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Has been practicing for 20 years and has performed more than 4500 surgeries. He has held the following positions overseas:

Overseas Positions

• Senior Registrar - Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at The University Hospital – Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc (U.C.L), Brussels, Belgium
• Registrar – Cardiothoracic Surgery – Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
• Registrar – Cardiothoracic Surgery at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Area Of Interest

• Total Arterial Revascularization with Beating Heart Bypass using LIMA – RIMA – Y Graft
• Redo – Coronary Surgery
• Mitral Valve Repair and Reconstruction
• Aortic Root Surgeries and Aortic Valve Repair
• Aortic Dissections
• Cardiac Transplantation

Notable Achievements

• Performed the first awake bypass surgery in Western India on 1 May, 2005
• Performed a few awake mitral valve replacements
• Demonstrated live beating heart surgery at the Nagoya Tokushukai General Hospital in Nagoya, Japan – September 2000
• Demonstrated live beating heart surgery with LIMA–RIMA–Y Graft at the Wroclaw Medical University Hospital, in Wroclaw, Poland – April 2004

Professional Experience

• Lecturer in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery – King Edward Memorial (K.E.M.) Hospital, Mumbai
• Registrar - Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery – K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai
• Registrar - General Surgery and Accident & Emergency (Trauma) Surgery - Dr. R. N. Cooper Hospital, Mumbai
• Senior House Officer - General Surgery - Dr. R. N. Cooper Hospital, Mumbai
• Senior House Officer – Accident and Emergency (Trauma) Surgery - Dr. R. N. Cooper Hospital, Mumbai
• House Officer - Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery - K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai
• House Officer - General Surgery - K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai
• Rotating Internship - K.E.M. Hospital and Dr. R. N. Cooper Hospital, Mumbai

Publications

• Delayed Presentation of Pericardial Pseudocyst Following Blunt Chest Trauma - The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon - Vol. 38, No. 3, June 1990.
• Abdominal Cocoon Causing Small Bowel Obstruction - Indian Journal of Surgery - Vol 52, No. 1, (35–36), January 1990.
• Unusual Foreign Body Around the Penis - Indian Journal of Surgery - Vol. 49, No. 8, (357–358), August 1987.
• Ruptured Pseudoaneurysm of Cervical Internal Carotid Artery in a Child - Journal of Postgraduate Medicine - Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, (225–228), 1991.
• A Pitfall of Selective Coronary Angiography - Dual Anterior Descending Arteries in Tetralogy of Fallot - Indian Heart Journal - Vol. 43, No. 2, (113–115), 1991.
• Diuresis in Hemodynamically Compromised Patients - (Letter) - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - Vol. 55, No.3, (585), 1991.
• Double Orifice Mitral and Tricuspid Valves in Association with the Raghib Complex - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - Vol. 55, (1001–1002), 1993.
• Intrapericardial Teratoma Presenting with Recurrent Cardiac Tamponade in a Neonate - The Australasian Journal of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery - Vol. 2, No. 3, (145–147), November 1993.
• Internal Mammary Artery for Arterial Pressure Monitoring in Pediatric Cardiac Operations - (Letter) - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.