About

The International Vascular Cork Course 2025 is brought to you by UCC/College of Medicine & Health. It will be held in the ASSERT Centre, on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th of November 2025.

Participants will gain hands-on experience with one full day of open surgical dissection and reconstruction procedures on cadavers in our state-of-the-art surgical skills laboratory. The simulated operating rooms feature integrated audio-visual facilities to allow for real time and post-procedure feedback from expert faculty.

The second day will comprise of two modules (i) bench-based large and small vessel anastomosis skills, and (ii) Vascular Ultrasound where delegates will have the opportunity to scan peripheral veins, the aorta and the carotid artery on an actor patient and there will be 1-to-1 supervision/direction by Vascular Physiologists.

We will limit the numbers so that there will be a maximum of 2 participants per cadaver, with one-to-one tuition from the expert Faculty.

Course Content:

• Fresh Frozen Cadaveric Dissection
• Arterial and Venous Anastomosis
• Vascular Ultrasound
• Anatomic Exposures Included
• Surpacoeliac Aorta
• Visceral and Infrarenal Aorta
• Medial Visceral Rotations
• Femoral and Iliac Vessels
• Carotid and Vertebral Arteries

Course Fee and Information:

• TOTAL FEE OF €1,550 (including charges) for 2-day course
• LIMITED PLACES WILL BE OFFERED TO ESVS MEMBERS & TRAINEES FOR A DISCOUNTED FEE OF €1,350

Faculty:

Tom Aherne
Zeeshan Ahmed
Paul Blair
Joanne Boyce
Emily Boyle
Paul Burke
Mary Connolly
Joseph Dowdall
Greg Fulton
Greg Gosi
Denis Harkin
Donagh Healy
Eamon Kavanagh
Avril Kenny
Elrasheid Kheirelseid
Prakash Madhaven
Brian Manning
Gerald McGreal
Morgan McMonagle
Tony Moloney
Adrian O’Callaghan
Veni Ramachandran
Sherif Sultan
Muhammad Tubassam