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I volunteer for The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust (TADCT). I take part in activities to improve the diagnosis of aortic dissection, in teaching and in research.
I have raised (and might again raise) money for The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust, here.
Anyone wanting to have a chat about aortic dissection and life after AD: valerie [dot] lechene [at] gmail.com
Recent presentations:
UCL medical students as part of the Medical School Community Visitor sessions, “Living with Genetic Conditions”, UCL, March 7th 2025
TADCT Webinar, Managing blood pressure, November 21st 2024.
UCL medical students as part of their Community Care module, Whittingon Hospital, UCL, November 14th 2024
"Aortopathy: Shaping a safer future", with Graham Cooper and Catherine Fowler, Annual conference of the Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions (AICC), St Catherine's College, Cambridge, November 11th 2024.
Charity Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA), Webinar, November 1st 2024.
"Surviving Acute Aortic Dissection", Presentation in the Pan-London Aortic Dissection Educational Webinar, August 28th 2024.
Education webinar, North East Ambulance Service Paramedics, August 2nd 2024.
Education webinar, North East Ambulance Service Paramedics, June 28th 2024.
"The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust: Driving Research Together", Kirsty Lawrie, Valérie Lechene and Catherine Fowler, Aorta: Structure to Rupture Conference, Liverpool, June 20 2024.
"Psychological impacts of Aortic Dissection", Presentation in the Aortic Nurses Symposium, London, June 7th 2024.
Patient and Public Involvement in research:
Sex specific outcomes and health-related quality of life after aortic dissection, TADCT Grant, January to June 2025.
Publications:
Thokala P, Goodacre S, Cooper G, Hinchliffe R, Reed M, Thomas S, Wilson S, Fowler C and Valérie Lechene, "Decision analytical modelling of strategies for investigating suspected acute aortic syndrome", Emergency Medicine Journal Published Online First: 01 November 2024. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2024-214222