• Dr. Sandeep Attawar is the Director and Chair- Cardiovascular Surgery, Thoracic Organ Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support at Global Hospital, Chennai, India.
• Dr. Attawar’s work period involves the healthcare giants such as Apollo Hospital, Narayana Hrudayala, Fortis Hospitals, and Global Hospitals India Group.
• He is considered as the best cardiovascular surgeon at Global Hospital in Chennai, his area of interest lies int he field of cardiac failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) including the ventricular assist device (VAS) implantation and the total artificial heart (TAH). He has treated several patients suffering from cardiac diseases by providing the best of medical care.
• Dr. Attawar with his team together offers a full range of programs and services to help you every step of the way from prevention to diagnosis, treatment to rehabilitation.
City: Chennai
Dr. Mohammad Rela
- Dr. Mohamed Rela is a renowned surgeon well-known for his expertise on liver transplantation and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery and has executed over 3000 liver transplant surgeries so far.
- In 1997, a team managed by him has done successful liver transplantation for a five-day-old girl, which made him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.
- He carried out the first living-related Liver Transplant on a patient with severe Liver Failure in the UK.
- He also participated as part of a team from King’s College Hospital, London which did liver transplant(s) six times for a patient to save her life by doing a bone marrow transplant.
Dr. P.B. Sivaraman
- Dr. P.B. Sivaraman is an eminent and well-known Urologist and the Chairman of the Chennai Urology and Robotics Institute, Chennai.
- As the professor and as the head of the Department at Madras Medical College, he has left behind a heritage of urologists trained by him who are bested in their field of work across the nation.
- Dr. Sivaraman finished his basic and higher medical education (MBBS and MS General Surgery) and his specialization in MCh, Surgical Urology at renowned Madras Medical College, Chennai, and later completed his Fellowship at Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh.
- He has worked for more than 5 years in the higher training at several Urology Department centers in the UK. He was also been the consultant urologist, at King Khalid Hospital, in Saudi Arabia. He had his training in Cadaver Kidney Transplantation at the Medical Centre and Transplant Laboratory and Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
- He was honored to be awarded The Urology Society of India (Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry) Awarded him “UROLOGY GOLD MEDAL” in Appreciation of his services to Urology and Teaching skills.
- Dr. Sivaraman’s clinical interest and area of specialization span across General Urology, Kidney Transplants, Endo Urology, Uro- Oncology, Infertility, and Impotence.
Dr. K.R. Bala Krisnan
- Dr. K.R. Bala Krisnan is a famous and reputed Cardio-thoracic surgeon in Chennai.
- He has coveted experience of more than 30 years and has been credited with India’s First LVAD and HVAD pump implant as the destination.
- Dr. Bala Krisnan has finished his MBBS from JIPMER, MS (General Surgery) from the renowned AIIMS, Delhi. Following which he completed his MCh (Cardiothoracic Surgery) from KEM Hospital, University.
- He commended India’s First Inclusive Centre for Heart Failure Management at Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai.
- Dr. Bala Krisnan has closely worked with Sir Brian Barratt –Boyes, Greenlane Hospital, New Zealand.
- He is also actively involved with numerous institutions to develop Pulsatile and continuous flow LVADs (Left Ventricular Assist Device) and molecular biology of ventricular hypertrophy.
- He is the first cardiologist in India to successfully execute HVAD implant surgery and LVAD implant surgery as a destination.
