Mr Martin Kostolny

Mr Kostolny has been leading the cardiothoracic surgical department at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London since 2015. The unit is the largest in the UK, performing more than 500 open heart cases annually. It is one of the two centres in UK performing heart and lung transplantation and mechanical support in children and the only national centre for tracheal surgery. He carries out surgery on the whole spectrum of congenital heart disease from complex neonatal surgery to adults with congenital heart defects. His main areas of clinical interest include aortic valve repair, treatment of pulmonary atresia with multifocal blood supply and complex biventricular repairs. Mr Kostolny performs around 250 operations a year in UK and abroad and is co-author in more than 100 publications and book chapters. He is member of several professional bodies and lectures regularly at international meetings. As associate professor at UCL his research interests include clinical outcomes – congenital heart surgery (aortic valve repair, DORV, C-CTGA) linking operative data to outcome measures, large scale validation of computer simulations for personalised cardiovascular treatments in congenital heart disease & 3D Imaging.

whole spectrum of congenital heart surgery including complex neonatal and infant heart surgery as well as surgery for adult congenital heart patients