Dr. Rajesh Sharma — Clinical Director of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in Delhi NCR

Dr. Rajesh Sharma is Clinical Director of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at Marengo Asia Hospitals in Faridabad, Delhi NCR, with more than 32 years of experience. He is listed in pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac surgery, and his qualifications are MBBS, MS and MCh.

His procedures are the defining operations of the field. The arterial switch operation corrects a newborn heart whose two great arteries are connected the wrong way round, and it has to be done within the first weeks of life. TOF repair surgery addresses a second major congenital pattern. ASD and VSD surgical closure seal holes between the chambers. The Glenn and Fontan procedures are the staged route for a child with a single usable ventricle, planned years apart around the child's growth.

His entire Indian training was taken at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi: MBBS, MS in general surgery and M.Ch in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at the same institution. He then completed two fellowships in paediatric cardiovascular surgery in the United States, one at Marry Ann Knight Hospital for Children in Miami and one at Children's Hospital in Boston, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.

His posts since then cover most of the country's major cardiac programmes. Besides his current role at Marengo Asia Hospitals in Faridabad, he has worked at AIIMS in New Delhi, at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in Delhi, at Jaypee Hospital in Noida and at Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore.