Qualification

• MBBS
• MS (General Surgery)
• MCh. (CTVS) - AIIMS
• Training in ventricular assist devices at Philadelphia, USA

Experience

Current Post:

Sr. Consultant & Director and Heart Transplant Surgeon, Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, BLK Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi

Previous Experience:

• Chief Cardiac Surgeon - Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre, New Delhi
• Sr. Consultant- Cardiac Surgeon at Devki Devi Max Heart & Vascular Institute
• Faculty of AIIMS as Assistant Professor CTVS

Transplant Experience:

• Heart Transplant Surgery now being done at BLK Super Speciality Hospital
   
• Assisted the first and subsequent 10 Heart Transplant of India at AIIMS, New Delhi
• Was Incharge of Donor management at AIIMS, New Delhi
• Received training in Ventricular Assist Device (Artificial Heart at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA)

Awards and Achievements

He performed approximately 3000 cardiac procedures at AIIMS, and now has a total experience of more than 9000 cases. He is a versatile surgeon and operates CABGs, Valve repairs and replacements and complex congenital heart disease with equal ease. He assisted the first 10 heart transplants of the country at AIIMS and was actively involved in the cardiac transplant programme as in charge of donor management.

• Performed successful beating heart bypass on the oldest patient in India. 96 years old Mr. J. C. Mehta from New Delhi
• Performed the first “awake” CABG north of Delhi.
• Endovascular therapy for Aortic Aneurysms.
• Aortic Aneurysm Surgery and Hybrid Procedures.
• Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects.
• Re - Do Valve and Bypass surgery
• Complex Peripheral Vascular and LIMB Salvage Surgery