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Devagourou Velayoudam

  • MCh, CTVS from AIIMS, New Delhi under the mentorship of Professor P. Venugopal and Professor Sampath Kumar..
  • Faculty at AIIMS New Delhi since 2003 and Professor since 2014.
  • Received a coveted fellowship in Carpentier’s Heart Institute in Reconstructive Valve Surgery. Followed it up with several live workshops in India and abroad teaching the techniques of valve repair.
  • In addition to teaching and training more than 75 MCh residents at the institute, helped in setting up pediatric cardiac surgery at several institutes in India.
  • Conducted Live Surgeries at several centers in India , Kathmandu Nepal on mitral valve, ascending aortic aneurysm, AVSD and Ebstein's anomaly.
  • Conducted wet lab Workshops on mitral valve ,Tricuspid Valve and Aortic valve repairs at various national conferences, and at AIIMS,New Delhi
  • Accomplished nearly 7,000 cardiac surgeries ranging from Heart Transplant, LVAD, Cone repair, Aortic root transfer, Pulmonary root transfer, Double root transfer, Ascending Aorta, arch and Thoraco- abdominal aneurysm, AVSD, Aortic and Mitral Repair.
  • Introduced complex surgeries like Cone repair, Reverse Pott's shunt, Minimally invasive Tetralogy repair, Double Root transfer Procedures at AIIMS, New Delhi.
  • More than 75 publications in Indexed National and International Journals.
  • Invited speaker at several national and International Forums.
  • Contributed in set up of new Cardiac Centres like RIIMS (Ranchi), IGMC (Patna).
  • Active member of several National Boards, National and International Associations.
  • Reviewer in indexed National and International Journals.
  • Participated in health camps at Leh Ladakh, operated on several under privileged children in Maharashtra under school health scheme and on international patients from Haiti at AIIMS.
  • President elect of Indian association of Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgery.