Bruce Keogh

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Sir Bruce E. Keogh is Professor of Cardiac surgery at The Heart Hospital, University College London.

His specialty is adult cardiac surgery with a special interest in reconstructive mitral valve surgery. He earned his MB BS from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1980, his MD from the University of London in 1989 and served as Senior Lecturer/Consultant at Hammersmith Hospital and Royal Postgraduate Medical School from 1991-1995. He then moved to Birmingham where from 1997 - 2003 he was Associate Medical Director of University Hospital Birmingham before joining The Heart Hospital.

Prof. Keogh has been active on many medical committees including the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Irelandof which he is President, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the National CHD Taskforce, Commission for Health Improvement, Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, NHS Standing Medical Advisory Committee, and the Royal Society of Medicine where he is president of the Cardiothoracic Section. He is chairman of the NHS Information Taskforce on Clinical Outcomes.

He is active internationally as Secretary General of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and is also International Director of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons in the United States. He was named an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2003, and subsequently became a British citizen, and his knighthood became substantive (no longer honorary).