Dr. Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry

About Doctor DR. TAJ MOHAMMED FIYAZ CHOWDHRY

• He is a highly skilled and competent thoracic surgeon with a long list of accomplishments in his educational

  background. 

• Dr. Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon who specializes in a variety of thoracic subspecialties. 

• Minimally invasive thoracic surgery, thoracic oncological resections including segmentectomies, Video (Uniportal) /robot-assisted thoracic surgery, Non-Intubated Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery (NIVATS), Cardiothoracic trauma surgery, difficult airway surgery, lung volume reduction surgery, endobronchial valves, chest wall surgery, medical school education, and virtual reality education are just a few of his specialties

• His more than 15  years of clinical expertise is another asset he pursues, as he participates actively in the research and development of strategic sustainability solutions for healthcare organizations. 

• He spent over a decade as a Senior Trainee, Fellow, and LAT in a variety of leading hospitals in the UK before advancing to his current position as Consultant Thoracic Surgeon. 

• At VPS, he will be in charge of the Thoracic Surgical Team.

• Penetrating Trauma of the Chest - Journal Royal College of Surgeons

• Extra-Pleural Pneumonectomy for Mesothelioma - The SCTS Ionescu University, Volume 1.

• Spontaneous ventilation in Thoracoscopic surgeries (VATS), early experience. University hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesis Volume 33, Supplement 2, September 2019, Pages S126-S127.

• Diabetes Increases Apoptosis and Necrosis in the Ischemic and Non-ischemic Human Myocardium: Role of Caspases and Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007 Jul;134(1):124-31.

• How can we optimize an NHS Thoracic Surgical Unit’s financial situation? - Presentation at the SCTS meeting, Belfast, March 2017.

• Pulmonary Resections for In-Situ and Minimally Invasive Adenocarcinoma in the elderly: Prognostic Factors for Mortality and Recurrence - Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, UK.

• Intra-operative frozen section diagnosis of the suspicious solitary pulmonary nodule, how can we improve the strike rate? Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2013; 8 (Suppl 1)

• In patients undergoing lung resection for non-small cell lung cancer, is lymph node dissection or sampling superior in terms of long-term survival and staging? Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 13 (2011) 311-315.

• Clinical outcomes of pneumonectomy in octogenarians. Thoracic Surgery Department, Nottingham City Hospital Poster presented at the SCTS meeting, Belfast, March 2017

• Right Cervical Cannulation for Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation - Video on the CTS net Website, 2014

• Intraoperative Frozen Section Diagnosis of suspicious Solitary Pulmonary Nodule: How can we improve the strike rate? - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2013

• Benign Mediastinal Masses, Do we really need to operate? A single center analysis - Presentation at the SCTS meeting at Belfast, March 2017.

Memberships

• General Medical Council

• The Royal College of Surgeons of England

• Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain

• Medical Defence Shield