Dr. Suresh Rao
Pediatric cardiac surgeon
Director
33+ years of experience
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai
Opening Hours
Monday – Friday 8.00 – 7:00 pm
Saturday 9.00 – 8.00 pm
Sunday 10.00 – 9.00 pm
About Doctor
- Dr. Suresh Rao is one of the Senior most Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgeons of India, with a special interest in Neonatal Cardiac Surgery.
- He has performed more than 6000 surgeries and has booming experience of over 33 years in his field.
- He has worked in New Zealand, Australia and the USA to get experience in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.
- He has explored in India the practice of Modified Ultrafiltration after Congenital Heart Surgery.
- Dr. Suresh Rao is an active member of various esteemed organizations like the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India, European Association of Cardio-thoracic Surgeons.
- His special skills include Congenital Heart Surgery in neonates, infants, children and adults for simple and complex heart defects, cosmetic approaches and valve repairs.
- He has pioneered many techniques in congenital surgery corrections and cardiopulmonary bypass and has established two large Congenital Heart Centres of National repute.
- He has trained many Congenital Heart Surgeons who are heading units across India. Dr. Rao has trained in India, New Zealand, Australia and USA.
Qualification & Training
- MBBS (Grant Medical College & JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai )
- MS (Grant Medical College & JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai )
- MCh (Sree Chitra Institute Trivandrum)
- DNB (Cardiothoracic Surgery – DNB board, New Delhi)
- Fellowship, Indian Association of CardioVascular & Thoracic Surgeons
- Fellowship, College of physicians & Surgeons
Areas of Clinical interests
- Neonatal & Infant Heart Surgery
- Complex Congenital Heart Corrections
- Valve Repairs in children
- Repairs through Limited Posterior Thoracotomies and Ministernotomies
- Pulmonary artery Banding
- PDA interruptions
- Coarctation repairs
- Pacemaker Implantations
- Arterial switch operations
- Aortic arch and left ventricular outflow tract repairs,
- Coarctation corrections with VSD closure,
- Obstructed Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous connections,
- Truncus Arteriosus
- Norwood operations
- Root translocations
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Life Member & Past President Pediatric Cardiac Society of India
- Life Member & Past president IACTS
- Member, European Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons
- Member, World Society of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
- Member, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society
- Member, ELSO
Achievements and Awards
- Recipient of endowment scholarship during MBBS and MS
- Placed Second in University of Bombay at the MS (Gen.Surg) Exam
- Award for the Best Scientific Paper Titled, ‘Expanded Role of Peritoneal Dialysis in Pediatric Cardiac ICU’, Southern Zone Regional Conference of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Kollam, Kerala, India.
- Vocational Excellence Award, from The Rotary Club of Cochin North.
List of Treatments
- AICD
- Angioplasty and Stent Placement
- Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
- Aortic Stent Grafting
- ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
- Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
- Biventricular Pacing
- Blalock-Taussig (BT) Shunt
- CARDIAC SURGERY – ADULTS
- Cardiac Tumor Treatment
- Cerebral Angiogram
- Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA) Surgery
- Coronary Angiogram
- Coronary Angioplasty
- Coronary fistula
- Double Inlet Left Ventricle (DILV) Treatment
- Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV) Surgery
- Fontan Conversion Surgery
- Fontan procedure
- Glenn procedure
- Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
- Heart Lung Transplant for heart failure
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) Treatment
- Implantable Devices for heart defects
- Interrupted Aortic Arch Surgery
- IVC Filter Insertion
- Minimal access surgeries for valves
- Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
- Peripheral Angiogram
- Peripheral Angioplasty
- PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
- PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
- PTE – Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
- PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Renal Angiogram
- Ross Procedure
- surgery
- Trigger Point Injection (TPI)
- Valve Repair Replacement