IACTS ELECTIONSiacts.org/sites/all/themes/themag/pdf/IACTSElection2020_Bulletin.pdfStarted his career in cardiac surgery at Sri Satya Sai Institute of Cardiac Surgery Puttaparthi India

IACTS ELECTIONS

2020

Official Bulletin for the General Body of the 66th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons

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2020 Election Bulletin - IACTS Newsletter Vol 65 Edition 2

www.iacts.org | January 2020

The stage is all set for the election to the offices of the Executive Committee of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons.

The Fellows and Life Members of the Association will elect a Junior Vice President and two Executive Committee Members at the General Body Meeting of the 66th

Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons (IACTSCON 2020) in Grand O7, Ahmedabad on the evening of February 7, 2019.

The General Body shall also elect the venue for the 69th Annual Conference of the Association (IACTSCON 2023) scheduled to be held in 2023.

The foray of candidates for the electable offices, along with their accomplishments, experience and vision are enclosed for you to make an informed choice. The description

of the cities along with the prospective organizing secretaries has been included.

DisclaimerDescription from all candidates remain unabridged upto 500 words

Foreword

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Office of Junior Vice President

Dr. S. Raghupathi

Dr. Krishnarao Narayan Bhosle

Chennai

Mumbai

Senior Consultant Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon with 40 years experience. Was former Professor, Department of CTVS at Madras Medical College & Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai, continuously for 25 years in various positions, reaching the status of Professor and trained several batches of M.Ch. graduates in CTVS. Has been examiner for M.B.,B.S., M.S (General) M.Ch (CTVS) and Ph.D., in various Universities. Madras Medical College, CTVS department is one of the pioneer Institutions in CTVS in the country and has completed 65 years of existence. Is interested in rendering low cost-effective and free surgical care for the rural and tribal areas and have conducted more than 600 free cardiac surgery camps and has been actively participating in the affairs of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS) for the last 25 years and have been Executive Committee member for 3 years from 2006-2009. Has also served in the positions of Director in Cardio Vascular Sciences at ACS Medical College and Hospital in Chennai, Secretary of Indian Medical Association (7years) and as Professor & HOD at Coimbatore Medical College, Meenakshi Medical College, Kanchipuram and Chettinad Medical Colleges and Universities Chennai, Adhesh Medical College & University, Punjab.

After qualifying MCh (CVTS) from Mumbai University in 1984, He joined Grant Govt. Medical College and Sir J.J Hospital, Mumbai as full time teaching faculty and CVT Surgeon. With 35 years of teaching experience, he has had privilege of training over 100 post-graduate students in Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery. He had opportunities to work for Mumbai University and Maharashtra University of Health Sciences as Chairman Board of Studies (Clinical Super-specialty) and Member Academic Council. He was Technical Advisor for Prime Minister Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (Govt. of India) for the period 2008-2013.Presently he is Chairman of Heart & Lung Transplant Committee SOTTO (Maharashtra), ROTTO (Western India) and Senior Professor CVTS at D. Y. Patil Medical College& Hospital, Navi Mumbai. He has been associated with IACTS as an active Life member and Fellow since 1987.

He has worked as Joint Secretary and Treasurer of IACTS (2012 to 2015) and member of IACTS finance committee. He appeals to have support of IACTS members to get the privilege of working for IACTS again. He has expressed keen interest to work for betterment of association and fellow members, with respect to administration, finances, skill development and academic activities.

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Dr. Anil Ranjeetmal Jain

Dr. Zile Singh Meharwal

Ahmedabad

New Delhi

Serves as the Director & Chief of Cardiac Surgery at EPIC Hospital, Ahmedabad, in addition to being a consultant cardiovascular & thoracic surgeon in 8 hospitals across Gujarat. He been principal investigator for numerous national & international trials including STICH, CORONARY, SIRS, RBC, LCZ, PCS K9 inhibitors, Cadila & ACZ trials, etc. Has performed over 32000 cardiac surgeries with his team since 1997 encompassing CABGs, valvar replacements & repairs, congenital, peripheral vascular, surgical ventricular restoration & root remodeling, validated by elevation in quality of life and lower mortality rates in patients. Has actively conducted in-house surgical trials associated with big names such as Novartis, Cadila, Sanofi, etc. Has participated in over 30 national and international conferences and as faculty in over 200 major CMEs worldwide. Has been associated with numerous surgeries for the first time in Gujarat. Has conducted over 1,50,000 free consultations at camps conducted nationally. As President, would like to create awareness for postgraduates to create awareness about career opportunities, create national cross referencing system by which new cardiac surgeons can be trained in various busy cardiac surgical centers, represent in government and Insurance companies to create awareness regarding complexities of cardiac surgery and improve reimbursement processes for the same, try to bring all cardiac surgery meetings under the umbrella of IACTS and see that they are properly conducted and well attended & though a lot of quality work in cardiac surgery is done in India; publications and papers are very few, hence, would wish to create a research unit which will assist surgeons in the country to collect and analyse data. It will also help surgeons across the country to write and publish their work in various high impact factor, National and international journals.

Is Executive Director and Head of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Transplantation & VAD Program at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi. He has over 30 years of experience and has performed more than 25000 cardiac surgeries including major aortic and redo surgeries. He has one of the largest experiences of combined coronary artery bypass grafting and carotid endarterectomy. He has also worked as consultant cardiac surgeon at King’s College Hospital, London. He started heart transplant and MCS program at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in 2014. Dr Meharwal is actively

involved in teaching and training and has trained more than 20 cardiac surgeons who are running independent units in different parts of the country. He is the program director of DNB cardiovascular and thoracic program. He has been invited as guest speaker in many national and international conferences and has published more than 50 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is also actively involved in community outreach programs and physician education. He has been awarded by UP Government for his contribution in health care and by then President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam for his contribution in cardiac surgery. He has also been listed in Limca Book of Records. He has been active member of IACTS for almost 3 decades and has been contributing in the progress of Association. His vision for the Association includes to further strengthen academic activities of Association, create courses and modules for training of young surgeons, create a mechanism of exchange program between different cardiac centres, encourage young generation to get actively involved in research, create a strong IACTS database, closely work with our cardiology colleagues for mutual benefits and create an atmosphere in cardiovascular thoracic community to face challenges in this competitive environment including legal challenges.

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Office of Executive Committee Member

Dr. Pradeep Kumar RadhakrishnanVisakhapatnam

Started his career in cardiac surgery at Sri Satya Sai Institute of Cardiac Surgery Puttaparthi India. He was the Co-coordinator of cardiac surgery and Senior Consultant at KIMS Trivandrum from 2001-2013. Live workshops on cardiac redo and congenital surgeries with international collaboration was organized in KIMS during this period. He was the lead member of the team that pioneered first awake beating heart and awake adult congenital surgeries in the state, first successful use of ECMO in the state. Subsequently he has served as Visiting Professor and Senior Consultant at Travancore Heart Institute and Medical College, SUT Pattom, SUT Royal and PRS Group of Hospitals in Trivandrum. He was working as Senior Consultant at AHRI prior to taking over as Professor and head of division of cardiothoracic surgery at GIMSR Gitam University in AP.

He is a fellow and life member of Indian Association of Cardiac Surgeons, European Association of Cardiac Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons-USA, ECMO society of India and fellow of International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgeons USA and member of CT Net and IMA also. He is also honorary editor of European Cardiology Journal and MMTS. He has over 200 publications to his credit and novel methods in valve repair, ventricular remodeling surgeries, latest TAR techniques in coronary bypass and emerging trends in myocardial preservation were presented recently in ISMICS, IACTS and WSCTS conferences. He has pioneered the research activities in computational cardiac biofluid dynamics with path breaking results that was presented in the recently concluded world cardiac surgical congress where it was one of the lead papers and also won an award for the same in IACTS Chennai 2018. Currently working on cardiac embryogenesis with auto engineering of heart and designing of total artificial

heart at GITAM UNIVERSITY. He has extensive experience in this field of over 27 years and has involved in over 10,500 cardiac surgeries during this period including cardiac transplantations and LVADs. He was associated with charitable work in Cardiac Surgery at SSIHMS, Puttaparthi and also helped in creation of Prof Gopinath Trust which performs free surgeries for poor at THI. He as associated with first successful ECMO for dengue myocarditis, first awake coronary bypass surgery and first awake congenital cardiac surgery of the state. He is also credited with presentation of the first world series of valve repairs and replacement on beating heart at the World Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons at Cos. He is an active participant of IACTS for over 2 decades.

As Executive Member, will work to foster in the concept of development of continuing innovations to keep our speciality in the forefront of medicine. Shall try to develop the concept of interdisciplinary and inter institutional collaboration to take this country to the forefront of all developments in science and technology for the benefit of humanity. Intends to establish the brotherhood of science amongst specialisations and develop the concept of progress through interdisciplinary interinstitutional discussions of the highest order to make our universities the fertile ground for future innovations.

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Dr. Bhupesh Dhirajlal ShahAhmedabad

Has an Experience of more than 12000 surgeries which includes open heart surgeries, closed heart surgeries, complex thoracic surgeries, all type of Aortic dissections and Aortic Dissection Surgeries. Gained the versatile expertise in the Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular cases; which includes the versatility ranges from exclusive Off Pump Coronary Bypass Surgeries to Aortic Dissection, Valve Repair and Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgeries.

After completing his MChfro LTMG Mumbai, he has served in various teaching capacities and as guide of M.Ch. Course under Gujarat University with Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, Ellis Bridge, Ahmedabad. Carrying widest experience in teaching for more than 15 years as an Associate Professor preceded by Assistant Professor at Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, Ellis Bridge, Ahmedabad and U.N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad.

Carrying a team of 11 doctors including Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Cardiac Anesthetist, Intensivist and Surgical Associates. As a group practice concept, carrying association of Cardiac Surgeons to start Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgeries and successfully performed more than 70 surgeries which include Atrial Sepal Defect, Mitral Valve Replacement, Aortic Valve Replacement and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Operates Complex Thoracic, Mediastinal and Trauma Surgeries. Well-versed with Diagnostic and Therapeutic VATS (Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery). Maintains interests in VATS & MICAS surgery, alternative of Glutaraldehyde in preservation of tissue valve, radiofrequency ablation of AF. (Modification of Maze procedure), modifications of Tubbs dilator that can be used for Minimal Invasive Surgery, port access approach for CPB in Minimal Invasive Surgery.Has contributed more than 20 National and International Publications Has had the honor to serve our profession for more than 20 years. As a student, which he continues to be, and later as a teacher and examiner, has been able to imbibe a great sense of responsibility which he would like to share and pass on the next generation of cardiac surgeons. He envisions to make the branch appealing and lucrative for next generation, make a strong presence in world scenario by means of publications, presentations and representation, to involve IACTS in government policy making, to make a unified representation of IACTS for medico-legal issues and to help and design a common basic training module for M. Ch. And DNB programs and to make it more practical oriented so that a young surgeon is better prepared to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

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Dr. Satinder Kumar JainGurugram

Having obtained MCh (CTVS) from Delhi University in 1985, he has trained and practiced general thoracic surgery for last 35 years in some of the finest hospitals in India and abroad. Currently he is Head of Thoracic Surgery at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon. He is member of IACTS since 2004. He has served as an office bearer of Association of Thoracic & Vascular Surgeons of India (section of ASI – the parent body of IACTS!) for more than 15 years (culminating as its President for 3 years), and also as Governing Council member of ASI (2018). He will be organizing IACTS Thoracic CME 2020. He wishes to use his leadership experience to become the voice of thoracic surgery and take IACTS to greater heights.

General Thoracic surgery has been an integral part of IACTS but for reasons somewhat known and somewhat unknown, the specialty remains subdued. We have a huge population silently suffering from inflammatory lung diseases. Tuberculosis, being endemic in our country, has taken its toll on patients and governments alike. Many of these patients are potentially curable provided they have access to expert opinion and timely intervention by a surgeon specially trained to deal with lung diseases. Lack of dedicated thoracic surgeons has also resulted in abysmal rate of resectability of lung cancer across the country. Trained manpower is the need of the day. National board of examination has DNB Thoracic Surgery program running in 5 centers across India for the last 4 years. However, some inherent drawbacks are obvious. Lack of basic training in cardiac surgery many a times compromises on the safety of the patient and may result in sub-optimal surgical procedure under challenging circumstances.

Having experience in both cardiac and thoracic surgery, he is very concerned about these aspects. The need of the hour is that more CTVSurgeons be trained adequately in general thoracic surgery as well. And that friends, would be a win-win situation for the Association and the community in particular. As Thoracic surgery requires less infrastructure and manpower, one can opt for district level or smaller cities for a more satisfying career rather than a few select metros where decades are spent in anonymity. Out there is a large untapped market with huge gap in supply and demand. CTVSurgeons can utilize their cardiac surgery skills to compliment thoracic surgery. IACTS can play a much bigger and positive role in shaping the future and come to the forefront.He promises to focus all his energy, knowledge, experience and expertise on strengthening IACTS. And for this he needs your support and vote in all his humility and modesty. Your vote is crucial and he exhorts you to vote for a change. Thank you for your patience and precious time. Long Live IACTS.

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Serves as Senior Professor & Head of Cardiac Surgery and the Dean of Academics at the Pt. BD Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak. Pioneer of Cardiac Surgery in Haryana—Rooted Cardiac Surgery in Haryana first time in 1997.Chief Cardio Thoracic Surgeon PGIMS, Rohtak since 1997 upon completion of MCh in GB Pant, New Delhi and observerships in Boston Children’s & Cleveland Clinic. Performed pprox.. 7500 operations- CABG, Valves, Congenital, Aneurysm, Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation, Thoracic and Vascular.Felicitated by Govt of Haryana for starting open heart surgery 1999, off-pump CABG 2002 and immense contribution in RBSK 2017. Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation by Cryomaze with latest high-tech argon gas technology first time in India in year 2008. Holds the distinction of performing the first CABG under the Aayushmaan Bharat Scheme.Made PGIMS Rohtak leading centre of Mitral Valve Reconstruction Surgery. Has innovated the Anterior Papillary Muscle Approximation to septum, a novel technique for correction of functional tricuspid regurgitation. Has 50 scientific publications in journals of repute. Has organized ANZCTCON 2017 and very recently the IACTS Techno College Cardiac CME in May 2019. Is a member of several societies including the IACTS, IMA, EACTS, CTSNet and ACSAHe envisions and intends to do genuine and vigorous attempts for regaining the glory of cardiothoracic surgery, for introduction of post MBBS 6 years MCh course (brought MCI officials to Rohtak CME and initiated conversation) and change in curriculum to attract medical students, for making the association an excellent platform for learning, teaching, research and innovation and creating awareness among patients, medical fraternity and society in general regarding medical evidence in favor of most of cardiac surgical procedures in comparison to interventions.

Serves as the Professor and Head of CTVS at the Medical College, Kolkata. After his MCh in the same institution, he was Selected as WHO Fellow in 1997 to work in the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota with Dr. Gordon Danielson. He worked with Dr. Richard Jonas in Boston Children’s Hospital.

Has been working as Professor and Head , Medical College and Hospital Kolkata since 2017 . Has been an examiner of MCh. (CTVS) and DNB (CTVS) His special interests include OPCABG, Valve and congenital heart surgeries, in addition to thoracic and vascular work

He, along with his team did the 1st Heart Transplant in a Govt. Medical College (Medical College and Hospital Kolkata) after one in AIIMS and till date has done 3 successful heart transplants. He has been honoured with Chikisa Ratna Samman,

Vishista Chikitsak award from the Government of West Bengal and award from Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries.

He believes that apart from the good work that the Association is doing, we should further promote teaching and training of young cardiac surgeons with emphasis on basic understanding of cardiac sciences. Also emphasis on research work and publishing of the work we do needs to be stressed.

Dr. Shamsher Singh Lohchab

Dr. Plaban Mukherjee

Rohtak

Kolkata

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Dr. Karunakara Padhy

Dr. Krishna Prasad Irniraya

Bhubaneshwar

Mumbai

Currently serves as the Director of the Department of CTVS at the B.R. Life Kalinga Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He previously served as HOD in the Department of CTVS at Care Hospital, Visakhapatnam and Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Science, Kolkota. Completed M.Ch. from Jipmer, Pondicherry, DNB for National board of examination, MBA in hospital management from Annamalai university and Ph.D. in Yoga from Andhra University. Trained in heart and lung transplant from Washington university, St.Louise, USA and minimal invasive cardiac surgery from Leipzig ,Germany. Performed 5000 cardiac surgery and did heart transplant 1st at Vizag in 2012. Conducted 1st AP annual conference of cardiothoracic surgeons. Organising secretary for 64th IACTSCON 2018 held at Visakhapatnam.He envisions the following, to make IACTS self sufficient to conduct all academic activities, stabilize Database programme within one year and will be one of the rubust database which can be useful for us,public and Government, those who participate in database will get 50% concession in registration of IACTSCON, will publish a text book on behalf of IACTS, vreation of 4 Zonal bodies to discuss regional problem and creating state chapters all these will be part of IACTS, membership exchange programme with EACTS and AATS(List to be decided by academic council), continuation of training programme of young surgeons at various centers, training 10 surgeons at various centers outside country on MICS,transplant, endovascular stent,TAVI and TMVR etc. Their airfare will be taken care of by association. Separate spouse programme during conference, Dynamic M.Ch./DNB Seat admission in collaboration with MCI, 1000 free cardiac surgeries across country on behalf of IACTS as a part of CSR to increase public reliability( surgeons will be paid), formation of SAARC society where each SAARC country members will be automatically a life member and papers with Full manuscript for conference will get 25% concession on registration.

Currently serves as Assistant Professor in CVTS at Bombay Hospital & Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, affiliated to the MUHS, Nashik. He underwent his Cardiothoracic training at Bombay Hospital, under the able guidance of Prof. D. S. Saksena (2003-2006).Following which he did his Fellowships at Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore (2006-2008) and at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney (2008-2010).Presently for the past more than 9 years, he is Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at various hospitals of Mumbai like, Bombay Hospital, Breach Candy Hospital, Holy Family Hospital and individually performed more than 2000 Cardiac surgeries. His special areas of interest are Total Arterial Off pump CABG, Mitral valve repairs and Minimally invasive surgeries.

He envisions structured training of the trainee students wherein a mandatory number of different prescribed procedures to be done by the completion of the course (similar to the overseas training). After the Post Doctoral degree the young surgeons should get the opportunity of further training in different fields of cardiac surgery – Paediatric surgery, MICS, TAVI, Heart Transplant, Valve Repairs, Total Arterial CABG by Mentor – Mentee programme, under the facilitation of IACTS by identifying the eminent teachers and centres around India. And to encourage the participation of surgeons in the International forums through IACTS.To make sure that the present generation of surgeons are benefitted so that the taboo of “difficult branch to settle“ is broken. This will make more new surgeons to take up CVTS training and the old glory of this wonderful surgical branch can be restored.

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NOMINATIONS TO HOST THE 69TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE

INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR-THORACIC SURGEONS (IACTSCON 2023)

Bhubaneswar is the capital city of Odisha, recently accepted as the Sports Capital of India.The history of Bhubaneswar may be viewed in two phases: Ancient and Modern . While the ancient city has a history that goes back to more than 3000 years to the Kalinga empire, the modern city came into existence in 1948. Modern Bhubaneswar was designed and planned by German Architect Otto. H. Konigsberger in 1946 to be a well-planned city with wide roads, multiple gardens and parks to shape the city serving as the administrative seat of the state.

The region historically was often depicted as Ekamra Khetra (Temple City). Bhubaneswar is situated between 21°15’ North Latitude 85°15’ Longitude and at an altitude of 45 meters above sea level.

It has witnessed another equally inspiring aspect of development – its remarkable economic growth. Bhubaneswar was the first choice for the flagship Smart City project by the Ministry of Urban Development. It also featured among the top 20 in the Global Smart City Performance Index 2017. Demonstrating world-class infrastructure, accommodation, communication, event location and more, the city is now regarded as one of the best destinations in India for hosting any mega event be it sports, academic or entertainment.

SOA Convention Center, BhubaneshwarOrganising Secretary: Dr. Chandrabhanu Parija

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Kolkata has over the years been blessed (and cursed) by a number of appellations. Some complimentary, some not. Even the “City of Joy” label has an ironic origin. Kolkata is also the “City of Palaces”, “City of Processions”, and if you believe the old song and accept a non-PC compliment, “the ladies of Calcutta are sweeter by far”. But let us leave facile labels aside for the moment.Kolkata as a city is very acutely aware of its history. Common knowledge has it that it was formed after the amalgamation of 3 villages after the Europeans came. However there is archaeological evidence of continuous habitation in this area for over two millennia. And the tradition of the Kalighat temple as a “Pithasthan” and pilgrim destination goes back to much earlier legendary times. However it is the last couple of hundred years that has shaped the psyche of modern Kolkata.The city has inspired and been inspired by a number of far reaching movements, reformations and revolutions that have hadtheir roots here. Their scope is wide ranging; be it spiritual, social, political or intellectual both scientific and artistic. These movements and the great souls who were associated with them are not just historical entities here but form a part of everyday consciousness of the city. Also, Kolkatans never tire of reminding themselves and others that the city has been associated with six Nobel Laureates (and are wondering when the chemistry prize will come this way!)Far from the days when Kolkata was the capital of British India, the city still bears the burden and the responsibility of being the only major metropolis in the eastern quadrant of the country. It is home to people from every state and they all imbue the city with its variegated and cosmopolitan flavor. And this contributes to the vibrant cultural landscape as well. Yet in spite of its reputation of being the spiritual home of “The Argumentative Indian”, the whole environment is that of harmonious co-existence. This contributes to Kolkata being among safest of cities to wander around and explore. And the flavor can be tasted

quite literally, whether in posh restaurants or humble street corners and all possible grades of eateries in between.As one would expect, Kolkata is a very crowded city but getting around is less arduous than in many other cities of similar size in the world. Also there are many oases of green around, and one is never far away from a playground or park where formal or informal games are ever ongoing. And of course there is always the beneficent breeze from the Ganga permeating the city at all seasons. Visitors to Kolkata often comment on the warmth of the people here, and those who live here take that for granted. In February when the IACTS annual meeting takes place, the weather is very pleasant, and the warmth that one would feel will be of the welcome afforded.

Biswa Bangla Convention Center, KolkataOrganising Secretary: Dr. Satyajit Bose

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Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons

IACTS SecretariatG700, Doctors’ Office

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IACTS ELECTIONSiacts.org/sites/all/themes/themag/pdf/IACTSElection2020_Bulletin.pdfStarted his career in cardiac surgery at Sri Satya Sai Institute of Cardiac Surgery Puttaparthi India