Mr Vijay Joshi

Mr Vijay Joshi is a consultant thoracic surgeon based in Manchester. He completed a 2-year advanced surgical fellowship at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA as well as an observership at the University of Toronto and a robotic / minimally invasive fellowship at James Cook University Hospital prior to being appointed as a Consultant in 2019. He is the lead for Morbidity and Mortality review in his department as well as the clinical lead for emphysema surgery, sarcoma and lead developer for our joint one-stop high risk lung cancer clinic. He was appointed to the Medical Practioners Tribunal in 2023 and hears GMC regulatory cases. He has won a local Clinical Excellence Award for service ‘above and beyond’ his job plan, a Silver Award for teaching from Manchester University and the Thomson Reuter’s Law Prize for the highest combined grade in his penultimate academic year in Law School. 

His area of specialism is in diseases / injuries of the chest.

Expertise includes:
​Lung Cancer - diagnosis, staging, surgical treatment
Sarcoma
Thoracic Surgical Oncology
Minimally Invasive (VATS) surgery
Thymic Surgery
Airway interventions
Diaphragm Surgery
Mediastinal Tumours
Pleural Surgery
Emphysema - Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
Chest Trauma – including both rib and sternal fracture, long-term implications, surgical fixation and chronic chest wall pain
Chest Drain insertion and related complications
Chest wall tumours and reconstruction

Mr Joshi has been undertaking medicolegal work since 2019 and takes instruction from both claimant and defendant in both personal injury and clinical negligence cases.

Mr Joshi has undergone medico-legal training with Bond Solon (Civil Expert Witness Certificate) as well as with MPS. He has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Law with Northumbria University Law School and is currently undertaking a part time law degree (LL.B Hons) at Nottingham Law School. He has also completed mediation training (civil, commercial, and workplace) on a CMC accredited course.

More information on his practice, including surgical videos can be found on his Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Network page (CTSnet) here.

National Trainee in Cardiothoracic Surgery: East Midlands Deanery (2018), Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education (2018), Nottingham Law School (2023), Mediation training (Civil & Commercial, Workplace) completed under National Dispute Resolution (CMC accredited) 2020

Bond Solon: Civil certificate

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), , Member of the Manchester and District Medicolegal Society, Member of the Ontario Bar Association, Member of the Medical Protection Society (with full medico-legal cover) and a Member of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons