Challenging Concepts in Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease in the Young

Dr. Salim Jivanji is a Congenital Interventional Cardiologist currently working as a consultant at the Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust and the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. He graduated from University of Sheffield medical school and completed his medical and paediatric training in Australia and London before moving to paediatric cardiology specialty training between the Royal Brompton, Great Ormond Street and Evelina London Children's Hospital. His special interest includes neonatal procedures, percutaneous pulmonary valves and development of novel procedures such as transcatheter repair of sinus venosus atrial septal defect with partial anomalous venous drainage. Additionally he has a special interest in advancing safety in the cardiac catheter lab. He is a trustee and lead for East Africa at Healing Little Hearts, a UK charity that helps children around the world with congenital heart disease. He is currently leading the development of a congenital heart programme in Kenya. Dr Michael Rigby is Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, teacher, researcher and writer at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He is a specialist in interventional cardiac catheterisation in congenital heart disease. He trained in Leeds, Birmingham Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto prior to his appointment at in London. He has published over 180 papers on congenital heart disease and he is the author or co-author of 55 chapters and 10 books. He has organised annual courses in neonatal and infant heart disease and in echocardiography in congenital heart disease. He has lectured in the UK and internationally. He arranges distance education between London and universities in Greece, Cyprus, Brazil, France and Chile as well as with other parts of the United Kingdom.