Qualification:

• M.B.B.S. (1987) : - Kastruba Medical  College, Manipal, Karnataka state.
• M.S. (1990) Kastruba Medical  College, Manipal, Karnataka state.
• Passed National Board of CVTS New Delhi in 1994

Consultant :
 
      - S.A.L. Hospital & Medical Institute, Ahmedabad.
      - Krishna Heart Institute, Ahmedabad.
      - Apollo Hospitals, Gandhinagar.
      - Jivraj Mehta Hospital, Ahmedabad

Work Experience :

• Worked as Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department at Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad from 2000 – 2004
• Worked as Senior Cardiovascular Consultant Surgeons at S.A.L. Hospital & Medical Institute, Ahmedabad, Krishna Heart Institute, Ahmedabad, Apollo Hospitals-Gandhinagar & Jivraj Mehta Hospital – Ahmedabad from 2004 till date.  
• Worked as Junior Consultant in Apollo Hospital, Chennai from January 1991 to December 1997.
• During this tenure has done more than 3500 Open Heart Surgeries including: - Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Valvular Heart Surgeries, surgery for Congenital Heart Disease, Vascular Surgical Procedures.
• Joined – GLH-Auckland- New Zealand in 1998 – worked for one year. Gained experience in a wide variety of cardiovascular procedures including Beating Heart Surgeries, Surgeries for LV dysfunction, Heart & Lung transplants, Valve Repairs, Homograft Valve Replacements, whole range of paediatric and neonatal heart surgeries, Aortic Aneurysm & dissection surgeries.
• Joined “ THE HEART CARE ASSOCIATES” in 1999 and since then has done more than 3000 Open Heart Surgeries of the whole range.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Study of various ACE inhibitors in Heart Failure presented at ISHR conference Winnipel, Canada
2. Ventricular Overlap in Heart failure case presentation IACTS, Cochin 2005
3. Surgical Ventricular Restoration in Heart failure study of 70 cases – IACTS, Cochin 2005.