Dr. Dhananjay Malankar

Dr. Dhananjay Malankar

Sr. Consultant - Pediatric Cardio Thoracic Surgery

Specialities

Cardiology, Pediatrics

About Doctor

Dr Dhananjay Malankar is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon with extensive experience in the field of cardiac surgery. His training in cardiothoracic surgery started from ‘All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi’, the premier institute of India from where he has done is education. Additional 3 years he acquired his experience in operative skills. After that, he has pursued 2 year fellowship in adult cardiac surgery at The Cleveland Clinic which is one of the topmost institute in the USA where he had been trained for the state of the art of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Heart failure surgeries like LVAD insertion and Heart transplant. In the 1st year fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he completed his training in Congenital Heart Disease and their surgical options along with a variety of neonatal and Pediatric cardiac surgery cases and their peri- operative management.

Qualification

  • MBBS, MS Genera Surgery
  • M. Ch. (Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery)
  • Fellowship in Adult cardiac & Heart failure surgery & Pediatric and neonatal cardiac surgery

Area of Expertise

  • Paediatric and neonatal cardiac surgery
  • Mechanical circulatory support — ECMO & VAD placement
  • Heart Failure Surgery – Heart Transplantation
  • Valve repair — mitral valve repair and tricuspid valve (Ebstein’s) repair

Work Experience

  • Fellowship in Heart failure and complex adult cardiac surgery – The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA
  • Fellowship in Congenital cardiac surgery – The Childrens’ hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Conducted numerous Pediatric cardiac surgical camps in Iraq at A1-Sadiq hospital in Babylon and Imam-A1-Hasan hospital in Karbala
  • Operated on more than 200 children with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) in these camps in Iraq
  • Operated on more than 5000 children with CHDs in his career spanning more than 12 years as an independent consultant.
  • Successfully performed many complex pediatric cardiac surgeries like Double switch operation, Truncal switch operation, Norwood procedure, permanent HeartMate3 LVAD implantation and numerous Heart transplants