Clinical expertise
Professor Nick Cheshire is an expert in areas such as:
- the role of technology in complex aortic disease
- stent design and manufacture
- robotics
- virtual reality
- genomics
In 2010, Professor Cheshire led a city-wide review of vascular surgical services in London; the recommendations were adopted as the model for service delivery across the UK.
At the Royal College of Surgeons, he led a team in developing a national vascular skills training package, which has now been used in the UK for over 15 years.
Locations
Our specialist provides care at these locations:
Biography
Professor Nick Cheshire is head of vascular surgery at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, where he treats both NHS and private patients.
He is also a professor of vascular surgery at Imperial College London.
Research interests
Professor Nick Cheshire has researched robotically-controlled endovascular intervention, which has shown improved control and easy learning for inexperienced surgeons. He’s also researched combined fluoro-CT endovascular navigation.
Professor Cheshire has pioneered stent graft repair of thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms in the UK, reducing peri-operative mortality by up to 50 per cent. With colleagues in bio-engineering at Imperial College London, the team have developed a novel helical stent and helical prosthetic arterial graft. These are less susceptible to kinking and fracture and with advantageous fluid mechanical properties. Following this research, a company now manufacture the helical graft and stent.
His research programmes have generated more than £12 million in funding and have won prizes in the UK, Europe and the USA.
