Mr Jeremy Smelt

Clinical lead and consultant Thoracic Surgeon at St. George’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. Specialist interests include minimally invasive surgery, VATS and robotic surgery, and thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. He completed his medical training at Nottingham University and entered higher surgical training in the London Deanery. He obtained BMBS BMedSci (Hons) DOHNS FRCS (CTh) PhD degrees during his training. He has a wide range of experience in thoracic surgery performing anatomical lung resections using both open, keyhole (VATS) and robotic techniques. Jeremy has developed a specialist practice in minimally invasive thymectomy surgery, performing thymectomies for thymomatous and non-thymomatous disease. Jeremy teaches on various courses including the Royal College of Surgeons in England CCRISP (Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient) and the Royal College of Surgeons in England Student Surgical Skills, Cardiac Advanced Life Support and Royal Society of Medicine Anatomy Course. He has published many papers in peer reviewed medical journals, and written chapters in text books, the majority of which are as first author. He holds a PhD in surgical education focusing on simulation and assessment.

Bronchoscopy Chest wall surgery  Empyema Surgery Lung cancer surgery Myasthenia gravis surgery Pneumothorax surgery Thoracic Surgery VATS lung resections VATS pleural biopsies VATS thymectomies