Mr Mital Desai

Mr Mital Desai is a consultant vascular and endovascular surgeon based at the Hendon hospital. His NHS practice is at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, across St George's Hospital, Tooting and Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He is also a Clinical Senior Lecturer at St George's University of London.

He qualified from India in 2000 and completed accredited training in surgery recognised by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2006 and completed higher degree MD in basic science vascular research on development of novel aortic stent-grafts for endovascular repair at University College London (UCL) for which he has won several grants and fellowship awards. He was successful in being appointed on highly competitive clinical academic training programme funded by the National Institute for Health Research, first as an academic clinical fellow followed by an academic clinical lecturer in Leicester and London respectively. 

Following completion of training, he did an advanced fellowship at Guys’ and St Thomas’ Hospitals before being appointed as a Consultant at St George’s Hospital.

Out of work, he has keen interest in travel, exploring world cuisines, cooking, contemporary Indian music and an avid interest in sports including cricket, football and tennis.

• Lower extremity arterial disease
• Aortic aneurysms
• Carotid artery disease and TIAs/stroke
• Diabetic foot management
• Venous disease (including varicose veins and post-thrombotic limb)
• Cardiovascular risk management.

He specialises in walk-in, walk-out procedures for varicose veins and leg ulcers and uses minimally invasive endovascular techniques including radiofrequency ablation and ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy.