Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani — Chairman – Cardiac Sciences in Delhi NCR

Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani is Chairman of Cardiac Sciences and Cardiac Surgery at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in Delhi NCR, with more than 47 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, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, TAVI and TAVR, LVAD implantation and heart transplant surgery.

He read MBBS at Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi in 1969 and took his MS in general surgery there in 1975, then his MCh in cardiothoracic surgery at Christian Medical College, Vellore, in 1979 and MNAMS in 1980. Four periods of advanced training abroad followed in the mid-1980s: coronary artery bypass surgery under Professor Douglas Baird at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney in 1983, heart transplantation under Dr. Victor Chang and Dr. Mark Shanhan at St. Vincent's Hospital in 1984, and paediatric cardiac surgery under Professor Tim Cartmill at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children in 1984 and under Dr. Roger Mee at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne in 1985.

He is a fellow of six bodies, including the American College of Surgeons, the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons and the Indian College of Cardiology.

The President of India conferred the Padma Shri on him in 2013. His earlier honours include the National Citizens Award in 1992 and the National Excellence Award in 1996, and later the Delhi Medical Association Centenary Award in 2014 and an excellence award from MAMC, where he trained, in 2015.