for endoscopy services, the gold standard in UK & Ireland.
@JAG_Endoscopy
Read More: bit.ly/44ajCaK
Privileged to present our work at Whitfield @UPMCinIreland @SurgeryUhw arranged ICG study day on 6th June thanks to @Matersurgery & @classicaproject @peterneary7
…here, Mr Asam Isthiaq, UPMC Whitfield Waterford, details his great experience of using NIR-ICG for biliary surgery & especially laparoscopic cholecystectomy. He explains how he uses it + how it is now his standard of care with over 300 (!!!) surgeries! youtu.be/pCm2-QVbaN4?si=cVMK…..
Asam Ishtiaq retweeted
Too keep you informed in advance of further updates, the recordings of the recent @SurgeryUhw ICG study day are now on @Matersurgery @YouTube and can be watched for free via the following link youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… with details re each lecture following next….
What a legendary career. She gave me my first job in Ireland as Anatomy Demonstrator. Gave one on one tutorials to help me overcome my difficulties with FRCS part 1 exams. I can never thank her enough for setting me to a great career path as a surgeon. Thank you Prof 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Emergent or Elective
Junior or Senior Surgeons
ICGC should become standard of care for All cases. It’s safe and cost effective
Intraoperative indocyanine green cholangiography (ICGC) could be helpful for young surgeons to perform emergent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis patients: A prospective single-arm study
#icgc #icgreen #lapchole #impactofseeingmore
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Some of our work @UPMCinIreland Whitfield Hospital using ICG (#VERDYE #DiagnosticGreen) New technology for real time image guided precision surgery during Lap Cholecystectomy . Thanks @Matersurgery for capturing & posting
First up @SurgeryUhw Video Surgery Meeting ICG Workshop is Mr Asam Ishtiaq from Whitfield UPMC presenting his experience and expertise in ICG and NIR imaging during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. He uses the tech routinely in every case and has now done over 300 such cases!
A privilege to present our experience of ICG #VERDYE usage in #Lap Cholecystectomy spanning 6 years and 300+ cases @UPMCinIreland Whitfield Hospital. Thanks @Matersurgery for guidance & @peterneary7 @SurgeryUhw for invitation
Delighted to be part of this educational event to present our pioneering work @UPMCinIreland
Free virtual conference on ICG and also video surgery conference on this Friday, further details and registration here via the link conference.ucc.ie/5th-annual…
Another great Doolin Memorial lecture organized by @IMO_IRL hosted @RCSI_Irl and delivered with usual oration & elegance by @LeoVaradkar Former Taoiseach & minister for health. Great insights into our health care system for the past two decades & priorities for future
This is how ICG can help identify abnormal extra hepatic biliary anatomy (from our case last week). Accessory right hepatic draining into cystic duct. This was a routine lap cholecystectomy and #ICG saved us from #bileductinjury
#precisionsurgery with #verdye image guidance
This needs to be discussed more and more. Hourly costs of a fully equipped and staffed operating room are circa €1500 to €2500
Efficient & effective use of available resources is very important @UPMCinIreland @RCSI_Irl
Surgeon factors and their association with operating room turnover time
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae273
- Surgeons in leadership roles and with ≥10 years of experience have significantly shorter OR turnover times, enhancing efficiency
- Leadership and experience likely streamline turnover through better logistics, team coordination, and policy implementation
- Even small reductions in turnover time (6–8 minutes) can lead to substantial cumulative time savings across cases
Work by Kshitij Pandit, Luke Wang, Joel Rosenberg, Nicole Goldhaber, Jill C Buckley, Sonia Ramamoorthy, Kristin L Mekeel, Aditya Bagrodia
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