Kalaivani Mahadevan

London 2026 training challenge done-4 halves on 4 continents in 4 months #sabbaticalgoals #travel♥️exercise Asia🇰🇭Angkor Wat Half Oceana🇳🇿Tauranga Half Europe🇲🇹Malta Half Africa🇰🇪Iten Rift Valley Half Please support+help me fundraise 4 @TheBHF 🙏🏾 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/kalaivani-m…

I'm obsessed with cognitive biases. A "cognitive bias" is a systematic error in thinking that destroys decision-making. 11 most powerful (and dangerous) cognitive biases I've found: 🧵 1. Survivorship Bias:

A charitable run - funds go to helping landmine victims, those with disabilities including para-Olympians, and childrens hospitals across Cambodia among other great causes. Running is encouraged to build human compassion and alleviate post war trauma in a still troubled region

If running is your sanity then highly recommend this once in a lifetime - an utterly spectacular coming together of sports, charity, post-war compassion, empathy+human spirit at its greatest….in one of the worlds greatest wonders 🛕 soul inspiring 🥹♥️ #AngkorWatHalf #Humanity

#TCT2025: The effectiveness and safety of a planned investment procedure in high-risk chronic total occlusions - INVEST CTO 🔗pcronline.com/News/Whats-new… @KVM83 and @sof_pap14 provide an in-depth review ✍️of this single arm study presented by @AnjaKsnes in San Francisco. #interventionalcardiology

"I've done it!" On 16 September 1977, Andreas Grüntzig made history: he carried out the first #angioplasty, and changed the lives of millions of patients forever. Standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before him, his vision and determination drove an entire new field of cardiology: Interventional Cardiology Listen to this description of his incredible journey by Jean Marco, who knew him and was also a pioneer in the field. Jean Marco carried out his first angioplasty in 1979 and was inspired by Gruntzig's example to launch a LIVE demonstration Course in 1982. This ultimately paved the way for the first PCR Course in 1989, founded with Jean Fajadet in Toulouse, and gave birth to PCR as we know it today. From the legs to the coronaries: How Andreas Grüntzig reached his dream 📺 🎧 pcronline.com/About-PCR/hist… (interviewed by @kiadeb87 ) More about the history of PCR here 🔗 pcronline.com/About-PCR/Who-… #interventionalcardiology #medicalhistory #interventionalcardiologist #cathlab

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@hollymorgs @cardiacjoshi That’s terrible…enough to put you off buying silk actually

@cardiacjoshi Joshi dont make me give you the presentation!! We boil 3000 of them alive just to make one pound of silk

When I was 12, the teacher got us to make a presentation to give to the class on something important to us. Some did football teams, one of the girls talked about her dog. I nervously but passionately told the whole class about the awful plight of silkworms

@hollymorgs Good for you - different is good, doesn’t mean weird! I refused the set A-level biology CW - amylase breakdown of starch…claimed I’d fail from boredom…school got an Electron microscope + I studied the effect of etoh+adrenaline on the HR of the daphnia!! Nickname-pond geek 🙄

I still think about it from time to time (clearly) What a weird kid Most of the boys called me worm girl for months

#ESCCongress 🇪🇸 2025: DAPT-SHOCK-AMI trial - Cangrelor in cardiogenic shock 🔗pcronline.com/News/Whats-new… Read this review by @KVM83 and @ChoudryFizzah. Bonus🎁: check out the written Q&A with Zuzana Motovska, PI and lead investigator of this trial! #interventionalcardiology

Two people who collaborate well will be about three times as effective as each of them operating independently, because each will see what the other might miss--plus they can leverage each other's strengths while holding each other accountable to higher standards. #principleoftheday

@mornei2011 @fellerms @crfheart @jedicath @LAzzaliniMD @DrBillLombardi @DrPrimeroNg @SeiglaMedical @realarainmd @stefan_harb @MPAOSS @rickytiago @foroepic Engineers are often unsung legends in the field - would be cool if there was a master inventor award, like the master operator award, for those who’ve dedicated their careers to giving us the equipment to help us do what we do!

The other side of #compcourse2025 #Bioengineers change the world... Chad Kugler inventor of #Stingray, #Crossboss and #LiquID @fellerms @KVM83 @crfheart @jedicath @LAzzaliniMD @DrBillLombardi @DrPrimeroNg @SeiglaMedical @realarainmd @stefan_harb @MPAOSS @rickytiago @foroepic

🆕 in #JACCINT: Stent optimization achieved in ~52% undergoing #IVUS/#OCT -guided #PCI 🫀. Optimized patients ⬇️ TVF vs non-optimized (3.8% vs 7.5%) 📉. Benefit stronger with OCT guidance! 📚 jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #OCTIVUS #ACCIntl @dukwoo_park

This hits HARD!!!

Sometimes, in our medical silos, information from another speciality breaks through the firewall and the advances sound like science fiction. Extraordinary progress in HIV.

No Father’s Day is complete without this video.

I am so proud of my beautiful wife @mountmargarita for becoming the first Colombian woman to complete the Seven Summits and the first Colombian to climb not just Everest 8814 m but also Lhotse 8516m, a double 8000 in a row. Wow, just wow.

Thank you Senator Bernie Sanders - ‘In 1948 you developed the NHS - that was a message that went all over the world - healthcare is a human right…and other countries followed you.’ thelondoneconomic.com/politics/berni…