Invited Lectures
2025
CMC 25 and ISMICS workshop, Quanzhou, China
25 Oct, 2025
E Hospital anniversary endoscopic cardiac surgery meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam.
17 Oct, 2025
EACTS Annual meeting 2025, Copenhagen.
10 Oct, 2025
Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons club annual meeting, Cincinnati
06 Sep, 2025
First Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery meeting Madurai, India
14 Jun, 2025
ISMICS Annual meeting Istanbul
30 May, 2025
Corcym Lunchtime Symposium at ISMICS Istanbul
29 May, 2025
British Heart Valve Society Annual Study Day
29 Apr, 2025
Corcym User Meeting: Keynote lecture
11 Apr, 2025
University of Jena study day, Germany.
UK mini mitral trial and more
15 Jan, 2025
PCR Tricuspid Group Meeting London
Who to refer for Tricuspid valve surgery?
10 Jan, 2025
2024
Gulf Cardiac Surgery Society meeting
Endoscopic Redo Mitral surgery. How I do it.
14 Dec, 2024
BISMICS Annual Meeting Manchester
Endoscopic Left Ventricular Myectomy
02 Dec, 2024
Turkish society meeting 2024. Joint ECSC & ISMICS session. Antalaya.
23 Nov, 2024
ECSClub Annual Meeting 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece.
01 Nov, 2024
EACTS Annual meeting 2024, Lisbon, Portugal
11 Oct, 2024
1st endoscopic workshop South East Asia, Hanoi, Vietnam
07 Sep, 2024
Maastricht heart team meeting
02 Sep, 2024
1st MICS conference in Brasil, Curitiba
31 Aug, 2024
ISMICS Annual Meeting 2024 Athens
01 Jun, 2024
BHVS Deep Dive Session 2024
30 Apr, 2024
Norwegian Spring Cardiac Surgery Conference April 24
Why bother with MICS?
26 Apr, 2024
ReEvolution Summit, Houston, Texas, 2024
25 Jan, 2024
2023
8th Annual Conference BISMICS
05 Dec, 2023
2nd Barcelona MICS course
01 Dec, 2023
International Summit on Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease, Taiwan
26 Nov, 2023
ECSClub annual meeting, Milan
17 Nov, 2023
Faculty EACTS 2023 Techno College and Annual Meeting
04 Oct, 2023
HRUK Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery Cadaver Lab Keele University
19 Sep, 2023
Endoscopic Aortic Valve Surgery, My Journey. MIS Workshop, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
07 Jul, 2023
Annual Meeting ISMICS: UK MiniMitral Trial: 1 yr results. Boston USA.
31 May, 2023
The Evidence so far for Endoscopic Conduit Harvest. Terumo Workshop, Hamburg. Germany.
07 Apr, 2023
Faculty Heart Valve Society Annual Meeting.
30 Mar, 2023
2022
Faculty BISMICS Annual meeting .
05 Dec, 2022
Edwards: Master In Mitral Valve surgery Course, Berlin
08 Nov, 2022
Euro Valve Heart team meeting: Cambridge 2022
08 Oct, 2022
05 Oct, 2022
Inaugural forum of the ECSClub, Thessaloniki
09 Sep, 2022
23 Aug, 2022
31 May, 2022
The Evidence for Endoscopic Vein Harvesting. Leuven, Belgium
14 May, 2022
Invited lecture at Focus Valve 22, Innsbruck, Austria, on Redo MIC mitral surgery
08 May, 2022
2021
Faculty BISMICS Annual meeting .
06 Dec, 2021
2020
Live streamed a cadaver Wetlab for Heart research UK on Endoscopic Valve surgery.
10 Dec, 2020
2019
Lead organiser and faculty of the 4th Annual BISMICS meeting Manchester.
10 Dec, 2019
Course Organiser and faculty at the Global Edwards Fellows program, California.
24 Oct, 2019
Faculty at the Lunchtime Cryolife sponsored symposium on Mitral valve surgery, repair or replace with respect. EACTS Lisbon.
09 Oct, 2019
Faculty at EACTS MITACS course, Frankfurt .
27 Jun, 2019
Course organiser and Faculty at European Edwards Fellow program Lyon.
12 Jun, 2019
Faculty at Heart research UK MIS AVR Course, Middlesborough.
14 Feb, 2019
2018
Faculty and course organiser, 3rd BISMICS meeting. Dublin.
04 Dec, 2018
Keynote speaker at Edwards Lifesciences Cardiothoracic surgery Global Fellows program, California.
14 Nov, 2018
Speaker at 125th Meeting of Manchester Regional association of surgeons: Innovating under scrutiny of Surgeon specific results.
17 Oct, 2018
Invited speaker at the Hasselt Minimally invasive cardiac surgery course.
24 Sep, 2018
Faculty at the Focus Valve course at Innsbruck, Austria.
07 Sep, 2018
Invited faculty at ISMICS annual meeting, Masters day, Vancouver.
05 Jun, 2018
Faculty at Masters in Minimally invasive cardiac surgery, Pisa, Italy.
11 Apr, 2018
Chair Mitral session. SCTS annual meeting university. Glasgow.
15 Mar, 2018
Invited lecture at the 10th NCBC annual meeting, London.
15 Feb, 2018
Mitral Valve repair, Guest lecture at the 20th Annual meeting, Gdansk, Poland.
11 Jan, 2018
2017
3 invited lectures at the 2nd BISMICS meeting London.
02 Nov, 2017
Invited lecture on Cannulation, cardioplegia in minimally invasive cardiac surgery at the Annual EACTS meeting in Vienna.
04 Oct, 2017
Invited speaker at International cardiac surgery meeting, Sibiu, Romania, Topic: Anterior right thoracotomy for AVR.
07 Jun, 2017
Performed a Live Mini Mitral case with endoclamp at Bad Neustad, Germany, Master of Valve repair course.
03 May, 2017
Chair Minimally invasive Mitral session at SCTS university. Belfast .
23 Mar, 2017
Speaker and Discussant at the Lunch time symposium at the Heart Valve Society meeting. Monaco.
09 Mar, 2017
Facilitator and invited speaker at the NCBC 10yr conference London.
27 Feb, 2017
2016
Course director for the first annual meeting of the British and Irish Society of Minimally invasive Cardiac surgery (BISMICS) in Birmingham.
09 Nov, 2016
2015
Course organiser for SCTS ST4 Cardiac surgery course.
09 Dec, 2015
Chair and speaker for Evening Symposium on Endoscopic Conduit Harvest, Amsterdam.
08 Oct, 2015
Invited speaker on Minimally Invasive Mitral surgery, British Cardiac Society Annual meeting, Manchester.
18 Jun, 2015
Faculty and session Chair: Master of Mitral Repair, Paris.
04 Jun, 2015
SCTS / ACTA annual meeting, Ionescu university
Program chair, Minimally Invasive surgery
Speaker on Concomittant AF surgery through Minimally Invasive approach
Speaker: EVH is Best, coronary session
04 Mar, 2015
2014
SCTS Core cardiac surgery Skills, Organiser and Faculty.
Options for Redo cardiac surgery.
Mitral, Tricuspid surgery Wetlab instructor.
04 Dec, 2014
4th European Masterclass in Coronary revascularisation. Oxford.
04 Nov, 2014
2nd Minimally Invasive Mitral surgery Course, London.
04 Jun, 2014
3rd European Masterclass in Coronary revascularisation. Oxford.
29 Mar, 2014
SCTS University:Atrial Fibrillation Masterclass, Edinburgh.
04 Mar, 2014
Polish Cardiac Surgery Conference: Gdansk.Minimally invasive Mitral surgery.
04 Jan, 2014
2013
European Masterclass in Coronary revascularisation. Oxford.
05 Feb, 2013
2012
Recent Advances in Cardiac surgery. NCBC annual meeting. London
13 Dec, 2012
1st Heart Research UK 2012 Course in CABG and Arterial grafts. Oxford
Radial artery: How to harvest Open or Endoscopic
SVG: How to harvest Open or Endoscopic
28 Nov, 2012
2nd European practical Course on Minimally Invasive Surgery. Rome.
17 Nov, 2012
SCTS university: Full day program Chair for Minimally invasive cardiac surgery.
13 Oct, 2012
Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular surgery meeting
Newer technology for Mitral and Tricuspid rings
Complete or incomplete rings for Mitral repair
Training the surgeons of the Future
02 May, 2012
2011
SCTS University: Lunch box program on New technology.
12 Oct, 2011
OLV College Aalst Belgium
Lessons learnt in starting a Program of minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Are the young better than the old at Endoscopy.
04 May, 2011
2010
Birmingham review course
Evidence for conduit choice and EVH
02 Mar, 2010
2009
Australian Association of Cardiac surgery meeting
Endoscopic Vein harvesting : Learning curve impact
Endoscopic radial artery harvesting.
06 May, 2009
SCTS Meeting: Talk on the Need for a Randomised Control trial for Endoscopic Vein harvesting.
12 Apr, 2009
Birmingham review course
Evidence for Conduit choice
14 Jan, 2009
2008
SCTS breakfast session Edinburgh
Intraoperative angiography application (The Spy device!).
Endoscopic Radial artery harvesting.
18 Apr, 2008
Birmingham review Course
Intraoperative Graft patency checks
02 Apr, 2008
Mr Joseph Zacharias is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon specialising in endoscopic heart surgery, complex cardiac surgery and lung surgery. With over 18 years of experience, he is also actively involved in surgical teaching, training and the development of patient-centred techniques.
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