Advanced Ablation Study Day
Venue: Woburn House Conference Centre, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ
Organiser: Dr Pete Littler (Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Date: Wednesday 3rd December 2025
Agenda:
8:45- 9:30 – Registration and coffee
9:30 Welcome – Dr Pete Littler
9:30 -11:00 Liver – Cases discussions & complications
Chairs: Prof Derek Manas, Dr Praveen Peddu, Dr Louise MacDougall
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Primary liver tumours – Dr Nadeem Shaida
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Secondary liver tumours – Dr Ed Johnston
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M&M cases – Dr Tze Chan, Dr Richard Lindsay, Prof Philipp Wiggermann
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Renal – Cases & complications
Chairs: Dr Salil Karkhanis, Dr Alex King, Mr Rupesh Bhatt
Single / transplant kidney – Dr Alex King
Central renal tumours – Dr Miles Walkden
Larger tumours – Dr Salil Karkhanis
M&M – Dr Phil Haslam, Dr Graham Munneke and Dr Guy Hickson
13:00- 14:00 Lunch
14:00– 14:30 Scientific Session
Chairs: Dr Georgia Priona and Dr Ben Stenberg
3 selected oral presentations
14:30– 16:00 Advances in practice
Chairs; Prof Philipp Wiggermann and Dr Jim Gordon-Smith
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Electrochemotherapy – Prof Phillipp Wiggermann
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MSK ablations – setting up a service – Prof Nicos Fotiadis
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Catheter enhanced liver ablations – Dr Brian Stedman
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Robotic / Stereotactic needle guided liver ablations with confirmation - Dr Ed Johnston
16:00 Main meeting close – Dr Pete Littler
16:15- 17:15 Essentials - case based sessions
(3 x 20 mins small groups rotation)
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Liver ablation – first cases - Dr Georgia Priona
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Renal ablation – first cases - Dr Guy Hickson
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MSK ablation – first cases - Dr Tze Chan
This year at the Ablation Study Day we are including a scientific oral presentation session and poster display to showcase UK ablation related work. Please submit your abstracts! Email to: peter.littler@nhs.net.
