MS – General Surgery, MCh – Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Dr. Ritwick Bhuyan is a Director of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery at Fortis Escorts, Okhla with 27 years of working experience in high volume cardiothoracic centers in India & Australia. He has been associated with nearly 15,000 open heart procedures. Performed more than 7000 open heart surgeries independently over the same time, which includes repair of ASD, VSD, Mitral & Aortic Valve Replacement & Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (on & off pump), mitral valve repair, minimally invasive mitral & aortic valve replacement, MICS CABG, surgery for arterial fibrillation, repair of aortic aneurysms, LVAD, Implantation with HEARTMATE 2 device.
Education:
- MBBS – Guwahati Medical College , Assam
- MS (General Surgery)- Assam Medical College
- MCh (CTVS) – Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
Speciality Training:
- Senior Fellow, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery – Royal Adelaide Hospital , Australia
- Senior Fellow, Aortic Surgery- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
- Fellow in Heart transplant and artificial heart – University Hospital Of South Manchester, UK
- Senior Fellow, Mitral valve repair – Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
- Certified Fellow, Ventricular assist Device – Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
- Certified Fellow, TAVI – University of Lille, France
- Certified Fellow, Mitral valve repair – Bangkok Chest Institute, Thailand
Surgical Experience:
- Years of Experience: 20+ Years
- Total number of cardiac operations performed: About 12,000
- Total number of cardiac operations handled: About 30,000
Previous Positions:
- Senior Registrar, Adult cardiac Surgery- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
- Senior Registrar, Cardiac Surgery- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum
- Senior Overseas Fellow, Cardiac Surgery- Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
- Senior Registrar, Endoscopic Heart Surgery- Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Australia
- Senior Registrar, Minimal Access Heart Surgery- Ashford Hospital, Australia
- Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgery – Max Hospital, Saket
- Fellow, Heart and Lung transplant- UHSM, Manchester, UK
- Fellow, Ventricular Assist Device, ECMO- UHSM, Manchester, UK
- Fellow, LVAD implant – Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
Areas of Interest and Expertise:
- Beating heart cardiac bypass operation or off-pump CABG
- Minimally invasive or keyhole bypass operation
- Video-assisted keyhole valve repair and replacement operations
- Heart and Lung transplantation
- Ventricular Assist device (VAD ) operations
- Mitral valve repair
- Transcatheter Aortic valve Implantation (TAVI)
- Aortic aneurysms
- Endovascular repair of Aneurysms
- Complex Aortic operations
- Total arterial revascularisation
- Endoscopic Vessel harvesting procedures
- Redo cardiac operations
- Cardiac Tumor operations
- Surgery for Heart failure
- Thoracic operations
- All types of vascular operations
- Low-cost innovations for cardiac operations
- Development of Innovative artificial heart
Memberships:
- Society Of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
- International Society of heart and lung transplantation(ISHLT)
- International Society for Minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery (ISMICS)
- Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO)
- Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS)
- Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of India (SMICTSI)
- Australian and NewZealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS)
- Indian Medical Association
OPD Locations & Timings:
You Can Meet Dr. Ritwick Raj Bhuyan at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre: Monday to Saturday -1 PM to 3 PM (with prior booking only)
