The Proctoring Team

Prof. Sir Shakeel Qureshi

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Evelina London
Children’s Hospital & St Thomas’ Hospital
Professor Sir Qureshi is a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s & St Thomas Trust, since March 1988. His main interest is interventional procedures in congenital heart disease in children and adults.

He has been involved in Venus-P Valve implantation from early on in its development. He performed the first Venus-P Valve implant case outside China in Bangkok in October 2013. He also performed the first Venus-P Valve case in Europe at Evelina London Children’s Hospital in July 2014 on compassionate use basis. He performed the first Venus-P Valve case in CE study at Evelina in Aug 2016.

Dr Matthew Jones

Consultant Cardiologist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital & St Thomas’ Hospital

Dr Matthew Jones is a consultant paediatric and adult congenital cardiologist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital & St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Matthew has experience of implanting Venus-P Valves since 2017 and has implanted over 100 Venus-P Valves since that time. Matthew was a site investigator for the Venus-P Valve CE study and is part of the European proctoring programme for Venus MedTech. He regularly proctors and mentors interventional cardiologists around Europe in how to implant Venus-P Valves as well as lecturing at international conferences on valve implantation techniques.

Dr Jamie Bentham

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Leeds Hospital
Dr Jamie Bentham is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist caring for adults and children with congenital heart disease. He trained in medicine at the University of Oxford where he also completed his doctoral research in cardiovascular genetics. He has worked at many heart centres including Liverpool, Oxford and Great Ormond Street before moving to complete an intervention fellowship in Leeds and Boston Children’s, USA. Jamie took up a consultant post in intervention cardiology in Leeds in 2014 where he is an associate professor and lead for the cardiac catheter program. Jamie continues to contribute to outcome research nationally and internationally where he has published extensively. Jamie also leads the high-risk neonatal program for single ventricle patients at Leeds teaching Hospitals NHS trust.

Prof. Kevin Walsh

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at The Mater Hospital, Dublin

Prof. Damien Kenny

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin