Mr Nikesh Dattani

Mr Nikesh Dattani is a Consultant Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon at the Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. He has trained in some of the highest volume centres in the UK as a ‘new-breed’ endovascular surgeon, he routinely utilises minimally invasive techniques and innovative technologies to help enhance the overall experience for his patients. His specialist areas of interest include endovascular procedures to treat peripheral arterial and aortic disease as well as endovenous procedures to treat varicose veins and venous ulcers.

Mr Dattani qualified as a doctor from King’s College London in 2008 and went on to undertake his surgical training in London, Leicester & the West Midlands. He was awarded competitive funding from the Circulation Foundation to undertake his doctoral research (MD) and was awarded his Master of Research in 2017 and his MD with Distinction in 2018 from the University of Leicester. Mr Dattani was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in Vascular Surgery in 2019 and undertook a post-certification fellowship in Newcastle focusing on advanced endovascular skills and complex aortic surgery before being appointed as a Consultant Surgeon in Leicester.

Mr Dattani enjoys training the next generation of surgeons. He is the undergraduate and postgraduate lead for vascular education in Leicester and regularly teaches several national courses (ATLS, BSS, VaLSA). Mr Dattani remains actively involved in clinical research: he is an executive committee member of the Vascular & Endovascular Research Network (VERN), which he co-founded in 2013, and is the local Principal Investigator for a multicentre randomised controlled trial. He is well-published in the field and has been awarded numerous prizes for his research on both the national and international stage (including the prestigious British Journal of Surgery Prize from the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Lauder Prize for best MD candidate from the University of Leicester).

Mr Dattani can conduct consultations in English or Gujarati.