Our Faculty

• Pediatric and congenital heart surgery
• Preterm and low birth weight open heart surgery
• Pediatric valve repairs
• Pediatric minimally invasive and cosmetic heart surgery
• Complex single ventricle palliation including AV valve repairs, PA rehabilitation, and unifocalization of systemic veins for Fontan operation
• Complex biventricular conversions
• Adult congenital heart surgery

• Associate Professor at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi from (2020 – Present)
• Assistant Professor at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi from (2015 – 2020)
• Observership at the University of California, San Francisco, USA for open heart surgery in Preterm and low birth weight children. (2018)
• Fellow in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore from (2013 – 2015)
• Senior Registrar in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore from (2013)
• Senior Resident in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from (2010 – 2012)
• Senior Resident in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi from (2009)
• Resident Post Graduate in General Surgery at Osmania Medical College and Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh from (2006 – 2009)
• Resident Intern in Various specialties (Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Skin, ENT, Psychiatry, Casualty, Anaesthesia, Orthopaedics, Community Medicine, Ophthalmology) at Teaching Hospitals attached to Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore (2004 – 2005)

Pre-University:

• Selected for the Indian National Biology Olympiad and the Indian National Chemistry Olympiad, for training at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, in 1999.
• Ranked 4th in the Karnataka state level entrance examination for Medical Courses in 1999.
• National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) scholar in the year 1997.

University and Post-Graduate Education:

• College Gold medals in Physiology and Paediatrics at Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore.
• University Gold Medalist in Paediatrics.
• University 2nd Rank in 1st MBBS
• Won third place in free paper presentation at the annual conference of the Andhra Pradesh chapter of the Association of Surgeons of India (APASICON) in 2007 at Vishakapatnam, AP.
• Won first place in the state-level surgical quiz contest held at the APASICON 2008, Secunderabad, AP.

• Thesis: “Effect of Feracrylum on Wound Healing”. Accepted for M.S. General Surgery examination of NTRUHS University, 2006.
• “Effect of Plasma Testosterone Levels on Female Hair Distribution and Quantity”. 2002, as a Research Studentship sponsored by the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi (Ref. No. 21/77/2002 BMS). Guide: Dr. S. Sachidanand, MD, DVD, DHA, Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology, STD and Leprosy, Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore.

• “Current Experiences with Endovascular Aneurysm Repair at Sree Chitra Institute”. Paper presentation at the 57th annual meeting of The Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons: CTCON 2011 held at Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• “Surgery for Sub-mitral Aneurysms, our Recent Experiences”. Poster presentation at the 58th annual meeting of The Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons: IACTS 2012, held at Kolkata, West Bengal.
• “Surgery for ALCAPA in Children: Midterm Results with Special Attention to the Mitral Valve”. Paper presentation at the 58th annual meeting of The Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons: IACTS 2012, held at Kolkata, West Bengal.
• “ A novel technique of TAPVC repair during stage 1 palliation of single ventricle decreased pulmonary blood flow physiology”. Poster presentation at the 60th annual meeting of The Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons: IACTS 2014, held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
• “New Valve Sparing Technique for Tetralogy of Fallot Repair” poster to be presented at the 7th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, July 2017.

Other Presentations

• “Haemangioma of the Liver”. Paper presentation at the 29th Annual Conference and South Zone Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India- A.P. Chapter: APASICON 2006,8th-10th September, held at Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh.