Dr./Mr Ahmad Reza Barkhordarian, MBBS, MRCS, MD

Dr./Mr Ahmad Reza Barkhordarian, MBBS, MRCS, MD

Surgeon - Cardiothoracic
Imperial College London,The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UCLA Health System.
  • Cardiothoracic Surgical Fellow
  • AATS Mitral Conclave (Dr. David H. Adams) at the www.aats.org
  • Advanced Life Support (88% score)
  • Feedback given to SCTS with regard to their training selections and interview conducts
  • Barriers to Career Progression: Mr Alex Shipolini (interviews the same candidate five times without providing opportunity), Mr Edward Black (three interviews without providing opportunity), Mr Jonathan Unsworth-White (this examiner sends email to the candidate before the exam/interview asking him not to apply), Mr Donald Whitaker (three interviews without providing opportunity), Mr Michael Lewis (two interviews without providing opportunity), Mr Ian Hunt, Mr Prakash Punjabi, Mr Martin Hayward, Mr Mark Yeatman, Mr Sasha Stamenkovic, Mr Sion Barnard (asks the candidates not to apply for training and instead go through article 14), Mr Neil Roberts (three interviews without providing opportunity), Mr Rex Stanbridge, Mr Neil Moat, Mr Richard Trimlett, Mr Mark Hickey, Mr Martin Kostolny, Miss Karen Harrison-Phipps, Miss Emma Beddow, Mr Dionisios Stavroulias (two interviews without opportunity), Mr Mario Petrou (Voice Message: interview went well but no opportunity, He also thinks Dr. Laks is retired, Mr Petrou could not remember me at the Mitral Conclave, Dr. John Puskas please let DPT know about this), Mr Nagarajan Muthialu, Mr Steven Livesey.
  • The Birmingham Deanery, Wessex Deanery and SCTS should apologize, fully compensate and provide immediate training opportunity at the right level.
  • I was not given national training number or any posts by the Birmingham & then Wessex Deanery in UK. I was not invited for national training interview after my MD research & was not given feedback either.
  • Coronary Artery Bypass & Aortic Valve Surgery
  • Cardiothoracic Surgical Portfolio and eLogbook on the www.iscp.ac.uk (Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme)
  • Registrar/FTSTA in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Royal Infirmary Edinburgh hospital, St George's hospital, Heart hospital, Guy's and Harefield hospital 
  • ARCP/RITA signed off for FTSTA/Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery at 2008 on the ISCP
  • Tutor in Cardiac Morphology at NHLI 2006-2008
  • Imperial College London & University of London (MD 2008​) www.imperial.ac.uk
  • Thesis submitted for MD in 2008: Subaortic Stenosis in Hearts with Intact Ventricular Septum (Professor Ho)
  • Histology, Immunohistochemistry, Echo imaging, Surgical, Cardiac Morphology and Classification of Subaortic Stenosis, Hearts with Subaortic Stenosis and intact ventricular septum and Subaortic Stenosis in Patients (with RBH/NHLI Ethics approval) 2008 (Professor Ho)
  • Critical Care Unit RBH & Barts (Professor Evans & Professor Hinds) 2006
  • Certificate of Completion of Basic Surgical Training  2006
  • The 4th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery 2005
  • American Transplant Congress 2004
  • Senior House Office in Trauma & Orhopaedics, Cardiothoracic Surgery, General/Vascular Surgery, Emergency at Addenbrooke's, Royal Brompton & Harefield (Professor Sir Yacoub), Guy's & St Thomas', Crawley Hospital, West Middlesex University Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, Barts and Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (1999-2003)
  • The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCS 2003) www.rcsed.ac.uk/
  • Donor Hearts retrieved for Transplantation at Harefield Hospital 2002-2003
  • Award for Cardiothoracic Surgery at St Thomas' Hospital 2000
  • Publications:
  • A retrospective review in 50 patients with subaortic stenosis and intact ventricular septum: 5 year surgical experience. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2007;Feb;6(1):35-8.
  • Geometry of the left ventricular outflow tract in fixed subaortic stenosis and intact ventricular septum.An echocardiographic study in children and adults. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:196-203.
  • LV thickness and septal thickness correlates can predict the phenotype of subaortic stenosis. The World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery 2005.
  • Transoesophageal Echo identifying the source of endoleak after combined open/endovascular repair of a thoraco abdominal aortic aneurysm. Ann Vasc Surg 2004 Mar;18(2):246-9.
  • Adrenaline from an autoinjector device. British Journal Dermatology 2000;143:1359
  • Anatomy Demonstrator at Imperial College London (1999-2000)
  • House Officer in Cardiology and Respiratory Medicine at West Middlesex University Hospital 1998-1999
  • GMC registered 1998 www.gmc-uk.org
  • Imperial College London & University of London (MBBS 1998) www.imperial.ac.uk
  • David Geffen UCLA (Cardiothoracic Surgery Operative Assistant with Dr Laks 1996) www.uclahealth.org/
  • Award for Clinical Medicine at Imperial College London 1995
  • Prefect and Football/Soccer Captain

Myocardial Protection, Offpump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Critical Care, Total Arterial Revascularization, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, VATS Lobectomy, LVRS, Chest Wall Resections, Mitral Valve Repair, Afib, Robotics & Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Left Ventricular Outflow Tract, Aortic Valve, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, Aortic Aneurysm Surgery, Quality & Safety, Heart & Lung Transplantation, Treatment of Heart Failure, Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation, Congenital Cardiac Surgery.

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