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About me

Mr Fraser Sutherland is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Circle Health Group's Ross Hall Hospital, Glasgow.

He undertakes the full range of adult cardiac surgical procedures including coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), off pump and on pump, aortic valve replacement (AVR), mitral valve surgery (MVR), surgery of the aorta and aortic root, excision of tumours of the heart and combinations of the above procedures.

Mr Sutherland was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, Surrey and studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk He obtained an honours degree in Medicine from Cambridge University in 1988 and qualified in medicine and surgery, at Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine in 1990.

Mr Sutherland began his early postgraduate training at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge where he worked under several famous names in medicine and surgery. He then rotated through hospitals in Cambridge, Oxford and Guy's Hospital and King's College, London before returning to his roots in Glasgow, Scotland.

In 2000, Mr Sutherland was awarded a prestigious International Travelling Fellowship from the British Cardiac Society to undertake work towards his MD thesis at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. During this time, he developed the world's first stem cell engineered artificial heart valve. He obtained a doctorate for this work and was awarded an MD from Cambridge University in 2006. Mr Sutherland first presented the results of this ground breaking work in 2003 at a meeting of American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the foremost conference for US heart surgeons. Since then, he has lectured or been invited to give lectures in Japan, India, USA, Europe and the UK on this and related subjects.

Mr Sutherland undertook training in minimally invasive robot assisted mitral valve surgery in North Carolina USA with Professor Randolph Chitwood. This unique experience sparked an interest in all things minimally invasive. He went on to develop an entirely novel approach to heart surgery through a small incision in the neck, using the da Vinci Xi surgical robot and CoreVista Robot Enabling PlatformTM from CardioPrecision Ltd. The goals of this new approach are to minimise discomfort after surgery and speed up recovery. The new procedure is called AVATAR AVR (Advanced Videoscopic Aortic surgery, Transcervical Approach, Robot assisted) and to date the procedure has only been performed at Cleveland Clinic in the United States. Early restyle were presented at the AATS 2025 meeting in Seattle, USA.

Today, whenever a patient is referred for cardiac surgery, Mr Sutherland takes time to consider all options and strives to offer the least invasive means of performing cardiac surgery in each individual patient. His philosophy is that small and seemingly simple improvements in a procedure can deliver large and significant benefits for individual patients if delivered in a controlled manner with careful pre-operative planning and consideration.
In his spare time Mr Sutherland consults for several medical device companies and is a board director of CardioPrecision Ltd., an early stage medical device company that he co-founded.

Mr Sutherland has obtained numerous awards and honours throughout his medical career. However, patients remain the focus of his activities.

Professional Memberships
� Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
� Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons (2003/2004)
� Member of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery (ISMICS)
� Member of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Clinical Interests
� Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
� Off pump CABG
� Aortic valve replacement surgery (AVR)
� Surgery of the thoracic aorta and aortic root
� Mitral valve repair
� Excision of benign tumours of the heart
� High risk cardiac surgery
� Cardiac surgery in the elderly

Areas of interest

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG); Off pump CABG; Aortic valve replacement surgery (AVR); Surgery of the thoracic aorta and aortic root; Mitral valve repair or replacement (MVR); Excision of benign tumours of the heart (myxoma); High risk cardiac surgery; Cardiac surgery in the elderly

Medical secretaries

• Medical Secretaries
• Ross Hall Hospital (BMI) 221 Crookston Road GLASGOW G52 3NQ
• 07739 435830
• fraser.sutherland@circlehealthpartners.co.uk

Anaesthetists worked with

• Mr Fraser W H Sutherland has worked with Dr Tony Vassalos at the following hospitals:

  • Ross Hall Hospital (1-5)