Intervention day 2: Chronic Total Occlusions

Professor James Spratt is a Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Interventional Cardiology in the Cardiology Care Group and the Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group at St George's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. 

Prof Spratt has built an international reputation in complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and is one of the most experienced cardiologists in the world who deals with complex coronary disease. He has performed live operative demonstrations internationally and has introduced innovative surgical techniques to help patients with this disease. 

He has been working as a leader and educating in this field for more than 10 years, in over 100 hospitals worldwide. He currently leads the complex coronary and academic cardiology intervention services at St George’s Hospital in London. 

Dr Smith was appointed as a consultant in 2008 and works at Barts Heart Centre (Barts Health NHS Trust) and Royal Free Hospitals Foundation Trust as an interventional Cardiologist. He has a strong interest in the training and education of future heart specialists and is a founder and Director of the Cardiovascular Training Institute at Barts Health NHS Trust. 

His dedication to training the next generation of cardiovascular specialists has led him to set up and lead the Cardiovascular Training Institute at Barts Health NHS Trust, where he is also the director of training for interventional cardiology, and the director of the Barts Interventional Group (BIG). 

He is widely-recognised as a national expert in complex angioplasty procedures, including rotational atherectomy and minimally invasive treatment of chronic total occlusions. 

Dr Jonathan Hill was appointed as Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Cardiologist at King's College London in 2005. He was later appointed as Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital.  

In 1999 he was awarded the first National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Bench to Bedside award and trained in basic science and interventional research within the Cardiovascular Branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.  

Dr Jonathan Hill has clinical expertise in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular risk assessment and cardiac CT. He has a special interest in acute myocardial infarction and new biological therapy. Dr Jonathan Hill continues his research programme relating to stem and progenitor cells in cardiovascular disease.  

Dr Hill's thesis work at National Institutes of Health related to the development of novel assays for measuring endothelial progenitor cells and the use of magnetic resonance imaging for tracking the engraftment and trafficking of stem and progenitor cells in acute myocardial infarction. He has published a number of manuscripts in this field in high-impact journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulator, Circulation Research and Blood. 

Dr Claudia Cosgrove is an interventional cardiologist working at St George’s Hospital in London. She trained in Australia before undertaking a fellowship in complex and CTO PCI at St George's. She is involved in research in calcific coronary artery disease, left main stem PCI and intravascular imaging.