Stephen Clark is a Consultant Cardiothoracic and Transplant Surgeon at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne (where he is Head of Department) and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiopulmonary Transplantation in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Northumbria.
He was appointed in December 2000 after training in Newcastle, London, Cambridge and Toronto. He practices widely in all forms of adult cardiac surgery including cardiopulmonary transplantation and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers. He is an Examiner for the European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery and a Specialty Advisor in Cardiac Surgery for NICE, a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Cardiothoracic Surgery and is the Specialty Program Director for CORESS.
Professor Clark is a former Director of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and is now a Director for Quality and Patient Safety for Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
He has an ongoing commitment to setting up heart and lung transplant programs in Asia, especially Sri Lanka where he guided the first heart transplant there last year.