Specializations :

• Fellowships in cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery including heart transplant from Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, U.S.A

• Senior Registrar heart transplant and cardiac surgery at Harefield Hospital,

• Harefield, London, UK under Prof. Magdi Yacoub.

Achievements :

• One of the best Cardiac Surgeons in the country, he has performed over 6000 open-heart surgeries.

• He is one of the pioneering cardiac surgeons in India in use of arterial conducts for bypass grafting, Redo coronary artery bypass grafting, severely damaged hearts and cardiac remodeling.

• He performs more than 99% bypass surgeries by beating heart technique and most bypass surgeries using arterial conduits only, which is far superior to conventional use of vein grafts from leg.

• He has one of the safest records in the world with a mortality of less than 0.5% in isolated coronary bypass surgeries for last 5 years.