Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Mr Olaf Wendler

MD PhD FRCS

King’s College Hospital

After graduating from Hamburg Medical School in 1990, Mr Wendler worked as a staff surgeon at the Heart Center Leipzig/Germany and as a Lead Staff Surgeon in the Cardiothoracic Department of the University Hospital Saarland/Germany. During this time he performed around 2,500 cardiac operations.

Since August 2004 Mr Wendler has been a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at King’s College Hospital, since 2005 as acting Clinical Director. Mr Wendler performed the first transcatheter heart valve implantation to replace a failing heart valve prosthesis in the UK.

He has a particular surgical and academic interest in arterial revascularisation, heart valve and aortic root repair, minimally invasive heart valve surgery, thoracic aortic surgery, repeat and complex cardiac operations.

Cardiac surgery, aortic and mitral valve repair, arterial bypass surgery, aortic root surgery, thoracic aortic surgery and transcatheter aortic valve implantation

By appointment

Aine Walsh

020 3299 4341 Ext: 3750

020 3299 3433

aine.walsh@nhs.net

For further information please study publications on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez (enter “wendler o”).