Editors
Editor-in-Chief
O.P. Yadava, New Delhi
Associate Editors
Dr. Pradeep Narayan, Kolkata
Dr. T. Sunder, Chennai
Section Editors
CAD
Vivek Jawali, Chairman, Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Hospital, Bangalore, India
Praveen Varma, Professor & Head, Dept of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Kerala, India
R.M. Mathur, Professor & Head, Dept of Cardiac Surgery, S.M.S. Medical College, Jaipur, India
Valvular Heart Disease
Chandrasekar Padmanabhan, Chairman, Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, GKNM Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
S.S. Lohchab, Director, Sr. Professor & Head, Dept of Cardiac Surgery, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Congenital Heart Surgery
Maruti Yamanappa Haranal, Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
B.R. Jagannath, Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Star Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Himanshu Pratap, Principal Consultant, Congenital and Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Max Super speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India
Sachin Talwar, Professor, Dept of CTVS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Aorta
V.V. Bashi, Dept. of CTVS, MIOT Hospital, Chennai, India
Shiv Choudhary, Dept. of CTVS, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Mohd Idhrees, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, SIMS Hospital, Chennai, India
Heart Transplant; ECMO; VAD
K.R. Balakrishnan, Chairman - Cardiac Sciences, Director -Institute of Heart & Lung Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM Healthcare, Chennai, India
Amber Malhotra, Consultant, Heart Transplantation & Mechanical Circulatory Support, Department of Surgery - Baylor Scott & White Health, Texas, USA
Sameer Kumar, HOD, Deptt of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Army Institute of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Pune, India
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Ajeet Bana, Chairman, Cardiac Sciences, Eternal Hospital, Jaipur, India
Upendra Divakar Bhalerao, Consultant Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeon and Transplant Surgeon, Jaslok Hospital Research Center, Mumbai, India
Kaushik Mandal, Director Cardiovascular Sciences, Detroit Medical Center, Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, USA
Soumik Pal, Clinical Fellow,Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK
Vasc, Endovascular & PVD
Sushila Sripad, Senior Consultant - CTVS,R N Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India
Abha Chandra, Dept of CTVS, IIMSR, Lucknow, India
Varinder S. Bedi, Chairman, Institute of Vascular & Endovascular Sciences, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Thoracic Surgery
Rajashekara Reddy, Consultant, Thoracic Surgeon, Sagar Hospital, Jayanagara, Bangalore, India
S.V. Srikrishna, Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, India
S.K. Jain, Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, New Delhi, India
Extra-corporeal & Intensive Care
S. Muralidharan, Senior Consultant, GKNM Hospital, Coimbatore, India
Deepak Tempe, Head – Senior Professor and officiating Vice Chancellor, Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Innovations & Emerging Technologies
Binay K. Sarkar, Professor - CTVS, NRS Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India
Alok Sharma, Associate Professor, AIIMS, Jodhpur Rajasthan, India
Murali P Vettath, Chairman – Dept of CTVS, Meitra Hospital, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Bio Statistics
Deo Salil Vasudeo, Cardiovascular Surgeon, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, USA
Young Surgeons Forum
Sumbul Siddiqui, Assistant Professor Dept. of CTVS, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
Sankalp, Assistant Professor, CTVS, AIIMS, Raebareli, UP, India
Former Editors
Solomon Victor 1982-90
Amit Banerjee 1992-96
Jayant Karbhase 1997-99
A. Sampath Kumar 2000-2011
K.S. Iyer 2011-2016
International Advisory Board
Tirone E. David, Professor, Dept of Cardiac Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Canada
G.D. Angelini, British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Bristol Heart Institute, United Kingdom
Taggart David, Professor, Cardiac Surgery, University of Oxford, UK
MFL Gaudino, Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA
Manuel J. Antunes, Professor & Head, Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
R M S S A de Almeida, Professor, Cardiology & Card Surg, University Center Assis Gurgacz, Western Parana State University, Brazil Zhe Zheng, Director, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fuwai hospital, National Heart Center, Beijing, China Taweesak Chotivatanapong, Chest Disease Institute, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Jan Vojacek, Professor, Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Sokolska, Czech Republic
Carlos A. Mestres, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Joseph F. Sabik, Chairman, Dept of Surgery, Cleveland Medical Center, USA
Nadejda Monsefi, Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Bonn, Germany Eduard Quintana, Associate Professor, University of Barcelona Medical School, Barcelona, Spain
Theodoros Kofidis, Senior Consultant CT Surgeon, National University Hospital, Singapore
Paul Sergeant, Professor, Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium
Lorenzo A. Menicanti, Professor, Cardiac Surgery, Kings College London, Hon. Consultant Guys and St. Thomas’ hospital, London, UK
Piroze Minoo Davierwala, Director MICS, Toronto General Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery, UHN Sprott Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada
Edward P Chen, Professor, CT Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, USA Douglas Mathisen, Professor, Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Guntug Batihan, Thoracic Surgeon, University of Health Sciences, Izmir, Turkey
Marc R Moon, John M Shoenberg Chair in Cardiovascular Disease, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Harish Ramakrishna, Professor, Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
K.M. John Chan, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, CVSKL Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Michael E. Halkos, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
V.N. Bapat, Professor, Kings College London, UK; Asst Prof, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA
Sai Yendamuri, Professor, Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
Editorial Assistants
Sanju Guleria
Kishan Kumar Dutt
IACTS Executive Committee (Office Bearers 2023-2024)
Dr. Lokeswara Rao Sajja, President
Dr. C S Hiremath, Secretary
Dr. Manoj Durairaj, Senior Vice President
Dr. Devagourou Velayoudam, Junior Vice President
Dr. Prabhatha Rashmi, Joint Secretary & Treasurer
Dr. O.P Yadava, Editor in Chief
Dr. Krishna Subramony Iyer, Senior Past President
Dr. Zile Singh Meharwal, Junior Past President
Dr. Gaurav Goel, Member
Dr. Bhupesh D. Shah, Member
Dr. Shamsher Singh Lohchab, Member
Dr. Siva Muthukumar, Member
Dr. Alok Mathur, Member
Dr. B R Jagannath, Member
Dr. Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao, Member
Dr. Debasis Das, Member
Editorial Board
Dr. Lokeswara Rao Sajja, President
Dr. C S Hiremath, Secretary
Dr. Manoj Durairaj, Senior Vice President
Dr. Devagourou Velayoudam, Junior Vice President
Dr. O.P. Yadava, Editor-in-Chief