Medaviate

Dr. Harpreet Wasir

Experience: 33+ years

Education: MBBS, MS, MCh.

Department: Cardiology

Specialization: Cardiac Surgery

Hospital: Medanta Hospital Gurgaon, India

INTRODUCTION:

During my tenures both as an undergraduate from Maulana Azad Medical College & Assoc Lok Narain Jaiprakash Hospital and postgraduate from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh from where I completed my General surgery programme, my training had been under the supervision of faculty par excellence of national and international repute. After I joined the CTVS department at the esteemed AIIMS, New Delhi, the same thing kept happening. I was in charge of actively participating in the preoperative and postoperative patient care as a senior resident in the CTVS department at AIIMS. Managing new and follow-up patients in clinics was a regular responsibility throughout. Managing junior residents during their first training was a difficult task from the start. I was actively involved in performing surgery initially under supervision and later independently and being with the patient all throughout until their discharge from the ward. During my training program, I was involved in more than 1500 cardiac procedures, including as valve replacement, CABG, and the treatment of both basic and complicated congenital heart abnormalities. After joining EHIRC, New Delhi first as an attending Cardiac Surgeon and then been promoted as Junior Consultant in Cardiac Surgery, my experience grew while dealing with all variety of adult Cardiac Surgery. During the last 3 years during which our team has continued to perform basically routine variety of adult Cardiac Surgery along with specialised procedure such as Heart Port Surgery, Redo CABGs all variety of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery dealing with coronary arteries and valves, and Robotic Cardiac Surgery which was first introduced in our setup for the first time in India. We have the most robotic cardiac surgery experience in India. My interest in research has been right from school days where the inception came from dissections of various insects and small animals to know the intricacies of living beings. I was the president of the science club, and I won the coveted Duke of Edinburgh Award for overall achievement through a variety of efforts. Interest in research continued throughout in college and medical school. My interest in sepsis made us do for the first time research work in animals (Research fellowship Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR) to show a direct relationship between sepsis and free radicals. While continuing my teaching in Cardiac Surgery I have undertaken various research projects which lately includes patho-physiology of Valvular Heart Disease in failing heart (Ischemic Mitral Valve Disease) for which I visited various centres in Minneapolis and San Francisco to learn about Mitral Valve Anatomy in the failing Heart.

Specialization and Expertise

  • Coronary Arteries and Valves
  • CABG
  • Valve Replacement and Correction of Complex
  • Simple Congenital Cardiac Malformations
  • Cardiac Surgery
  • Robotic Cardiac Surgery
  • Heart Port Surgery
  • Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Milestones Achieved

  • Certificate of Merit for overall academic performance (1986).
  • Award paper presented at 45th Annual conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons, February 1999, Bhopal, India.
  • Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – Project 1996, Effect of Free Radical in Sepsis following Abdominal Surgery (Under Professor N.K. Ganguly), PGIMER, Chandigarh, 1996.
  • Beating Heart verses Conventional Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, prospective ongoing study – EHIRC, New Delhi.
  • Certificate of Honours (St. Columba’s High School).
  • National Mathematics Olympiad Contest Merit Certificate.
  • Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for all round performance in academics and extra-curricular activities.
  • Scholar Badge for overall academic performance (1984 – 1985).

Awards/Academic Achievements

  • Award paper presented at 45th Annual conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons, February 1999, Bhopal, India.
  • Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – Project 1996, Effect of Free Radical in Sepsis following Abdominal Surgery (Under Professor N.K. Ganguly), PGIMER, Chandigarh,1996.
  • Beating Heart verses Conventional Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, prospective on-going study – EHIRC, New Delhi. TRA, 2020.
  • Certificate of Honours (St. Columba’s High School), 2020.
  • National Mathematics Olympiad Contest Merit Certificate, 2020.
  • Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for all round performance in academics and extra-curricular activities, 2020.
  • Scholar Badge for overall academic performance (1984 – 1985).
  • Certificate of Merit for overall academic performance (1986).