Dr. Sai Krishna Cheemalapati — Senior Consultant in Hyderabad

Dr. Sai Krishna Cheemalapati is a Senior Consultant at Yashoda Hospitals, Somajiguda, in Hyderabad, with more than 29 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with vascular surgery.

His list covers coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve repair and replacement, double valve replacement and multiple valve surgery, aortic root replacement, aortic aneurysm repair and minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

He read MBBS at Andhra Medical College in Visakhapatnam in 1997, took his MS in general surgery at PGIMER Chandigarh in 2001 and his MCh in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at AIIMS New Delhi in 2004. Three consecutive advanced fellowships in adult cardiac, minimally invasive and mechanical circulatory support followed in the United States: at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2009 to 2010, at Brigham and Women's Hospital under Harvard University from 2010 to 2011, and at Emory University from 2011 to 2013.

Four years of continuous fellowship training across three American centres, all in the same three subjects, is a longer overseas period than most surgeons on this platform record.

His research runs from his MS thesis correlating lung biopsy with pulmonary artery pressure in mitral valve replacement through MCh work on coarctation repair in infancy, normal coronary artery dimensions in Indians, aortic valve repair for rheumatic disease, and extra-anatomic bypass for interrupted aortic arch in adults.

Between 2021 and 2025 he initiated the adult and congenital cardiac surgery programme at ILS Hospital in Tripura. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago in 2016, and is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.