Dr. Vijay Kumar Devraj — Senior Consultant in Hyderabad

Dr. Vijay Kumar Devraj is a Senior Consultant at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 35 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with general 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, and TAVI and TAVR.

All three of his degrees were taken in Hyderabad. He read MBBS at Osmania Medical College under Osmania University in 1978, took his MS in general surgery at Gandhi Medical College in 1983, and returned to Gandhi Medical College for his MCh in cardiothoracic surgery in 1997 under Andhra Pradesh University of Health Sciences.

The years between the MS and the MCh make a long interval, and general surgery remaining on his profile as a specialty alongside cardiac surgery suggests those years were spent practising it rather than waiting.

His hospital record is correspondingly broad. He has worked at Osmania Medical College and Deccan Medical College in Hyderabad and at Kakatiya Medical College, at MEDWIN and Mahavir Hospitals in Hyderabad, at the Durgabai Deshmukh Hospital of the Andhra Mahila Sabha, and at Bolleneni Hospitals in Nellore, before his current post at KIMS Hospital in Secunderabad.

Three medical colleges among those affiliations means a substantial part of his career has been spent where surgical trainees are taught, which is a different setting from a private cardiac unit alone.