Emma Beddow: Thoracic surgeon, London

She qualified from The London Hospital Medical College (University of London) in 1994 and has been practising Thoracic Surgery since 1998. She commenced her thoracic surgical training at Barts and The London NHS Trust as an SHO. In 2000 she became the first UK doctor to be offered a registrar training programme specifically in Thoracic Surgery. She subsequently spent the next 3 and a half years at The Royal Brompton Hospital, has been trained by internationally renowned surgeons, and is one of just a handful of surgeons in the UK to have been fully trained in all aspects of Thoracic Surgery.

She was appointed Thoracic Surgery Consultant at The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust in December 2006 and took up position in January 2007

Qualifications

• MBBS (Lond)
• FRCS (Eng)
• FRCS (C-Th)

Positions held

• Consultant Thoracic Surgeon
• Chair of the Lung Division at Harefield Hospital

Specialist expertise and treatments offered

• Thoracic surgical oncology

• Extended resections for advanced lung cancer
• Lung cancer surgery in high risk patients and second opinions
• Bronchoplastic resections for benign and malignant diseases
• Surgery for pleural effusions, pneumothorax, empyema, benign and malignant pleural disease, chest wall tumours, pectus deformities and airway stenting and cryotherapy.
• De-bulking surgery for mesothelioma
• Metastesectomy most commonly from primary bowel cancer
• Video-assisted Thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)
• Mediastinal tumours including thymic tumours
• Major airway surgery
• Lung volume reduction surgery

Teaching

Miss Beddow is the surgical educational supervisor at Harefield and is heavily involved with junior doctor’s surgical training, both at SHO and registrar levels. She attends regional registrar assessments and is a question-writer for the FRCS (C-Th) examination, the examination taken at the end of registrar training.

Qualifications

Co-author of the Handbook of Cardiothoracic Surgery (published by OUP)

Lung volume reduction surgery for native lung hyperinflation following single-lung transplantation for emphysema: which patients? Wilson H, Carby M, Beddow E. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2012 Mar 1.

Idiopathic tracheal and bronchial stenosis in two pediatric patients. Beddow E, Rice AJ, Sheppard MN, Goldstraw P.Ann Thorac Surg. 2004 May;77(5):1829-32.

Cystic fibrohistiocytic tumours presenting in the lung: primary or metastatic disease? Osborn M, Mandys V, Beddow E, Ladas G, Florio R, Sheppard MN, Fisher C, Bell SW, Travis WD, Nicholson AG. Histopathology. 2003 Dec;43(6):556-62. Review.

The pulmonary physician in critical care * Illustrative case 8: Acute respiratory failure following lung resection. Beddow E, Goldstraw P.Thorax. 2003 Sep;58(9):820-2. No abstract available.

Unusual sclerosing haemangiomas and sclerosing haemangioma-like lesions, and the value of TTF-1 in making the diagnosis. Nicholson AG, Magkou C, Snead D, Vohra HA, Sheppard MN, Goldstraw P, Beddow E, Hansell DM, Travis WD, Corrin B.Histopathology. 2002 Nov;41(5):404-13.

Professional memberships

• British Medical Association (BMA)

• British Thoracic Society (BTS)

• European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)

• Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS)

• Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)

Where can I get treatment with Miss Beddow?

Contact details

For all private appointments

Tel: 01895 828810 (Clare Davison)

Fax: 01895 828948

Email: c.davison2@rbht.nhs.uk

All correspondence both NHS and Private to:
Miss Emma Beddow

Department of Thoracic Surgery

Harefield Hospital

Hill End Road

Harefield

Middlesex

UB9 6JH

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