EDUCATION:- M.B.B.S.; M.S.(Surgery); M.Ch.(Thoracic Surgery) WORK EXPERIENCE :- Residency in Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery, G.M. Associated Hospital, Lucknow A.M.O. Cardiac Surgery, Railway Hospital, Perambur (1981-1982) Lecturer, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, K.G. Medical College, Lucknow (1982 - 1984) Consultant, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Madras (1984 - 1991) Senior Consultant & Coordinator, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad (1991 - Present) SPECIALIZATION:- Bypass Surgery ECMO Cardioversion Aortic Valve Surgery Aorta Surgery Aldosterone inhibitors Blood vessel dilators Left ventricular assist device LVAD Heart valve surgery Infarct exclusion surgery Coronary artery bypass graft CABG surgery Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Surgery Thoracic Surgery Keyhole Angioplasty

Dr Y Vijayachandra Reddy is a Senior Consultant Interventionalist Cardiologist. He is a British Commonwealth Scholar in Interventional Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK and is an expert live case operator in several conferences (NIC, Bifurcation Summit, TIC, TANCSI). He is also an investigator in multicentre trials and registries like PRIME-CARE, WIN-OVER, TREASURE. He pioneered in trans-radial interventions and complex high- risk interventions (CHIP) including left-main angioplasty and stenting, ostial, bifurcation and chronic total occlu- sion PCIs and has an extensive experience in post CABG interventions including SVG and LIMA graft interventions. He is credited with pioneering work in acute MI interventions (primary angioplasty) and his PCI work in cardiogen- ic shock with unparalleled outcomes is well known. He is versatile in coronary imaging (FFR, OCT, IVUS), implant- able cardiac device therapies, and the complex field of thoracic and abdominal aortic endovascular stent grafting (TEVAR, EVAR).

FIE National Award in 1994 from Dr. Manmohan Singh Ramakrishna Mission honored him for dedicated service to humanity Facilitated by Medtronic Inc. USA for achieving 5000 Open Heart Surgeries in year 2000 Facilitated by Apollo Hospitals Chairman Dr. Pratap C Reddy for performing 10000 Open Heart surgeries at Apollo Group The experience of independently performing over 8000 Open Heart Operations together with the experience of over 6000 Open Heart Operations in association with Dr. Girinath at Apollo Hospitals, Madras makes one of the largest experience of Open Heart Surgery in India 1991 – 1993 performed 362 Consecutive Coronary Bypass. Surgeries without any mortality or serious complication. A record performance of that time Has the experience of highest member of Mitral Valve Replacement Operation with Complete Chordal Preservation & Artificial Chordal Reconstruction. This is one of the latest techniques of Mitral Valve surgery Presented this work in the Annual Conference of Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery held at Madras in February 2002 Performed first time in South India, the operation of Thoracoscopic Closure of Patient Ductus Arteriosus, on a six year old male child in 1996 One of the first users and now have the largest experience in using Stentless Bioprosthetic Valve Replacement Surgery for Aortic Valve disease in India. This is the state of the art Tissue Heart Valve not yet commonly used in India in other Cardiac surgery centres Successfully performed the Emergency Cardiac Surgery on a 2 days old infant, suffering from severe complex Congenital Heart Disease. The child had 2nd Corrective surgery at the age of 8 months and again of the age of 4 years for complete cardiac correction