EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience

• Currently Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and In charge of Academics and Director of Cardiovascular Surgical Research at STAR Hospitals, Road No.10, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad – 500034, (since May, 2008).
• Head of the DNB Program for Cardiothoracic Surgery (2011-2013) and Currently DNB Faculty at STAR Hospitals, Road No.10, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500034.
• Head of the DNB Program in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at CARE Hospital, The Institute of Medical Sciences, Road No.1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500034 (2005-2008).
• Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at CARE Hospital, The Institute of Medical Sciences, Road No.1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500034 from January 2001 to April 2008.
• Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Medwin Hospitals, R.R. Towers, Chirag Ali Lane, Hyderabad - 500001. (Mar, 2000 to Jan, 2001).
• Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai-600050. (Nov, 1999 to Feb, 2000).
• Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Citi Cardiac Research Centre, Vijayawada, A.P., INDIA (April 1996 to October 1999).
• Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon at Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, A.P., INDIA (March, 1993 to March 1996).
• Fellow for one year in Cardiovascular Surgery under Prof. Denton A. Cooley at Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. (Jan, 1992 to Dec, 1992).
• Junior Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon at Apollo Hospital Hyderabad, A.P.,INDIA (Sept, 1991 to Nov. 1991).
• Senior Registrar in the Department of Cardiothoracic surgery at Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad. A.P., INDIA. (February, 1990 to August, 1991).
• Senior Resident in the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. (January, 1986 to January 1990).
• Senior Resident in the Department of Cardiothoracic surgery at JIPMER, Pondicherry, India (August, 1986 to December, 1986).
• Senior Resident in the Department of surgery at Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) Pondicherry, India (April 1986 to July 1986).
• Junior Resident in the Department of surgery at Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry for three years (May, 1983 to March 1986).
• First Year Resident in the Department of surgery at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, (July, 1981 to June, 1982).

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* 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.

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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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