SPECIALITY

• Coronary Revascularisation Surgery
• Heart Valve Repairs and Replacements
• Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery
• Congenital Cardiac Repairs
• Aortic Aneurysm Surgery

• Heart and Lung Transplantation
• Redo Cardiac Surgery
• Heart Failure Surgery
• Lung surgery
• ECMO (VV,VA)
• Ventricular Assist device implantation

Professional Experience

SENIOR CONSULTANT CARDIOTHORACIC, MINIMAL INVASIVE AND TRANSPLANT SURGEON

Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad, HYDERABAD, Telangana India

Yashoda Hospitals , Secunderabad is a Tertiary referral hospital with facilities for Off Pump CABG, Valve repairs, MICS , MIDCAB, Aortic aneurysm repairs ( Surgical and Hybrid),Heart and Lung Transplantations and also Congenital Cardiac repairs. I am the lead Cardiothoracic Surgeon, with two associate and Four Trainee surgeons Our Cardiac anaesthesia team has two lead anaesthesiologists and two trainee anaesthesiologists . We have a three Cardac theatre with 20 bedded CT ICU and perform 55 to 60 Major surgeries a month.

CHIEF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON

Vijaya Hospitals, CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu, India

Vijaya Heart Foundation of Vijaya Hospitals is a high volume cardiothoracic unit where we perform 75-80 cardiac surgeries a month. My team consisted of a co- surgeon and two associate surgeons. We performed all range of coronary , valve and congenital surgeries. We routinely performed LV Restoration Surgery and Post MI VSR Repairs. We also did MICS regularly and Aortic Aneurysm surgery

SENIOR CONSULTANT CTVS

Frontier Lifeline Hospital , CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu ,India

SeniorConsultant and Incharge of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Aortic Surgery • Member of Thoracic(Heart&Lung) Transplantation team.

FLL is a 4 Cardiac theatre setup with two for adult and two for pediatric. We had a total of 6-8 heart operations daily. I was taking care of one theatre and performing on average of two cardiac surgeries per day. I was taking care of the overseas patients ( mainly from IRAQ,MUSCAT, NIGERIA etc ) and high risk Cardiothoracic surgeries, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgeries and Aneurysm repairs. I had dealt with High Risk Coronary revascularization (Low EF, associated procedures like MVR, AVR ), Surgeries for Heart failure like LV Restoration Surgeries ( SAVE operation, Dorr procedure etc), Aortic Aneurysm repairs, Redo CABGs, Redo Valve replacements, MICS Valve repairs, MIDCAB. I was also involved in Congenital Cardiac Defect Repairs (VSD, TOF, Glenn, Fontan, ASO, TAPVC repairs, AV Canal Repairs , BT Shunts etc).

CHIEF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON

Apollo hospitals Visakhapatnam , Cardiothoracic Unit has been a two Cardiac theatre setup with two CT ICU of 10 beds each. I have been the leader of this unit with an associate surgeon helping me out. Our Cardiac anaesthesia team consisted of three anaesthesiologists. We had done all range of cardiac surgeries which included CABG, Valve repairs, Congenital Cardiac repairs both regular and complex, Aortic Aneurysm Repairs.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CTVS

Kasturba Medical College, MANGALORE, Karnataka India

I was here for a short duration as Associate Professor of CTVS , started their Beating Heart cardiac surgery programme

JUNIOR CONSULTANT / ASSISTENT PROFESSOR CTVS

Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences , BANGALORE, Karnataka India

I had been part of the team where three operating surgeons were running the programme and we as junior consultants were supporting them. we were performing the simpler surgeries like valve replecements and ASD closures. We were taking charge of the postoperative ICU and also associated in all the complex surgeries.

MCH & POST MCH SENIOR RESIDENCY

AIIIMS ,NEW DELHI India

CABG, Valve repairs, Replacements, Ross Procedures, HAVR, Congenital Repairs ( Complex and Simple), Aneurysm repairs, Heart Transplants. I had the privilege to work with pioneers of Cardiac surgery in our country like – Dr P Venugopal, Dr A Sampath Kumar, Dr Balram Airan, Dr Rajesh Sharma, Dr Anil Bhan ,Dr Shiv Choudhry