The Surgeon Who Saved My Heart | Mr Toufan Bahrami & the Elite Mindset

About this episode

Maria Hvorostovsky interviews cardiac surgeon Mr Toufan Bahrami about heart surgery and elite performance.

This episode is personal. Maria Hvorostovsky sits down with the man who repaired her heart - Mr Toufan Bahrami, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons and the only surgeon in the UK performing fully endoscopic mitral valve repair. With over 4,000 procedures and multiple world firsts, he is the surgeon other surgeons refer their patients to. What starts as a conversation about heart surgery becomes a masterclass in elite performance, calm under pressure, and what it truly means to lead in the highest-stakes environment imaginable. This episode is sponsored by CP+R - London's leading cardiac rehabilitation and performance recovery centre, supporting patients before and after heart surgery https://www.cpandr.co.uk/ Find Mr Toufan Bahrami HCA Healthcare http://bit.ly/4uHMxPs Guy’s And St Thomas’ Specialist Care https://bit.ly/43BUsC2 London Mitral Clinic https://bit.ly/4dRfbq7 Follow host Maria Hvorostovsky: IG: https://www.instagram.com/anatomyofaleader/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/mariahvorostovsky/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariahvo/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mariahvorostovsky/ Website: https://www.anatomyofaleader.com/ Artwork and video by…

People in this episode

Host: Maria Hvorostovsky

Guest: Mr Toufan Bahrami

Topics covered

• heart surgery
• elite performance
• leadership
• calm under pressure
• cardiac rehabilitation

Keywords

• cardiac surgery
• mitral valve repair
• leadership
• performance under pressure
• heart health

Sponsors

CP+R

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HCA Healthcare, Guy’s And St Thomas’ Specialist Care, London Mitral Clinic

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