Chris qualified in Sheffield and obtained FRCS on the Sheffield rotation. He then came to London for specialist training working at Barts, St Thomas' and Great Ormond St Hospitals. His final year of training was spent in Birmingham where his love of aneurysm surgery blossomed.
Chris came to St Thomas' Hospital as a consultant in 1992. He specialised in several areas of cardiac surgery but his love was in management of patients with aneurysms within the chest and treatment of aortic valve disease.
The unit has matured over the years and now has 4 surgeons specialising in aneurysm surgery. GSTT has a combined emergency rota (combined with KCH) for the management of rupturing anuerysms; with only dedicated specialist aneurysm surgeons involved. Chris rolled this across London in 2011 and since then the mortality for this high risk surgery has dropped by over 50%.
Chris has undertaken mini aortic valve replacement (AVR) since 2000 so now has 19 years worth of experience. Since 2011 he has used mini techniques in all patients undergoing isolated AVR needing to convert to a full incision in a minority of cases. He currently undertakes about 75 AVR cases/year. Chris has led a course on minimal access AVR for 4 years now with up to 4 courses/year. Over 400 clinicians have been trained as a result. Chris also is a proctor and mentor for mini AVR nationally and internationally. Finally, Chris has been involved in the percutaneous heart valve programme (TAVI) at GSTT since it began at St Thomas' in 2008.
In all, Chris has now undertaken over 8000 cardiac surgical procedures.
Training Attended
Sheffield University Medical School 1975-80.
Registrar Barts Hospital London 1985-87
Locum Senior Registrar St Thomas' Hospital 1987-88
BHF Junior Research Fellow, The Rayne Institute, London 1988-89.
Senior Registrar Great Ormond Hospitals, London 2000-01
Senior Registrar QE2 Hospital, Birmingham 2002-2003
Qualifications & Accreditations
MB ChB June. Sheffield University Medical School 1980.
FRCS (London) November 1984
MD: Studies in myocardial protection during transplantation. Sheffield University 1991.
Adult Cardiac Surgery
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