Cardiothoracic team at University Hospital Galway win prestigious Sylvester O’Halloran award

Dr Rebecca Weedle, Senior House Officer, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Dr Alan Soo, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, University Hospital Galway won the prestigious Sylvester O’Halloran poster award recently at the 25th Sylvester O’Halloran Surgical Scientific Symposium for their research project on using neutrophil lymphocyte ratio as a simple biomarker to predict complication post cardiac. The research looked at using simple blood biomarkers to predict atrial fibrillation (an abnormal heart rhythm) in patients post cardiac surgery.

The Sylvester O'Halloran Perioperative Symposium is an annual surgical event held in University of Limerick. Abstracts selected for poster presentation are displayed and participants present their posters and research to a panel of judges, who select one winner for the Sylvester O'Halloran poster award. The presentation took place after the Sir Thomas Myles honorary lecture at the conclusion of the Sylvester O'Halloran meeting, in the Graduate Entry Medicine Building in University of Limerick.  The award was presented to Dr Rebecca Weedle by Mr Gerry Byrnes, Consultant General Surgeon, UL Hospitals, Limerick.

Dr Alan Soo, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, UHG said, “We were delighted to have won this award, and I was very honoured to have my colleague Dr Rebecca Weedle work on this research with me and present the research to the Sylvester O’Halloran Surgical Scientific Symposium panel.  We hope for the future that this research can now be used to predict complications with atrial fibrillation in patients post cardiac surgery.”

See attached link for further Information on Sylvester O'Halloran. http://www.ul.ie/4i/content/sylvester-ohalloran-surgical-scientific-symp...

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Dr Alan Soo, Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Dr Rebecca Weedle, Senior House Officer, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Galway, pictured with their poster presentation on the use of simple biomarkers to predict complications post cardiac surgery and the Sylvester O’Halloran poster award.