Babulal Sethia
| Babulal Sethia | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 February 1951 |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation | President of The Royal Society of Medicine |
Deputy Lieutenant of greater London (2016)
Babulal Sethia is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and President of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Babulal Sethia was born in Edinburgh to Babulal and Joan Sethia. The son of a jute importer from a family of Indian Jains, Sethia attended Rugby school and at the age of 17 joined the Merchant Navy for a year as an assistant purser. During his time working on cargo ships he experienced at first hand the horrors of Nigeria’s Biafran civil war. This, in part, compelled him to focus on a future career in medicine.
He graduated from St Thomas’ Hospital and Medical School, London with degrees in physiology and medicine and in 1981 gained Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
In 1975 Sethia became a House Surgeon in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. This was followed by house officer and registrar posts in Dorset, Birmingham, Surrey, Cambridge, Hampshire, Scotland and London with a brief interlude as a medical officer with the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia in 1977/78.
In 1987 he was appointed Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust. There he was Clinical Director of Surgical Services from 1995 – 1999.
In October 1999 he was appointed Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust where he is an educational supervisor for congenital heart surgery.
In June 2012 he was appointed Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
He is an Honorary Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem as well as past Honorary Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Bous Ismail Children’s Hospital, Algeria.
Sethia has published widely in the area of congenital heart disease and has given or directed approximately 150 presentations to learned societies during the past 20 years.
He is regularly invited to lecture at specialist conferences in the UK and overseas.
Sethia has been engaged in the development and delivery of cardiac surgical training in developing nations for the past 21 years, either working independently or in conjunction with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) and the Chain of Hope Charities.
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