AWARDS

Memberships, Fellowships, Awards, and Affiliations

Member, American Association for Thoracic Surgery (2013).

International member of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Chicago, IL, USA. (1999).

Fellow of American College of Surgeons. (Thor1997).

Member, The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (2007).

Elected member of Denton A. Cooley, Cardiovascular Surgical Society, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. (December 1992).

Member, Asian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (2007).

Member, International Advisory Board of Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals(2002).

Member of Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia.

Member, Executive Committee of Indian Association of Cardiovascular –Thoracic Surgeons. (2004-2007).

Member, Executive Committee of the Heart failure Society of India (2007).

Fellow of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons.

Founder member and Fellow of Indian College of Cardiology, Bangalore.

Recipient of 2000MillenniumMedalofHonorawardedbyAmericanBiographical Institute, Inc. Raleigh, NC, USA (1998).

Guest reviewer for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, Cardiology and Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Indian Heart Journal.

Founder, Cardiac Surgical Forum, Hyderabad (2004).

He was awarded Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award-2007 by the A.P. State Council of Science and Technology.

He is currently working as an Assistant Editor, Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

He is also working as a Section Editor, Cardiothoracic Surgery of Indian Heart Journal.

Guest Faculty for National Conferences

National Faculty-Cardiology update in clinics 2014. Surgical anatomy of the mitral valve and aortic valve. Chennai, 14th -16th March 2014.

National Faculty – Preservation of Annulo-papillary Continuity in Mitral Surgery, National Continuing Medical Education organized by Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons held at Chennai, August 2013.

National Faculty - Radial artery: the controversial conduit for CABG IACTS CTCME 2012 held at Nizam`s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad Nov 2012.

Faculty, Advanced Cardiovascular Solutions INDIA 2012, August 3rd - 5th 2012.

Faculty, IACTS Techno College Held at Ahmadabad May 5th and 6th 2012.

National Continuing Medical Education organized by Indian Association of Cardiovascular - Thoracic Surgeons held at New Delhi, November 2005.

National Continuing Medical Education organized by Indian Association of Cardiovascular - Thoracic Surgeons held at Hyderabad, August 2005.

VI Annual Conference of South Asian Society for Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis held at Hyderabad, Oct 2004.

National Continuing Medical Education organized by Indian Association of Cardiovascular - Thoracic Surgeons held at Chennai, May 2004.

Annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation held at Hyderabad, 2003.

International Workshop on Mitral Valve Repair Procedures held at Hyderabad, August 2003.

* Introduction of New Heart Surgery

*He is the Founder-President of the Society of Coronary Surgeons, which was inaugurated virtually by His Excellency Honorable Vice-President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Ji in December 2020.

* He is elected as the Junior Vice-President of IACTS during the 67th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS) held between 26 and 28th Feb 2021. He shall be installed as the President of IACTS in 2023.

* Promote Patency Trial; the first multi-centric Randomized Controlled trial conducted in Cardiac Surgery in India by seven Cardiac Surgeons under the leadership of Dr. Lokeswara Rao Sajja was published in the Indian Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery was selected for the Best Original Article 2020 award during the 67th Annual Conference of IACTS.

* Dr. Sajja is one of the Authors of a paper published from the Arterial Revascularization Trial, one of the largest and longest followed-up multi-national RCT in Cardiac Surgery, -Ten-year outcomes after off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: Insights from the Arterial Revascularization Trial, was published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery-2020.

* He Presented contemporary trends in coronary artery surgery in India at the old Congress on cardia sciences in 2018

* The study was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American for Thoracic Surgery at SanDiego in April-2008

* PROMOTE Patency- Prospective Randomized comparison of Off-pump and On-pump Multivessel cOronary artery bypass surgery To Evaluate outcomes and graft patency. The study was conducted at 6 centers in India (Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nadiad, Coimbatore) a total of 320 patients were enrolled.

* Dr. Sajja delivered a lecture in Dr. C Sambasiva Rao Memorial Endowment CME program on “Recent advances in Cardiac Surgery” at Guntur Medical College, Guntur on 28.Feb.2016.

* Lokeswara Rao Sajja. Bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting in India - time to raise the bar. Presented at American Association for Thoracic Surgery International Coronary Congress held in New York, USA. August 21-23,2015.

* Lokeswara Rao Sajja, Gopi Chand Mannam , Rama Chandra Raju Pusapati Ramesh Gudapati, Raghava Raju Penumatsa Jyothsna Guttikonda Sriramulu Sompalli. Analysis of thirty-day outcomes of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: a large cohort study. Presented at American Association for Thoracic Surgery International Coronary Congress held in New York, USA. August 21-23,2015.

* Sajja LR, Strategies to reduce deep sternal wound infection after bilateral internal mammary artery grafting. Int J Surg. 2015;16: 171-178.

* Lokeswara Rao Sajja. “The Journey of Surgery for Coronary Artery Disease in India: Adoption, Customization and Innovation”. Sadasivan Oration. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014; 30:116-128.

Healthy Heart Ride 2014 - KBR Park Hyderabad

Lokeswara Rao Sajja. The journey of surgery for coronary artery disease in India: adoption, customization and innovation. Sadasivan Oration of Indian Association of Cardiovascular –Thoracic Surgeons June 2014, Volume 30, Issue 2, pp 116-128

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