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Dr Luthra is a Clinical Academic, Consultant Cardiac and Aortic Surgeon at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) and an Associate Professor at University of Southampton (UoS). He has previously trained in US, UK, India and Australia in all aspects of cardiac surgery. His surgical practice involves the entire spectrum of adult cardiac surgical disease with a special interest in surgery for complex diseases of the aortic organ including aortic valve repairs, root and aortic arch surgery and aortic dissections, high risk coronary surgery, reparative valve surgeries of the aortic and mitral valves, heart valve design and function.

He has interests in education and clinical research and audit, especially cardiac surgery outcomes and efficiency of cardiac Operation Room pathways. He has published extensively on clinical outcomes especially in coronary artery bypass surgery, diabetes in cardiac surgery, aortic valve replacements and aortic dissections. He serves as a reviewer for various grant committees and journals and has been a national and international technical advisor on adoption of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI).

He is a clinical educator involved in selection to University courses and is a GMC accredited Clinical and Educational Supervisor for University students, National trainees and LEDs. He previously served as a Div Director of Medical Education. He is also a member of QWG, JCIE, Royal College of Surgeons (GB and Ireland) for fellowship exams in Cardiothoracic Surgery.

He is an active committee member of the Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee, NICE and an investigator on a number of national and international clinical trials and registries.       

Research interests - 

• Clinical outcomes research (valve interventions, coronary revascularization, TAVI)
• Conduits in surgical revascularization
• Diabetes in heart disease
• Efficiency and productivity in Cardiac Operation Room pathway
• Heart valve design
• Aortic arch and aortic dissection surgery                                                         

Fellowships;

Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), American College of Cardiology

Memberships;

Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery (GB and Ireland), Society of Thoracic Surgery (USA), European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Prof Luthra visits and treats patients at University Hospital Southampton and Spire Southampton and his clinical research is based at the UoS and UHS.

Accepting applications for visiting status, MS/MD/MCh, PhD, clinical and research fellowships

Contact details;

Mr Suvitesh Luthra MS, MCh, FACC, FRCS(CTh)                                 

Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery

Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine

University of Southampton, University Rd, Southampton SO17 1BJ             

Tel - +44 23 8059 5000

Email – S.Luthra@soton.ac.uk, suvitesh.luthra@uhs.nhs.uk

PA (NHS) 

Karen Fell

University Hospital Southampton, Cardiac Surgery, D Level, North Wing, SO16 6YD

Email – Karen.Fell@uhs.nhs.uk 

Tel - +44 23 8120 4056

PA (Pvt) 

Ann Smallridge 

Spire Southampton Hospital, Chalybeate Close, Southampton SO16 6UY

Email - ann.smallridge@nhs.net, ann.smallridge@spirehealthcare.com

Tel - +44 23 8091 4481