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Innovation and patents

Seventeen patents, several award-winning devices, and a conviction that a good idea belongs in theatre, not in a drawer.

Devices and developments

  • An endovascular cervical access system and closure device for stroke management, supported by an Enterprise Ireland commercialisation fund and winner of the MEDX international accelerator in 2021
  • A stem cell delivery catheter, recognised by the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Ireland Clinical Innovation Award in 2013
  • An endovenous varicose vein ablation device, winner of the All-Island Seedcorn Business Competition in 2007
  • Techniques and protocols for complex aortic repair, published and adopted internationally

Teaching innovation

Prof Sultan runs a surgical innovation programme introducing students to how medical devices are actually used in practice, to intellectual property and to patent registration — rewritten each year to reflect the latest developments in the endovascular field.

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Innovation in practice

Selected films from the original site showing clinical innovation, hospital technology and new approaches to vascular care.

Clinical note: these films are intended for medical education and may include footage of procedures.

Western Vascular Institute Symposium and the CyberKnife

The future of hospital healthcare

The Philips Allura hybrid endovascular suite

Ireland's first HeRO device implantation

A smart hospital supported by RFID

Carotid nanotechnology

Associations & Hospitals

Professional associations and hospitals Professor Sultan works with

Logos of the Western Vascular Institute, Galway Clinic, European Society for Vascular Surgery, International Society of Endovascular Specialists, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Saolta University Health Care Group, Society for Vascular Surgery, Galway University Hospitals, Vascular Society, and NUI Galway