Dincer Aktuerk PhD, FRCS

Mr Dincer Aktuerk is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital NHS Trust in the city of London. He has a special interest in mitral valve repair and minimally invasive ("keyhole”) cardiac surgery.

Mr Aktuerk graduated from the University of Munich, Germany, and following surgical training in the UK, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2016. He then completed a fellowship in transplantation and heart failure surgery in Sydney, Australia, transcatheter (keyhole valve implantation) training at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, followed by minimally invasive & robotic cardiac surgery training at Robert-Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany.

He is the lead for minimally invasive mitral surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and offers a wide range of surgical treatments. Mr. Aktuerk was awarded the Consultant Team Scholarship by the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS) to support education and training in minimally invasive surgery.