Dr. Srinath Vijayasekharan — Director and Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Srinath Vijayasekharan is Director and Senior Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 26 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with paediatric cardiac surgery.

His list is among the widest in the specialty. It covers coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve repair and replacement, aortic root replacement, minimally invasive cardiac surgery and robotic cardiac surgery, together with LVAD implantation, heart transplant surgery, lung transplant surgery and combined heart-lung transplantation.

An LVAD and three forms of transplantation on one list describe a service for patients whose own heart or lungs can no longer be repaired, and the paediatric side of his profile means that work is not confined to adults.

He holds MBBS, an MS and the DNB.

His hospital record covers the main cardiac and transplant centres of Chennai and beyond. Alongside Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre he has worked at MGM Healthcare, at Fortis Malar Hospitals and Malar Hospital, at Sri Ramachandra University, and at Kovai Medical Center and Hospital.

Robotic cardiac surgery appearing on the same list as heart-lung transplantation is unusual, since the two sit at opposite ends of the specialty: one is about operating through the smallest possible access, the other about replacing the organs entirely. A surgeon whose practice carries both is working across the full range of what cardiac surgery now offers.