Dr. Anand Somaya
MBBS, MS – General Surgery, Fellowship
Consultant – Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cardiac Surgeon- 40 Years of Experience
Doctor Profile
Dr. Anand Somaya finished schooling at Lawrence School, Lovedale and completed his undergraduate and post graduate medical studies at the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College in Pune. He then joined the army and spent two years in Ladakh treating multiple casualties of 1971 Indo Pak War. His operation theatre was at 17000 ft and was considered the highest in the world. The theatre was underground and extremely well equipped and all kinds of severe trauma cases from the battlefield were operated there before being sent down to the larger hospitals in Srinagar and Delhi. After serving for 8 years in the Army as a General Surgeon and attaining a rank of Major, he left the armed forces and joined the Bombay Hospital in 1978 in the department of cardio vascular surgery under the then doyen of cardiac surgery in India, Dr. Nemish A. Shah. He then did a fellowship in Houston, Texas with Dr. Denton Cooley who was one of the best known cardiac surgeons in the world at that time. This was followed by another fellowship at the Brompton Heart Hospital and the Harley Street Clinic in London. He then returned to Mumbai and rejoined the Bombay Hospital as an Associate Consultant in cardio vascular surgery in the early 1980s.
Education
- MBBS – Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, 1971
- M.S. FICA – Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, 1977
- FACP (USA) – American College Of Chest Physicians, 1990
- Fellow of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences (FIACS) – Fellow of Indian association of Thoracic Cardiovascular surgeons, 1992
- FVSI – Fellow of Vascular Society of India, 2012
Memberships
- President & Founder Member – Vascular Society of India, 1999
Experience
- Cardiac Surgery, Consultant- Wockhardt Hospital, South Mumbai , currently working
- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Consultant- Bombay Hospital, Mumbai , currently working
Specializations
- Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon
- Vascular Surgeon