Dr. Anil Kumar D — Senior Consultant Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon & Head of Pediatric Cardiac Services in Hyderabad

Dr. Anil Kumar D is Senior Consultant Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon and Head of Pediatric Cardiac Services at KIMS Hospitals in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, with more than 42 years of experience. He is listed in pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac surgery.

His procedure list covers the operations that define the field. The arterial switch operation corrects a heart whose two great arteries are connected the wrong way round. TOF repair surgery corrects a second pattern of defect. The Glenn and Fontan procedures are the staged operations used when a child has only one usable ventricle, and they are performed years apart on the same patient. The holes between chambers are closed either surgically or by device, with ASD, VSD and PDA closure all listed both ways, and pediatric echocardiography covers the imaging that decides which route is used.

He read MBBS at S.V. Medical College in Tirupathi in 1984, trained in general surgery at K.J. Hospital in Chennai and took DNB in general surgery from the National Board of Examinations in New Delhi in May 1991. His cardiac surgical training was at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 1996, and in June 2007 he took advanced training in pediatric cardiac surgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University in California, where he also served as a clinical instructor and trained in unifocalization surgery.

Besides KIMS he has worked at Al Mafraq Hospital in Abu Dhabi and on medical missions to Nigeria and Iraq. He has published in the Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the World Journal of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and the Annals of Pediatric Cardiology.