Dr. Vishal Khullar
Director
27 years of experienceCardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons
MBBS, MS, Fellowship, MCh
Nanavati-Max Super Speciality Medical Centre, Mumbai
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Dr. Vishal Khullar is a well?recognized cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon with 27 years of professional experience. His clinical interests include Heart Valve Repairs and Replacements, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Complex Surgeries, Aortic Root Replacement, Hemi-Arch, Total Aortic Arch Replacement and Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support Cases such as Heart Transplant, Lung Transplant and other cardiothoracic transplants. He is an MBBS graduate from B. J. Medical Coll., Univ. of Pune (1997). Later, in 2005, he did his MS in General Surgery from KEM Hosp. & Seth G S Medical Coll., Mumbai. He also did an MCh in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery from the Univ. of Health Sciences, Maharashtra 2010. Dr. Khullar has become the first Cardiovascular Surgeon from the Indian Subcontinent to hold the position of Senior Associate Consultant at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. He brings more than 50 publications and abstracts on his name published in various national and international journals. He has also authored a chapter for Oxford Univ. Press on ‘Heart Transplant: Brain Death, Organ Donation, and Transplantation.’ He is an active part of various associations: the Medical Association, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Minnesota Medical Association, The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the Indian Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons. He has served as honored nationally and internationally for his significant contribution.Education
MBBS, B. J. Medical Coll., Univ. of Pune (1997) MS, General Surgery, KEM Hosp. & Seth G S Medical Coll., Mumbai , 2005 MCh, Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Bombay Hosp. & Medical Research Center, Mumbai (2010) Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, USA (2015) Fellow in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA,2016 Fellow in Heart & Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support from Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA, 2018)Past Experience
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Senior Associate Consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA (2018-2022) Consultant in Adult Cardiac Surgery at Bombay Hosp. & Medical Research Centre, Mumbai (2013-2014) Associate Consultant in Cardiac Surgery at P. D. Hinduja Hosp. & Medical Research Center, Mumbai (2012)Paper Published
Khullar, V., Schaff, H. V., Dearani, J. A., Daly, R. C., Greason, K. L., Joyce, L. D., & Pochettino, A. (2017). Open surgical repair remains the gold standard for treating aortic arch pathology. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 103(5), 1413-1420. Borde, D., Gandhe, U., Hargave, N., Pandey, K., & Khullar, V. (2013). The application of the European system for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II (EuroSCORE II) and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) risk-score for risk stratification in Indian patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 16(3), 163-166. Choi, K., Locker, C., Fatima, B., Schaff, H. V., Stulak, J. M., Lahr, B. D., ... & Khullar, V. (2022, July). Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Octogenarians—Risks, Outcomes, and Trends in 1283 Consecutive Patients. In Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 97, No. 7, pp. 1257-1268). Elsevier. Khullar, Vishal, Kevin L. Greason, Gurpreet S. Sandhu, and Sorin V. Pislaru. "Repeated Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Insertion." The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 101, no. 2 (2016): 746-747. Khullar, V., Bhalla, V., & Tyagi, H. (2018). Potential heat transfer fluids (nanofluids) for direct volumetric absorption-based solar thermal systems. Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 10(1), 011009.
Area of Expertise
- Ablation Therapy
- Aneurysm Surgery: Traditional Open Surgery
- Angiography
- Aorta Surgery
- Aortic Valve Surgery
- Aortic Valve Surgery in the Young Patient