Present Designation

• Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon,SIMS Hospitals & Sooriya hospital, Chennai, India.

Work Experience

• After graduating from Governement Medical College Hospital which had 1500 inpatient bed facilities, I joined Sri Ramachandra University Hospital as an assistant professor. I had the privilege of working with great surgeons who helped me to shape up career in my initial days. We performed the entire spectrum of cardiac surgery from neonates to octogenarians. Our paediatric cardiac surgery work included Intra cardiac repair , Fontan and Arterial switch procedure. We were an active centre for Paediatric ECMO. We have performed Minimally invasive procedures for ASD , Valve diseases and CABG. I was part of the Heart transplant team.

• Children’s Hospital ,Boston.USA. March& April 2016.

• European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons
• Indian Association of Cardiovascular & thoracic Surgeons
• Vascular Society of India
• Association of Surgeons of India
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK.

• National Board of Examinations.

• Gold Medal in MCh Cardiothoracic Surgery ,Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University
• Reeve Betts Fellow , IACTS 2015
• Finalist , Best Surgical Team , BMJ awards- British Medical Journal
• AATS Graham Foundation – Every Heartbeat matters Award 2017 by American Association of Thoracic Surgery.

Publications:

• Primary undiffenrentiated Mediastinal Liposarcoma weighing 5.5 Kg, Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic annals, May 2016
• Spontaneous rupture of Right atrial aneurysm, Annals of Thoracic Surgery,Jun 2015
• Anaesthetic Challenges in Cardiac Interventional Procedures WJCS Nov 2014
• Lower ministernotomy and fast tracking in atrial septal defect, Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, Jan 2010.
• A rare association of Tetralogy of fallot with congenital Bronchiectasis,Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, Jan 2010.
• Early extubation in tetralogy of fallot patients after complete repair, Cardiology in the young, 2011.
• Adult Coarctation of aorta with post-stenotic calcified aortic aneurysms, Ann Thorac Surg.2011.