Mr Howell is a Consultant Cardiac and Transplant Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He undertakes all aspects of cardiac surgery including coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic valve surgery and mitral valve repair. He has further interests in surgery for the failing heart using ventricular assist devices (VADs) and in heart and lung transplantation. He is fully registered with the GMC with a License to Practise, is on the GMC's specialist register for Cardiothoracic Surgery and submits all his surgical results to the SCTS for the purposes of audit.