Education

• M.B.B.S – Rajah Muthiah Medical College, Annamalai University ; 2004 – 2010
• M.S. (General Surgery) – Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai – 2010-2013
• M.Ch (Cardiothoracic Surgery) – Madras Medical College, 2013-2016

Professional Work

• Senior Consultant, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road Chennai
• Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital & Madras Medical College, Chennai
• Director, Respiratory Research Foundation of India, Chennai

Publication and Award

• Won the Thoracic Surgery Quiz at IACTS Midterm Thoracic CME at Vellore held in 2014.
• Was a part of the first Asian team to win the ESTS Masters Cup an international quiz competition in thoracic surgery which was held at Portugal in the year 2015
• Recipient of the Susheela Santosham Gold Medal for Cardiothoracic Surgery from Government of Tamil Nadu for the year 2016.

Professional Achievements

• Trained in cardiac surgery and thoracic surgery at Madras Medical College, Chennai.
• Instrumental in establishing VATS in the public sector hospital in Tamilnadu
• Performed over 400 major thoracic procedures at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
• Instrumental in establishing the Robotic Thoracic Surgery Program at Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai in September 2022
• Performed the first Uniportal Robotic Thoracic Surgery in South India in November 2022 and our team has completed over 20 uniportal robotic
• thoracic surgeries.

Area Of Expertise

• Uniportal VATS
• Uniportal Robotic Thoracic Surgery,
• Complex Airway surgery
• Mediastinal Tumours