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

 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
 

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.

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