Martin Elliott MD FRCS is Professor Emeritus of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCL & Emeritus Professor of Physics and Fellow at Gresham College. He worked as a paediatric cardiothoracic (& transplant) surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London from 1984 until 2019. He was co-Medical Director there from 2010 to 2015.
Martin has led research into the pathophysiology of cardiopulmonary bypass, outcomes and clinical databases and tracheal transplantation and is widely published. He has delivered over 450 invited lectures worldwide and many named lectures. He has held several internation visiting professorships and taught and operated throughout the world.
He was a member of the China Tribunal from 2017 to 2020.
He was Provost of Gresham College London from 2022 to 2025 whence he was elected a Life Fellow in 2025.
He is an Honorary Bencher at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London.