Bruce Keogh
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'''Sir Bruce E. Keogh''', [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]], [[Royal College of Physicians|FRCP]] is Medical Director of the [[National Health Service (England)|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 [[Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery|MB BS]] degree from [[Charing Cross Hospital Medical School]] in 1980, and the [[Doctor of Medicine|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, [[Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection]], 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 nationality law|British citizen]], and his knighthood became "substantive" (no longer honorary). Keogh is an hororary Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of London]].
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