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Specialises in

• Adult cardiac

• Cardiac surgery: valve

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Professor Ascione is one of the most senior Consultant in Adult Cardiac Surgery at the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI), University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

He has been an active Consultant Cardiac Surgeon since 2002 and has performed so far >4500 surgical procedures as chief surgeon with an overall survival rate of >99%.

His areas of surgical expertise include Mitral Valve Repair surgery (> 1500 cases completed at survival of 99.5%, with MV repair success rate >90%); Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (undertaken on the beating heart without heart-lung machine; >1600 cases completed at >99% survival); Aortic Valve Replacement surgery (>500 cases with survival >99%), Multiple valve repair/replacement surgery, redo cardiac surgery, AF ablation.
Regarding MV repair surgery, he is open of the top 5 active surgeons in the UK in terms of number of cases/year undertaken, successful repair rate, and survival >99%.

Professor Ascione was appointed as Consultant Senior Lecturer in 2002, promoted to Reader in 2006, and to Professor in 2010.
He is serving/has served in many senior leadership roles: Chair of the UoB BHI Research Board (2010-13 elected); Clinical Director of BHI NHS (2013-15); Theme Lead Cardiovascular BRU (2008-17); TBRC Director since 2015; ESC Cardiovascular Surgery Working Group since 2010; EACTS Academy (2009-17); SCTS Academy (since 2016); Italian MIUR-International Panel of Experts since 2017; New Emerging Technology Grants Committee HRUK since 2017; EPSRC-Peer Review College (Invited) since 2017; Best Practices in Nonclinical Evaluation of Polymer Valves Working Group since Feb 2021 (sponsored by FDA/Heart Valve Collaboratory/Heart Valve Society/ISO Cardiac Valves).

He is the recipient of the National Clinical Excellence Silver Award since 2013 for his outstanding clinical performance, the Garfield Weston Trust Senior Lectureship in Cardiac Surgery (2003-08), the Fellowship ad eundeum by the RCSE in 2004, the Master of Surgery by University of Bristol in 2002, the John Parker Gold Medal by the SCTS in 2001, and he was part of the Bristol team awarded the “Surgical Team of Year - 1st Prize” by UK Hospital Doctors in 2005.

Professor Ascione has .�60M in research grants and capital bid awards as PI or co-PI, > 250 publications including >200 Google Scholar-censed publications, 2 patents, 7 book chapters, 32 refereed Conference Contributions, 21 Reviews and Editorials. His research has inspired others with > 10400 citations; H-Index: 53 (Google Scholar). Significant international media interest with >40 reports including the BBC, The Times, The Washington Post.
His surgical performance is audited yearly and is available on this SCTS web page.

Areas of interest

- Mitral Valve Repair surgery (National Expert)
- Beating Heart Coronary Bypass surgery (International Expert)
- Aortic Valve surgery
- Multiple valvular surgery
- Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
- LV Restoration

Medical secretaries

• Debbie
• Bristol Heart Institute Level 7, Management Floor BS2 8HW
• 0117 342 6577
• Debbie.Chidzey@uhbw.nhs.uk

Anaesthetists worked with

• Dr Alan Cohen Not Fee Assured

• Dr Richard Bateman Not Fee Assured