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Suvitesh Luthra is an internationally trained Academic and Clinical Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at University Hospital Southampton and Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at University of Southampton.

He completed fellowships in UK (Oxford, London), US (Harvard) and Australia (Melbourne) with experience in all aspects of complex cardiac surgery including adult congenital heart surgery and heart/lung transplantation.

He offers treatments for the entire spectrum of adult cardiac surgical disease including complex coronary artery disease, and valvular heart disease (mitral, aortic and tricuspid), surgery for atrial fibrillation including left atrial appendage occlusion and cardiac tumours. He has a special interest in surgery for complex diseases of the aortic organ including aortic valve repairs and replacement, aortic root and aortic arch surgery and aortic dissections. Prof Luthra consults on both open heart surgery and percutaneous options for diseases of the aortic, mitral and tricuspid valves (repair/ replacement/ percutaneous wire options) to help make informed treatment decisions.

A/Prof Luthra is a GMC accredited National trainer and examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons for Cardiac Surgery. He also serves as Medical Examiner at UHS. He is passionate about training the next generation of surgeons and has done seminal work on safety of surgical training in high risk cardiac surgery.  

Research

He has published extensively in the diverse fields of cardiac surgery outcomes for coronary bypass surgery and valve surgery, arterial conduits, aortic dissections, diabetes in cardiac surgery, safety of training in cardiac surgery and efficiency of complex surgical care pathways. He is a reviewer for various grant committees and journals and has been a national and international technical advisor on adoption of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). He is also a specialist advisor to NICE for  new interventional procedures introduced in UK. He is an investigator on a number of national and international clinical trials and registries and passionate about patient empowerment and shared decision making.

Research Profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Suvitesh-Luthra

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=JzELdI8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Consultations

Ann Smallridge (Private)

• Email; a.smallridge@nhs.net
• Phone; +44 2380914481

Karen Fell/ Janis Crolla (NHS)

• Email; Karen.Fell@uhs.nhs.uk, Janis.Crolla@uhs.nhs.uk
• Phone; +44 2381204938

Direct initial/urgent enquiries - message only, anytime (National and International patients) Whatsapp; + 44 7876542785 (message only, initial consultation/enquiry)

Training Attended

First Consultant appointment in NHS – 2014

Training

1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
2. Harefield Hospital, London, UK
3. Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK
4. Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
5. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
6. Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

Fellowships;

1. Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
2. American College of Cardiology

Memberships;

1. Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery (GB and Ireland)
2. Society of Thoracic Surgery (USA)
3. European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Qualifications & Accreditations

MBBS, MS (Gen Surgery), MCh (Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery), MRCS-Ed, MRCPath(ME), FACC, FRCS(Cardiothoracic Surgery)