Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
O.P. Yadava, New Delhi
Associate Editor
Pradeep Narayan, Kolkata
T. Sunder, Chennai
Assistant Editor
Praveen Varma, Kochi
Section Editors
CAD
R.M. Mathur, Senior Consultant and HOD, Dept. of CTVS, Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital and Research Institute, Jaipur, India
Sankalp, Assistant Professor, CTVS, AIIMS,Raebareli, UP, India
Valvular Heart Disease
Chandrasekar Padmanabhan, Chairman, Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, GKNM Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
S.S. Lohchab, Director, Sr. Professor & Head, Dept of Cardiac Surgery, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Aabha Divya, Fellow CTVS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Congenital Heart Surgery
Maruti Yamanappa Haranal, Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
B.R. Jagannath, Consultant Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Whitefield, Bangalore, India
Sachin Talwar, Professor, Dept of CTVS, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Himanshu Pratap, Principal Consultant, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center, New Delhi, India
Aorta
V.V. Bashi, Chief Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeon, SIMS Hospital, Chennai, India
Shiv Kumar Choudhary, Professor & HOD, Dept of CTVS, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
A Mohd Idhrees, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, SIMS Hospital, Chennai, India
Niranjan Hiremath, Senior Consultant - Cardiovascular and Aortic surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Heart Transplant; ECMO; VAD
K.R. Balakrishnan, Chairman – Cardiac Sciences, Director -Institute of Heart & Lung Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM Healthcare, Chennai, India
Amber Malhotra, Clinical Professor of Surgery - Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA
Sameer Kumar, HOD, Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Army Institute of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Pune, India
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Ajeet Bana, Chairman, Cardiac Sciences, Eternal Hospital, Jaipur, India
Upendra Divakar Bhalerao, Consultant CTVS and Transplant Surgeon, Jaslok Hospital Research Center, Mumbai, India
Kaushik Mandal, Director Cardiovascular Sciences, Detroit Medical Center, Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, USA
Vascular, Endovascular & PVD Abha Chandra, Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, IIMSR, Integral University, Lucknow, India
Varinder S. Bedi, Chairman, Institute of Vascular & Endovascular Sciences, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Sekar N, HOD, Dept. of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, India
Thoracic Surgery
Rajashekara Reddy, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Sagar Hospital, Jayanagara, Bangalore, India
S.V. Srikrishna, Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, India
S.K. Jain, Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Manipal Hospital, Dwarka, New Delhi, India
Innovations & Emerging Technologies
Binay K. Sarkar, Professor, CTVS, NRS Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India
Alok Sharma, Additional Professor, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Young Surgeons Forum
Ashwene Ravindran, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Maruti Hospital, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India
Patralekha Das, Jr. Consultant CTVS, Ravindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India
Pallavi Purwar, Consultant, Dept. of Thoracic Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Statistical Editor
Ajit Mukherjee, Ex Deputy Director ICMR-NIMS, New Delhi, India
Former Editors
Solomon Victor 1982-90
Amit Banerjee 1992-96
Jayant Karbhase 1997-99
A. Sampath Kumar 2000-2011
K.S. Iyer 2011-2016
International Advisory Board
Manuel J. Antunes, Professor & Head, Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal
Taggart David, Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Paul T. Sergeant, Professor, Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium
Lorenzo A. Menicanti, Head of Cardiac Surgery and Scientific Director, Policlinico San Donato, Italy
Zhe Zheng, Director, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fuwai Hospital, National Heart Center, Beijing, China
Taweesak Chotivatanapong, Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chest Disease Institute, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Jan Vojacek, Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Sokolska, Czech Republic
Theodoros Kofidis, Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, National University Hospital, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michael E. Halkos, Professor, Div. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Piroze Minoo Davierwala, Director MICS, Toronto General Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery, UHN Sprott Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada
Carlos A. Mestres, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
MFL Gaudino, Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA
Nadejda Monsefi, Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Bonn, Germany
Eduard Quintana, Associate Professor, University of Barcelona Medical School, Barcelona, Spain
Rui Almeida, Professor, Cardiology & Card Surg, University Center Assis Gurgacz, Western Parana State University, Brazil
Edward P Chen, Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, USA
Guntug Batihan, Associate Professor, Dept of Thoracic Surgery, Kafkas University Medical Faculty, Kars, Turkey
Marc R Moon, John M Shoenberg Chair in Cardiovascular Disease, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Harish Ramakrishna, Professor, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Darshan Reddy, Director & Chief Surgeon, Congenital Heart Centre, Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Durban, South Africa
Erika Perez Albrecht, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery Unit, Head of Cardiology program, Child ‘s Hospital Dr. Ovidio Aliaga Uria, La Paz, Bolivia
Susan Vosloo, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Editorial Assistants
Sanju Guleria
Kishan Kumar Dutt
IACTS Executive Committee (Office Bearers 2024–2025)
Manoj Durairaj, President
C.S. Hiremath, Secretary
Devagourou Velayoudam, Senior Vice President
Satyajit Bose, Junior Vice President
Prabhatha Rashmi, Joint Secretary & Treasurer
O.P. Yadava, Editor in Chief
Z. S. Meharwal, Senior Past President
Lokeswara Rao Sajja, Junior Past President
Alok Mathur, Member
B. R. Jagannath, Member
Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao, Member
Debasis Das, Member
Siva Muthukumar, Member
Gunturu Varun, Member
Editorial Board
Manoj Durairaj, President
C.S. Hiremath, Secretary
Devagourou Velayoudam, Senior Vice President
Satyajit Bose, Junior Vice President
O.P. Yadava, Editor-in-Chief
Ombudsman
Dr. Krishna S. Iyer, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India
Secretariat
Dr. C. S. Hiremath, Doctor’s Office, SMS Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapura, Karnataka, India