INTRODUCTION:

Dr. Jnanesh Thacker, Surgical Director of Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Mechanical Assist Devices, and Minimally Invasive Lung Transplantations, achieves the rare and significant milestone of completing more than 500 heart and lung transplants with successful outcomes. He was an accomplished cardiothoracic surgeon before going to the USA to intensify his experience in heart and lung transplantation. He trained at UPMC, Pittsburgh, the mecca of heart and lung transplants, before becoming full-time faculty there and subsequently leading the heart and lung transplant program at Temple University, Philadelphia. 

After completing over 70 transplants in just four months, he was even highlighted on the cover of Temple’s CAPSULE magazine. Temple Times named him the world’s quickest lung transplant surgeon. He was also involved in academia, training fellows and postgraduates, and producing a large number of publications. He trained numerous advanced fellows in heart and lung transplants during his four-year tenure as a faculty member at Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Experience

• Reaching a significant professional milestone, Dr. Jnanesh Thacker has performed 500 heart and lung transplants in total. March 2023: Up To This Point.
• Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, July 2021–February 2023 Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad Aug. 2019–June 2021.
• Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
• Director of Heart and Lung Transplantation Specialist in Minimally Invasive Lung Transplantation.
• April 2017-August 2019.
• PSG Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
• Director of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
• Specialist in Minimally Invasive Lung Transplantation.

Education

• Advance Fellow in Thoracic Transplantation and Assist Device at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, P.A., USA, July 2005–June 2007.
• Full faculty in the division of cardiac surgery, Section of Heart and Lung Transplantation and Assist Devices, Temple University, Philadelphia, P.A., USA, July 2007–June 2009.
• Whole faculty in the heart surgery department. July 2009–March 2011: Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Section of Heart and Lung Transplantation and Assist Devices.
• Master of Chirurgie Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Seth G.S. Medical College, and K.E.M.
• Hospital Bombay, July 1986–June 1989.
• Master of General Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital.
• Bombay, July 1982, June 1986.
• July 1989: Extra Corporeal Technology Diploma, K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.
• MBBS, Jaihind College, Sir Grant Medical College, Bombay, April 1972–March 1973.

Membership

• Life Member International Society of Heart and Lung. Transplantation. (ISHLT) from 2005 Member: Indian Association of Thoracic Surgeons (IATS), 1995.
• Association of Thoracic Surgeons in Pennsylvania (PATS) since 2007.
• Indian Society of Cardiology (IATS) 1995. 
• Indian Medical Association, Bombay (IMA-Bombay), 1995.