RESUME / CURRICULUM VITAE
ASHWANI KUMAR BHARDWAJ
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è EDUCATION
M.Ch. “Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery” 1994- 1996
Christian Medical College & Hospitals, Vellore Tamil Nadu, India
M.S. (Master of Surgery) “General Surgery” 1989 –1993
Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College Meerut , India
M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery)1983 – 1988
Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College Meerut , India
Ranked 3rd in the Medical School for Surgery Program
B. Sc. “Bachelors in Science” 1983
Meerut College Meerut Uttar Pradesh, India
Ranked 14th in the University
è PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Student of South Plain College for Emergency medicine and cardiology courses and Physician License examination courses.
Post Doctoral Research Associate in Cardiovascular Research Institute College of Medicine Texas A & M University Temple Texas USA & Scott & White Memorial Hospital since April 2006 – June 2008 (development of Myocardial Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Mouse Model).
Research Associate in CCBC at University of Chapel Hill North Carolina USA March 2005 - 2006.
Mice Model for Permanent Ligation of LAD.
Mice Model for Myocardial Ischemia Perfusion.
Mice Model for Carotid Artery Ligation.
Left Heart Pressure Volume measurement.
Right Heart Pressure Volume measurement.
Senior Research Associate & Specialist Cardiac Surgeon , Aug 2003 – March 2005
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery
Vardhman Memorial Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital (1500 Beded Govt. Hospital) New, Delhi, India
• Administration of the entire staff in the Department
• Actively involved in the academic activities of the Senior Residents and Training them for Masters Program, the Junior Residents and the Interns posted in the Department.
• Involved in the purchase, maintenance and upkeep of the equipment in the Department.
• Two operating rooms and a twelve bedded state-of-the-art Post Operative ICU.
• Performed over 100 operations comprising of Coronary bypass surgery, valve replacements both single and double with and without tricuspid repair and congenital operations (ASD Repair, VSD Repair, Lung Procedures).
• Bypass surgeries done both on pump (12) assisted as well as off pump CABG (05) assisted .
• Mitral Valves Replacement 30 and aortic valves (08). Double valve replacements were (01) and combined procedures with tricuspid repairs out of all these were (07).
• Congenital Repairs: Performed (28) ASD Repairs, (03) VSD repairs and (2) Tetralogy of Fallots'.
• Performed over 10 CMV procedures and almost 20 PDA ligations.
• Remaining cases comprise of Thymectomy, Pneumonectomy, lobectomy, Vascular repairs for trauma as well as acute and chronic obstruction.
• Patients are mostly NYHA Class III or IV .
• Management of critically ill cardiac patients both pre as well as post operatively.
• Teaching of resident doctors and nurses
• Cardiothoracic Research on Off pump versus On Pump Bypass Surgery
Special Postgraduate Surgical Fellow Sep 2000 - April 2003
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham USA
• July 2000 - July 2003 - Special Post Graduate Surgical Fellow sponsored by ECFMG in Division of Cardiovascular Surgery University of Alabama, Birmingham (AL), U.S.A from 15th September 2000 to 30th July 2003 with observation of Robotics Cardiac Surgery skills .
• Adult Cardiac Surgery: (CABG Off-pump and On-pump Bypass surgery), Valve Repair and Valve Replacement, Repair of Dissection of Aorta, IABP and LVAD Aneurysm Repair of Ascending Arch, Descending Aorta and Arrhythmia Surgery etc.
• Congenital Heart Surgery:(ASD Repair, VSD Repair, Palliative and Corrective surgery for Tetralogy of Fallot ), A V Canal Defect Repair, Coarctation Repair, PDA Ligation , Palliative surgery for Univentricular Heart etc.
• Heart and Lung Transplantation(Only Assisted).
• Animal Research (Pig) Experiments on Myocardial Injury in Volker Research Laboratory under guidance of Dr William Holman and Dr Stanley Digerness.
Attending Cardiac Surgeon, Jan. 1997– June 99
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery.
Kasturba Hospital, Breach Candy Hopital, Jaslok Hospital, Lilavati Hospital and Nanavati Hospital Bombay, India
• Prestigious 600 bedded corporate Hospital
• Managed the admission, preoperative work up and post operative care of all cardiac patients
• Performed and assisted more than 600 coronary about 100 valve and 10 congenital and some vascular and thoracic procedures
• Responsibility and involved interaction not only amongst the relatives but also correspondence with the referring physicians
• Performed two independent coronary bypass procedures, four ASD repairs, a single VSD repair and a PDA closure.
• Coronary procedures in about a thousand cases I performed all the proximal anastomosis and routinely helped in harvesting the mammary arteries, the radial artery and saphenous vein grafts
• Put the patients on bypass before arrival of the Senior Surgeon and all sternal closures were done by me.
Ast Lakre, Aug. 1996- Dec. 96
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University Hospital Uppsala Sweden.
• Preoperative work up and postoperative care of the various patients
• ICU duty every third day in rotation and help with the cases posted for surgery in the unit.
• Assisted in more than 200 cases of Coronary, Valvular, Aneurysm Surgery and congenital procedures and thoracic and vascular operations.
• Helped me not only in my theoretical knowledge but also with a lot of practical inputs while operating and managing the patients independently in the ICU.
Assistant Professor and Lecturer, April. 1996- Aug. 96
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Christian Medical College Vellore, India
• Preoperative work up of patients, assistance in operations , post operative care
• Lot of emphasis was put on academic work with combined inter and intradepartmental tutorials etc.
• Operated and Assisted in nearly 600 cases (Valvular Heart Surgery, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Congenital Heart Surgery, Thoracic Surgery).
Registrar, Jan 1994- April. 96
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery.
Christian Medical College Vellore, India
• During my Masters in Cardiothoracic Surgery (M Ch) & independently taken care of comprehensive Cardiothoracic unit and helped in all the thoracic, open heart and coronary procedures.
• Thoracic Surgery Fibreoptic and Rigid Bronchoscope procedures, Heller`s Operation, Lung surgeries include all types of Lobectomy, Hydatid Cyst operation, Pneumonectomy, Decortications, Pleural and Pericardial Window procedures etc)
Senior Resident , Aug 1993- Dec 93
G B Pant Hospital New Delhi, India
• Handled the primary care for all emergency cases and Routine Cardiac Cases.
Research Fellow , April 1993- Aug1993
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery.
Christian Medical College Vellore, India
• Basically helped in harvesting the conduits or CABG and assisting the operations.
Junior Resident, Sep.1989- Jan. 1993
Department of Surgery
Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College Meerut
• Besides patient care I handled the overall Emergency and Elective operations which is part of Surgery Residency work (General Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery and Urologic surgery and Academic work and functions of the Department and conducting Undergraduate exams using Seminars, Overhead Projector Presentations, Clinical Case Presentations, Morbidity & Mortality Conferences and Monthly Review on my dissertation on Urinary Calculi Research using Electron Microscopy and X Ray Diffraction study of stones.
Compulsory Rotatory Housemanship (CRHS) Sep. 88 – Sep. 89
Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College Meerut, India
• Mastered the common problems, their management and follow up in out patient clinics.
• Learnt the management of complicated cases in ICU and CCU.
• Performed various minor operations and assisted in several major operations
• Assisted in many major and minor operations.
• Learnt the pre-operative and post-operative care.
• Clerking of Gynecology cases and management of labor.
• Emergency duties and regular night duties in the departments of - Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Dermatology, Orthopedics, Anesthesia, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and Preventive & Social Medicine.
è CONFERENCES ATTENDED
International
• Guest Lecture at Ischemia-reperfusion injury Northwestern University at Chicago, Department of Radiology 2008.
• Guest Lecture at Merck Labs, Ischemia reperfusion injury in CGRP Knock-out, San Jose, 2009.
• International workshop on Minimally Invasive cardiac surgery in Lilavati Hospital Bombay
• Aortic root replacement symposium at University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
National
• ASICON MP Chapter 1988 in Lucknow , India
• 1st Joint Symposium on New Directions in Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiology in the 90s Conducted by Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre in 1992 at New Delhi , India
• International Conference and Workshop on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery organised by GB Pant Hospital in 1993 at New Delhi , India
• 40th Annual Conference of IACTS 1994 at Agra, India
• 41st Annual Conference of IACTS 1995 at Bangalore, India
• 42nd Annual Conference of IACTS 1996 at New Delhi, India
• 44th Annual Conference of IACTS 1997 at Jaipur, India
• 47th Annual Conference of IACTS 2000 at Mumbai, India
è THESIS/ DISSERTATION
M.S (General Surgery)
Research Dissertation submitted Ch.C.C.S University Meerut (U.P) India "A Profile of Urinary Calculi with Special Reference to Radiological Anatomy" between (1990 -1993).
Ph. D
Role of cardiac markers in unstable coronary artery disease and effect of antioxidants following coronary artery bypass surgery.
èManuscript Reviewer
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Chest, Annals of Surgical Oncology.
è PAPER PRESENTED/ PUBLISHED
A. International
1. Nitric oxide: lifesaving measure for pulmonary vasospasm after modified Blalock-Taussig-shunt
Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2002 74: 1700-1702.
2. Aortic injury following Blunt Chest Trauma
Asian Oceanography Radiology Journal Nov 2003.
3. Superior vena cava obstruction following osteoclastoma secondaries mediastinum Radiology case reports (under processing).
B. National
• Duodenal Injuries in Meerut Area in UP Chapter A.S.I.
• A Case report presented "Mitral Valve Replacement in Hemophilia B".
C. Local
• Surgical management of Mitral Valve Replacement in Hemophilia B in the 40th Annual Conference of IACTS at Agra, India (1994).
• Parameters of Increased Morbidity and Mortality in patients with double valve replacement 49th Annual Conference of IACTS at Hyderabad, India (1998)
• Tranexamic Acid in Valve Replacement Surgery IACTVS (2005).
• Comparison of patients with or without having preoperative intraaortic balloon counter-pulsation during off-pump coronary surgery IACTS(2005).
• Our experience with Shree Chitra Valve(TTK) IACTS (2005).
è MISCELLANEOUS
• Certificate of IACUC Training at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC USA
• Certificate of Online Training at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill USA
• Certificate of Institutional Review Board from Online University of Florida USA.
• Certificate of HIPPA Training from University of Alabama at Birmingham USA.
• Workshop in Safdarjung Hospital; New Delhi, India in the focusing on future advancements in Cardiac surgery mainly minimally invasive coronary artery surgery and robot assisted cardiac procedures. Luminaries from the field of cardiac Surgery both from India and Internationally participated in these live teleconferences.
• Organised workshop at Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College for IX Indian Association of Gastrosurgeons in 1992 and assisted in live demonstration of Laparoscopic Cholycystectomy in 1992.
è OBJECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE
My goal is to join a good organization and contribute positively to its growth.