International Accreditations & Achievements

Press Reports

1. Dr. Hasmukh Ravat
Interventional Cardiology

Dr. Ravat had a privilege of learning and practicing at renowned places in Mumbai and Australia. He had exclusive training for two years in Interventional Cardiology in Australia. He has experience of more than 2000 angioplasty of which more than 500 he has performed independently. He has participated in several National and International conferences.
 

Interventional expertise :
 

• Simple and complex Coronary Angioplasty
• Peripheral angioplasty, including Renal and Carotid Angioplasty.
 

Papers, Publications and Awards :
 

• Certificate of Merit for standing 2nd in D.M. Card. Examination by Mumbai University
• More than 25 scientific publications in National and International journals.
• Presented several papers in National and International conferences.
• Awarded Australian-Bard Scholarship for training in Interventional cardiology, Australia.

2. Dr. Suresh G. Vijan
Interventional Cardiology

Dr. Suresh Vijan is a Consulting Interventional Cardiologist. He has undergone training in the prestigious Texas Heart Institute, Houston and obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He has worked as Senior Registrar in cardiology at University of Leicester and later as Senior Lecturer and Hon. Consultant in Cardiology.
 

Dr. Vijan has been actively involved in developing catheter ablation techniques for treatment of Cardiac arrhythmias and setting up the cardiac arrhythmia services in Leicester. He has pioneered the implantation of Automatic cardiovascular defibrillator for malignant ventricular arrhythmia in UK.
 

Dr. Vijan has implanted the 1 st AICD in Bombay. He has also pioneered the technique of dual chamber pacing in India and has been the first to implant a biventricular pacemaker for the heart failure patients
 

Dr. Vijan has been at the forefront of Interventional Cardiology with implantation of intracoronary stents in 1993. He has been designed as Proctor for training cardiologists in the technique of coronary angioplasty with stent implantation. He has conducted live training Programmes in angioplasty in China and Vietnam.
 

He has introduced the technique of Septal ablation for Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy in 1997.

Expertise: 

He has authored over 150 publications in national and international journals and has

Presented over 100 papers in various conferences across the globe.
 

• Cardiac Catheterisation and Angiography, both pediatric & adult.
• Coronary Angioplasty with stent.
• Vascular Angioplasty.
• Electro physiology investigations.
• Catheter ablation techniques for treatment of Cardiac arrhythmias.
• Implantation of permanent pacemakers.
• Cardiac Catheterisation and Angiography, both pediatric & adult.
• Coronary Angioplasty with stent.
• Vascular Angioplasty.
• Electro physiology investigations.
• Catheter ablation techniques for treatment of Cardiac arrhythmias.
• Implantation of permanent pacemakers.
 

Honours and awards :
 

Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Recently received the prestigious Hiranandani Oration of his contributions to interventional cardiology in India.

3. Dr. Kaushal Malhan
Sports medicine and orthopedic

Dr Malhan completed his MS in orthopaedics in one of Asia’s premier institutions - King Edward Memorial Hospital, Bombay. He quickly progressed to become a junior consultant and lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the same institute. His interest in joint replacement and sports surgery took him overseas where he spent nearly 7 years training in some of the best centers for joint replacement and resurfacing surgery including the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry, U.K.              
 

Dr. Malhan completed the British orthopaedic training programme in the Oswestry-Stoke rotation (West Midlands) and was awarded the FRCS(Orth). Besides extensive training in primary and revision joint replacement surgery he has also worked in the National institute of sports surgery – UK and units dedicated to knee and shoulder arthroscopic surgery. He is well versed with advanced techniques in cartilage and ligament reconstruction. Dr Malhan did his post FRCS (Orth) fellowship in advanced joint surgery at the Freeman hospital, Newcastle - UK. He has established the Regional Hip Resurfacing and Joint Replacement Center for western India. This center has state of the art infrastructure and attracts patients from all over India and overseas.
 

Dr. Kaushal Malhan pioneered and popularized hip resurfacing surgery with the first ever live surgical demonstration of the Birmingham hip resurfacing done in Mumbai. This was done in an international conference on resurfacing at the Wockhardt Hospital, Bombay. The conference was presided over by Dr. Dereck McMinn the inventor of the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing. Dr. Malhan has performed the highest number of Birmingham hip resurfacings in Bombay. He is also actively involved in training overseas surgeons in hip resurfacing and recently did a live demonstration for surgeons from Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. Recently, Dr. Malhan was selected from amongst India’s joint replacement and resurfacing surgeons to lecture on hip resurfacing for an audience of North American doctors at a symposium organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII).
 

Academic Achievements :
 

• 12Publications,
• 21 Presentations (18 in international meetings),
• 2 Dissertations
• 15 international courses and symposia
• 32 Guest lectures at meetings
• His views and articles have been published in reputed newspapers and magazines like the Times. Express, Free Press journal, Midday etc.

4. Dr. Milind Sawant
Knee Surgery

Dr. Sawant is an Orthopaedic surgeon specializing in Knee Surgery. He has had the privilege of learning Orthopaedic surgery at renowned centers in India, England, Europe and the USA. He has spent over eight years training and practicing in England. His last appointment in England was as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, when he achieved fame for successfully treating major injuries to the leg of an international footballer.
 

Specialist interest in Orthopaedics :

All aspects of Knee Surgery Which includes Knee replacement, Arthroscopic knee surgery (key hole surgery), Ligament reconstruction, Fractures around the knee, Surgeries for problems of patella, Osteotomies about the knee, Sport injuries etc.
 

Publications in international journals & Presentations :

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery , The Journal of Arthroplasty, The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Injury, The Journal of Hand Surgery , The Knee. He has presented papers at several major Orthopaedic meeting in London, Cambridge , Gothemberg (Sweden), Tokyo, Yokohama (Japan), etc. He was appointed Chairperson for ‘Symposium on ACL’ at the Asia-Pacific Knee Society Meeting , Tokyo 2000.
 

Honors and awards in England :
 

Honors and awards in England: Gerald Golden prize 1993 , 1996, UK Norwich Union Merit Award for Research 1999 ,UK Short listed for the ‘President’s Millennium Prize 2000’, Royal Society of Medicine, London.

5. Dr. Narendra Pandya
Aesthetic & Cosmetic Surgery Centre

Dr Narendra Pandya is the foremost Cosmetic Surgeon in India. He received his reconstructive plastic and cosmetic surgery training in India, the UK and USA. Prior to his return to India, he was an Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. He served as a Professor of Plastic Surgery at BYL Nair Hospital and T N Medical College in Mumbai.
 

Dr Pandya is a Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and was invited to be a Member of the reputed American society of Plastic Surgery in 1970. He was the first plastic surgeon from India to be invited in 1976 to be a Member of the prestigious American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He is the only plastic surgeon from India to be so honored. He was a Ethicon Visiting Professor of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery of the Association of Plastic Surgeons in India.
 

Awards and Achievements :
 

Awarded the prestigious Educational Foundation of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons awards on two occasions.
 

Honorary Surgeon to two Past Presidents of India. Honorary Surgeon to 4 Governors of Maharashtra and 3 of Gujarat.
 

Consultant Plastic Surgeon to the Armed Forces of India.
 

Prestigious Dr B C Roy National award in Medicine.
 

Honorary Rank of Surgeon Commodore in the Armed Forces of India – the only plastic surgeon so recognized.
 

“LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD” in 2003 for the International College of Cosmetic Surgery for his ‘monumental contribution in the field of cosmetic surgery’.
 

Past President of Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, National Academy of Burns of India and International College of Surgeons, Indian section. Dr Pandya is on the staff of a number of city hospitals as a Senior Cosmetic Surgeon. He has presented and published a large number of scientific publications.