Extent of operation in acute type A aortic dissection

Karen Booth is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Transplant and Adult Cardiac Surgeon working at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. Having qualified from Glasgow Medical School in 2006 she completed her training in cardiothoracic surgery jointly in Northern Ireland and the North East of England being appointed in 2017 as the first female and youngest appointed consultant in the department’s history.

She is the only surgeon in the UK to specialise in both major Aortic and Cardiothoracic Transplant surgery and specialises in Ozaki aortic valve reconstruction, off pump lung transplantation and is Joint SCTS Student Education Lead alongside Professor Bhatti. She is a recognised surgical trainer, a member of the North East Surgical Training Committee and Education Lead for the North East Deanery.

Ben Adams was appointed as a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Barts in August 2018 and has a special interest in complex aortovascular surgery. Ben read medicine at Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ School of Medicine graduating in 2005 with a first-class BSc in Radiological Sciences in 2002 in addition. His cardiothoracic training was in the London Deanery rotating through St Thomas’, the Brompton, the Heart Hospital and finally Barts. He undertook a period of research at King’s in endothelial progenitor cells as part of his academic foundation training and was appointed Quality and Safety Lead for Cardiac Surgery at Barts in 2019.