Ramakanta Panda
Dr. Ramakanta Panda | |
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| Born | Ramakanta Madanmohan Panda Damodarpur, Jajpur district, Odisha, India |
| Alma mater | SCB Medical College, Cuttack AIIMS New Delhi |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon |
| Institutions | Asian Heart Institute Asian Hospitals |
| Sub-specialties | Cardiac Surgery Redo Bypass Surgery |
| Awards | Padma Bhushan |
Ramakanta Panda, is an Indian cardiac surgeon and the chief consultant for cardiovascular thoracic surgery and the Chairman of the Asian Heart Institute, a speciality cardiac care hospital under the aegis of Asian Hospitals, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India. In 2002, he set up the Asian Heart Institute in India. Panda has performed about 30,000 successful cardiac surgeries, including more than 2,000 redo surgeries and 6,000+ high-risk surgeries He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010 by the Government of India. With a 99.8% success rate in bypass surgery, he is widely considered the world’s safest cardiac surgeon. Currently, he is the Chairman of Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai.
In 2009, he led the team that successfully operated on the then-prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh. This was followed by highly complex surgeries on several leaders of Indian politics, such as Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tarun Gogoi, Narasingha Mishra, D Raja, Rajiv Shukla and many others.