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K M Cherian

K M Cherian

Editorial Board Member
International Centre for Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Diseases India Member since 2017

Biography

Dr. K. M.Cherian is a distinguished Cardiac Surgeon. Started his career in Christian Medical College Hospital in Vellore as lecturer in Surgery. He did his FRACS in Cardiac Surgery in 1973 while being a migrant in Australia. He worked in New Zealand and was also a migrant to United States. He worked as a Special Fellow in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in Birmingham, Alabama under Dr. John W. Kirklin and in the University of Oregon under Dr. Albert Starr while he was a migrant in US. He is an honourable Prof at the Yangzhou University, China. He performed the country’s first successful Coronary Artery bypass surgery in 1975. He also performed the country’s first heart transplant after legalization of brain death. The first Heart and Lung Transplant, the first Paediatric Transplant and also performed the first TMR. He is the first Indian to become the President of the World Congress of Thoracic Cardiac Surgeon and the first member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery from India. He is the first Asian whose name is engraved on a Rock in the island of Cos, Greece the birth place of Hippocrates. He is the Founding Vice President and Director of Madras Medical Mission, Founding Chairman of Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences. Founder Chairman of Frontier Lifeline and Frontier Mediville the first SEZ and Medical Science Park of the Country. His charitable and Educational Trust has built the St Gregorios Cardio Vascular Centre, Parumala in Kerala which is the First Super Speciality Hospital in a village in India and also an International CBSE School named “the Study Lecole International” at Puducherry.

Research Interests

Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Bypass surgery Thoracic Surgery

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