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Professional Experience & Fellowships

• September 2018 - January 2022: First Cardiovascular Surgeon in the Indian Subcontinent to hold the position of Senior Associate Consultant at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
• July 2014 - June 2015: Clinical Fellowship, Advanced Cardiac Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
• July 2015 - June 2016: Clinical Fellowship, Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• July 2016 - June 2017: Clinical Fellowship, Advanced Aortic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• July 2017 - June 2018: Clinical Fellowship, Heart & Lung Transplant, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

• Vishal Khullar, MS, MCh, Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, Joseph A Dearani, MD, Richard C. Daly, MD, Kevin L. Greason, MD, Lyle D. Joyce, MD, PhD, and Alberto Pochettino, MD. Open Surgical Repair Remains the Gold Standard for Treating Aortic Arch Pathology. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017; 103:1413-1420, Presented in STS Meeting 2016, Phoenix, Arizona.
• Κhullar V, Kevin LG, Sandhu G, Pislaru SV. Repeated Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Insertion. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016; 101:746-747.
• Shinya Unai, MD, Vishal Khullar, MD, Haythem Elgharably, MD, Jose L Navia, MD. ECMO as a Bridge to Re-operative Cardiac Surgery in a Patient with Cardiogenic Shock and Severe Aortic Insufficiency Due to an Acute Aortic Valve Homograft Failure. The Heart Surgery Forum July 2019; 22(4): E281-E282.
• Borde D, Gandhe U, Hargave N, Khullar V, Pandey K. The application of European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II (Euro SCORE II) and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) risk-score for risk stratification in Indian patients undergoing Cardiac Surgery. Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia 2013; 16:163-6.
• Mishra DK, Khullar V, Gautam S, Khullar T. Isolated Supra-Valvular Aortic Stenosis with Infective Endocarditis presenting as Pyrexia of Unknown Origin. Journal of The Association of Physicians of India 2017; 65:104-106.
• Abdelsattar ZM, Elsisy MF, Schaff H, Stulak J, Greason K, Pochettino A, Arghami A, Rowse P, Bagameri G, Khullar V, Daly R, Cicek S, Dearani J, Crestanello J. Comparative Effectiveness of Mechanical Valves and Homografts in Complex Aortic Endocarditis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 Mar; 111(3):793-799 Epub 2020 Sept 02.
• Pahwa S, Lee G, Tchantchaleishvili V, Weber M, Khullar V, Daly R, Schumer E, Rosenbaum A, Schettle S, Behfar A, Stulak J. Functional outcomes not significantly impacted by Hemocompatibility-Related Adverse Event Burden among Different Devices. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant. 2020 Apr; 39(4S): S439-440 Epub 2020 Mar 30.
• Schumer EM, Khullar V, Daly RC, Behfar A, Stulak JM. The Fallout of Heart Allocation System Changes: Practice Patterns and Landscape of the Recipient. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant. 2020 Apr; 39(4S): S270 Epub 2020 Mar 30.
• Schumer EM, Khullar V, Daly RC, Behfar A, Stulak JM. The impact of the new heart allocation system: Is Donor-Recipient Mismatch Still Clinically Important? Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant. 2020 Apr; 39(4S): S269 Epub 2020 Mar 30.
• Schumer EM, Khullar V, Pochettino A, Saddoughi Sahar, Kennedy C, Daly RC. Short and Long Term Outcomes for Scleroderma Related Lung Transplantation: An analysis of the UNOS Database. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant 2021 Apr, volume 40, S368-369.
• Khullar Vishal, Kukbin Choi, and Kevin Greason. Post-infarction ventricular septal defect with cardiogenic shock: peripheral veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenator as a bridge to surgery. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 38.3 (2022): 317-320.