Dr. Rajneesh Malhotra — Chairman & Head of Department of CTVS in Delhi NCR

Dr. Rajneesh Malhotra is Chairman and Head of the Department of CTVS and Robotic Surgery at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in Delhi NCR, with more than 35 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with robotic surgery.

His list covers coronary artery bypass grafting and redo CABG, heart valve repair and replacement, double valve replacement and multiple valve surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, robotic cardiac surgery, LVAD implantation and heart transplant surgery.

He read MBBS and took his MS in general surgery at King George's Medical College in Lucknow, and his MCh at G.S.V.M. Medical College under Kanpur University. His fellowship in cardiac surgery was in the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at University Hospital in Uppsala.

Four further periods of training, all in the United States, correspond almost exactly to the newer half of his list. He trained in minimally invasive cardiac surgery with Medtronic Inc. in Minneapolis, in port access cardiac surgery at the Heart Port Training Institute in Salt Lake City, in Da Vinci robotic cardiac surgery at the Invasive Surgery Center of Ohio State University, and in valve repair and beating heart technique at the Myocor Institute in Minneapolis.

Port access, robotic and beating heart training taken separately is what allows a surgeon to choose the approach case by case rather than defaulting to one. Valve repair training sits in the same group, since repairing a valve rather than replacing it is the harder option and the more durable one.

He practises at Max Hospital, Saket East, in New Delhi.