Head, Division of Cardiac surgery. Lisie Heart Institute. Kochi. Kerala. India.
Cardiac surgeon by profession.

• Gradiated in Botany from St. Thomaxs College Palai with first Rank from Kerala University 1978
• MBBS from Government Medical College Kottayam.
• Post Graduate Education from UK and Ireland.
• FRCS Royal college Glasgow
• FRCS Royal college of surgeons Edinburgh

• Joined Medical trust hospital in 1996.
• Joined Lisie Hospital 2008.
• Initiated the first Coronary bypass surgery in Mid Kerala.
• Established the first beating heart bypass surgery program Mid Kerala.
• First Awake Bypass surgery in Kerala.
• First Heart Transplant in Kerala 2003
• First Heart Redo transplant in India,
• Conducted more than 22500 open heart surgeries.
• Heart Transplants 29
• Heart Lung transplant 1

• Padma shri 2011
• Padma Bhushan 2025