Advisory Panel
Dr. V. Mohan Reddy, Co-Director, Pediatric Heart Center, San Francisco
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Pediatric heart surgeon
Dr. V. Mohan Reddy specializes in surgical repair of complex heart defects in newborns, children and adults, with a particular focus on newborns. He has performed pioneering heart surgeries on premature and extremely low birth weight newborns previously believed to be inoperable. Read More...
Dr. Sitaram Emani, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Associate in Cardiac Surgery; Surgical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program; Director, Complex Biventricular Repair Program; Surgical Director, Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care
Dr. Lillian Su, MD, Medical Director, CVICU,Phoenix Children's Hospital
Lillian Su MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Cardiology and the Medical Director of the Simulation Program for the Heart Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University. Read More...
Dr. Pankaj Agrawal, M.D., MMSc, Chief of the Division of Neonatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Jackson Health System
Dr. Agrawal earlier as Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School practiced neonatologist at Boston Children's Hospital and also serves as the Director of the Neonatal Genomics Program. In this role, he utilizes exome and genome sequencing technologies and genetic modeling to identify novel genes in babies born with undiagnosed and often fatal conditions, and studies rare neonatal conditions, such as esophageal atresia, interstitial lung disease and metabolic and mitochondrial diseases. Read More...
Dr. Naveen Swami, Pediatric Cardiothoracic surgeon, UCSF Benioff Children Hospital, San Francisco & Oakland, California
Dr Swami is currently working as Pediatric Cardiothoracic surgeon at Benioff Children Hospital at San Francisco & Oakland. He also serves a teaching post at UCSF medical school. He specialises particularly in neonatal complex congenital heart surgeries. Dr Swami, also perform surgeries on low birthweight neonates with heart defects, redo cardiac operation, adult congenital heart surgeries. Dr Swami is also member of Pediatric heart transplant program at UCSF. Dr. Swami was formally trained and received MCh Cardiothoracic & Vascular surgery degree at PGIMER, one of the premier medical institute in India. Subsequently, he worked at few busy cardiac centres in India & Qatar, before he has joined UCSF, California, USA.
Dr. Ashok Muralidaran, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, OHSU School of Medicine
Dr. Ashok Muralidaran is Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgeon at Oregon Health Science Universty. He earned his medical degree from Madras Medical College in Chennai, India. He completed his residency in General Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Read More...
Venkat Shankar, MBBS, MBA, is Medical Director and Associate Chief in the Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Dr. Venkat Shankar is the Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He did his medical school at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi, India. Following medical school, he completed a 3 year pediatric residency at AIIMS and then worked as a senior resident/ Registrar in pediatrics for 3 years before moving to US. Read More...
Dr.Panangipalli Venugopal, Awardee Padma Bhushan by Government of India in 1998, Ex-Chairman, Alchemist Medical Division, Ex-Director, AIIMS, Chief, C.T. Centre and Prof. & Head, Deptt. Of CTVS, AIIMS, New Delhi
Dr. P Venugopal, In 1970-71, subsequent to first post graduate degree in Master of Surgery (MS) which was followed by MCh in cardiovascular thoracic surgery from AIIMS, New Delhi, joined the Faculty of AIIMS. the major part of his career was spent at AIIMS where he rose progressively, serving as the professor, the Head of the Department and then the Dean, before reaching the post of the Director, the highest academic position on offer at AIIMS, on 1 July 2003. Read More...
Dr. Rajesh Sharma, Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Dr. Rajesh Sharma is the DIRECTOR & HEAD - PEDIATRIC CARDIAC SURGERY; M.S. General Surgery & M.Ch. Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery from All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Her received special Training in the Thoracic Ventricular Assist Device at Berkeley, USA; Interests: Surgery for Transposition of the Great Arteries; Double Switch Operation for Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the great arteries; The Fontan Circulation, Neonatal Cardiac Surgery.
Dr. R. Krishna Kumar, Clinical Professor & Head of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Kochi
Dr. Krishna Kumar is presently a clinical professor and head of the department of pediatric cardiology at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Amrita University, Cochin. He first trained in adult cardiology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (1989-90) and then did his fellowship in pediatric Cardiology from Children’s Hospital Boston, USA (1994-1996). Read More...
Dr Sangeeta Viswanathan, Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist Apollo Children's Hospital, Chennai
MBBS, MRCPCH (UK), CCST in Paediatric Cardiology (UK), MSc Medical Imaging Leeds University. UK (Dist.)
Dr Sangeeta Viswanathan completed her specialist training in pediatrics (2003) and pediatric cardiology (2009) in the UK. Then she worked as a Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the largest cardiac surgical centre in the UK before returning to India in 2011 to provide good quality care to a large section of society. She is currently attached to Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai.
Dr. Ashish Katewa, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Surgeon, Head Department of Paediatric & Congenital Heart Disease, Amrita Hospital, Faridabad
MBBS, SMS Medical College, Jaipur ; MS, General Surgery, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai; MCh, Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai; Pediatric Cardiac Surgery fellowship, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia;
He has performed over 6000 paediatric cardiac surgeries across the entire spectrum of the disease.
Michelle Ogawa, Pediatric nurse practitioner working at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, USA
Michelle Ogawa is a pediatric nurse practitioner working at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. She has been working in the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program for the past 16 years. Prior to this, she worked as a bedside nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.