Dr. Dhiren Shah
Director, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Director of Heart-Lung Transplant
Progranne and Mechanical Circulatory (MCS) Programme
Marengo CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad
EDUCATION
- MB, MS, MCh (CVTS), FICS
EXPERIENCE
- Experience of More than 22 years
- Experience of over 13000 Open Heart Surgeries
- First to perform Trans Aortic Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) in India
- First in Gujarat to perform Heart Transplant Surgery. Successfully performed 46 Heart Transplants
- First in India to do Hybrid CABG
EXPERTISE
- Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Total Arterial Bypass surgeries
- Valve repair and Replacements, Aortic Surgeries
- Stent infection surgeries
- Heart Failure Surgeries
- Complex Cardiac Surgeries
- MINIMALLY Invasive cardiac surgery
- TAVI
- TAVAR
AWARDS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Part of the Pioneering Team in India in developing Surgical Ventricular Restoration and Heart Failure Surgery.
- Member of the Workforce Committee of the Government of Gujarat for the Formation of the Transplant Program
FELLOWSHIP/ OBSERVERSHIP
- Observership in Heart Transplant & Artificial Heart at UPMC University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Pioneer in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) in Western India
- Trained in Mitral Valve Repair under Dr. Alain Carpentier and Dr. Phan at Alain Carpentier Foundation Hospital, Vietnam.
- Fellowship Course in Minimally Invasive Surgery at Leipzig Heart Institute, Germany under Dr. Friedrich Mohr
- Trained in TAVI procedure & has successfully performed 23 TAVIs as a part of the Heart Team Approach.Member of Wthe orkforce Committee of the Ministry of Health, Government of India & ICMR for “STG” Guidelines for Cardiac Surgery for India