Biography

Ms Rashmi Yadav is a consultant cardiac surgeon at Royal Brompton Hospital.

Ms Yadav completed her cardiac surgical training in the North West Thames deanery (2004-2011). She worked as a specialist registrar at various hospitals, including Heart Hospital (now known as University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street), St George's, Hammersmith and Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals. In 2008, she completed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS(CTh), registering on the specialist register for cardiothoracic surgery.

As part of her training, Ms Yadav completed a fellowship at the Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus in Stuttgart, Germany. This was under Professor Ulrich Franke, specialising in minimally invasive cardiac surgery. She also has a PhD from Imperial College London.

After her training, she was a locum consultant at Royal Brompton Hospital from October 2011 until March 2013. In April 2013, she became a permanent consultant at Royal Brompton Hospital.

In 2018 Ms Yadav was awarded a prestigious scholarship to complete a fellowship on novel, innovative minimally invasive ways of treating mitral and tricuspid diseases, led by Dr Francesco Maisano at Zurich University. In 2019 she completed the fellowship and was awarded a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) from Zurich University. This fellowship is first of its kind in the world and focuses on novel, innovative minimally invasive ways of treating mitral and tricuspid diseases.

Research interests

Ms Yadav’s research interests include:

• prevention of surgical site infection in high-risk CABG patients
• mitral and tricuspid transcatheter interventions
• hybrid coronary revascularisation
• endoscopic conduit harvest.

Teaching

Ms Rashmi Yadav is on the faculty for the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) mitral and tricuspid valve repair course and Focus Valve meeting in Innsbruck. She has a keen interest in leadership, human motivation and emotional intelligence at work. She is interested in its impact on team working, work culture and patient experience and safety.

She is co-chair of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) residents’ and fellows’ committee and has organised mentorship opportunities for surgical residents and fellows as part of her work with them. 

Ms Yadav was chair of the 2018 programme committee for ISMICS, and the adult cardiac group for EACTS. She contributes regularly to planning the scientific content of these international societies' annual meetings.

She also mentors students from the Linacre Institute, a charity organisation which supports A level students applying for places at Russell Group Universities.

Ms Yadav has also been an invited speaker at multiple international meetings.

Private patient referral

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