Dr. Rajneesh Malhotra
Experience: Over 34 years
Max Super Speciality Hospital
Panchsheel Park, New Delhi, India
Introduction
Dr. Rajneesh Malhotra is the Vice Chairman and Head of Cardiac Surgery across the Max Healthcare network. He also won the Best Oral Presentation award at the massive ISMICS conference in San Francisco for his cutting-edge surgical insights.
About Dr. Rajneesh Malhotra
With over thirty-four years of operating on the human heart, Dr. Rajneesh Malhotra handles the absolute highest-pressure surgeries imaginable. Did his MBBS and MS right at KGMC in Lucknow before grabbing his MCh in CTVS from Kanpur. Then he basically traveled the world to master minimally invasive techniques and brought all those strict international protocols straight back to India.
Beyond the robotic work, he takes on the really terrifying end-stage heart failure cases. Before taking the Vice Chairman role at Max, he built a massive clinical footprint serving as the Director of Cardiac Surgery at Medanta and working as a senior consultant at Escorts Heart Institute.
Qualifications
- MBBS — King George’s Medical College (KGMC), Lucknow.
- MS (General Surgery) — KGMC, Lucknow.
- MCh (CTVS) — L.P.S Institute of Cardiology, Kanpur.
- Cardiac Surgery Fellowship — University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
- Da Vinci Robotic Surgery Training — Ohio State University, USA.
- Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Training — Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, USA.
- Port Access Cardiac Surgery Training — Utah, USA.
Awards & Recognition
- Vice Chairman & Head of Cardiac Surgery (CTVS) at Max Healthcare.
- Previously Director of Cardiac Surgery at Medanta – The Medicity.
- Recipient of the highly coveted J.J. Sood Oration Award.
- ISMICS in San Francisco, USA.
- Former Senior Consultant at Escorts Heart Institute.
- Former Chief Consultant at Durdons Heart Surgical Centre, Sri Lanka.
Specialities & Expertise
- Robotic and minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS)
- Keyhole CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting)
- Heart transplant and LVAD implantation
- Robotic valve repair and replacement
- ECMO therapy for severe heart failure
- Aortic aneurysm repair and TAVI
Patient Experience & Approach
Bypass patients say Dr. Rajneesh Malhotra completely changes their perspective on open-heart surgery by explaining exactly how his robotic keyhole approach avoids breaking the chest bone. His decades of experience really show up when discussing high-risk ECMO therapies, keeping expectations totally grounded while aggressively fighting to keep the patient alive.