Director – Consultant Cardiac Surgeon Director – Heart-Lung Transplant
Progranne and Mechanical Circulatory (MCS) Programme Marengo CIMS Hosp ita l, Ahmedabad
Education
MB, MS, MCh (CVTS), FICS
Experience
- Experience of More than 22 years Experience of over 13000 Open Heart Surgeries
- First to perform Trans Aortic Transcatheter
- Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) in India First in Gujarat to perform Heart Transplant Surgery. Successfully performed 46
- Heart Transplants
- First in India to do Hybrid CABG
Expertise
- Adult Cardiac surgery
- Total Arterial Bypass surgeries Valve repair and Replacements Aortic Surgeries
- Stent infection surgeries Heart failure Surgeries Complex Cardiac surgeries
- MINIMALLY Invasive cardiac surgery TAVI
- TAVAR
Awards
- Part of Pioneering Team in India in developing Surgical Ventricular Restoration and Heart Failure Surgery.
- Member of Workforce Committee of Government of Gujarat for Formation of Transplant Program
Fellowship
I Observership Observership in Heart Transplant & Artificial Heart at UPMC University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA Pioneer in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) in Western India
Trained in Mitral Valve Repair under Dr. Alain Carpentieur and Dr. Phan at Alain Carpentieur Foundation Hospital, Vietnam.
Fellowship Course in Minimally Invasive Surgery at Leipzig Heart Institute, Germany under Dr.Friedrich Mohr Trained in TAVI procedure & has successfully performed 23 TAVI as a part of Heart Team Approach
Member of Workforce Committee of Ministry of Health, Government of India & ICMR for “STG” Guidelines for Cardiac Surgery for India