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Personal Profile
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I am a highly experienced & dedicated Cardiovascular Surgeon. Have travelled extensively visiting and lecturing at various Hospitals both within India and abroad. Have attended global conferences in the United States, Australia and Europe. I have a pleasant manner and have the ability to get on with other members of the team. Am confident, and have excellent communication skills.
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Qualifications & Career History
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MBBS (1974) Lucknow, India
MS (General Surgery) 1978
MCh Cardiothoracic Surgery (1983)
All the above from Kings George's Medical College - Lucknow, India
Visiting Consultant Cardiovascular Surgeon - University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Present: Consultant Genesis Biogen - New Delhi (Stem Cell Research)
Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon - Metro Heart Institute, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi.
Oct 1999 to Nov 2005 - Chief Cardiac Consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery - Hero DMC Heart Institute in Ludhiana, Fortis Heart Institute in Mohali, Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi, Malhotra Heart Institute in New Delhi, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi.
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Research
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Have been involved with Stem Cell Research of late (Ref. my abstract publication no 6 and my present consultancy with Genesis Biogen).
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Clinical Logbook
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My areas of expertise
Setting up cardiac surgery departments and initiating cardiac surgery in hospitals.
Escorts Heart Institute for more than 11 years (New Delhi), Batra Hospital (New Delhi), Hero DMC Heart Institute (Ludhiana), Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute (New Delhi), Arneja Heart Institute, Nagpur etc).
Have so far performed about 7000 cardiac operations independently and been associated with twice that number.
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Teaching and Research
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While working as Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery at G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur from July 1982 till January 1985. During this period, I gave regular lectures and tutorials for both U.G. and P.G. (M.S.) students and supervised MS Theses'.
I pioneered the use of the Transit Time Flow meter, for the first time in our country and my results were presented at the 12th World Congress of The World Society Of Cardiothoracic Surgeons - ISCTS', Lucerne, Switzerland from March 3 to 6, 2002.
Have been involved in teaching undergraduate students as well and training junior cardiac surgeons taking them through full cases. I also organized lectures for training of nurses and technicians. An Infection Control programme was developed by me in conjunction with the microbiologist for laying down guidelines to be followed by all personnel involved with patient care in the Institutes I worked in.
Worked at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden for varying periods of time from 1992 where I was actively associated with all the operations done there and was operating independently as well. Their department does 7-8 operations daily and is internationally known for research.
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Awards
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" Received the Science Talent Search Scholarship from the National Council of Education & Research, New Delhi from 1969-70.
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Distinguished Person Award by the Old Martinians' Association in September 1999 having excelled in my field of activity.
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Was awarded a certificate of merit from Apollo Hospital Chennai for my contribution towards the successful completion of the first 1000 open-heart operations.
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Received Certificate of appreciation from the 'Old Martinians' Association Australia (Inc.) in July 1999.
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Publications
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Indexed Publications
1. Meharwal ZS, Trehan N, Kohli VM, Sharma VK, Kasliwal RR, Mishra A, Kohli VM, Jayant A: Endarterectomy as an Adjunct to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 8(2) PP 088-091 1992.
2. Bedi HS, Arsiwala S. Sharma VK, Bhawani SS, Kumar P., Kohli VM, Trehan N: CABG in Patients with Calcific Aortitis (letter). J. Thorax Cardiovascular Surg, 102 (1): 163-164, 1991.
3. Meharwal ZS, Trehan N, Kohli VM, Sharma VK, Kasliwal RR, Mishra A, Kohli VM, Jayant A: Endarterectomy as an Adjunct to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 8(2) PP 088-091 1992.
4. Trehan N, Jayant A, Kohli VM, Meharwal ZS, Sharma VK: Drastic reduction in
Preoperative Morbidity and Mortality in High Risk Patients undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting by Preoperative Institution of Intra-Aortic Balloon Counterpulsion. Indian Heart J, 44, 1992.
5. Trehan N, Kohli VM, Sharma VK, Meharwal ZS, Kasliwal RR, Joshi P: Combined Coronary and Carotid Artery Disease. Indian Heart J, 44, 1992.
6. Trehan N, Kohli VM, Meharwal ZS, Joshi P: Coronary Endarterectomy: An invaluable Adjunct for Myocardial Revascularisation. Indian Heart J, 44, 1992.
7. Meharwal ZS, Sharma VK, Kohli VM, Mishra A, Trehan N: Composite Graft Replacement of Ascending Aorta and Aortic Valve. Ind J Thorac Cardiovascular Sug 9(1): 21-25, 1993.
8. Pande AK, Kohli VM, Omar AK, Kasliwal RR, Trehan N: Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm. Jr. Of Assoc. Of Physician of India 41(11): 744-746, 1993.
9. Meharwal ZS, Sharma VK, Kohli VM, Mishra A, Seth A, Trehan N: Percutaneous Cardiopulmonary Bypass for cardiogenic shock. Asian Card Thorac Annals 1(4): 152-155, 1993.
10. Bedi HS, Sharma VK, Kohli VM, Kasliwal RR, Trehan N: Closed Mitral Valvotomy: No More Blind procedure. Letters to the Editor. Annals of Thoracic Surg. 1994; 58:603-9, 1994.
11. Trehan N, Mishra M, Kohli VM, Mishra A, Jangid DR, Bapna R: Transmyocardial Laser Revascularisation as an Adjuct to CABG. Indian Heart J., 381-388, July - August 1996.
12. Trehan N, Mishra M, Dhole S, Mishra A, Karlekar A, Kohli VM: Significantly reduced incidence of stroke during coronary artery bypass grafting using transoesophageal echocardiography.Eur.J.Cardiothoracic Surgery. 11,234-242, 1997.
13. Trehan N, Khanna SN, Kohli VM, Karlekar A, Mehta Y, Mishra A: Early Results with Bilateral and Single Internal Mammary Artery Grafts. Are they different? Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals, Vol 3, No 1, 8-14, 1997.
14. Trehan N, Mishra M, Dhole S, Mishra A, Karlekar A, Kohli VM: Significantly reduced incidence of stroke during coronary artery bypass grafting using transoesophageal Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals, Vol. 3, No. 1, 8-14, 1997.
15. Malhotra R, Mishra M, Kler TS, Kohli VM, Mehta Y, Trehan N. Cardio protective Effects of Diltiazem Infusion in the Perioperative Period. Eur. J. Cardio-thoracic Surgery 12, 420-427, 1997.
16. Trehan N, Mishra M, Dhole D, Mishra A, Karlekar, Kohli VM: Significantly Reduced Incidence of Stroke During CABG Using Transoesophageal Echocardiography. 3rd Joint International Echocardiography: Today and Tomorrow Symposium on Echocardiography in Clinical Decision Making, PP: 15-33, 1997.
17. P Goel, S.Dubey, A.Makkar, Kohli VM: Evaluation of Coronary artery bypass grafts by intraoperative transit time flow measurement. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 19 No.2 April to June 2003.
Non-Indexed
1. Kohli VM, Coronary Artery patterns in Indian individuals. Journal of Anatomical Science Vol. 5, 1983.
2. Kohli VM, Management of coronary artery disease, PMS Patrika, 1991.
3. Arsiwala, Bedi Hs, Sharma VK, Bhawani SS, Kumar P., Kohli VM, Trehan N.: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in patients with Calcified Aorta. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Vol. 7 No.2, PP 125-127, 1991.
4. Mishra Y, Mehta Y, Kohli VM, Mairal M, Mishra A, Bapna RK, Trehan N: Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery without Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Short and Mid-Term results. Indian Heart J- 511-17 Sept -Oct, 1997.
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Published Abstracts
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1. Trehan N, Kohli VM, Kumar P., Sharma VK, Kohli V, pulsatile perfusion during Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Is It Really Useful? Indian Heart J, 43 (4): 219. 1991.
2. Trehan N, Kohli VM, Mehta Y, Mittal S, Kasliwal RR, Reduction Ventriculoplasty in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Our Initial Experience, Indian Heart J., Vol 48, No.5, Sept.-Oct. 1996.
3. Bapna RK, Kohli VM, Mairal M, Jangid DR, Juneja R, Trehan N.: Transmyocardial Laser Revascularisation as an Adjuct to CABG: An Experience of 153 Cases. Indian Heart J-Vol 48 No 5 Sept.-Oct. 1996.
4. MishraY, Bapna RK, Mishra A, Kohli VM, Malhotra R, Trehan N-Myocardial Revascularisation with Heart Laser and Direct CABG without Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Indian Heart J., Vol. 48, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1996.
5. Mishra A, Kohli VM, Sharma RK, Omar AK, Mehta Y, Trehan N.: Carotid Endarterectomy: Our Experience at the Escorts Heart Institute. Indian Heart J., Vol.48, No.5 Sept Oct. 1996.
6. Maheshwari P, Kohli VM, Omar AK, Mishra M, Mehta Y, Trehan N: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction: A safe Procedure. Indian Heart J- Vol 48 (5) 478 1996.
7. VM Kohli, G.Shroff, S.Chandna, S.Juneja, A.Jain, A.Srivastava: Embryonic stem cell therapy for non-revascularizable myocardium. No Y005, Pg 85, The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 15th World Congress World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons conference supplement 2005.
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Presentations
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International
1. Attended the Vth Asian Congress of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia held at Madras in February 1981.
2. Presented a paper entitled "Amoebic Constrictive Pericarditis - A rare entity" at the 8th Asian Congress on Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery held at Singapore from October 30th to 3rd November 1987.
3. Attended course on Live Teleconference on Complete Arterial Grafting on October 9th to 10th 1997 at Melbourne, Australia.
4. Lecture on "Clinical Experience with High Power Co2 TMR - Sole Application and Combined TMR with CABG, with and without CPB" at the 1st Asia Pacific Symposium on Heart Synchronized, High Powered Co2 Heart Laser Transmyocardial Revascularisation (TMR) on 12th October 1997 at Sydney, Australia.
5. Participated in the Surgical Workshop on Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery in Conjunction with the 13th Biennial Asian Congress of the Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia held from the 12th to 15th October 1997 at Sydney, Australia.
6. Spoke on "Coronary Endarterectomy" at the Bypass Surgery Symposium on 12th October 1997 and on "Experience at New Delhi with the Co2 Laser" in the Symposium on Transmyocardial Laser on 13th October 1997 in the 13th Biennial Asian Congress at Sydney, Australia.
7. Attended the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons January 31 - February 2nd 2000, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
8. Participated in the symposium on "Coronary Interventions for the New Millennium" August 24, 2000 in Linkoping, Sweden.
9. Presented a paper entitled "Transit Time Flow Measurement of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts" at the 12th World Congress of The World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons - ISCTS', Lucerne, Switzerland, from March 3 to 6, 2002.
National
1. Association Surgeons of India conference held at Patna in December 1981 and presented two papers entitled "The choice of surgical procedures for Thoracic outlet syndrome" and "Coronary Artery Patterns in the local population.
2. Association Surgeons of India Conference held at Bombay in December 1982 and presented papers entitled "A study of 206 patients with carcinoma of the oesophagus".
3. U.P. (State) chapter of Association Surgeons of India conference held at Lucknow in 1976 and at Kanpur in 1982 and presented on paper.
4. U.P. (State) chapter of Association Surgeons of India conference held at Kanpur in 1983 and presented one paper.
5. U.P chapter Association Surgeons of India held at Gorakhpur from 29th - 30th October 1983 and presented one paper.
6. Association Surgeons of India National Conference held at Madras in December 1983 and presented papers entitled "Pattern of chest trauma around Kanpur with special reference to their management by thoracotomy" and "Management of Eoesophageal strictures".
7. World Congress on Coronary Heart Disease held at Bombay from 6th to 8th April and presented a paper entitled "Coronary Artery Patterns in Indians".
8. A.S.I. National conference held at Lucknow in December 1984 and presented two papers entitled "A study of Arteriographic patterns in peripheral vascular disorders" and "A study of serum lipid and lipoproteins cholesterol in peripheral vascular disorder" and was co-chairman in one of the scientific sessions.
9. Participated in XXIX Annual conference of Indian Orthopedic Association held at Kanpur from 19th to 22nd October 1994.
10. Participated in the first National Workshop on Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Acute Coronary Care held at Apollo Hospital, Madras in December 1986.
11. Attended the International conference on update in Cardiology at Delhi from 18th to 21st December 1987.
12. Delivered a guest lecture on Coronary Artery Surgery at IMA, Dehradun on 1st August 1987.
13. Presented a paper entitled "Amoebiasis - A rare cause of constrictive pericardities" at the International conference on preventive cardiology and Colour Doppler Echocardiography held at Delhi from 18th to 20th December 1987.
14. Participated in the National Seminar on Progress in Surgery held at Lucknow on 8th and 9th April, 1988 and spoke on "Blood Potassium Cardioplegia; a superior method of myocardial preservation."
15. Delivered a lecture on Role of Surgery in Coronary Artery Disease at the Seminar at Safdarjung Hospital in September 1989.
16. Gave a lecture on Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery at the continuing Medical Education Programme at IMA Meerut on 30th September 1989.
17. Presented a paper "CABG in Acute MI" at the National Symposium on cardiovascular Surgery held in New Delhi in December 1989.
18. Delivered a lecture on Myocardial Ischemia at the Indian Medical Association Symposium at Ghaziabad in December 1990.
19. Participated in the International Workshop on Updates in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery" held at Madras from 11th - 13th January 1991.
20. Was a panellist in the session on Advances: Myocardial Revascularisation, myocardial preservation at the International Conference and Workshop on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery held at New Delhi from 2nd - 4th January, 1993.
21. Addressed Medical Practitioners at CME, IMA Bhavnagar, Gujarat on "An Overview of Coronary Artery Surgery" on 1st August 1993.
22. Delivered a lecture on "Role of Anesthesia in the Development of Open Heart Surgery" and Internal Mammary Artery Graft vis-s-vis Saphenous Vein Grafts in Coronary Artery Disease" at the 6th Bihar Chapter and 3rd Eastern Regional Annual Conference of Indian Society of Anesthesia at Bokaro General Hospital from 1st to 3rd October 1993.
23. Gave a guest lecture on "Redo Coronary Artery Bypass grafting" at the 45th Annual Conference of the Cardiological Society of India at Madras from 18th to 22nd December 1993.
24. Delivered a lecture on "Follow-up of a Patient with a Prosthetic Valve" at the Cardiology Update Organized by Ganga Ram Hospital on 27th February 1994.
25. Gave a guest lecture on "Status of Coronary Bypass Surgery in India" on 11th September 1994 at the Annual Conference of IMA Academy of Medical Specialties Haryana State Chapter at Panipat.
26. Delivered a lecture on "Coronary Bypass Surgery-Concept of Total Arterial Revascularisation" on 12th September 1994 on invitation by Kanpur IMA College of General Practitioners for their refresher Course.
27. Addressed IMA Bareilly on 25th December 1994 on Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.
28. Gave a lecture on "Current Status of Bypass Surgery in India" at the State level Refresher Course organised by IMA Meerut branch on 23rd September 1995.
29. Gave a lecture on "Present Concept in the Surgical Management of Coronary Artery Disease" at King George's Medical College in December 1995 at the Silver Jubilee Reunion.
30. Participated in the panel discussion and delivered a lecture on "Surgical vs. Medical Management of the Proximal LAD lesion" at the annual Indian Medical Association meeting at Dehradun in April 1996.
31. Spoke on the "Surgical Management of Coronary Artery Disease" at the CME Update on 15th September 1996 at Moradabad.
32. Spoke on "Recent trends in the Management of Coronary Artery Disease" at the end of September 1996 at Muzzaffarnagar.
33. Spoke to the Member of "Bharat Vikas Parishad" on Heart attack on two occasions, once in January and again in February 1997 at their two different branches.
34. Spoke on the "Current Status of Coronary Bypass Surgery" at Indian Medical Association, New Delhi, and Annual Day Celebration on 2nd March 1997.
35. Addressed Post-Graduate at GSVM Medical College, Kanpur on "Surgical Management of Coronary Artery Disease" on 4th October 1997.
36. Delivered the R.K. Seth memorial Oration on "Cardiac Surgery Coming of Age" at IMA Kanpur on 4th October 1997.
37. Spoke on "Cardio Myoplasty" as an invited speaker at the Symposium on "Surgical Therapy of Severe Heart Failure" on 28th November 1997 in the 49th Annual Conference of the Cardiological Society of India held at Science City, Calcutta from 27th -30th November, 1997.
38. Co-Chaired the Session on "Trends in Coronary Artery Surgery" on 30th November 1997 in 49th Annual Conference of the Cardiological Society of India held at Science City, Calcutta from 27th -30th November, 1997.
39. Spoke on "Newer Surgical Techniques at on the turn of the Millenium" at the Symposium on "Newer Concepts in Heart Care" at Community Centre, Maharani Bagh, New Delhi on 12th June 1998
40. Spoke on "Surgery in acute M.I." at the cardiology update organised by "Chikitsa" on 3rd April 1999.
41. Gave a public lecture on the "Role of Surgery in Coronary artery disease" at the New Friends Club, New Delhi on 18th April 1999.
42. Addressed Medical Practitioners on "Management of Coronary artery disease" organised by the Indian Medical Association, Muzzaffarnagar, and U.P. on 27th June 1999.
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Theses
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Wrote a thesis on "A study of blood coagulation and platelets during Haemodialysis" - for M.S. Surgery and "A clinico epidemiological study of carcinoma oesophagus" - for M.Ch Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
"A STUDY OF CLINICO-AETIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF OBLITERATIVE PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES."
"MANAGEMENT OF VASCULAR PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH INJURIES OF EXTERMITIES".
" "TO EVALUATE THE ROLE OF VARIOUS SURGICAL TECHNIQUES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF UPPER GASTRO INTESTINAL HAEMORRAHAGE".
"STUDY CASES OF MEDIATINAL MASSES WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY
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