Dr Girish Chandra Varma

Dr. Girish Chandra Varma earned his MCh in Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery from Bombay University in India and his MS in General Surgery from Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore, India. Then, in 1996, he received his clinical fellowship in cardiovascular surgery from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in the United States, and in 1999, he received his postgraduate cardiothoracic surgery diploma from the University Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris. He has 28 years of excellent and noteworthy experience performing a range of open heart, thoracic, and vascular procedures. In numerous hospitals with a distinguished international reputation, Dr. Varma has served as Chief Cardiothoracic Surgeon. His areas of expertise are open-heart surgery, chest pain clinics, and cardiac sciences. Additionally, he has a wealth of experience in cardiothoracic surgery, including minimally invasive cardiac techniques for both valve and CABG surgeries, as well as all types of valve surgeries, septal defects, Maze and Ross operations, and more. Beating Heart (off-pump) Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery is his particular area of expertise. He has independently performed over 7,500 coronary artery bypass surgeries and assisted in over 4,500 additional ones. Additionally, he has performed more than 100 redo-open heart surgeries. He also has a lot of experience harvesting skelitonized LIMA, RIMA, Radial Artery, Saphenous Vein, Redo-sternotomy, Thoracotomy, Haemostasis, and regular chest closure. Dr. Varma is the first surgeon to perform Awake Coronary Bypass Surgery on Beating Heart in UAE. He also performed UAE's first Total Arterial Coronary Revascularization - Triple Bypass Surgery using LIMA - Radial 'Y', Composite Conduit Procedure. He is also the first cardiac surgeon to perform awake mitral valve replacement surgery in the United Arab Emirates and awake aortic valve replacement surgery in the Middle East.

Qualification

• MS
• MCh
• FIACS