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Jai Shankar Raman

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Jai Shankar Raman, M.D., Ph.D.

5841 South Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL  60637
United States

1 773 702-2500
1 773 7024187 (Fax)

www.uchicago.edu

Institutional Affiliation

  • University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Specialty

  • Adult Cardiac Surgery
  • Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
  • General Thoracic Surgery

Background

  • St John's Medical College, Bangalore, India - MBBS 1985
  • Master of Medicine - Sydney University, Australia 1993
  • Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - 1996
  • PhD - University of Melbourne, Australia - March,2002
  • First successful ventricular containment procedure performed in April,1999 at Melbourne
  • Developed ventricular containment, geometric endo-ventricular repair of Left ventricular scars.
  • Helped evaluate radio-frequency ablation catheters for EPT and helped with human application in the

Interests

  • Surgery for Heart Failure
  • Arterial Grafting in Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
  • New techniques in valve repair
  • High Risk Cardiac Surgery
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • Aortic Valve and aortic surgery
  • Robotic Cardiac & Thoracic Surgery
  • Endovascular Stent Grafting of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
  • OPCAB surgery using pedicled arterial grafts, anastomotic device development

Last Modified: 24-Feb-2007

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