My initial medical education and surgical training has been in India and then complemented with further training in the UK where I achieved specialist registration as a cardiothoracic surgeon.

I then topped this off with a specialist fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery at the world-famous Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH, USA which is one of the largest centres in the world for cardiac surgery.

I spent a year (2016-2017) training in mitral valve surgery and robotic mitral valve surgery with Dr. A. Marc Gillinov.

I then returned to the UK and was appointed as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon (with mitral subspecialist interest) at Oxford University Hospitals in 2018.

Throughout my training, I have had the good fortune of learning from experts – not just the technical skills of surgery but also vital skills of decision-making before surgery including choosing appropriate tests or procedures and looking after patients as they recover from surgery. Ultimately these are to achieve the best possible outcome for a patient.

Cardiac surgery is one of the most complex surgical procedures overall and understandably can be very stressful for patients. I believe that knowing what lies ahead helps (most) patients tolerate the idea of a heart operation better and helps their recovery overall. This includes:

• what is actually wrong with a patient (in my specialty, the heart)
• how it impacts a patient
• what is being proposed as treatment and why (i.e. how is it beneficial)
• what the surgical procedure involves
• what the risks and the chances of complications are
• what to expect after an operation in terms of recovery
• progress as they recover from an operation

I take special care that all above aspects are communicated well with a patient, so there is a good understanding before a patient agrees to undergo a major surgical procedure.

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My primary workplace is John Radcliffe Hospital, part of Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford. However I see patients referred from a number of hospitals across a wide area including Northampton General Hospital, Northampton (Northamptonshire); Great Western Hospital, Swindon (Wiltshire); Milton Keynes University Hospital, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire); Jersey General Hospital, Jersey; Kettering General Hospital, Kettering (Northamptonshire); Wycombe Hospital, High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire) etc.