Lung Volume Reduction
Expert Summit 2026

Agenda

This meeting has been awarded 5 CPD points by the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland (SCTS).

0900 Registration & Coffee

0930 Introductions

0945 Session 1
Chairs: Dr Sara Buttery (London) & Miss Inger Oey (Leicester)

0945 Current UK&I Practice Landscape
Mr Edward Caruana (Leicester)

1015 Anchor Documents
Mr Aman Coonar (Cambridge)

1100 Coffee

1130 Session 2
Chairs: Dr Tom Ward (Leicester) & Prof Babu Naidu (Birmingham)

1130 Uncertainty & Articulated Priorities in LVR
Dr Sara Buttery (London)

1145 Defining a Core Outcomes Set in LVR
Mr Edward Caruana (Leicester)

1200 Harmonising a UK-Wide Research-Grade Practice Database
Prof Nicholas Hopkinson (London) & Mr Kandadai Rammohan (Manchester)

1245 Lunch

1345 Session 3
Chairs: Dr Richard Barraclough (Manchester) & Mr Alan Dawson (Leicester)

1345 Building/Expanding a UK Consensus on LVR Practice & Delivery
Dr Neil Greening (Leicester)

1445 The Future of UK LVR Practice: Threats, Opportunities & Shared Learning
Mr Timothy Batchelor (London)

1515 Coffee

1545 Session 4
Chairs: Prof James Dodd (Bristol) & Mr Edward Caruana (Leicester)

1545 Keynote Lecture: Expanding the armamentarium: Emergent bronchoscopic lung volume reduction techniques
Dr Christopher Orton (London)

1615 Research Focus
Scientific Committee

1645 Closing Statements