Bruce Keogh

Professor Sir Bruce E. Keogh, KBE, FRCP is Medical Director of the National Health Service in England.

Prior to taking up the full-time Medical Director post in the NHS he practised as a cardiac surgeon with a special interest in reconstructive mitral valve surgery. He earned a MB BS degree from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1980, and the MD higher degree from the University of London in 1989 and served as Senior Lecturer/Consultant at Hammersmith Hospital and Royal Postgraduate Medical School from 1991-1995. He then moved to Birmingham where from 1997 - 2003 he was Associate Medical Director of University Hospital Birmingham before being appointed Professor of Cardiac surgery at University College London and Director of Surgery at The Heart Hospital in 2004.

Keogh has been active on many medical and professional committees including the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland of which he is President, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the National CHD Taskforce, Commission for Health Improvement, Healthcare Commission, NHS Standing Medical Advisory Committee, and the Royal Society of Medicine where he was president of the Cardiothoracic Section. He was chairman of the NHS Information Taskforce on Clinical Outcomes.

Keogh is active internationally as Secretary General of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and is also International Director of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons in the United States. He was named an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire in 2003, and subsequently became a British citizen, and his knighthood became "substantive" (no longer honorary). Keogh is an hororary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.