Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore has become synonymous with the best in cardiac care and services for adults and children alike, around the world. The Cardiac service is just one such area where Narayana Hrudayalaya believes it can extend specialized and competent services. Today, Narayana Hrudayalaya plays host to areas of Neurosciences, organ Transplants, Gastroenterology, Total Pediatric Care in Narayana Children’s Hospital and much more. It is the one of the many steps NH is taking to provide complete, expert and holistic treatment to the millions of afflicted individuals in need of treatment by super specialists at an affordable cost.

DOCTORS AT NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA

Some of the world’s most experienced in their respective fields are with Narayana Hrudayalaya to join in the mission of caring. Needless to say, they have graduated, practiced at the best hospitals of India and from US, UK, Australia, and other parts of the world.

- DR. DEVI PRASAD SHETTY

Education and Qualification

- MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
- MS (General Surgery) from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
- Trained in Cardiac Surgery at West Midlands Cardio-Thoracic Rotation
  Program between Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry and East Birmingham Hospital,
  Birmingham followed by appointment at Cardio-Thoracic unit, Guys Hospital,
  London from 1983 to 1989.
- Professor of International Health – University of Minnesota Medical School,     
  USA.
- Professor, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, Bangalore

Languages Spoken: Tulu, Kannada, English, Hindi, Bengali

 Contribution to Cardiac surgery

- In 1990, Dr. Shetty became the first surgeon in India to conduct Neonatal open
  heart surgery by performing open-heart surgery on a 9 day old baby.

- He performed Asia’s first dynamic cardio-myoplasty operation to strengthen
  the weak heart muscle using the chest wall muscle.

 - For the first time in India, he used a left ventricular assist device to temporarily
   support a failing heart.
- He is one of the few surgeons in the world to use a microchip camera to   
   perform keyhole heart surgery.

- He has one of the largest experiences in the world in performing bypass-
  grafting operation on a beating heart.

- Dr. Shetty and his team made Narayana Hrudayalaya a post graduate training
  institute by conducting various training programs to train adult and paediatric
  cardiologists and surgeons along with cardiac anaesthetists and intensivists
  and offer degrees in these super specialties under National Board of
  examination, Delhi, and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Health Sciences, Bangalore.

Contribution to the field of Medicine

- Dr. Shetty and his team have performed over twenty thousand major heart
  surgeries out of which 8000 operations were on children, many of them new
  born babies.

- Dr. Shetty and his team have built 4 of the largest heart hospitals in India –
  B.M. Birla Heart Research Centre, Kolkota in the year 1989, Manipal Heart
  Foundation, Bangalore in the year 1997. Subsequently, they launched a social
  welfare organization called Asia Heart Foundation, which built East India’s
  largest Heart hospital – The Rabindranath Tagore Institute of Cardiac
  Sciences, Kolkota and a 780-bed heart hospital project in Bangalore called
  Narayana Hrudayalaya.

- To help poor heart patients in rural areas, Dr. Shetty and his team set up one
  of the world’s largest chains of coronary care units in association with the
  Indian Space Research Organization and various State Governments. These
  coronary Care units are based in places like Tripura, Siliguri, and Bankura in
  West Bengal; Tinsukia of Assam and Chamarajanagar, a tribal belt of
  Karnataka. The Telecardiology Network is connected to countries like
 Germany and Malaysia.

-This tele-cardiology network has treated over sixteen thousand patients, 
  entirely free. 

- Dr. Devi Shetty and his team helped the Department of Cooperative Societies,
  Karnataka State, launch Yeshaswini Health scheme for 17 lakh farmers of
  Karnataka State. Members of this scheme are eligible for free medical
  consultation and free surgeries. In the last 18 month, over 20,000 people
  underwent free surgeries. Now this scheme is on the verge of becoming a
  nationwide program.

- Currently Dr. Shetty and his team run Rotary Narayana Sankar Nethralaya, a
  super specialty eye hospital in association with Sankar Nethralaya, Chennai,
  for the working class and poor patients of eastern India.

Awards:       
- Rajyotsava Award – 2002
- Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award – 2003
- Ernst & Young – Entrepreneur Of The Year – 2003
- Padmashree – 2003
 - Dr. B C Roy Award – 2004
 - Citizen Extraordinaire, Rotary – 2004
-  India Innovation Award – 2004, By NDTV &  EMPI (Awarded to      Micro
   Health Insurance Division)
- Social Entrepreneurship Award – World Economic Forum - 2005                       

Mission: Dr. Shetty and his team have a mission to make healthcare
                affordable to the masses
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DR. COLIN NOEL JOHN
Senior consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Professor and Head, Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore
Qualifications: M.B.B.S., Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MS, Master of Surgery, General Surgery, F.R.A.C.S., Fellow of Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr. Colin John PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cariothoracic Experience

During my training and the years since qualifying as Cardiothoracic Surgeon, from the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, I have been involved in over eight thousand open, a fifteen hundred closed and five hundred thoracic surgical procedures. This experience has been gained as Assistant Surgeon, supervised surgeon, independent surgeon and as surgeon supervising surgical trainees and junior surgeons, Neonatal, infant Paediatric and adult subsets formed the patient population, valvular, coronary, arrhythmia and the simple to the most complex congenital procedures comprised the surgeries performed. This experience was gained during tenure in the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, super specialized centres in Adelaide and Sydney, Australia, The Manipal Hospital and Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore.

Dr. Colin John list of Publications

+ Cutaneous Innervation of Dorsum of the Hand, Antomical adjuncts, Vol. 1,
   Vol.7 1988, 13-19
+ Aneurysms complication patch aortoplasty for coarctation of aorta. Australia 
   and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1989, September (59) 748-750
+ Closed commisurotomy for mitral stenosis – obsolete or relevant, Indian
   Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Vol. 7; 8-12, 1991.
+ Early and Long term results of commissurotomy for mitral stenosis – Jl. Of the
   Saudi Heart Association Vol.V. No. 2, 1992.
+ Atrio Pulmonary connection for double outlet right ventricle with criss cross
   circulation – A case report – Indian Heart Journal vol. 44, Nov. 4, 1992
+ Tetralogy of Fallot : Intracardiac repair in 840 subjects – Cardiovascular
   Surgery June 1993 Vol. No. 1, No. 3
+ Aortic Valve Replacement with Concomitant Open Mitral Valvatomy – Early
   results and long term follow-up in 72 consecutive patients – Indian Heart
   Journal Vol. 45 No. 2, 1993.
+ Influence of Sevoflurane on the Dynamic right Ventricular outflow Tract
  obstruction in Tetralogy of fallot – E J A Vol. 18, Supp. 22, page; 2000
+ Aprontin for open cardiac surgery in cyanotic surgery – Asian
   Cardiovascular and thoracic Annals, Vol. No. 2, 2001.

Dr. Colin John list of PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

+ Aneurysms complicating patch repair for coarctation of aorta.
+ A comparative study off the electrical efficiency of temporary conventional
   pacing wires and the Bipolar pacing device in children
+ A comparative evaluation between sanguineious and assnguineous
   cardioplegia.
+ Clinical evaluation of Nitropursside, Glyceryl-tri-nitrate and Phenoxybenzamine
   in children.
+ Myocardial preservation.
+ Myocardial revascularization using the Internal Mammary Artery.
+ Review of surgery of Ventricular Septal Defect – Continuing medical
   education.
+ Bidirectional Glenn – 154 cases our experience as closed heart procedure.
+ Pulmonary sling – A Case Report.
+ Aorto Pulmonary Window – Repair without cardio pulmonary bypass.
+ Takeuchi Repair -A report of five cases
+ Video Assisted Throacoscopic Surgery (VATS) – Our experience with 125
   cases
+ Classical Blalock : Taussig Shunt – Revisited;
+ Ross Procedure – Our Expeience.
+ Resection of sub-aortic membrane through Ventricular Septal Defects An
  experience of 25 cases
+ Results of 100 consecutive of Trralogy of fattot.
+ Blue baby – causes, anatomy, physiology and treatment.

Dr. Colin John TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I was attached to the University of Madras, University of Sydney, the MGR Medical University, the University of Minnesota, U.S.A., and the Rajiv Gandhi University of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. Teaching undergraduate medical, nursing and allied medical sciences, students, post graduates and super speciality cardiothoracic trainees, education, conducting seminars, journal clubs and medical audits were pre-requisites to holding academic attachments to the above universities.

The department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi was established in January 1996. Since then over 2500 operations including complicated coronary artery bypass operations, surgery for all types of valvular heart disease and infant and neonatal heart surgery have been done. Apart from this all types of thoracic and extracranial cerebrovascular operations have also been conducted. The success rate of the surgeries performed, stands at 99%.

Dr. NARENDRA NATH KHANNA
MD(Medicine), DM(Cardiology) , F.I.C.C., F.E.I.S.I
Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiology, Senior Consultant Vascular Interventions, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, Advisor, Apollo Group of Hospitals

Dr. Khanna's EDUCATION AND TRAINING

+ Interventional Cardiology Fellowship,Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation,New
   Orleans,Louisiana, USA
+ Fellowship in Globar Endovascular Interventions,Poly Clinique des Essey Les
   Nancy Nancy,FRANCE
+ Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Escorts Heart Institute & Research
   Centre, New Delhi,INDIA
+ D.M.(Cardiology),Institute of Cardiology,Kanpur,INDIA
+ M.D.(General Medicine),King Georges Medical College, Lucknow
   University,INDIA
+ Medical School and Rotating Internship, King Georges Medical College and G
   M & A Hospital, Lucknow University,INDIA

Dr. Khanna's  CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURES

+ Graduate Education Temporary Permit, Louisiana State Board of Medical
   Examiners, USA, 1998
+ U.S.Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) ,1996
+ Educational Council For Foreign Medical Graduates, Certificate No 0-544-805-
   5,1996
+ Doctor of Medicine (DM), Cardiology, INDIA 1995
+ Doctor of Medicine (MD), General Medicine, INDIA, 1992
+ Unrestricted Medical License to practice medicine and cardiology anywhere in
   India. Medical Council Of India License, Registration No 33047, 1989
+ Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Univ of Lucknow,
   INDIA, 1988
+ Delhi Medical Council Licence, 6728, 2000

Dr. Khanna has done Approx No of catheterisations performed as First Operator - 5550
+ coronary angiograms - 2900
+ peripheral - 1000
+ PTCA & Stents/Peripheral Interventions - 1500
+ Balloon Mitral/Aortic/Pulmonary Valvuloplasties / PPI - 150
+ PTCA / Peripheral Interventions & Valvuloplasties Assisted - 3500
(includes Balloon angioplasty,stent implantation,primary angioplasties, rescue angioplasties , rotablation, DCA, IVUS, Angioscopy, Valvuloplasty, Angiojet, Rescue and X-Sizer, Thrombectomy, intra arterial thrombolysis , alcohol septal ablation, carotid, vertebral, subclavian, renal, mesentric, iliac, femoro-popliteal, tibial and peroneal angioplasties, subintimal angioplasties, venous interventions, percutaneous endovascular stent grafts for exclusion of abdominal aortic aneurysms, IVC filters and coil embolisation of bleeding vessels.)

Dr. Khanna's  MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC BODIES

Member - Academy of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (Membership No 17704 )
Member - American Heart Association (Stroke and Radiology Council ), U.S.A.
Life Member - Vascular Society of India
Life Member - Indian College Of Cardiology, Member Governing Council
Life Member - Cardiological Society Of India
Founding Member - Endovascular Interventional Society of India & Treasurer
Life Member - Association of Physicians of India
Life member - Indian Academy of Echocardiography
Life member - Indian Medical Association
Life Member - Indian Medical Association Academy of Medical Specialities
Life Member - Cardiological Society Of India –Delhi Chapter
Life Member - Cardiological Society Of India – U.P Chapter, Member Executive Committee

Dr. Khanna's  FELLOWSHIPS

+ Indian College of Cardiology
+ Indian Medical Association Academy of Medical Specialties
+ Endovascular Interventional Society of India

Dr. Khanna's  RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Publications - 90
International - 24
National - 52
Chapters in Book - 14
Presentations in Scientific Meetings - 134
  + International - 38
  + National - 96
Research Projects completed - 02

Ongoing Research Projects; Developing a telecardiology stethoscope for distant auscultation in collaboration with Indian Institute Of Technology, Kanpur

Presently editing a book on Peripheral Vascular Interventions along with Dr Michel Henry, France

Dr. Khanna's  PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Have worked as Consultant Cardiologist at Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India. Routinely performing diagnostic angiographies , Coronary & Vascular interventions and seeing patients in the OPD clinic.Also taking care of heart patients in the Heart Command Centre ,coronary care units ,emergency and general wards .

Escorts Heart Institute is the largest cardiology programme in South East Asia with state of the art facilities of comprehensive cardiac care .About 12,000 cardiac catheterisations and 2200 interventions are performed every year. Balloon angioplasties , drug eluting stents, intra vascular ultrasound, angioscopy, DCA, PMR, Angiojet, Rescue and Exciser thrombectomies, RF ablation, ICD implantations , valvuloplasties, and paediatric & neonatal interventions are routinly performed .Carotid,Vertebral & Subclavian Stenting,Renal and Mesentric angioplasties , Iliac ,Femoral and other peripheral vascular interventions are regularly performed. The Institute is also doing endovascular stenting for coarctation ,aneurysms & dissections of aorta and other complex vascular interventions like intra arterial thrombolysis, IVC filters , sub intimal angioplasties and embolisation of bleeding vessels.

The non invasive unit performs close to 15,000 transthoracic echoes,1500 TEE,10,000 stress tests and 1000 nuclear studies. The institute has acquired a state of art cardiac MRI & ultrafast CT for mass screening and early detection of coronary artery disease. The Institute is also participating in many multicentric & multinational studies and has a strong community outreach programme. More than 100.000 patients have been enrolled in this programme. The CVTS unit is performing about 3000 open heart (paediatrics & adult),minimally invasive ,robotic and vascular surgeries every year.
The Institute is running Diplomate National Board accredited programme for training in cardiology ,interventional cardiology ,paediatric cardiology ,cardiac anaesthesia and cardiac surgery.

I have been very actively involved with Dr Ashok Seth ,in the development of peripheral vascular and global endovascular programme at our Institute.From its inception ,it has grown in last 6 years and is now the largest endovascular programme in the country. The department has acquired a dedicated vascular cath lab with DSA ,bolus chase ,road mapping ,spin imaging facilities. It is backed with an excellent non invasive lab and MRI and CAT scan units. Our endovascular work has been presented in various national and international meetings.

I am also a founding member and Treasurer of the Endovascular Interventional Society of India ( a society of vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists and interventional cardiologist). In addition to interventional work ,

I am actively involved in Community Outreach programmes. I have organized 88 free Heart Checkup camps , public awareness talks and CMEs in different cities of north India , conducting regular heart checkup camps and public awareness talks at the cities In each camp about 500-600 patients are examined and investigated by free EKG ,blood biochemistry , 2 D echo & colour Doppler examination and free drugs are distributed

I have also performed more than 150 coronary angiographies in the Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Lab ( the 1st of its kind in the country , inaugurated by the Honourable President of India)in remote areas of Rajasthan

I was given additional responsibility of setting up a heart hospital –Escorts Heart Centre ,at Kanpur . I was working as Director & Chief Consultant of this hospital . It is the first venture of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre outside Delhi .It was a fully equipped heart hospital ,with 11 bedded Heart Command Centre ,Heart Station , two Digital Cardiac and Vascular Catheterization Labs,state of art Open Heart Surgery Operation Theater and indoor facilities.It also had facilities of intra aortic counterpulsations , mobile coronary care unit and air ambulance for air lifting critically ill heart patients.The centre was inaugurated on 27th April ,2002 and became a tertiary care centre for heart patients. It was performing largest number of Rescue and Primary angioplasties in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Dr. Khanna's  Past work experience

+ As Interventional Cardiology Fellow at Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA under Drs Stephen Ramee, Christopher . J. White, Ochner Medical Foundation is among 1st ten cardiology; programme and 1st four transplant programmes in U.S.A.It is the leading centre for Global Endovascular Interventions in United States and runs a regular peripheral vescular interventional fellowship

+ As Fellow in Global Endovascular Interventions at Poly Clinique des Essey, at Nancy,FRANCE ,with Dr Michel Henry and Max Amor.This centre is the most active centres in the world for peripheral vascular interventions. It performs about 1300 coronary & 1800 vascular intervention. Every year.

OPERATER IN LIVE ANGIOPLASTY WORKSHOPS

+ Endovascular Therapy Course, Paris, May 1998

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Renowned Indian hospital like Manipal Heart Foundation is equipped to handle all phases of heart diseases from the elementary to the latest clinical procedures like interventional cardiac catherisation and surgical cardiac transplants. Their success rate at an average of 98.50% is at par with leading cardiac centers around the world.

Leading heart centers like Wockhardt Heart Hospital have Cardiac Care Units with sophisticated equipment and investigative facilities like Echocardiography with Coloured Doppler, Nuclear Scanning and Coronary Angiography as well as 64 Slice CT Scanners.

Cardiology consultant at Manipal Hospital:
Department Head: Dr. V. Subash Chandra
Qualifications: FRCP
Profile: Dr. Chandra, born in 1954 is one of the leading Cardiac specialists in India and is currently serving as the Department Head of Cardiology. He is especially acclaimed for his several successful treatments on difficult heart conditions. He has a FRCP degree and has taught medicine for four years in a distinguished medical college abroad.

Cardiac-Anaesthesia Consultant:
Department Head: Dr. M Nagaraja Gowda
Qualifications: MD, DA, PDCCA
Profile: Dr. Gowda is the Head of the Cardiac-Anaesthesia department. He joined Manipal Hospital, Bangalore on the 5th of January 1998. Prior to joining MH, Dr. Gowda taught in a medical college for nearly three years. He continued with teaching in MH and soon joined the ranks of the Heads of department.

Dr. I. Sathyamurthy, MD., DM (Cardiology), FACC
Department : Cardiology
Areas of Specialisation
1. Interventional Cardiology
2. Electro Physiology & Pacing
International Work Experience:
-  Working experience in interventional Cardiology at the University of Roven,
   France (1997)
-  St. Francis Hospital, Illinois, USA (1998)
Awards and Recognitions : 
1. Padmashri (2000)
2  Dr. B.C. Roy National Award (2001)

Dr. C. S. Vijayshankar, MCH., Cardio Thoracic Surgery
Department : Cardio Thoracic Surgery
Areas of Specialisation
1. Coronary Artery Bypass and Redo Bypass surgery
2. Aortic Surgery Aneurysm
3. Aortic Surgery Dissectomy 
4. Aorta
International Work Experience:
- 1983 – 1987 Fellow in Coronary Artery Surgery at University of Wisconson,
   USA
- 1993 – 1994 Fellow in Coronary Artery Surgery at University of Wisconson,
   USA
- Fellow in Congenital Heart for 6 months at Children’s Hospital, University of
  Wisconson, USA, 1986
- Clinical observer at Harefeild Hospital, England for 6 months , 1996
- Clinical observer at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA
- Barylor College, Houston, USA for three months
- Clinical observer at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

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