Mr Kit Wong is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon specialising in coronary artery surgery, aortic and mitral valve surgery, aortic aneurysm surgery and minimally-invasive surgery. He is currently the Clinical Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Barts Health. He has gained broad experience over 20 years in the field of cardiothoracic surgery, and has served on the council of the Royal Society of Medicine and the International College of Surgeons and as a specialist advisor on the panel of the London Cardiovascular Project, a group commissioned by NHS London to improve the model of care for cardiac surgery. He is particularly acknowledged for his cardiac surgical results. His rates of survival are significantly better than the UK average, as evidenced by cardiac surgical results that have been published nationally since 2005.

Mr Wong qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in 1986. He undertook his specialist training at the prestigious Royal Brompton and London Chest Hospitals. At the Royal Brompton Hospital, he trained closely with Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub who has had a major influence in his career, developing his interests in aortic aneurysm and valvular heart surgery. He spent a further year with Sir Yacoub producing the seminal and landmark research on the modulation of cardiac muscles, which spawned major research in the UK and internationally, and its use in clinical treatment.