Mr Joseph Shalhoub is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon appointed at the Imperial Vascular Unit, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, London.

Mr Shalhoub sees and treats private patients at Cleveland Clinic London
https://clevelandcliniclondon.uk/doctors/1410-mr-joseph-shalhoub
Medical Secretary: Michelle Kiely - jshalhoubmedsec@ccf.org - 020 3423 7493

He qualified with honours from Imperial College School of Medicine, completing his postgraduate surgical training in London including St Mary’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, and St Thomas’ Hospital. Mr Shalhoub is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS), and was awarded the Gold Medal for the highest mark in the Fellowship of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) examination. After receiving his Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) and gaining entry onto the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register, he undertook a post-CCT Senior Clinical Fellowship in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.

Mr Shalhoub has a strong academic and educational background which compliments his evidence-based clinical practice. He is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London where he is an investigator for a number of studies, including National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) government-funded large multi-centre randomised clinical trials:

Joint Chief Investigator: Examining the benefit of graduated compression stockings in the Prevention of vEnous Thromboembolism in low-risk Surgical patients: a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial (NIHR HTS PETS Trial)
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hta/NIHR133776/
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/pets-trial/

Joint Chief Investigator: Best Endovenous treatment, including STenting, versus best non-endovenous treatment in chronic proximal deep venous disease – the BEST multi-centre randomised controlled trial (BHF BEST Trial)

Investigator: Innovate UK Smart Grant, Adaptive Prosthetic Limbs Enhanced by Machine Learning and Soft Robotics

Co-Investigator: THRomboprophylaxis in Individuals undergoing superficial endoVEnous treatment (NIHR HTA THRIVE Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR152877/

Co-Investigator: Perineural Local Anaesthetic Catheter aftEr Major lowEr limb amputatioN Trial (NIHR HTA PLACEMENT Trial)
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR134746/

Co-Investigator: Diagnostic tools to establish the presence and severity of peripheral arterial disease in people with diabetes (NIHR HTA DM PAD Study)
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hta/NIHR131855/
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/dm-pad-trial/

Co-Investigator: Compression Hosiery to Avoid Post-Thrombotic Syndrome (NIHR HTA CHAPS Trial)
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hta/1714747/
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/chaps-trial/

Co-Investigator: Does Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation improve the absolute walking distance in patients with Intermittent Claudication compared to best available treatment? a multicentre randomised controlled study (NIHR / MRC EME NESIC Trial)
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/eme/1518068/
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/department-surgery-cancer/research/surgery/clinical-trials/nesic/

Co-Investigator: Examining the benefit of graduated compression stockings as an adjunct to low dose low molecular weight heparin in the prevention of venous thromboembolism in elective surgical inpatients identified as moderate or high risk for venous thromboembolism – a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (NIHR HTA GAPS Trial)
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hta/1414061/
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1309

He completed his BSc, PhD and Masters in Education (MEd) all at Imperial College London, receiving Research Fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Circulation Foundation. To date, he has secured more than £15.6 million in research funding as principal applicant or co-applicant, and has published more than 260 Pubmed indexed articles.

Mr Shalhoub is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FFSTEd), Council Member and past Honorary Secretary of the Surgery Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), Executive Committee Member of the Vascular and Endovascular Research Network (VERN), Council Member of the Surgical Research Society (SRS), Examiner for the Fellow of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) examinations, and member of the panel of question writers for the JCIE Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Vascular Surgery. He was a Council Member and twice past Vice-President of the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT), and past Associate Editor (Vascular Surgery) of the International Journal of Cardiology (Elsevier).

Twitter: @JosephShalhoub

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Vascular and endovascular surgery

• Treatments for arterial diseases
• Carotid endarterectomy (carotid surgery for stroke prevention)
• Treatments for varicose veins
• Vascular surgical access and support for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)

Vascular and endovascular surgery

• Arterial disease
• Limb salvage
• Foot disease in diabetes
• Venous disease
• Varicose veins
• Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
• Swollen legs
• Leg ulcers
• Carotid disease
• Aortic pathologies