Current Roles
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Morriston Hospital, Swansea
Student Engagement Lead, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery
Equality and Diversity Lead, Graduate Entry Medicine, Swansea University Medical School
Council Member, Royal College of Surgeons of England
Council Member, Cardiothoracic Section, Royal Society of Medicine.
Examiner for Intercollegiate Specialty Board in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Panellist for National Selection in Cardiothoracic Surgery
NHS COVID Advisory Group
Immediate Past roles
Chair of Women in Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England
Chair of Medical Women’s Federation, Wales
GMC Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Forum
Training Attended
Specialist Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester, UK. (FRCS (CTh) 2004)
Surgical Research Fellow in Xenotransplantation. (MD, Cantab 2004)
Honorary Transplant Fellow, Papworth, Cambridge (1996-1998)
Bristol Surgical Rotation (FRCS 1994)
National Trainee Representative to SCTS, SAC, Intercollegiate Exam Board 2006-2008
Jesus College, University of Cambridge (MB, BChir 1990)
Somerville College, University of Oxford (BA IIi 1987)
Qualifications & Accreditations
Awarded an OBE for 'Services to Diversity in the NHS in Wales' in the New Year Honours List 2021
FRCS (CTh) 2004
MD, Cantab 2004
FRCS 1994
MB, BChir 1990
BA (Oxon) IIi 1987
Additional Information
Recent Publications
Thomas H Newman, Matthew G Parry, Roxanna Zakeri, Victoria Pegna, Amy Nagle, Farah Bhatti, Stella Vig, James S A Green. Gender diversity in UK Surgical Specialties: a national observational study. BMJ Open - accepted
Cecilia Pompili, Giulia Veronesi, Nuria M. Novoa, Maria Teresa Gomez-Hernandez, Annabel J. Sharkey, Farah Bhatti, Isabelle Opitz. Women in Thoracic Surgery: European Perspectives. Journal of Thoracic Disease Vol. 13 No.1 Jan 2021.
Stamp NL, Luc JGY, Ouzounian M, Bhatti F, Hici TN, Antonoff MB. Social media as a tool to rewrite the narrative for women in cardiothoracic surgery. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2019 Jun 1;28(6):831-837. doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivy358
Radley G, Pieper IL, Ali S, Bhatti F, Thornton CA.
The Inflammatory Response to Ventricular Assist Devices. Front Immunol. 2018 Nov 15;9:2651. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02651. eCollection 2018