Professor Thanos Athanasiou is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Hammersmith and St Mary's Hospitals and a Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences & Cardiac Surgery in the Division of Surgery at Imperial College London. He specializes in Complex Aortic Surgery, Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Robotic Assisted Cardiothoracic Surgery. His institutional responsibility is to lead academic cardiac surgery.
Professor the Lord Darzi is currently head of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London. He holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London and the Institute of Cancer Research. He is also an honorary consultant surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, and the Royal Marsden Hospitals. Between 2007-2009 he held the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lords) at the Department of Health.
Vanash Patel is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He is the driving force and vision behind the multi-speciality robotic surgical programme at Watford General Hospital. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and Diploma from Imperial College and obtained a Masters in Surgical Science, also from Imperial College. He completed his medical training at St Georges Hospital Medical School, London and has completed two fellowships at St Mark's Hospital and the Joint London Colorectal Clinical Fellow at St Thomas' and University College London Hospitals.