David R Anderson

Consultant heart surgeon and professor of children's heart surgery

Area of expertise: heart surgery, with special emphasis on children's and congenital heart defects.

Biography

Professor David R. Anderson graduated in medicine from Cambridge University in 1979.

He trained in cardiac surgery at Guy’s Hospital, St George's Hospital and Birmingham Children’s Hospital and researched skeletal muscle cardiac assist under Dr L. W. Stephenson in the USA between 1988 and 1989.

In 1991, David was appointed as a consultant at Guy's Hospital and as a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons.

He developed the neonatal cardiac surgery programme at Guy’s and pioneered Norwood surgery in the UK with Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Professor Anderson started the first hybrid programme in the UK for hypoplastic left heart syndrome in 2005, which is now the largest in the country.

He works with charities in developing countries and other nations, teaching complex cardiac surgery. He also holds honorary consultant positions in many countries.

Further information

Mutharanga V, Taylor A, Hedge SR, Johnson R, Tulloh RM, Simpson JM, Qureshi SA, Rosenthal E, Baker E, Anderson D, Razavi R, Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging after Norwood stage I for HLHS. Circulation 2005,22 112(21) 3256-63

Venugopal P, Anderson D, Austin C, Rosenthal E, Krassman T, Qureshi SA, Hybrid operation as an alternative to surgical palliation of high-risk infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and its variants. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2010; 139:1211-1215

G Ballard, S Tibby, O Miller, T Krasemann, E Rosenthal, D Anderson, C Austin, S Qureshi, J Simpson. Growth of left heart structures following the hybrid procedure for borderline hypoplastic left heart. Accepted for publication, European Journal of Echocardiography 2010 (E-Pub)