Leanne Ashrafian

Consultant thoracic surgeon

Biography

Leanne Ashrafian is a consultant thoracic surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas'. She joined the thoracic surgery team at Guy's Hospital in 2021.

She is a clinical academic and holds honorary lecturing positions at King's College London and Imperial College London.

Since completing her PhD at Imperial College in 2014, Leanne has developed academic interests in:

meta-analysis and evidence synthesis
epigenetics
metabolomics
translational clinical trials

She supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students and teaches on master of science (MSc) courses, including in:

minimal access and image-guided surgery
research methods

In 2020, Leanne completed her robotic thoracic surgical training and intuitive robotic fellowship.

Leanne is an associate editor for the online global cardiothoracic community, CTSNet. She is also a member of the thoracic committee for the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (SCTS).

Education and training

Bachelor of science (BSc) human physiology, Imperial College London, 2004 (Waller prize in physiology)
Bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery (MBBS), Imperial College London, 2006
Doctor of philosophy (PhD), Imperial College London, 2014
Fellowship of the royal college of surgery (FRCS) (CTh), London, 2019 (McCormack gold medal for the best overall national performance in the final exam)
Intuitive robotic surgical training fellowship, London, 2019