Assistant Professor Vitaly A. Sorokin is presently a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at National University Heart Centre, Singapore. He is also an Assistant Professor with the Department of Surgery at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

In 1995, Dr Vitaly A. Sorokin graduated from State Medical University in Russia. He completed his General Surgery training in 1997 followed by Cardiothoracic Residency in 2000. He obtained his PhD from Highest Attestation Committee, Russian Ministry of Education in 1999. Subsequently he underwent Postdoctoral Adult Cardiac Fellowship training as a Clinical Fellow in the Asan Medical Center in South Korea for two years and worked as a Consultant in the Department of Cardiac Surgery in Russia till 2004.

Dr Vitaly A. Sorokin joined National University Hospital as a Clinical Fellow in the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery in 2004. He obtained his MRCS (Edinburgh) in 2008 and FRCS (Edinburgh) in 2010. He became Associate Consultant with Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at National University Heart Centre, Singapore in 2012.

Dr Vitaly A. Sorokin was awarded AMDA support from Ministry of Health Singapore and specialised in Adult Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery in Heinrich Heine University Clinic, Germany as a Clinical Fellow till 2013.

He is a member of:

European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Russian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery

Dr Vitaly A. Sorokin is a Clinical Tutor with Department Of Surgery, National University of Singapore since 2009. He is also Visiting Professor to the Russian State Medical University since 2010.

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