Dr. Sandeep Attawar

Dr Sandeep Attawar is the Chair & Director of Thoracic organ transplants and Assist devices at KIMS Institute for Heart & Lung transplantation. He did his medical schooling and specialized in General surgery at the Sheth KM school of PG medicine. He further specialized in Cardiac surgery at the Sri Chitra Tirunal institute, Trivandrum.Since 2001 he specializes in setting up greenfield heart surgical services.He has since 2011 expanded this repertoire to Thoracic organ transplantation and mechanical circulatory support . He focuses solely on a top down realignment of pre-existing cardiac and respiratory services into heart and lung transplant centers. He has done the same for Gleneagles Global hospitals at Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Bombay over the past 3 years, before he moved down as the Founding Director of the Solid thoracic organ TX program at KIMS Hospitals .His team have performed close to 450+ thoracic organ transplants (of which 290 were Double lung transplants, 110 Heart transplants & 51 Combine Heart & Lung transplants) in this period , with over 28 left ventricular assist device implants. Professional Memberships: International society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Society of Thoracic surgeons (STS ) European association of cardio-thoracic surgery ( EACTS )