Mr Joseph Zacharias

Mr Zacharias specialises in minimally invasive heart surgery, with extensive training and teaching experience…

• St Johns Medical College Bangalore. (M.B.B.S.)
• Newcastle region Surgical Rotation. (FRCS Lon)
• Clinical Fellow Cardiac Surgery. Middlesborough.
• Northern region Cardiothoracic Surgery Rotation. Newcastle & Middlesbrough (Jan 97 - Jan 04)
• Cardiothoracic Surgery Registrar with Prof P Goldstraw & Prof M Yacoub - Royal Brompton Hospital London (July 1999 - Dec. 2000)
• Clinical observer: Dr D Cosgrove. Cleveland Clinic, USA
• Clinical Observer: Dr G El Khoury. St Luc Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
• Clinical Observer: Dr W Walker, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Scotland
• Clinical Fellow, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium.
• Clinical Fellow, St Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

• Endoscopic valve surgery
• Mitral and tricuspid valve repair
• Septal myomectomy open and endoscopic
• Redo cardiac surgery
• Video assisted thoracic surgery
• Endoscopic vein harvesting
• Total arterial bypass grafting

• International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Society
• British and Irish Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
• British Medical Association