Hunaid Vohra MBBS, MRCS, MD, FRCS (CTh), FETCS, PhD

Mr. Hunaid Vohra is recognized internationally as an outstanding heart surgeon for his pioneering work in minimally invasive heart surgery. He is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Bristol, United Kingdom. He has an international reputation for innovative approaches and is considered a leader in minimally invasive cardiac surgery has set up the program at Bristol. He visited international centers in Aalst, Brussels, and London to train for this. He is one of the few surgeons performing sutureless valve surgery at Bristol. He is the first author of an important consensus document published in the literature on carrying out minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Hunaid runs an extremely busy clinical practice where he performs over 200 surgical procedures a year and has won the Distinctions and Clinical Excellence award for his outstanding practice. He has a survival rate of 98-99% for all kinds of heart surgery including bypass surgery, valve surgery, and aortic surgery. Hunaid practices at the Bristol Heart Institute and Spire Bristol Hospital.

Hunaid is actively involved in undergraduate student/teaching-related administration at various levels and involved in post-graduate teaching and training. Hunaid has led the establishment of a renowned International Mitral Surgical Fellowship at Bristol and has trained many surgeons in mitral valve and minimally invasive surgery. He is the Training Program Director in Cardiothoracic Surgery in the South-West and is the Chair of the Innovation Committee at the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of the UK. He was also the Associate Editor for the valve section of the EJCTS/ICVTS journal. Hunaid has represented the UK as a faculty member on at least 6 international Professional Valve Repair/Minimally Invasive courses.