Professor Rakesh Uppal

Prof Rakesh Uppal is a Consultant cardiac and aortic surgeon at Barts Heart Centre and Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Director of the Surgical Research progamme at the Heart Centre. His research interests include renal failure following surgery, stem cell treatments for the failing heart and the genetics of cardiac disease. and spent 2 years at Duke looking at right ventricular function.

He is Director of Life Sciences for the university and trust and is helping to set up a life sciences cluster in London.

Publications >100

• Mitral and Tricuspid valve repair
• Surgery of the Asortic Root, Ascending Aorta and Aortic Arch
• coronary artery bypass grafting, CABG
• Aortic, Mitral, Tricuspid heart valve replacement
• Atrial septal defect (ASD) repair
• Heart bypass operation
• repair LV aneurysm
• GUCH surgery

• Cardiothoracic Surgery