Dr. Ravi Chandra J B is a consultant in Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, with over 19 years of medical experience who has worked in different parts of India which gives him a unique multilingual expertise in Kannada, English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and Bengali. He completed his schooling in Bangalore and basic medical training from Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore. He was later appointed as an assistant professor in Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research and gained extensive clinical and teaching experience. He was part of a team that performed a full spectrum of surgeries including coronary artery bypass graft on pump or off pump, coronary endarterectomy, Mitral valve repair/replacement, Aortic valve repair/ replacement, Bentall's procedure, Root enlargement procedures, surgery for Aortic aneurysm, surgeries for ASD, VSD, TOF, Coarctation of aorta, Pulmonary endarterectomy, Redo procedures,valve repairs/replacements. Presently Dr. Ravi Chandra is working at Sakra World Hospital as a consultant in Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery.
He trained for his DNB (general surgery) at St Martha's Hospital which has been involved in medical services for over 130 years. He was also conferred with the prestigious MRCS (Edinburgh, UK). He received his M.Ch (Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery) from Smt. NHL Medical College, Ahmedabad.
Dr. Ravi’s areas of interests are Adult and Congenital cardiac surgeries, Beating heart bypass surgery, Valve repair, minimally invasive surgeries for mitral and aortic valve repair/replacement, ASD, VSD closure, Thoracic surgeries - Decortication, Lobectomy, Pneumonectomy, Video assisted thoracic surgery(VATS), Vascular surgeries – Peripheral Bypass, Surgeries for Varicose veins.