Consultant Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgeon Yashoda Hospitals - Secunderabad - 2019 - Currently Working
Registrations
30024 Travancore Cochin Medical Council Trivandrum 2001
Awards and Recognitions
Instrumental in setting up the Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Units at SCTIMST- Trivandrum in 2013 and at AIMS- Kochi in 2014
Instrumental in setting up the first Robotic Thoracic Surgery Division in the state of Kerala at AIMS- Kochi and performed the first Robotic Thoracic procedure in the state in 2016
Established the Uniportal VATS Program in 2018
Successfully performed more than 600 VATS and 150 Robotic Thoracic procedures
Faculty for various National and international VATS and Robotic training programmes including the prestigious Asian Thoracoscopic Educational Program (ATEP)
First to perform robotic thoracic procedure in the state of Kerala
Actively involved in postgraduate training and research specifically in areas of development of large and small diameter vascular graft - indigenous aortic stent grafts and evolving new economical surgical techniques in minimally invasive and robotic surgery
Research and Publications:
Joseph J- Krishnan AG- Cherian AM - Rajagopalan B- Jose R - Varma P et al. Transforming Nanofibres into woven nanotextiles for vascular application . ACS Appl Mater Interfaces: 2018:10:19449-58
Left sympathetic cardiac denervation in managing electrical storm: Acute outcome and long term follow up. Balasubramoniam.K.R.- Mukund. A. Prabhu- Srinivas B.V.- Prasad- S.P. Abhilash- Anees Thajudeen- Narayanan namboothiri- Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiolog
Balasubramoniam Kavumkal Rajagopalan- Rajesh Jose- Nazar Puthukudiyil Kader- Praveen Kerala Varma. Coarctation of aorta aneurysm with aberrant right subclavian artery and single carotid artery: Surgical and perfusion strategies. JTCVS: 2019:157 (1): 17-19 (Accepted for print in 08/2018)