Dr Emma Beddow

Dr Emma Beddow

Thoracic Surgeon

Miss Emma Beddow is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon and sees private patients at Harefield Hospital, The Wellington Hospital London and The Princess Grace Hospital, London. She has an NHS practice at Harefield Hospital, part of The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, the largest centre in the UK for Thoracic Surgery.

 

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

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.

• 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

• 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)