Our team of surgeons, physicians and specialist radiologists work together to diagnose, screen and treat patients from childhood to extreme old age, who have an aortopathy (any disease of the aorta).
Some of these aortic diseases are directly related to abnormalities of the aortic valve.
The team
Cardiac surgery
- Professor John Pepper - consultant cardiac surgeon and academic lead
- Mr Ulrich Rosendahl - consultant cardiac surgeon and clinical lead for the aortic service
- Mr Darryl Shore - consultant cardiac surgeon (ACHD)
- Mr George Asimakopoulos - consultant cardiac surgeon
- Mr Jullien Gaer - consultant cardiac surgeon
- Mr Toufan Bahrami - consultant cardiac surgeon
- Mr Sunil K. Bhudia - consultant cardiac surgeon
- Mr Cesare Quarto - consultant cardiac surgeon
Vascular surgery
- Professor Nick Cheshire - Head of vascular surgery
- Mr Maziar Mireskandari - consultant vascular surgeon
Cardiology
- Professor Christoph Nienaber - cardiologist and interventional cardiovascular physician
- Dr Ali Vazir - consultant cardiologist
Imaging and radiology
- Dr Michael Rubens - consultant radiologist (CT)
- Dr Saeed Mirsadraee - consultant radiologist (CT)
- Professor Simon Padley - consultant radiologist (CT)
- Professor Raad Mohiaddin - consultant radiologist (CT)
Genetics
- Dr Neeti Ghali - consultant clinical geneticist
- Dr Fleur van Dijk - consultant clinical geneticist
- Fortunate Rusike - clinical nurse specialist
- Juliette Harris - genetic counsellor
- Alice Callard - genetic counsellor
Referrals for Genetics should be emailed to rbh-tr.aortopathygenetics@nhs.net