Mr Rana Sayeed

Rana Sayeed is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He studied Medical Sciences at the University of Cambridge before graduating from Oxford University Medical School in 1991. He completed his PhD, studying altered gene expression in heart disease, as a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow at the University of Cambridge; he completed specialist training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, and at Norwich, followed by a Fellowship in General Thoracic Surgery & Lung Transplantation at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England (FRCS[C-Th]) and Edinburgh (FRCSEd) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP). He was appointed as a Consultant at the Oxford Heart Centre in 2007. His principal clinical interest is in mitral valve repair, and he is the Head of Programme for Complex Mitral Valve Surgery at Oxford; he also helped to establish the trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) programme. In addition to his clinical roles at Oxford, he has been a Joint College/Specialty Association representative on the Specialty Advisory Committee in Cardiothoracic Surgery, responsible for national training in this specialty. He is a former Chair of the Intercollegiate Specialty Board, which conducts the formal examination of cardiothoracic surgeons at the end of their training, and remains an Examiner and Assessor. He is the Honorary Secretary of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland.

Mitral valve surgery Tricuspid valve surgery Aortic valve surgery & trans-catheter aortic valve implantation Coronary artery bypass graft surgery