Thoracic Organ Transplantation Directory


Dr.Panangipalli Venugopal
Name Dr.Panangipalli Venugopal
Address of the institution working
Position holding Ex-Chairman, Alchemist Medical Division, Ex-Director, AIIMS, Chief, C.T. Centre and Prof. & Head, Deptt. Of CTVS, AIIMS, New Delhi
Contact No. +91-9711207825 Profile

First Transplant Heart
1994 26

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
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 1963 - awarded the Institute’s Gold Medical for the Best Undergraduate by the India’s first Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
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 1967 - Master of Surgery (MS) awarded with Gold Medical for the Merit of First Order winning felicitation by the then President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain. In April 1968 he took up his further training in the field of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
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 1971 - Completed his degree of M.Ch. (CTVS) with honours and joined the Faculty of All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
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 1972 to 1974 he had received advanced training at the world renowned Texas Heart Institute under Dr. Denton A. Cooley and the Children’s Hospital at Buffalo NY, USA under Dr. S. Subramanian in the field of Open Heart Surgery of adult and pediatric heart disease.
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 1974 - Established the open heart surgery program at All India Institute of Medical Sciences under the stewardship of Prof. N. Gopinath and later assisted in the establishment of Cardiothoracic Sciences Centre at AIIMS
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 February, 1982 - Professor and Head of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery.
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 1992 - Became the Chief of the Cardio Thoracic Sciences Centre.
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 June 30, 2003 - appointed as Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
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 August 3, 1994 - Pioneered the First Heart Transplantation in India thereby putting India on the International map of heart transplantation. This remarkable feat had brought laurels to the Medical Community in particular and to our country in general. He has been able to establish a well coordinated heart transplant program in the country at AIIMS and performed TWENTY SIX (26) successful cardiac transplantations, 50,000 open heart surgeries and trained 120 cardiac surgery residents. He introduced, for the first time in Asia, the implantation of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) as a bridge to transplant and successfully performed the heart transplantation on these patients who was on Left Ventricular Assist Device for more than 90 days.
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 Successfully pioneered the use of Autologous Stem Cells implantation for the repair of the myocardium as an alternative to the transplantation. He has also implanted the stem cells into the pancreas for curing the type II diabetes.
RECOGNITION & AWARDS
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 Lifetime Achievement Award by Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, 2014 at AIIMS Convocation.
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 Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian association of Cardiothoracic and vacular surgeon at annual meeting Chennai in 2012.
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 Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian association of pediatric cardiology at Delhi in 2002.
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 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kozhikode Cochin medical association in 2010.
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 Lifetime Achievement Award at G.B.Pant hospital at Golden Jubilee celebration.
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 Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao, the then Prime Minister of India, on 17th August, 1994 felicitated on the country’s first successful heart transplantation.
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 The sitting Lok Sabha held on 4th August, 1995, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Leader of Opposition, Shri Gulam Nabi Azad, Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourist, Shri Somnath Chatterjee, MP and the Speaker Lok Sabha, on behalf of the house congratulated Prof. P. Venugopal for the achievement in successfully performing the first heart transplantation in India.
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 Shri Gulam Nabi Azad, the then Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism, India vide his letter dated 23rd August, 1995 felicitated Prof. P. Venugopal on having successfully performed heart transplantation in All India Institute of Medical Sciences and has been provided the facility of free air travel for journeys within India and abroad in connection with carrying out further research in the field of heart transplantation and related subject.
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 The Delhi Assembly passed a resolution in connection with heart transplantation performed by Prof. P. Venugopal. The House commends the dedication, outstanding and hard-work undertaken by Prof. P. Venugopal for the heart transplant surgery is praised by every citizen of our country. Prof. P. Venugopal could make huge money in some foreign developed country but he preferred to serve his own countrymen.
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 Awarded prestigious “PADMA BHUSHAN” by the Hon’ble President of India, Shri K.R. Narayanan on the occasion of the 49th Republic Day of India i.e. 26th January, 1998.
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 Awarded the prestigious “DR. B.C. ROY AWARD” by the Indian Medical Association for the year 1997-98 as an Eminent Medical Person.
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 Awarded 23rd Rameshwardas Birla National Award by Shri Rameshwardas Birla Smarak Kosh (Bombay Hospital Trust).
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 Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) By the Vice Chancellor of the N.T.R. University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada during the V. Convocation of the University held on 19th February, 2001.
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 Felicitated by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao in the presence of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba at Sree Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Puttaparthy (AP) on 22.11.1994.
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 Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian association of Cardiothoracic and vacular surgeon at annual meeting Chennai in 2012.
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 Awarded “Indira Priyadarshini Award” for outstanding services in the field of Cardiac Surgery on the occasion of 75th Birthday of Mrs. Indira Gandhi in a National Converence on “Relevance of Indira Gandhi in Shaping Modern India” at New Delhi, November, 1994.
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 Felicitated by the Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi for the meritorious services in the field of Cardiac Surgery on 2nd December, 1995.
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 Goyal Prize (Goyal Foundation) 1994 for the pioneering work in the field of Cardiac Surgery at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra presented by the Hon’ble Vice President of India Shri K.R. Narayanan.
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 Appointed as Honorary Surgeon to the President of India from 3rd November, 1997.
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 "Vijaya Ratna Award" Role of Individuals for the Development of India for enriching human life & outstanding attainments by International Friendship Society of India. New Delhi on 20th October, 1994.
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 "Rattna Shiromani Award" for outstanding contribution in the field of a Cardiac Surgery by India International Society for Unity, New Delhi, November, 1994.
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 "Shresht Shree Award 1994" for the outstanding work in the field of Cardiac Surgery, by Delhi Citizen Forum for Civil Right, New Delhi.
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 Dr. N.C. Joshi Memorial Oration Award on the occasion of XXXIX Annual Delhi State Medical Conference on 27th Janury, 1995.
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 "Award of Excellence" by Rajiv Gandhi Foundation for the 1993-1994.
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 TELEGU ATMA GAURAVA DINOTSAVAM AWARD on the occasion of the Birthday of former Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Dr. N.T. Rama Rao on 28th May, 1996, presented by Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
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 Awarded "MANAV SEWA" award by SAPNAN an off-shoot of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation for the contribution to rehabilitation of patients suffering from heart disease.
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 Felicitated by MEDWIN HOSPITALS, Nampally, Hyderabad for performing first successful Heart Transplant in India.
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 Felicitated by Rajput Association for the distinguished services rendered in the field of Medical, by India Education Centre, New Delhi in Nov., 1994.
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 Conferred with TECH-EXCEL AWARD for the outstanding contribution in the field of Medical, by India Education Centre, New Delhi in Nov. 1994.
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 Felicitated by Indian Medical Association, Vijayawada (AP) on the occasion of 70th All India Institute Medical Conference 1994 at Vijayawada.
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 Awarded Dr. YELLAPREGADA SUBBRAO ORATION on 11.1.95 on occasion of the conference organized by Indian Medical Association, Kurnool Branch, Kurnool.
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 Felicitated by Indian Medical Association, Faridabad Branch, Faridabad Indian Medical Association, NOIDA Branch, NOIDA.
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 Felicitated by the organizing committee “National update in Cardiology 95” in connection with the Golden Jubilee year or Amritsar Medical College, Amritsar.
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 Awarded Dr. Sadasivam Memorial Oration on the occasion of the Annual Conference of India Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, held at Bangalore from 23.2.1995 to 26.2.1995.
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 Awarded the BEST MEDICALMAN CUM STATE MAN by the Selection Committee of “Padmabhushan Dr. P. Siva Reddy Endowment Fund instituted by the A.P. Akademi of Medical Sciences on 12th September, 1995.
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 Delivered the first Dr. T.J.Aggarwal Oration on 18th November, 1995 on the occasion of the Annual Conference of Association of Surgeons of India, Delhi Chapter, New Delhi.
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 Awarded prestigious DR. PINNAMANENI & MRS. SEETHADEVI FOUNDATION AWARD for the year 1997 for distinguished services in the field of medicine on 16th December, 1997 at Vijayawada (AP).
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 Dr. Jal R. Vakil Memorial Award presented by Vice President of India on the occasion of Annual Day of National Heart Institute, New Delhi on 23rd August, 1996.
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 IMA DR. K. SHARAN CARDIOLOGY EXCELLENCE AWARD – for the year 1996-97 by Indian Medical Association, New Delhi on 28th December, 1997 at a function held at Govt. Medical College, Nani Daman.
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 Felicitated by the Organizing Committee of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons at Jaipur, India.
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 Awarded the RASHTRA RATAN by Vishwa Jagriti Mission- Yuva Manch on 9th April 2000.
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 Awarded the DHANVANTARI AWARD by Dhanvantari Medical Foundation, Mumbai on 24th Oct 2010.
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 Awarded the LIFE TIME ACHIVEMENT AWARD by Heart Care Foundation, Kochi on World Heart Day i.e. 26th Sep 2010.
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 Appointed as a Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts for Quality Assurances in Health Care in India by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India.
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 Nominated as a Member of the Board of Governors of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna.
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 Nominated as a Member of the Governing Council of the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya
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 Member of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali-160 062.
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 Member of the Governing Body of the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
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 Member of the Governing Body of the Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Jammu & Kashmir.
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 Member of the Institute Body of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.

DR. KM CHERIAN
Name DR. KM CHERIAN
Address of the institution working FRONTIER LIFELINE HOSPITAL, R-30-C, AMBATTUR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE RAOD, MOGAPPAIR, CHENNAI 600101
Position holding CHAIRMAN & CEO
Contact No. 9840060850 Profile

First Transplant Heart Lungs Heart-Lungs Publications Articles Papers presented
1995 55 9 7 350 7 7

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
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 The first Cardiac Transplant was done on 22 January 2009 on baby 2 years old, Male
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 First Successful Coronary Artery Graft in India in June 1975
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 Mitral Valve Replacement for Endomyocardial Fibrosis in India in February 1976
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 Introduction of Profound Hypothermia and circulatory arrest for Correction of Cardiac Defects in infants in India in February 1976
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 First Internal Mammary Artery Graft in the Country in September 1976.
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 Introduction of Cardioplegia for Myocardial Preservation in India in January 1979.
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 Transatrial Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot, Transatrial, Repair of Double Outlet Right Ventricle and pioneering the Technique in June 1979.
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 First Correction of Transposition of Great Vessels using Senning Technique in India in July 1979.
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 Successful Correction of Transposition, VSD, Pulmonary Atresia using extra cardiac conduit in June 1979.
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 Successful Arterial Switch Operation for TGA with VSD and PDA with Single Coronary Artery in October 1980.
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 First successful Bilateral Internal Mammary Graft in March 1985.
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 Homograft Aortic Conduits for Correction of Congenital Defects in June 1988.
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 Introduction of Transmyocardial Laser Revascularisation (Australasia) in Dec 1994.
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 First Heart Transplant in India after the legislation of Brain Death in Sep 1995.
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 First Bilateral Lung Transplant in June 1997.
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 First Auto Transplant in May 1999.
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 Double Heart Transplant in one night March 2010.
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 Paediatric Transplant in September 2011.
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 Livertronix Artificial Heart (LVAD) in September 2011.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
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 Heart - Lung Transplantation in India - Initial Experience (IHJ 2003; 55:185-187).
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 Batista procedure as a bridge to cardiac transplant (IHJ 2001;53:93-94).
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 Isolated ventricular Noncomposition: A rare Indication of Heart Transplant in a young girl (indian J Transplant 2009; 3:13-16.
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 Anaesthetic Management & preservation of Donor Heart lung Transplant (Indian J Anaesth 2004; 48(2):142-144.
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 Ultrastructural and Immunolustochemical analysis of early myocardial changes following TMR (J.CARD SUR 2000;15:341-346).
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 Transmyocardial Laser Revasularization (Advances in Cardiac Surgery, Volume 11 (5) 1999.
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 Stem cell experiments & initial clinical trial of cellular cardiomyopathy Asian cardiovascular & thoracici annals vol 17, Issue 6-2009-Rg 581-586.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
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 Heart Transplant
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 Scope of Heart Transplant
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Past Present & future of cardiac transplant.
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 History of Thoracic organ Transplantion
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 Paper on stem cells
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 Pediatric Transplant Gujarat & International session.
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 Heart Transplant ABIRAMI 2011.

 

PUBLICATIONS
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 Contributed 2 chapters in the Text Book (on PDA and AP Window) of Cardiac Surgery edited by Prof.John W.Kirklin & Sir Brian Barratt Boyes – 1982 – The only Asian Author.
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 Author of more than 350 National and International publications.
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 Co-Author for the Manual on Post-operative Management of Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Patients.
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 Co-Author for the Paediatric Cardiology Update – 1998.

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
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 Honorary Surgeon to the President of India
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 Recipient of Hon.Degree, DOCTOR OF SCIENCE conferred by the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University.
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 The First and the only Indian’s name engraved in one of the stones in Kos Island, Greece, the birth place of the medical professional, Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine”, on the occasion of World Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons held between 30th April – 3rd May.
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 The first INDIAN elected as the president of the World Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons for the year 2010-11.
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 Recipient of Hon.Degree, DOCTOR OF SCIENCE (Honoris Causa) conferred by Pondicherry University, Pondicherry.
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 For Outstanding Service – Ministry of Railways (Twice).
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 Recipient of Madras Rotary Club’s FOR THE SAKE OF HONOUR AWARD.
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 Recipient of MELVIN JONES AWARD presented by Lions Club of Madras.
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 Recipient of first INDO AUSTRALIAN AWARD.
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 Recipient of Govt. of India’s PADMASHRI AWARD.
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 Recipient of CATHOLICATE AWARD in recognition of Outstanding Services to humanity.
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 Recipient of MEDICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD by Limca Book of Records.
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 Received the INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL EXCELLENCE AWARD by the Harvard Medical International.
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 Conferred with MARUTHUVA MAAMANI by the Indian Medical Association.
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 Received the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD by the Paediatric Cardiac Society of India.
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 Received the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD by the Governor of Kerala.
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 Recipient of the AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IN HEALTHCARE by the World Federation of Tamil Youth Inc.
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 Recipient of the EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR HUMAN CARE-MEDICAL by The Lions Club.
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 Recipient of the RAJIV GANDHI MOOPANAR AWARD for excellence in Cardiac Surgery.
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 Recipient of the OUTSTANDING PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD by Kurnool Heart Foundation, Kurnool.
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 Recipient of the SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD by the Rotary Club of Alleppey.
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 Recipient of the SOUTH INDIAN BANK EXCELLENCE AWARD by South Indian Bank.
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 PRESIDENT ELECT for the XX World Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons, 2010.
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 Recipient of the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD by The Indian Association of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons.
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 Recipient of the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD by The Rotary Club of Koodal, Trivandrum.
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 Recipient of the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMNT AWARD by The Kasturba Medical College Associates.
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 Recipient of EXCELLENCE IN HEALTHCARE award by FICCI and Times of India.
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 2014 - Recipient of champion of humanity AWARD BY Hindustan Chamber of Commerce Conferred by the Governor of Tamil Nadu, Dr. Rosaiah.
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 APPCS 2014 : Dr. KM Cherian addresses PEDIATRIC CARDIAC MEET in Delhi.
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 2014 - Recipient of BACTS award during an International conference held at Dhaka.

 

MEMBERSHIPS
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 The First and only Indian MEMBER of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery
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 PAST CHAIRMAN of Indian Association of Laser Surgery & Medicine.
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 PAST PRESIDENT of the Paediatric Cardiac Society of India.
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 PAST SECRETARY of the Association of Cardio-Thoracic & Vascular Surgeons of India – 1992.
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 PAST PRESIDENT of the Indian Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons – 1993-94.
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 The First and only Indian MEMBER of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
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 HON.MEMBERSHIP of the Malaysian Association for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery–2006.
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 MEMBER of Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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 MEMBER of International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation.
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 MEMBER of The International Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons.
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 MEMBER of the European Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons.
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 MEMBER of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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 MEMBER of ISCTS – The World Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons.
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 MEMBER of the Australasian Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons.
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 FELLOW of The American College of Chest Physicians.
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 FELLOW of Royal Society of Medicine (London).
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 COUNCIL MEMBER of the Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia.
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 MEMBER of the Confederation of Indian Industry – Health Division.
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 PRESIDENT of world Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons.
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 INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER of the Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals.

Dr. T.SUNDER
Name Dr. T.SUNDER
Address of the institution working Adjunct Professor, TamilNadu Dr.MGR Medical University, Chennai Apollo Hospitals, Greams Lane Chennai – 600 006
Position holding Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic & Transplant Surgeon . Director – Lung Transplantation . Academic Co-ordinator – Dept.of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Contact No. 00-91-9840426089 Profile

First Transplant Heart Lungs Heart-Lungs Publications Articles
2000 44 9 18 5 6

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
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 Performed the first Heart-Lung –Kidney transplant in India
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 Performed the first En-bloc Heart-Liver Transplant in India
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Performed the first Bridge from LVAD( HMII ) to Heart Transplant
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 Performed double lung transplant in Hermasky Pudlak Syndrome
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 Performed Heart-lung transplant in 68 year old man (Second Oldest in the world
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 Aortic Surgery, Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for CTEPH, Surgery for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
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 Biostatistics and Data analysis, EHR (Electronic Health Records)
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 Benchmarking Results and Outcome analysis in Cardiac surgery

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
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 Bilateral lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Hermansky Pudlak syndrome. K. Anand Babu, Lakshmi Varadarajulu, K. Madhan Kumar, T. Sunder. Abstracts for Poster Presentation. Lung India 2013;30,Suppl S1: 44-68
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 “A Rare Presentation of Rosai Dorfman Disease" Lakshmi Varadarajalu,; Sunder Thirugnanasambandan,; Paul Jude Thangaraj,; Ashok Parameswaran,; Meghena Mathew, Chest. 4 142 (meeting abstracts): 998A–998A
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The Management of Left Atrioventricular Valve Regurgitation following Repair of Complete Atrioventricular Canal Defects: Early Valve Replacement may be preferable – A. El Minshawy, T.Sunder, C.Alexiou, JP.Gnanapragasam, AP.Salmon, BR.Keeton&MP.Haw.-J. of Egypt. Society of Cardiothorac. Surg.2003, VolXI.April No.2 (243-52
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 Anterior mediastinal exenteration for thymoma associated with Pure Red Cell Aplasia - Victor.S.Sunder.T. & Sethuraman.S - Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardio Vascular Surgery 1993 (9):114-117
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 Book Chapter titled “ Cardiac Transplantation” – MR Girinath, Paul Ramesh & T. Sunder in Book titled CARDIOLOGY Edited by Prof. M.Kahalilullah Dec 2012
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 Book Chapter Entitled “ Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation : Indian Scenario” T.Sunder, T.Paul Ramesh, K.Madhan Kumar in CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2015, 1st Edition, Edited by Dr.Santanu Guha. 2016

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
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 Heart Transplantation – Mid and Long term results. T.Sunder, Paul Ramesh MR. Girinath At the 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons, Hyderabad, India. February 2015
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 Heart –Lung Transplantation for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis with Severe Cor Pulmonale. T.Sunder, Paul Ramesh MR. Girinath At the 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons, Hyderabad, India. February 2015.
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Benchmarking and Outcome Analysis in Cardiac Surgery – The impact of Electronic Health Records. T.Sunder, Paul Ramesh, MR Girinath. At the 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons, Hyderabad, India. February 2015. The outcome following definitive repair of Pulmonary Atresia with intact ventricular septum. - T. Sunder, C. Alexiou, BR.Keeton, MP.Haw, JL.Monro
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 World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Toronto, Canada, May 2001. The prediction of atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass surgery T. Sunder,S.Hasan, AJ Marshall, CT Lewis
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 14th Asian and Pacific Biennial Congress on Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lahore, Pakistan, December 1999

Dr.M.R.Girinath
Name Dr.M.R.Girinath
Address of the institution working Apollo Hospital, Chennai
Position holding Chief Cardiac Surgeon
Contact No. Profile

First Transplant Heart
1996 3

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
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 Headed units that have done over 50,000 cardiac operations including 33,000 coronary bypass operations of which 16,000 have been “Off-Pump” procedures.
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 Have covered the entire field of adult and pediatric heart operations including three heart transplantations.
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The first heart transplant was done by me in December 1996 and this patient lived for 14 years and led a very useful life and was able to settle his family. The third patient was operated upon 8 years ago and lives in Kolkatta.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
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 Trained 30 surgeons some of whom have now become leaders in the field in various parts of the country.
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 Assisted other units in the country such as the U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology, Ahmedabad, all the hospitals of the Apollo group, The Institute of Cardiology, Dhaka, The Jayawardenapura Hospital, Colombo, and the Trust Hospital Mauritius.
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 Was the President of the Indian Association of Cardio-vascular Thoracic Surgeons in 2000.

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
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 Dr.B.C.Roy Medical Award from The Medical Council of India In 1997
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 Padma Bhushan National Award in April 1998

Dr. Paul Ramesh Thangaraj
Name Dr. Paul Ramesh Thangaraj
Address of the institution working Apollo Hospitals, Greams Lane Chennai – 600 006
Position holding Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic & Transplant Surgeon, Director – Heart Transplantation
Contact No. 9840070824 Profile

First Transplant Heart Lungs Heart-Lungs Publications Articles Papers presented
1998 60 15 18 1 3 8 4

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
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 Oldest patient to have a combined heart and lung transplant in india - second oldest in the world
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 Second patient in the world to have a double lung transplant for Hermansky -Pudlak syndrome.
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 Performed the first En-bloc Heart-Liver Transplant in Asia
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 Performed the first Heart-Lung –Kidney transplant in India.
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 Performed the first Bridge from LVAD( HMII ) to Heart Transplant in India.
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 Largest series of combined heart and lung transplants in India.
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 Peri and post operative management of the high risk patient.
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 Muscle and omental flaps in MDR TB surgery.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
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 Photocatalytic Oxygenation of blood
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 SIRS - basic science aspects
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 Machine Deep Learning for better outcome prediction

 

PUBLICATIONS
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 Book Chapter titled “ Cardiac Transplantation” – MR Girinath, Paul Ramesh & T. Sunder in Book titled CARDIOLOGY Edited by Prof. M.Kahalilullah Dec 2012
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 Book Chapter Entitled "Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation : Indian Scenario" T.Sunder, T.Paul Ramesh, K.Madhan Kumar in CARDIOLOGY UPDATE 2015, 1st Edition, Edited by Dr.Santanu Guha. 2016
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 Therapeutics - A Self Assessment ManualZenith ISBN:.81-85898-00-6 1993

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
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 Efficacy of Titanium doped-Indium Tin Oxide films in rapid oxygen generation under photocatalysis and their suitability for biomedical applicatio in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics - 2014.
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 Quantification of photocatalytic oxygenation of human blood in Medical engineering and physics - 2014
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 Recent advances in Cardiac Transplantation in Apollo Medicine - 2011
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 Nano-metal oxide thin films in bio-medical engineering: Oxygenation of human blood with photocatalytic reaction’ in Artificial Organs - 2009
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 Studies on the Oxygenation of Human Blood by photocatalytic action in Artificial Organs - 2007
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 Oxygenation of Human Blood Using Photocatalytic Reaction’ in ASAIO - 2007
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 Effect of training on outcome and hospital costs in coronary surgery in Heart - 2001
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 Surgical treatment of acquired VSD in the elderly in European Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery -1997

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
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 Comparison of heart and lung transplantation rates between 1994-2004 and 2004-2014: Factors for success of the TN modelAt the 2015 Annual ISHLT Conference, Nice, France April 2015.
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 Heart Transplantation – Mid and Long term results. At the 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons, Hyderabad, India. February 2015.
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Heart –Lung Transplantation for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis with Severe Cor Pulmonale. At the 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons, Hyderabad, India. February 2015.
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 Benchmarking and Outcome Analysis in Cardiac Surgery – The impact of Electronic Health Records. At the 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons, Hyderabad, India. February 2015.

DR Prashant Vaijyanath
Name DR Prashant Vaijyanath
Address of the institution working KOVAI MEDICAL CENTER & HOSPITAL, AVINASHI ROAD, COIMBATORE, TAMIL NADU
Position holding DIRECTOR OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
Contact No. 7708455111 Profile

First Transplant Heart Lungs Heart-Lungs Articles Papers presented
1996 21 2 1 24 16

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
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 FIRST TAVI IN INDIA IN MAY 2010 (PUBLISHED IN IJCTS).
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 First COMPLETELY VIDEOENDOSCOPIC Cardiac surgery with Einstein 3-D vision in India March 2015.
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 First successful ECMO with SMART cannula & CENTRIMAG BLOOD PUMP in India in May 2015.
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 FIRST ROBOTIC MAMMARY HARVEST WITH AESOP ROBOT IN AIIMS IN 1996.
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 YOUNGEST NBE EXAMINER NOMINATED AT THE AGE OF 34.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Hon Consultant The Heart Institute & Zerbini Foundation INCOR,Sao Paulo Brazil.
  •  
 Hon Consultant University of Quito Ecuador.
  •  
 Hon Professor Penang University,Malaysia.
  •  
 INSTRUCTOR, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY ISRAEL.
  •  
 PROFESSOR Razavi Hospital Mashad University of Medical Sciences Iran.
  •  
 PROFESSOR Al Bassel Heart Institute ,Damascus Syria.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 "Aortic valve Repair" : techniques and results – published in the ASIAN ANNALS OF THORACIC & CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, 1994, Vol.2 No.2
  •  
 "Right Ventricular Hemangioma" : published in the INDIAN HEART JOURNAL, 1996, 48:405-406.
  •  
 "Technique of mitral replacement in mitral annular calcification" – accepted for publication in the JOURNAL OF HEART VALVE DISEASES.
  •  
 "Early experience of Ross Procedure" – published in INDIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOTHORACIC & VASCULAR SURGERY, Dec. 1993.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 Surgical treatment of Mediastinal Tumours
  •  
 Invited guest lectures at international meetings : Eurasian Valve Repair Workshop, Annual Frontier Conclave, CME in cardiac surgery, CME in Cardiac pathology.
  •  

Guest speaker in Malaysian Asso of CTVS Oct 2009 meet Kuala Lumpur
  •  
 First Trancath AVR-Course co-ordinator April 24th-25th 2010 Chennai
  •  
 Invited faculty for all Euro-Asian Bridge meetings & Razavi hospital IRAN 2009-2012.
  •  
 Invited faculty for Damascus University 2008,2010.
  •  
 Member (Coronary Heart Disease)/Stroke Strategic Planning committee: AIIMS,April 2000 – 2004.
  •  
 Member of the Control of Infection committee. 2000 – 2016.
  •  
 Member of the Medical Division's Clinical governance committee 2003 – 2009.
  •  
 Member of the Commodity Advisory Panel on Heart Valves.
  •  
 Member of the Critical Care Delivery Group, 2000 – 2012.
  •  
 Member of Coronary Heart Disease Task Force for Cardiac Surgery.

 

SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
  •  
 Member of the Basic Surgical Training Committee, 1996 – to date
  •  
 Member of Higher Surgical Education & Training Committee: 1997 – 2003
  •  
 Member of Surgical Specialties Combined Education & Training Committee 2005 – to date.
  •  
 Training Programme Director for Cardiothoracic Surgical Training: 2005.
  •  
 Regional advisor for Cardiothoracic Surgery Training, 2007.
  •  
 Member of the National Panel for Cardiothoracic Surgery DNBE: 2005.
  •  
 Tutor for Educating Staff Consultants Course-2007.

Dr. R.V. Kumar
Name Dr. R.V. Kumar
Address of the institution working NIZAM’S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, HYDERABAD
Position holding PROFESSOR & HOD CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
Contact No. 9490295022 Profile

First Transplant Heart
2015 3

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 First ever Heart Trasnplantation in a Government Hospital in the State of Telangana
  •  
 Trained 25 batches for MCh Cardiothoracic Surgery
  •  
 Book on Paediatric Heart Diseases : Tiny TOTS and Tender Hearts published by IK– New Delhi
  •  
 First ever book in Paediatric Heart diseases in Telugu – Padilam Padilam Pasi Hrudayam

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Holistic Heart Care Workshops :
  •  
 How to prevent heart disease yourself, Heart Mate
  •  
 Public Awareness Poster Exhibitions on Adult Heart Disease - “Padilam Padilam Prati Hrudayam “
  •  
 Public awareness poster exhibition on children’s Heart Diseases “Padilam Padilam Pasi Hrudayam “

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Mycotic pulmonary artery aneurysm following pulmonary artery banding – “ European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 1994 : 8: 665-666
  •  
 How to prevent heart disease yourself, Heart Mate
  •  
 Total artificial heart – current status Journal of Instruments Society of India 23 (384) – 148 - 151
  •  
 Infero posterior ventricular septal rupture – Repair with maintenance of ventricular geometry. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 1995 : 60 : 719 - 20
  •  
 Mitral valve reconstruction – Early results of modified Cooley’s Technique in 150 patients Texas Heart Institute journal 1992, 19, 107
  •  
 Cusp level chordal shortening in rheumatic mitral regurgitation Texas Heart Institute Journal 1992, 1, 57
  •  
 Reconstructive Surgery of Mitral incompetence International Journal of Progress in Cardiovascular Sciences Vol. No. I , 1993
  •  
 Transoesophageal Echocardiography for Mitral valve reconstruction : Assessment of repair ability and selection of operative procedure Indian Heart Journal, Vol. 43, No.4P. 236
  •  
 Trans Thoracic and Transoesophageal Echocardiography in left atrial appendage clot Indian Heart Journal Vol.43, No.4P. 272
  •  
 Left Atrial spontaneous contrast echo Rheumatic Mitral valve disease : Transoesophageal echocardiographic study Indian Heart Journal Vol.43, No. 4P.275
  •  
 Giant Morgagnian hernia masquerading as pleural effusion Journal of Indian Medical Association 2003
  •  
 Effects of varying external ionic concentrations and permeability ratio on membrane voltage of mammalian cardiac muscle Advances in Biomechanics P 127 - 130
  •  
 Clinico-pathological Study of Thymomas – Correlation of Histological Subtype to Myasthenia Gravis and Prognosis The Clinical proceedings of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences 16- 1-2001.
  •  
 Chapter of Aortic dissection in the book “ ICU protocols a step wise approach “ Edited by Rajesh Chawla and Subhash Todi Published by Springer international First edition 2013
  •  
 Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery arising from pulmonary artery : Reverse remodelling of coronary arteries following translocation operation Indian J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 2012 (2) : 151-152
  •  
 Aortic root enlargement in patients undergoing double valve replacement for rheumatic aetiology : Preliminary results Indian J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 2011 : 27 : 4161 - 164
  •  
 Surgical Exclusion of post-surgical pseudo aneurysm of ascending aorta Annals of Paediatric Cardiology 2014 7 (2)
  •  
 Unusual case of rupture left sinus of Valsalva aneurysm into left ventricular cavity requiring double valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair Indian J Thoracic Cardivasc Surg 2013
  •  
 Pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis : risk factors and predictors of survival Indian J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 2014 : 30 (3) : P 196 - 202
  •  
 Pneumonectomy in the Indian Scenario – a review of current indications and results Indian J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 2015 31(3) P 218 - 223
  •  
 Balloon Mitral valvuloplasty by Antegrade Technique in a post-operative patients who underwent Dacron patch closure of ASD Indian Heart Journal 2006 : 58 : 68 - 70
  •  
 Atrio Ventricular Septal Defect and Tetralogy of Fallot : A 15 year experience, European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery:1997 Vol (12) P171-176

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 Faculty oration on Heart Transplantation at JIPMER, Puducherry on Heart Transplantation during JIPMER foundation day on 13th July 2016
  •  
 Challenges in starting Heart Transplantation Programme in Public Sector Hospitals : at Ahmedabad Heart Failure Conclave on 10.01.2016 as a part of 12 Annual Scientific Symposium during Join International Conference 2016
  •  
 Delivered Dr. KV. Naidu Memorial Lecture Oration on “Surgical approach to aortic aneurysm “ in the Cardiology Society of India, AP Chapter Annual Meeting held at Visakhapatnam on 17 July , 2011
  •  
 Debate on “LMCA stenting vs. CABG” in the Indian College of Cardiology, held at Kolkata on 19.08.2011
  •  
 Debate on “On pump CABG Vs. Off pump CABG “ in the IACTS CME, held at Ludhiana on November 5th & 6th, 2011


ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Executive member Indian Association of Thoracic & Cardio Vascular Surgery between 2012 - 2014 President Faculty Association, Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, 2011 - 2012 Organizing Secretary Thoracic CT CME 2011 on behalf of Indian Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgeons of India Organizing Secretary Controversies in Cardiothoracic Surgery (CT CME) – 2012 Organizing Secretary NIMS Perfusion update November - 2013

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Professor Jaya Shankar Memorial Award for Excellence in Medical Field in State of Telangana, 2nd June 2016 Vaidya Shiromani Award on Doctors Day, 30.06.2008
  •  
 Indira VIKAS Award 2010
  •  
 Indian Gold Star Award 2005
  •  
 Vikas Ratna Shiromani Award 2002

Dr. Shyam K S Thingnam
Name Dr. Shyam K S Thingnam
Address of the institution working
Position holding Professor and Head CTVS Department PGIMER Chandigarh
Contact No. 9478540444 Profile

First Transplant Heart
2013 2

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Establishing large volume centre at PGIMER Chandigarh
  •  
 Large infant and neonate cardiac surgery program

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Meso atrial shunt for Budd Chiary

Dr. Praveen Varma
Name Dr. Praveen Varma
Address of the institution working Professor and Head, Department of Cardio vascular and Thoracic Surgery
Position holding Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi.
Contact No. 9633671289 Profile

First Transplant Heart Articles Papers presented Conferences conducted
2015 3 53 6 5

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Mitral Valve Repair done in Amrita Institute, Kochi
  •  
 Heart Transplantation done in Amrita Institute, Kochi
  •  
 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 International Journal of Cardiology.
  •  
 Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
  •  
 European Journal of Cardio thoracic Surgery.
  •  
 Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia.
  •  
 Indian Journal of Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery
  •  
 Member of Editorial Board - Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia.
  •  
 Professional Memberships in Indian Medical Association and CTS Net.

 

ORGANIZED WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
  •  
 Mitral Valve Repair by Prof Dr Sampath Kumar, All India Institute of medical Sciences-2003.
  •  
 Aortic Root Replacement by Dr Joachim Lass, Bad Bevenson Hospital, Germany- 2003.
  •  
 Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery by Dr Prem Shekhar, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston-2012.
  •  
 Seminar on Heart Failure Surgery by Dr Prem S Shekhar MD, Dr Luigino Nascimben MD, Mr Giovanni Cercere (ACP), BWH, Boston-2012.
  •  
 CME on Amrita Heart Valve Conclave 2015 in Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences- 2015.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Madkaiker AN, Krishna N, Jose R, Balasubramoniam KR, Murukan P, Baquero L, Varma PK. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome Caused by Pacemaker. Ann Thorac Surg 2016;101:2358–61
  •  
 Varma PK, Namboodiri N, Raman SP, et al. Cardiac resynchronization therapy: role of intraoperative real-time-3d transesophageal echocardiography. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth.2015;29: 1365–1375.
  •  
 Varma PK, Krishna N. Risk Stratification in Cardiac surgery. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.2015 ;31:224-233.
  •  
 Abdulsamath MI, Pillai V, Radhakrishnan B, Paniker V, Varma PK, Karunakaran J. A case of rheumatic mitral stenosis with subaortic ventricular septal defect and anomalous right coronary artery from left sinus. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015;31(2): 184-186.
  •  
 Varma PK. Risk assessment scores in cardiac surgery. Ann Card Anaesth 2015;18:170-1.
  •  
 Radhakrishnan BK, Abdulsamath MI, Devarajan S, Panicker VT, Pillai VV, Varma PK, Karunakaran J. Primary Modified Bentall's Procedure in a Case of Laubry-Pezzi Syndrome. Ann Thorac Surg.2014; 98(4):1445-1447.
  •  
 Varma PK, Kundan S, Ananthanarayanan C, et al. Demographic profile, clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting—retrospective analysis of 4,024 patients. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014; 30(4).
  •  
 Varma PK, Suneel PR, Unnikrishnan KP, Simran K,Gadhingladjkar SV. Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography Diagnosis of Concomitant Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Anomalous Insertion of Papillary Muscle Band to Interventricular Septum in a patient for Aortic Valve Replacement. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesthesia. 2014;28(6):e56-8.
  •  
 Varma PK, Namboodiri N, Raman SP, Unnikrishnan KP, Gadhinglajkar SV. Intra-Operative Three Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography Guided Left Resynchronization Therapy. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesthesia. (Case conference).

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 "Heart Team" - Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularization – PIMS, Pondicherry 2011.
  •  
 Syntax Trial- Madras Medical Mission, Chennai - 2012.
  •  

Heart Failure Surgery- Kerala Association of Clinical Perfusion 2012
  •  
 Post-operative care of cardiac surgery patients-Madras Medical Mission.
  •  
 Relevance of Database - Lissie Hospital, Cochin - April 2014.

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Ethicon travelling fellowship
  •  
 Betts fellowship

Dr.V.V Bashi
Name Dr.V.V Bashi
Address of the institution working Institute of Cardiac and Advanced Aortic Disorders ICADD, SIMS Hospital No.1, Jawahar Lal Nehru Salai, Vadapalani, Chennai - 26
Position holding Director - ICADD, Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon, Adjunct Professor, MGR Medical University
Contact No. 9840299552 Profile

Dr Sujay Shad
Name Dr Sujay Shad
Address of the institution working Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060
Position holding Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Director Heart Transplant
Contact No. 9811177891 Profile

First Transplant Heart
2011 1

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Extended Septal Myectomy for HOCM
  •  
 Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for CTEPH
  •  
 Arterial Bypass Grafting

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Development of a new non-thrombogenic mechanical heart valve; funded by the Dept of Biotechnology. Pre-clinical stage.
  •  
 Comprehensive non-profit approach to Medical Tourism; ongoing project

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 High cardiac output by Swan-Ganz catheter after repair of ventricular septal rupture-patch dehiscence or false overestimation? MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia 19 (3), 535
  •  
 Rare subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad Journal of Cardiovascular Echography 26 (3), 106, 2
  •  
 Know the Guard of Coronary Sinus Before Cannulation MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2016
  •  
 Left atrial myxoma with biventricular dysfunction MS Raut, S Shad, A Maheshwari Indian Heart Journal, 2016
  •  
 An Unexpected Right Neck Mass Appearing Before Central Venous Catheter Placement MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad, S Joshi, A Kumar, S Das Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, 2016
  •  
 Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography influences surgery MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad Journal of Cardiovascular Echography 25 (1), 37, 2015
  •  
 Left atrial thrombus-like shadow—real or false MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 30 (2), 186-188, 2014
  •  
 CYP2C9, VKORC1, CYP4F2, ABCB1 and F5 variants: influence on quality of long-term anticoagulation R Nahar, R Saxena, R Deb, R Parakh, S Shad, PK Sethi, P Takkar, ... Pharmacological Reports 66 (2), 243-249, 2014
  •  
 Pulmonary Endarterectomy for CTEPH S Dubey, S Shad, G Shivnani, A Maheshwari, RR Mantri, B Khandpa, ... Indian Heart Journal, S43, 2014
  •  
 Real and pseudo clot in left atrial appendage MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad Annals of cardiac anaesthesia 17 (1), 42, 2014
  •  
 Genetic Bleeding Risk Score (GBRS) for patients on oral anticoagulant therapy R Nahar, IC Verma, R Deb, R Saxena, P Takkar, S Shad, R Parakh, ... International Journal of Genomic Medicine 2013, 2013
  •  
 How standard transesophageal echocardiography views change with dextrocardia MS Raut, A Maheshwari, S Shad, G Rachna Annals of cardiac anaesthesia 16 (3), 218, 2013
  •  
 Left ventricular assist device and combination medical therapy or inducing haemodynamic recovery in end stage dilated cardiomyopathy SK Shad, M Yacoub, E Birks, NR Banner, A Khaghani Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 20 (1), 43-44, 2004
  •  
 Early experience with the Toronto stentless porcine valve K Wong, S Shad, PD Waterworth, A Khaghani, JR Pepper, MH Yacoub The Annals of thoracic surgery 60, S402-S405, 1995

 

SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
  •  
 Charity surgeries - 25% of case volume
  •  
 Heart failure awareness
  •  
 HOCM awarenesss

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Best Doctor Award, 2011. Emedinews and Heart Foundation of India
  •  
 Doctor of the year Award 2012. IMA Delhi

Dr.Anil Bhan
Name Dr.Anil Bhan
Address of the institution working Medanta The Medicity Hospital, Gurgoan,
Position holding Vice Chairman, Department of Cardiac Surgery.
Contact No. +91-9910929993 Profile

Dr. Vijay Agarwal
Name Dr. Vijay Agarwal
Address of the institution working Fortis Hospital Fortis Child Heart Mission Mumbai,India
Position holding Chief Paediatric cardiac Surgeon/Programme Director Department Of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery.
Contact No. 9167275845 Profile

First Transplant Heart
2016 5

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Paediatric Heart Transplant-5 paed Heart Transplant from 3rd jan 2016 till date.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Pioneered the development of first 3D heart model in India to plan surgery and as a better tool of understanding complex congenital anatomy of heart.
  •  
 Paediatric Heart transplant-performed the first paediatric cardiac transplant in the state of maharashtra.
  •  
 Largest Published series of wardens operation and ostium primum repair in adults.
  •  
 Large followup series of CT scan on postop Arterial switches.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 Minimally invasive technique of harvesting saphenous vein using conventional instruments. How to do it. Asian annals of cardiovascular surgery.vol-9,No 3,September 2001. Vijay Agarwal, Nirmal Gupta, S.K Agarwal, A.K Srivastava.
  •  
 Esophagopleural fistula following sponateous rupture of Traction Diverticulum-A rare presentation. Asian annals of Cardiovascular surgery,Vol-11, Dec 2003.Vijay Agarwal, Sushil Singh, Mohd Salman Siddiq, Shekhar Tandon
  •  
 Primary Cardiac Tumour-Surgical experience and follow up, Indian Heart Journal, 2003.55; 632-636. Vijay Agarwal ,S.K Agarwal, Shalini Kapoor, A.K Srivastava
  •  
 Recurrent Coarctation in a Patient With Alagille Syndrome Vijay Agarwal, Ian Ramnarine, Antonio F. Corno, Marco Pozzi. (ICTVS)European Journal Of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dec 2005.
  •  
 Cardiac Diverticulum-report of a case and review of literature. Arjamand Shauq, Vijay Agarwal, Cinzia Crawley, Gordan Gladman, Marco Pozzi. Heart,Lung and Circulation. Aug 2006
  •  
 Giant ascending aortic aneurysm-a Review and a case report.. Vijay Agarwal ,Jay Jaykumar, EniOfo, Shyam Kolvekar Heart Lung Circulation-Oct 2007,Vol 16,Issue 5,Pages-385-388.
  •  
 Factor predicting the progress of Mitral valve disease in surgically operated Ostium primum defects in adults.Vijay Agarwal,Suneil Agarwal and Voleti Chaudary.Journal of Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.2009
  •  
 Window Ductus-Rare entity done under circulatory arrest.Vijay Agarwal,Muslim Mustaev-Annals of paediatric cardiology.2010.\
  •  
 Surgical approach to Blalock shunt.Does the approach matter?Heart Lung circulation.July 2010.Arjamand Shauq,Vijay Agarwal et al.
  •  
 Sternal wound infection following open heart surgery:appraisal of incidence,risk factors,changing bacteriologic pattern and treatment outcome. Kelechi E. Okonta & Mohanraj Anbarasu Vijay Agarwal Valikapathalil M. Kurian & Sethuratnam Rajan Revised: 25 December 2010 / Accepted: 1 January 2011 11 # Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons 2011.
  •  
 Impact of Wardens Procedure on the sinus Rhythm:Our experience.Vijay Agarwal, et al.Heart lung circulation 2011:1-4.
  •  
 Experience with the superior approach for repair of supracardiac TAPVC. IJTCVS March 2016,vol 32,issue1 pp 12-16
  •  
 Anomalous left coronary arising from non facing sinus :modified method of repair.How to do it.Submitted to Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
  •  
 Recombinant- activated factorVII in the paediatric cardiac surgery: single unit experience September-December 2012/vol9/issue3 African journal of paediatric surgery
  •  
 Clinical application and multidisciplinary printing in double outlet right ventricle with remote VSD,Accepted . World journal of paediatric and congenital Heart surgery.may 2016.7(3):344-50
  •  
 MRA based 3D printed heart model-an effective tool in the presurgical planning of double outlet right ventricle. British Journal of Radiology feb 2016.
  •  
 Superior repair: a useful approach for some anantomic variants of TAPVC.African journal of paediatric surgery april-june 2013:10(2):131-4
  •  
 Does wardens procedure reduce sinus node dysfunction after surgery for PAPVC? Interactive cardiovascular thoracic surgery 2012 june

 

SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
  •  
 Website-www.childheartcure.com
  •  
 Congenital heart operations Video Project on You Tube for professionals and parents..
  •  
 International fellowship programme of 1 year to teach and train foreign candidates(postgraduate cardiac surgeons in training) from developing countries from Africa and Asia including India
  •  
 Currently writing a book on heart transplant-JP publishing house..

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Class Assistant prize for Best student in Surgery – 1991 - Calcutta University.
  •  
 Shanks Silver Medal in Clinical Pathophysiology – 1991 - Calcutta University.

Dr.Anand H Subrahmanyam
Name Dr.Anand H Subrahmanyam
Address of the institution working #1, Platform Road, Sheshdripuram, Bengaluru - 560020
Position holding Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Contact No. +91-9916574392 Profile

First Transplant Heart
2015 2

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 First Transplant done in 2015
  •  
 Two Heart Transplants performed

 

Dr.Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Name Dr.Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Address of the institution working Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
Position holding Consultant Cardiothoracic transplant and minimal access surgeon
Contact No. +91-9848045810 Profile

Dr.Murtaza Chishti
Name Dr.Murtaza Chishti
Address of the institution working Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences, Jaipur
Position holding Associate Professor and Chief Cardiac Surgeon
Contact No. 9799035131 Profile

First Transplant Heart Awards
2015 1 3

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Awarded by Chief Minister Of Rajasthan for distinguished service.
  •  
 Awarded for excellence in Cardiac Surgery by Helping Hand Foundation
  •  
 Awarded by Private Hospitals Association Rajasthan For Excellence in Procedural 3 innovation.

DR MILIND HOTE
Name DR MILIND HOTE
Address of the institution working All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Position holding Professor
Contact No. 09811353629 Profile

First Transplant Heart Articles
2014 3 3

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Robotic cardiac surgery - 70 ASD cases

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Contribution in formulation of DGHS guidelines towards Management of Coronary Artery Disease in India ( PCI and CABG) (2014)
  •  
 Contribution towards formulation of specific criteria ( inclusion and exclusion ) for registration of patient for organ transplantation (special reference - heart transplantation NOTTO 2015)
  •  
 Participated in the International CORONARY trial ( Largest randomized surgical trial ever ) leading to team’s publications in the New England Journal of Medicine
  •  
 Basic Research – Creation of an easily reproducible model of rat intubation.
  •  
 Clinical – Creation of a beating model of animal heart (IABP)

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Lamy A, Deveraux PJ, Prabhakaran D, Taggart DP, Airan B, Jain A et al . Off-Pump or On-Pump Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting at 30 Days New England Journal of Medicine 2012; 366:1489-1497 April 19, 2012 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1200388.
  •  
 Hote M, Choudhury M, Raghu MG, Rajasekhar P, Malik V, Airan B . Robotic ASD closure : the initial experience . Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012; 28 ( 4) : 212-5.
  •  
 Hote MP, Garg S, Choudhury M, Raghu MG. Open vertical vein in non obstructed supracardiac TAPVC: merits and fate. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2012; 20(2):114-9.

Dr. Manoj Kumar S P
Name Dr. Manoj Kumar S P
Address of the institution working Apollo hospital, Seshadripuram, Platform road, Bangalore
Position holding Senior Consultant CTVS
Contact No. 9886288350 Profile

Dr. N. Madhu Sankar
Name Dr. N. Madhu Sankar
Address of the institution working Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai - 600 101.
Position holding Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Contact No. Profile

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Fellowship in Heart & Lung Transplantation from St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney ,during – 1996.
  •  
 Cardiac Surgery Specialist Fellowship one year at Westmead Hospital, Sydney in 1997.
  •  
 Member of Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
  •  
 Recipient of Travel Award from Asian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery in 2001.
  •  
 Executive Member of Indian Society of Heart Failure.
  •  
 Involved in Transmyocardial laser revascularization project at MMM, Chennai.
  •  
 First in the country to transport Donor Heart in Commercial airline & perform heart transplantation in 2009.
  •  
 Has visited more than 50 overseas institutions during the last 10 years & presented papers.
  •  
 Has more than 50 publications in Cardiac Surgery in International Journals.
  •  
 Performed the first successful single lung transplant in INDIA in Dec 2011.

Dr.Julius Punnen
Name Dr.Julius Punnen
Address of the institution working Narayana Hrudayalaya, 258/A Bommasandra Industrial Area, Hosur Road, Bangalore – 560099
Position holding Senior Consultant
Contact No. 9980072785 / 9880275730 Profile

First Transplant Heart Lungs Articles Papers Presented Awards
2013 8 2 5 5 1

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Set up a homograft heart valve bank which has issued over a thousand valves free of cost.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Invited speaker at the 9th Annual World Healthcare Congress, Washington DC
  •  
 Invited speaker at the Inaugural IPIHD Innovator/Investor Conference April 2012 Hosted at the Gaylord National Resort, National Harbor, Washington DC.
  •  
 Invited speaker – The Power of Process and “Reverse” Innovation, Bending the Cost Curve: Emerging International Best Practices on February 2nd, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Inferior Mesenteric artery as a free conduit for myocardial revascularization J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg , 1997 : 113 : 210-1
  •  
 Marsupialization of Intramyocardial Left Anterior Descending Artery: A Novel Approach for Easy Access During Revascularization Ann. Thorac. Surg., Dec 2005; 80: 2390 – 2392
  •  
 Aspergillus Niger Causing Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis J Cardiovasc Dis 2005;3(4):181-182
  •  
 Distal Carotid Perfusion in Combined Carotid Endarterectomy and OP-CABG. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2007 Apr ;15 (2):164-6 17387204
  •  
 A novel Treatment for Pulmonary Haemorrhage during Thromboendarterectomy surgery - Annals of Thoracic Surgery: March 2015: Vol 99 pages e77-e78

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 Is Atrial Switch still relevant in treating TGA Invited international speaker at Paediatric Cardiology, Cardiothoracic surgery and Cardiac Anaesthesia Conference at Penang, Malaysia
  •  
 Should we stop at Glenn since the results of Fontan is not very promising Invited international speaker at Paediatric Cardiology, Cardiothoracic surgery and Cardiac Anaesthesia Conference at Penang, Malaysia
  •  
 World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology, Toronto, Canada 2001: Poster on Management of Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and RV dependant coronary circulation
  •  
 At 42nd annual conference of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons, 1996, New Delhi “Pulmonary resections in prone position – breathing life into a dying art
  •  
 Off pump coronary bypass surgery our experience with 320 cases - 51st Annual Conference of Cardiological Society of India December 1999

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Recipient of the Dr. M.R.S. Menon Gold Medal for the Best outgoing student in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery for the year 1996 at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Dr.K. MADHAN KUMAR
Name Dr.K. MADHAN KUMAR
Address of the institution working Apollo Hospitals, Greams Lane off, Greams Road, Chennai - 600006
Position holding Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic, ECMO, VAD & Transplant Surgeon
Contact No. +91-9841389689 Profile

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery, SGH, LONDON.
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 Fellowship in ECMO, VAD and Transplantation, Harefield Hospital, LONDON.
  •  
 Performed significant number of Aortic aneurysm including Aortic dissection.
  •  
 More than 70 ECMO including ECPR. More for respiratory cause-VV ECMO. Saved lives using VA ECMO for poisoning.
  •  
 Interested in non-transplant surgical options in End stage Heart failure.
  •  
 Implanted Short term and Long term LVAD both in London and Chennai.
  •  
 Faculty in significant number of National and International Conferences.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Distinction in Anatomy-1992
  •  
 Gold Medal in Gynaecology-1996
  •  
 MS(General Surgery), DNB(General Surgery), MRCS(Edin), MCh(CTVS), DNB(CTS)
  •  
 Performed significant number of Mediastinoscopies, VATS, Thoracic and Lung surgeries.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Comparison of Heart and Lung Transplantation rates between 1994-2004 and 2004-2014: Facts responsible for the success of Tamilnadu state model: P.R. Thangaraj, J. Amalopavanatham, M. Kuppuswamy, S. Thirugnanasambandam: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation: Vol34, Number 4S, April 2015, S158.
  •  
 Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation(E-CPR) in refractory cardiac arrest after an acute coronary syndrome: A case report: Sitaram AK, Bhaskaran K, Sashidhar Rao, Minal Vora, Madhan Kumar: Applied Cardiopulmonary Physiology, Supplement I - 2014: Vol-18, P-54.
  •  
 Bilateral Lobar Lung Transplantation Using H1N1-Positive Lungs in the presence of Anti-HLA Antibodies. Madhankumar Kuppuswamy, Aron Frederik Popov, Martin Carby, Karen C. Redmond, Bartlomiej Zych, Nandor Marczin, Prashant N. Mohite, Heike Krueger and Andre R. Simon: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2012; 186:108-109.
  •  
 Omental Herniation: A Rare Complication of Vacuum- Assisted Closure of Infected Sternotomy Wound. Philemon Gukopp, Madhan Kumar Kuppuswamy, Antonios Kourliouros and Venkatachalam Chandrasekaran: Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Case Reports in Cardiology, Volume 2012, Article ID 905162, 3 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/905162.
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 Giant Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft Aneurysm. Kuppuswamy M, Hosseini MT, Chandrasekaran V: J Card Surg. May, 2011; Vol 26, Issue 3, page 299.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 "ECMO training Program with Workshop": November,2015, Bengaluru: Scope & Challenges of setting up an Effective ECMO Program.
  •  
 "Society for Heart Failure and Transplantation(SHFT): 2nd Annual Conference": October,2014, Trivandrum: Non-Transplant Surgical Options in Advanced Heart Failure Care.
  •  
 "26th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation": October,2015, Chennai: Outcomes of Veno-Venous ECMO.
  •  
 "SWACELSO 2015": February, 2015, Bengaluru: Infection control in ECMO.
  •  
 K.Madhan Kumar, T.Sunder, Paul Ramesh, MR. Girinath: Surgical procedures in patients on Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation: 61st Annual conference of Indian Association of Cardio-vascular – Thoracic surgeons held at Hyderabad, India, February 2015.

 

SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
  •  
 Secretary, Annapoorani Aachi Trust(Trust to help needy people)
  •  
 Sponsoring Food and Education for two children, Udavum Karangal, Thiruverkaadu, Chennai.

 

Dr Murali P Vettath
Name Dr Murali P Vettath
Address of the institution working MIMS- Malabar institute of Medical Sciences, Calicut
Position holding Chief- Dept of CVTS & Transplantation
Contact No. 9846247089 Profile

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Performed the first OPCAB in Dhaka.Bangladesh in July 1999.
  •  
 Invented the Vettaths Anastamotic Obturator - Patented in 2004.
  •  
 Developed the Vettath’’s blower and blower mister.
  •  
 Developed the Vettath’s-JP cardioplegia device.
  •  
 Developed the Vettath’s Technique of long mammary patch for diffusely deseased LAD
  •  
 Developed the Vettath’s Modification of IABP in OPCAB
  •  
 Developed the SIMS (simple indian made stabilizer) for OPCAB- Sent for patenting

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 He has also conducted live workshops on off pump CABG in Trivandrum, New Delhi, Timosoara (Romania), LIMA (Peru) and Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh city in two hospitals)

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Murali P. Vettath, Et Ismail, Av Kannan and Athmaja Murali(2012). Re-Engineering in OPCAB Surgery, Special Topics in Cardiac Surgery, Cuneyt Narin (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0148-2, InTech
  •  
 Role of intra aortic balloon pump in off pump coronary artery bypass- A Vettath Modification. m.vettath.et.al. World journal of cardiovascular disease,2016,6,188-195 Published online june 2016 in SciRes.
  •  
 Re-engineering in OPCAB—A Vettath’s perspective . World Journal of Cardio vascular Disease. 2013,3,PP. 33-44, DOI: 10.4236/wjcd.2013.34A006 .
  •  
 Vettath’s technique of long mammary patch reconstruction Of a diffusely diseased left anterior descending coronary Artery without endarterectomy on the beating heart Anil D. Prabhu, MCh, Rafeek A. Karim, MCh, Sunil Rajendran, Ismail E. Thazhkuni, PhD, Ranjish A. Thamaran, MS, Kannan A. Vellachami, MD,Murali P.Vettath, MCh. The Heart Surgery Forum #2007-1155 11 (2) P 64-67, 2008 doi: 10.1532/HSF98.20071155
  •  
 Vettath’s blower and blower/mister — a simple device for opcab surgery Murali P Vettath, MD, Kannan A Vellachamy, MD, Rameshwara Talya, MD, Ismail Thazhakuni, MD, Jayaprakash Moothencheri, BSc, Jiji Thomas, BS. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2008;16:76-77.
  •  
 Vettath’s anastomotic obturator — our experience of 269 proximal anastamosis. Vettath, Murali P; Kannan, A.V.; Sheen Peecheeyen, C.S.; Baburajan, A.K.; Vahab, Abdul and Sujith, M.P. (2004). Heart Lung and Circulation, 13. pp. 288-290. Heart Lung and Circulation 2004; 13:288–290.
  •  
 Vettath’s anastomotic obturator: a simple proximal anastomotic device. Murali p Vettath. The heart surgery forum #2003-73305 6 (5), 2003

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 He has delivered guest lectures in 20 (twenty) countries as invited faculty and presented his works in more than 25 (twenty five) countries around the world.
  •  
 He has published numerous papers in National and International Journals.
  •  

Thrombolysis in Prosthetic valve thrombosis
  •  
 Medistinoscopy

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Was nominated for the Techno-College Innovation award for the year 2010 and 2015. He was one of the three surgeons nominated from over 23 innovators who had submitted their innovations to the EACTS (European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery). The nomination was for the Vettath’s Anastomotic Obturator ,in 2010 and for the SIMS(Simple Indian Made stabilizer) in year 2015.
  •  
 Received the UT Tithin raj award in 2015 for revolutionizing cardiac surgery and for his invetions in OPCAB surgery.
  •  
 Received the INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVERS AWARD for HEALTH EXCELLENCE, during the International Achievers Summit at Bangkok 2009.
  •  
 Received the Membership of the National Academy of Medical Sciences – MNAMS, from the National Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in 2009 for his significant contribution towards the advancement of Medical Science.
  •  
 CHIKITSAK RATAN AWARD presented by the Nation’s Economic for Health and Educational Growth, New Delhi for “Excellence in the chosen field of activity”, on the occasion of the 28th National Seminar on “INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS & NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT”, held on 16th Feb 2009 at New Delhi.
  •  
 Diploma in respect of 2000 OUTSTANDING INTELLECTUALS OF THE 21ST CENTURY by the INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL CENTER, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, in Feb 2008
  •  
 Received the GLORY OF INDIA AWARD from the India International Friendship Society on 9th Jan 2008, from Delhi. This is awarded to eminent doctors who have contributed significantly in their field of specialization and who had upheld the glory of India and helped in achieving global friendship.
  •  
 He had received the title of MELVIN JONES FELLOW from the Lions International Foundation for his dedicated and humanitarian services to the people.
  •  
 He has been awarded the PAUL HARRIS FELLOW by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International in the year 2010.
  •  
 Testimony of Honor – "SARVSHRI" - & gold medal for Cardiac Surgery awarded in the year 2003, by the College of Management in collaboration with Indian Council of Management Executives, Special Executive Magistrates/ Officers Society and the Business Executive.
  •  
 THE KNIGHT OF THE MILLENIUM & conferred the title ‘SIR’ and awarded gold medal in Cardiac Surgery for the Year 2004.
  •  
 His name has been included in the 8th Edition of MARQUIS WHO’S WHO IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, 2005 for his invention, which has been published from New Jersey, USA, which is a rare distinction for any one from India. (This is a reference book in more than two thousand libraries around the world.)
  •  
 His name has also been included in the 23RD EDITION OF MARQUIS WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 2005. This will chronicle nearly 45 thousand global leaders in every significant field of endeavor from over 250 nations. These included names like Kofi Annan etc. These books are maintained as reference books in more than 2000 libraries around the world. (Which include Harvard University, Smithsonian Institution, Bank of Italy, Business Week & thousand others).

Dr. Govini Balasubramani
Name Dr. Govini Balasubramani
Address of the institution working
Position holding
Contact No. Profile

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Dr. KEWAL KRISHAN
Name Dr. KEWAL KRISHAN
Address of the institution working Max Superspeciality Hospital 2, Press Enclave Road , Saket New Delhi – 10017
Position holding Program Head, Heart Transplant & Ventricular Assist Devices, Principal Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Contact No. 9650300500,9540500800 Profile

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Involved in 80 ( Did 24 as surgeon)LVADs in USA and did 9 in 1.5 yr in India
  •  
 46 ECMO in last 2 years
  •  
 1000 + adult cardiac surgery especially expertise Redo surgeries & LV Aneurysms
  •  
 Contributed in Technical advancements in LVADs
  •  
 First to publish in literature the benefit of tricuspid annuloplasty in LVADs

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Organised multiple CMEs and national meetings related to transplant, Organ donation and ECMO
  •  
 National trainer for ECMO

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 K Krishan,R Kumar,R Malhotra Resurrection of ECMO in India and the initial experience in cardiorespiratory failure. Presented at ISHLT April, 2014 SanDiego, CA USA
  •  
 K Krishan, R Singh R M Kumar, A Goyal, S Goel R Malhotra Lobectomy on ECMO : A Techanical challenge. Accepted in Asian Society Annual Meeting April,2014 Istanbul,Turkey.
  •  
 K. Krishan, Biju S. Pillai, R. Kumar, Sanjoy Majhi,R. Malhotra. ECMO in India: Pioneering a Road Less Travelled. Presented at Asian Society Annual Meeting April,2014 Istanbul,Turkey.
  •  
 K Krishan,B Pillai, R Singh R M Kumar, A Goyal, S Goel R Malhotra Acute Type A Dissection complicated by Pre-Operative Stroke and ACOM Aneurysm: A Rare Case. Presented at IACTS Feb.2014 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala,India
  •  
 K Krishan, P Singh,T Mehta,,C Mehta,,R Malhotra Large sinus of valsalva pseudoaneurysm communicating with LVOT following surgery for aortic valve endocarditis. Presented at IACTS Feb.2014 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala,India
  •  
 K. Krishan, S. Pinney, A.Nair, D. Adams, A. Anyanwu.Low Incidence of Bleeding after ventricular assist Device Placement in Current Era ( presented in ISRBP Sep 2011 Luosiville KY)
  •  
 K. Krishan, S. Pinney, A. Anyanwu Successful Left Ventricular Assist Device Bridge ToTransplantation In A Patient With End Stage Heart Failure And Human Immunodeficiency Virus( presented in ISRBP 2011 Luosiville KY)
  •  
 K. Krishan, S. Pinney, V. Ramjee, D. Adams, A. Anyanwu. Liberal Use of Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty during Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Does Not Increase Perioperative Risk, accepted in ISHLT 2010, Chicago. 
  •  
 Kewal Krishan, Sean Pinney, Anelechi Anyanwu. Management of Giant Left Atrium in a Patient Facing Mechanical Circulatory Support And Heart Transplantation. Submitted as a Challenging case – ISHLT 2010, Chicago.
  •  
 Kewal Krishan, Sean Pinney, Irina Plotkina, Javier Castillo, Anelechi Anyanwu. Freedom from Rejection after Pulsatile vs. Continuous Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: A Comparative Study -International Society of Rotary Blood Pump-2009, Singapore
  •  
 K. Krishan, M.J. Gandhi, B. Moore, S.R. DeGoey, B.S. Edwards, N.L. Pereira, A.L. Clavell, S.J. Park, N.A. Ploeger, D.V. Miller, C.G.A. McGregor, R.C. Daly. Does the Presence of Recipient Antibodies to HLA Antigens or Positive Pre-Transplant Virtual Crossmatch Predict Rejection after Cardiac Transplant? -ISHLT Boston 2008
  •  
 Kewal Krishan, RM Mathur, Viney Nathani, CP Srivastava .A Study of 35 cases Of Diaphragmatic Hernia -CT Con, 2002 Chennai, India.
  •  
 Kewal Krishan, RM Mathur, Viney Nathani, CP Srivastava. An Experience of 22 Cases of Atrial Myxoma. CT Con, 2002 Chennai, India.

 

PUBLICATIONS
  •  
 Krishan K, Malohtra R.Surgical Management of Heart Failure.Journal of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology :January 2013;220-31
  •  
 K. Krishan, S. Pinney, A.Nair, D. Adams, A. Anyanwu.Low Incidence of Bleeding after ventricular assist Device Placement in Current Era. Artif Organs. 2012;36:746–51
  •  
 K. Krishan, S. Pinney, A. Anyanwu Successful Left Ventricular Assist Device Bridge ToTransplantation In A Patient With End Stage Heart Failure And Human Immunodeficiency Virus ; Artif Organs.2012;1498
  •  
 K. Krishan, S. Pinney, A.Nair, D. Adams, A. Anyanwu. Liberal Use of Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty during Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Does Not Increase Perioperative Risk, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 41 (2012) 213–217
  •  
 Kewal Krishan, Sean Pinney, and Anelechi C. Anyanwu Successful use of continuous flow ventricular assist device in patient with mechanical mitral and aortic valve prosthesis without replacement or exclusion of valves. EJCTS2009
  •  
 Kewal Krishan, Sean Pinney, and Anelechi C. Anyanwu. Management of Giant Left Atrium in a Patient with Mechanical Circulatory Assist Device. Annals of Thoracic surgery 2010.
  •  
 Kewal Krishan JayShree Raikhelkar, Paul Stelzer, Corey Scurlock, Radiological Findings in Chronic Mitral Stenosis accepted in Annals of thoracic Surgery 2009
  •  
 Vijay Kohli, Kewal Krishan “History of cardiac transplantation and its future” a chapter in a book History of Cardiology. 2012;517-19
  •  
 Kewal Krishan, Sean Pinney, and Anelechi C. Anyanwu. Heart Mate ll without Anticoagulant (under review).
  •  
 Meetings Organised: (As an organizing Secretary)

 

Dr. Jayakumar T.K
Name Dr. Jayakumar T.K
Address of the institution working Govt. Medical College, Kottayam
Position holding Professor & Head, Dept. of CVTS
Contact No. 9447355841 Profile

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Started Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery/VATS/Aneurysm Stenting Programme in Govt. Sector
  •  
 Started Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Programme in Govt. Sector
  •  
 Started Surgery for Aortic Aneurysm& Dissection in Govt. Sector
  •  
 Mitral Valve Repair Programme in Govt. Sector
  •  
 Started heart transplant for the first time in State Govt. sector in India

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 P.Rekha, , B. Thomas, J M Pappachan, K P Venugopal, T K Jayakumar, and P Sukumaran, Kerala, India; Tracheal rhinosporidiosis; J ThoracCardiovascSurg 2006;132:718-9
  •  
 T K Jayakumar, P Chandramohan., B Babu,, A Babu; Benign broncho-esophageal fistula in adult- Two case reports; IJTCVS. Esophageal fistula. 2006; 22: 230–232.
  •  
 P.Rekha, M Sajitha, J.M Pappachan, Akash Babu, T.K Jayakumar, P Sukumaran; Acquired Tracheo-esophageal fistula caused by a Denture; Indian Journal of Surgery 2007
  •  
 K. Jayaprakash, Nigil Cletus, T.K. Jayakumar , Raju George ;The masquerading myxoma-Presentationas acute STEMI; Journal of Indian College of Cardiology ( 2 0 1 5 ) 1 –4

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 Life Style Practices, Health Problems And Qol of Clients After CABG – Dr.Jayakumar T.K, Dr.Vinitha V Nair -State Board of Medical Research – Institutional Research Committee, Govt. Medical College, Kottayam
  •  
 Neutrophil/ Lymphocyte Ratio As a Predictor of Morbidity and Mortality After CABG – Dr.Jayakumar T.K, Dr.Vinitha V Nair - State Board of Medical Research –Institutional Research Committee, Govt. Medical College, Kottayam
  •  
 Immediate and Short Term Results After Mitral Valve Repair – Dr. Jayakumar T.K, Dr. Vinitha V Nair - State Board of Medical Research –Institutional Research Committee, Govt. Medical College, Kottayam
  •  
 Quality of Life after Mitral Valve Replacement – Dr. Jayakumar T.K, Dr. Joseph Thomas K, State Board of Medical Research –Institutional Research Committee, Govt. Medical College, Kottayam

 

SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
  •  
 Regular Career orientation programmes for school and college students

 

Rotary International Dist.3211 Award 2010

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Professional excellence award by Lion’s club Dist.324-E4, 2009-10
  •  
 Professional excellence award by JCI India Zone XXII, 2012
  •  
 Rotary Club- PDG Varkey George Memorial award 2012
  •  
 Aravinda Keerti Mudra Award by Aravinda Charitable Society -2015

Dasari Prasada Rao
Name Dasari Prasada Rao
Address of the institution working Indo-US Superspeciality Hospital, Shyamkaran Road, Ameerpet, Hyderabad 500016
Position holding Chairman and Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Contact No. +91 9848050066 Profile

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Established Cardiac Surgical Programmes in Hyderabad and other cities
  •  
 Former President 2006-07, Secretary 1998-2004 Indian Association of Cardiovascularthoracic Surgeons
  •  

Professor of Cardiothracic Sugery
  •  
 Teacher and Examiner for M.Ch Cardiothoracic Surgery

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Former Director, Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences(Medical University), Hyderabad

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Padmashri awardee 2001 Government of India

Dr Bharat Dubey
Name Dr Bharat Dubey
Address of the institution working APOLLO hospitals , Sheshadripuram , Bangalore
Position holding Senior consultant cardiac surgeon& Heart transplant surgeon
Contact No. Profile

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 More than 15000 heart surgeries

Dr.K.Ravi Shankar Shetty
Name Dr.K.Ravi Shankar Shetty
Address of the institution working M.S. Ramaiah Narayana Heart Centre, MSRIT Post, New BEL Road, MS Ramaiah Nagar, Mathikere, Bengaluru, Karnataka -560054
Position holding Senior Consultant and Chief Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon and Prof. Vascular Surgery MS Ramaiah Medical College
Contact No. +91- 9845698104 Profile

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 Congenital Heart Surgery: Regularly performing wide Congenital Heart surgeries, I have performed arterial switch surgeries, TAPVC, shunts etc in neonates. Other surgeries like TOF,Fontan’s surgery etc ASCAPA: i.e. anomalous single coronary artery from the pulmonary artery in 3 month old child was successfully performed by me (on operation table diagnosis) at our centre. This is world’s fifth and Asia’s first successfully operated case in this condition.
  •  
 Heart Failure: Our unit has performed the Maximum number of cardiac transplants in a short span of 6 months with excellent result.
  •  

Manage acute cardiac failure by putting patients on ECHMO, post cardiogenic shock (post coronary stenting),Viral Myocarditis, Drug induced Myocarditis, post cardiac surgery etc.
  •  
 Attended the First Cardio Pulmonary Transplants hands-on workshop conducted by Dr Stephen C Clark (Freeman Hospital New Castle) in 2015.
  •  
 CPET m/c: To access cardiac failure this is the first and only machine available in Karnataka.
  •  
 Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Regularly performing minimally invasive cardiac surgery –Mitral valve repair, Aortic/Mitral valve replacement, Aortic root enlargement, ASD and CABG.I had been to Leipzig Heart Centre, Germany on observership in June 2014.
  •  
 Aortic Aneurysm Surgery: Ascending, arch and descending Aortic surgery performing 10 surgeries a year for the last 7 years
  •  
 Beating Heart CABG

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Secure First rank in MS General Surgery Sept 2000: Rajiv Gandhi Health University, The biggest and the first health university in the country.
  •  
 I Prize in paper presentation Surgical Society of Bangalore– Surgical management of thyroid malignancy June 1998.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Anomalous Origin Of Single Coronary Artery From Pulmonary Artery: Serendipitous Diagnosis And Successful Surgical Treatment. – World Journal For Pediatric And Congenital Heart Surgery 2015, Vol: 6(1)108-110.
  •  
 Ectatic Coronary Arteries in a Patient with Noonan Syndrome on Transesophageal Echocardiography. - Ann Cardiac Anesthesia 2014;17:139-140

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
  •  
 Extended usage of IABP – Indications and outcomes – IACTS
  •  
 Facile Minimally Invasive Radial Artery Harvesting with a regular OT equipment ( A Laryngoscope) – IACTS
  •  

Comparison of posteriobasal LV functions between posterior leaflet preservation and complete subvalvar preservation during MVR Indian Association of Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgeons Conference.
  •  
 Homologous transfusion less routine cardiac surgery – is it possible? -IACTS
  •  
 “LA function after electrocautery maze in MVR in Rheumatic Heart Disease” – IACTS
  •  
 “LVOT obstruction due to sub aortic membrane and mitral accessory tissue – a case report” –IACTS

 

SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
  •  
 On nomination from the Honorable Governor of Karnataka, served as a Member in the Senate of the Health University of Karnataka (Two terms-6 years), which is responsible for setting and regulating standards of Health care education in the state.
  •  
 Elected to the Syndicate of RGUHS, and have been part of many committees there.
  •  

Responsibility of rejuvenating HELINET, e-library of RGUHS as the Chairman of the review committee with a budget of Rupees 10 crores which caters to 50 Medical colleges, 40 dental colleges and 800 other paramedical colleges listed under RGUHS.
  •  
 A sizeable proportion of the surgeries that I do are on patients who come under government insurance schemes for the underprivileged like Suvarana Arogya Chaithanya (for school children), Vajpayee Arogya Shree (for Below Poverty Line card holders) & Yeshasvini (for farmers) health schemes.

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  •  
 Awarded 1st Rank in M.S. General Surgery – Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences – year 2000
  •  
 Prize in paper presentation Surgical Society of Bangalore– Surgical management of thyroid malignancy June 1998.

Dr Rajesh Ramankutty
Name Dr Rajesh Ramankutty
Address of the institution working Caritas heart Institute, Caritas Hospital, Kottayam, Kerala
Position holding Chief Cardiothoracic transplant and Minimal Access Surgeon
Contact No. 9846005737 Profile

First Transplant Heart
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ACHIEVEMENTS IN CARDIAC SURGERY
  •  
 2014 – Performed the First Heart Transplant in the country in a TIER III city at Caritas Heart Institute Kottayam,Kerala., Second Heart Transplant Surgeon in the state of Kerala
  •  
 2013 – Pioneered in the state of Kerala the technology of temporary artificial heart and lung support (ECMO) which could save many precious lives from the brink of death and lead Caritas Heart Institute to be the apex center for ECMO in Kerala
  •  
 2012 – Team Leader to establish the First Hybrid Cath - lab/ Operating room in South India at Caritas Hospital Kottayam and doing procedures which involve both Cardiologist and Cardiac surgeons simultaneously

 

ACHIEVEMENTS IN OTHER MEDICAL FIELDS
  •  
 Medical School Anatomy Instructor, Cleveland Clinic USA (2008 – 2010).

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED
  •  
 Sandeep Chauhan, Akshay Bisoi*, Rakesh Modi, Parag Gharde & M.R. Rajesh. Transexamic acid in Pediatric cardiac surgery. Indian J Med Res 118, August 2003, pp 86-89
  •  
 Sachin Talwar, MCh, Manithara Raman Rajesh, Anandaraja Subramanian, DM, Anita Saxena, DM, Arkalgud Sampath Kumar, MCh.Mitral Valve repair in children with Rheumatic heart disease.J Thorac Cadiovascular Surg 2005 Apr; 129: 875-879
  •  
 Akshay Kumar Bisoi, Manithara Raman Rajesh, Sachin Talwar, Sandeep Chauhan,Ruma Ray and Panangipalli Venugopal . Mitral stenosis after Duran ring annuloplasty for non- rheumatic mitral regurgitation--a foreign body response? Heart Lung Circulation 2006,15(3):189-90
  •  
 Gosta B. Pettersson, Rajesh M. Ramankutty Repair of bicuspid aortic valve with severe regurgitation. MMCTS (October 12, 2010)
  •  
 TurkiB.Albacker,MD, RajeshRamankutty,MD, EricE.Roselli,MD Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation .CTSNET Endovascular portal 05-October-2010
  •  
 Rajesh Ramankutty , Turki B. Albacker .,Karl G. Reyes .,Jose L.Navia .Successful management of a posterior Saccular Coronary artery aneurysm at the left main coronary artery bifurcation. .J Card Surg Jan 2011,Vol 26(1):37-39.
  •  
 Book title:Redo cardiac surgery in adults, Section Title: Redo Aortic valve and Aortic section,Chapter title: Prosthetic Aortic Valve and Root Endocarditis. VR Machiraju , Hartzell V Schaff, Lars G Svensson. : 2 October 2010.
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 Reconstruction of fibrous skeleton; Technique, Pitfalls and Results. Gosta B Pettersson, Syed T Hussain, Rajesh M Ramankutty, Bruce W Lytle and Eugene H. Blackstone. June 18 2014 MMCTS.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED
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 “Commando operation”-difficult but achievable in double valve prosthetic endocarditis with acceptable morbidity and mortality. 2010,Cleveland Clinic Valve symposium.
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 Transapical Cannulation for acute Type A aortic dissection.2014 Aortic symposium GKNM Coimbatore.
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 ECMO-experience at Caritas, a case series of 20 cases, Mumbai 2015
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 Heart transplantation Challenges and Alternatives.2016.TRIATOM

 

RECOGNITION & AWARDS
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 1992 – Best Outgoing Graduate of Medical College Trivandrum.
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 1997 – Gold Medal in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College Trivandrum. Selected for Gold medal in Pathology, General Surgery, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
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 2002 – Gold Medal in General Surgery Residency, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
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 2009 – Dr. Charles H. Bryan Annual Clinical Excellence Award in Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland clinic,USA
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 2010 – Dr. Blackstone Annual Research Team Award – Cleveland Clinic, USA

Dr. S. Rajan MS, MCh
Name Dr. S. Rajan MS, MCh
Address of the institution working Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (ICVD) The Madras Medical Mission (MMM), Chennai
Position holding Director – Cardiac Surgery, Secretary – IACTS
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ACHIEVEMENTS
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 Performed more than 15000 cardiac surgeries.
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 Took the initiative in setting up teams and doing Heart Transplants and performed nearly 5- 6 heart transplant per year.
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 Recipient of Chiles Foundation Fellowship to visit various Cardiac Centres in U.S and U.K – March – June 1990
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 Recipient of Melvin Jones Millenieum award instituted by the Lions club of chennai in September 2004
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 Trained in John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, U.K, Birmingham children`s hospital, U.K and St. Vincent hospital, Portland, Oregon, USA
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 Have done more than 50 National and International publications
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 Conducted free cardiac screening camps organised by MMM. Conducted more than 40 camps in the last 10 years.
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 Founder Chairman of National Heart Foundation (NHF), a charitable trust, which helped more than 915 patients to undergo cardiac treatment in the last six years. Recipient of many awards from various Lions and Rotary Clubs for philanthropic work.
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 Elected as Secretary of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS) for the term 2013-2016 & 2016-2019. Served as an Executive Member for 3 years in IACTS Executive Committee, and Organising Secretary of CTCON 2011 in Chennai.
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 Member of STS, EACTS and Pediatric cardiac society of India.

Dr.G.Rama Subrahmanyam
Name Dr.G.Rama Subrahmanyam
Address of the institution working CARE Hospital, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
Position holding Chief Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Contact No. +91-9849021975 Profile

Dr.Jose Chacko Periappuram
Name Dr.Jose Chacko Periappuram
Address of the institution working Lisie Hospital, Kochi, Kerala
Position holding HOD Cardiac Surgery
Contact No. +919847043224 Profile

Dr.P V Rao
Name Dr.P V Rao
Address of the institution working Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore
Position holding Senior Cardiac Surgeon
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Dr.K R Balakrishnan
Name Dr.K R Balakrishnan
Address of the institution working Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai
Position holding Director - Cardiac Sciences and Chief Transplant Surgeon
Contact No. +91 9840033364 Profile




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