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Ionescu Final Fellowship Awards 2021


SCTS is honoured and privileged to announce the winners of the final round of fellowships with Mr Ionescu’s support to the wider cardiothoracic multidisciplinary community.

The applications were advertised in the SCTS website as well as by flyers to all the members. The deadline was the 15th August 2021.
All applications were scored to the SCTS Scoring Matrix by a panel of SCTS Officers and the scores were averaged to rank the candidates. The final recommendations were finalised by unanimous decision by the scoring teams for various streams and are submitted for consideration by the President and Mr Ionescu.

We can confirm that all applications were duly considered and recommended after section leads and relevant teams due to the spread of experience and variation in the speciality.

SCTS Education thanks Mr Ionescu for his generosity with this final round of fellowships and all the support for the various ventures of SCTS education over the years which has enabled us to offer all these awards to our membership for the wider benefit of our patients.

Ionescu Consultant Team Fellowships

Mr Sridhar Rathinam, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester

Ionescu NTN Trainee Travelling Fellowship

Mr Ahmed Al-Adhami Scottish NTN from Golden Jubilee National Hospital

Ms Katie O'Sullivan Irish Specialist Registrar Royal Victoria Hospital

Ms Caroline Toolan, NTN Northwest currently in Wythenshawe Hospital

Miss Jennifer Whiteley NTN in Scotland in the Golden Jubilee National Hospital

Ionescu NTN early years (ST1-4) travel award:

Miss Alina-Maria Budacan, NTN West midlands currently in New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton.

Miss Georgia Layton East Midlands NTN in Glenfield Hospital

Ionescu Trust Appointed Doctors Fellowships

Miss Maria Cannoletta, Senior Clinical Fellow, Royal Brompton Hospital

Dr Andreas Gkikas, Research Fellow in Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital and Research student UCL

Ionescu Trust Appointed Doctors small travel grants

Mr Benjamin Irene Omoregbee, Specialty Registrar (Trust Grade) Castle Hill Hospital

Dr Anchal Jain, Clinical Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Stoke University Hospital

Ionescu small travel awards for FYs and CTs

Dr Ramanish Ravishankar, FY1 in Scarborough General Hospital

Dr Savannah Gysling, Academic Foundation Doctor in Nottingham University Hospitals 

Ms Shwe Yamin Oo, CT2 in Musgrove Park Hospital

Ionescu Nursing & Allied Health Professional Fellowships

Mrs Xiao Liu, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, University Hospital Southampton

Ionescu Medical Student Fellowships

Asmita Singhania, Medical student, University of Manchester

Alexander Reynolds, Medical Student, Swansea University Medical School

Miss Kirstie Kirkley, Medical Student, University of Bristol Medical School

Sean Pattinson, Medical Student Newcastle University

Denis Ajdarpasic, Medical Student, University of Nottingham

George Liu, Medical Student, Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine

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