My journey

Institutional Affiliation

Blackpool Victoria Hospital

The Alexandra Hospital, Manchester 

Specialty

• Adult Cardiac Surgery
• General Thoracic Surgery

Background

• St Johns Medical College Bangalore. ( M.B.B.S.)
• Newcastle region Surgical Rotation. (FRCS Lon)
• Clinical Fellow Cardiac Surgery. Middlesborough
• Northern region Cardiothoracic Surgery Rotation. Newcastle & Middlesbrough (Jan 97 - Jan 04)
• Thoracic Surgery Registrar with Prof P Goldstraw, Royal Brompton Hospital, London.(Aug 1999-July 2000)
• Senior Registrar to Prof M Yacoub . Royal Brompton Hospital London (August 2000 - Jan. 2001)
• Clinical observer: Dr D Cosgrove. Cleveland Clinic, USA
• Clinical Observer: Dr W Walker, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Scotland
• Clinical Observer: G El Khoury, Brussels Belgium.
• Clinical Fellow, OLV Clinic , Aalst, Belgium
• Clinical Fellow, St Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
• Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Blackpool. February 2004.
• Head of Department, Cardiothoracic surgery: 2010-2015

Interests

• Complex mitral valve repair.
• Endoscopic heart valve surgery.
• Key hole surgery for lung cancer. 
• Teaching and training.
• Scuba diving.