Dr. Anto Sahayaraj R — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Anto Sahayaraj R is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with paediatric cardiac surgery.

His list covers coronary artery bypass grafting and redo CABG, heart valve repair and replacement, double valve replacement and multiple valve surgery, aortic root replacement, heart transplant and combined heart-lung transplantation.

All three of his degrees were taken under Dr. MGR Medical University. He read MBBS at Chengalpattu Medical College in 1995, took his MS in general surgery at Government Stanley Medical College in 2001, and his MCh in cardio-thoracic and vascular surgery at Madras Medical College in 2005. In 2011 he was a surgical fellow in pediatric cardiology at Starship Children's Hospital in Auckland.

A dedicated children's hospital fellowship is what places paediatric cardiac surgery on his profile as a specialty rather than as occasional work, and it sits alongside an adult list that runs to transplantation.

Redo bypass and multiple valve surgery on the same record describe the harder end of adult work: reoperation on a chest already opened once, and disease affecting more than one valve at a time. Taken with the paediatric training, his practice covers patients from childhood through to those whose earlier surgery needs revisiting.

He is a member of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons and of the Indian Medical Association, and practises at MGM Healthcare in Chennai.