MrEspeed Khoshbin

Mr Espeed Khoshbin is a consultant in cardiac surgery transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals. He is an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London.

He qualified from Aberdeen Medical School with an MB ChB and achieved a post graduate research doctorate (MD) from the University of Leicester.

Mr Khoshbin began his training in cardiac surgery at St Marys Hospital in London as part of east Thames rotation. As a national trainee in cardiac surgery, he achieved a fellowship of The Surgical Royal Colleges of Great Britain and Ireland (FRCS CTh) and was appointed to the UK’s prestigious National Peri-CCT Fellowship in cardiothoracic transplantation.

He was awarded a travelling scholarship through the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation to the University College Los Angeles (UCLA), California.

He is the national lead for heart and lung transplant education, and an examiner for the board of examiners at the European and UK cardiac surgery. He is the NHS lead for organ utilisation at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.

Mr Khoshbin performs a variety of major cardiac operations including transplantation. He is highly specialised in surgical therapy for heart and lung diseases through transplantation and ventricular assist device technologies.

Mr Khoshbin has an active research profile. He has a research doctorate in extra-corporeal mechanical circulatory and respiratory support through ECMO and related laboratory research. He has been a lead investigator in randomised controlled trials in cardiac surgery. He is interested in education research, research involving systemic inflammatory response, artificial heart and lung systems and artificial intelligence.

Mr Khoshbin has published extensively in peer review medical journals, including Cochran systematic reviews, book chapters, randomised trials, and meta-analysis of trials. He has published in journals such as the British Medical Journal, Circulation research, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is an expert reviewer for the National Institute for Health and Care Research and several high impact factor journals.