Mr Sunil Ohri, Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Mr Sunil Ohri

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

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Mr Sunil Ohri

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Mr Sunil Ohri

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

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Address

  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

    Mailpoint 18, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 6YD

  • About Mr Sunil Ohri

    GMC number: 3067473

    Year qualified: 1985

    Place of primary qualification: University of London

    Mr Ohri has been a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon in Southampton since 1998. He has performed over 4000 cardiac operations as primary surgery undertaking all aspects of adult cardiac surgery. He has founded the use of endoscopic vein harvesting in Southampton. He performs both aortic and mitral valve replacement surgery. In the field of aortic valve replacement he is one of two Consultant Surgeons in Southampton who undertakes transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVI).

    Mr Ohri has performed over 800 cardiac procedures at Spire with a mortality rate less than 0.25% for all cases. The outcomes for the Cardiac Surgical Group at Spire Southampton are especially outstanding considering the surgical and operative risk profiles of patients are equivalent to many much larger Cardiac Units in the United Kingdom.

    Mr Ohri qualified from the Middlesex Hospital, University of London in 1985 (now part of University College London). He trained in General Surgery in West London at the West Middlesex Hospital and the Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He undertook his training in cardiothoracic surgery at Harefield Hospital, National Heart & Lung Institute, the Hammersmith Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital in London. He was British Heart Foundation Research Fellow in 1995 and this lead to the award of MD by the University of London. Mr Ohri was then a Locum Consultant Surgeon 1996-1997 at the Harefield Hospital, London before being appointed Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at UHS in 1998. He was appointed Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton in 1999.

    Mr Ohri is currently the programme director for Cardiothoracic Surgical training for registrars in South Central England. This incorporates all trainees in the University Hospital Southampton and those training in Oxford. Mr Ohri is an examiner for the examiner for the final FRCS (Cardiothoracic) Intercollegiate Examination. He is the Communication Secretary for the society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland.

    Areas of expertise

    • Cardiothoracic surgery
    • Beating heart surgery
    • Endoscopic vein harvesting
    • Aortic valve surgery
    • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
    • Cardiothoracic surgery
    • Cardiac surgery
    • Congenital heart disease