Awards and Achievements

• Dr. B C Roy National Award – 1997
• Padma Bhushan – 1998
• D.Sc. (Hon Causa) Dr M G R Medical University 2002
• LIFE TIME Achievement Award Indian Association Cardio Vasular Thoracic Surgeons  Has headed the cardiac surgery unit of Apollo Hospitals, Chennai since 1984.
• The unit has done close to 40,000 heart operations of which 29,000 have been coronar bypass operations including 14,000 on a beating heart.
• Has pioneered congenital Heart Surgery and Heart Valve Surgery in India.
• Has trained nearly 30 Cardiac surgeons  in India.
• Has helped Heart Surgery units in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Bangla Desh and several centres in India such as at Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Bhopal.
• Has 45 years of expierence standing in Cardiac Surgery  Performed nearly 25, 000 open-heart operations in the last 16 years.
• One of the first surgeons to obtain the MCH degree in Cardio Vascular Surgery in India (1969)- a pioneer in cardiac surgery for infants, coronary bypass surgery, multivalve replacement and cardiac transplantation.
• Trained over 20 surgeons who, together, perform 20% of the cardiac surgeries done in the country today.
• Recipient of many national awards including the Padma Bhushan in 1998.
• Been at the forefront in establishing coronary bypass surgery as a standardized and safe procedure in India (thus reversing the trend of patients going abroad for this facility).
• Presented over 275 papers at national and international conferences and made around 20 orations including the Subroto Memorial Oration and the Sadasivan Oration.
• Participated in the first multi-organ transplant in India (Heart, Liver, Kidney and Cornea).
• First surgeon to repair a complex congenital heart defect in a child below one year.
• First to apply heart, lung machine-supported Coronary Angioplasty in India.