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Professor Jahangiri

is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon who works at the Wellington Hospital and Harley

Street Clinic. She graduated in medicine from University College Hospital,

London. Subsequently, she completed her cardiac surgical training at the Royal

Brompton and St Bartholomew's Hospitals and Children's Hospital, Harvard

University. Her interests in the field of clinical cardiac surgery include

surgery of the aorta, aneurysms including major complex cases, valve-sparing

aortic root replacement, aortic valve surgery, minimally invasive aortic valve

procedure, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, beating heart surgery, and

cardiac surgery in pregnant patients. She has contributed to advances in

protecting the brain and has been instrumental in developing minimally invasive

surgery.

She is the lead in

training of the cardiothoracic surgeons in the UK appointed by the Surgical

Royal Colleges. She has been in charge of a large research programme for the

past twenty years, researching into causes of aneurysm formation, aortic valve

disease and patient's quality of life. She has supervised 24 higher research

degrees (11 PhDs and 13 MDRes). She has more than 200 peer-reviewed

publications and is a regular invited speaker at the European and American

Cardiothoracic Surgical Associations. She has led and co-authored several

national and international guidelines.