Dr. Vijay Dikshit

Educational Qualification

• M.B.B.S at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow in 1973
• Master of Surgery (M.S) at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow in December 1977
• Magister Chirurge (M.Ch) Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow University in July 1980

Work Experience

• Housemanship at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow University Gandhi Memorial & Associated Hospital, Lucknow (Jan 1974 - Dec 1974)

• Residency in General Surgery (Jan 1975 – Dec 77) KingGeorge’s Medical College,Gandhi Memorial & Associ- ated Hospital, Lucknow

• Chief Residency In General Surgery: 1/3/1978 - 21/7/78 Department of surgery K.G. Medical College, Lucknow

• Chief Resident 22/7/78 – 29/2/80 Senior Resident 15/4/80– 31/3/81 in the Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Gandhi Memorial& Associated HospitalKing George’s MedicalCollege, Lucknow

• Appointed to the Pool for Scientists and Technologists Constituted by the Council Of Scientific and Industrial Research

• Assistant : Medical Officer Cardio - Thoracic Surgery, Southern Railway Head-Quarters Hospital, Perambur,Madras. 19/9/81 – 27/12/82

• Lecturer in Thoracic Surgery Dept. of Surgery K.G. Medical College, Lucknow Dec 1982 – Dec 1984

• Consultant : Cardio-ThoracicSurgeon Apollo Hospital Madras Dec 1984 – Sept 1991

• Senior Consultant Chief of Cardio Thoracic surgery Apollo Hospital Hyderabad.

Overseas work and training

1. 1985 CARDIAC MEDICAID Fellowship in USA for 3 months at

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesotta
• The Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Los Angeles
• Dr. Dudley Johnson’s Unit at Milwaukee

2. 1988 Attended Paediatric Surgery Programme at Royal Children Hospital, Melbourne, Australia with Dr. Roger B Mee, renowned authority on Paediatric Cardiac Surgery

3. 1991 Special Training for Heart Transplantation at Abbots, North Western Hospital, Minne- apolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, USA for 4 weeks.

4. 1996 Attended Official Training Workshop Programme (LE CLUB MITRALE) for Mitral Valve Repair Surgery, conducted by Dr. Alen Carpentier at Florida, USA Dr. Alen Carpentier was a very senior Cardiac Surgeon from Paris, France and he is a world author- ity for Mitral Valve Repair Surgery.

Publications

• The Senning Operation for Correction of Transposition of the Great Arteries. M.R. Girinath, Ganesh K. Mani, K.N. Reddy, R.K. Kalyan Sigh, Vijay Dikshit Indian Journal of Thoracic & Cardio Vascular Surgery 1982 ; 1 : 71 – 3
• Surgical Management of Aneurysm of the Ascending Aorta with Aortic Insufficiency Vijay Dikshit, Afroz Faruqi, D.K. Satsangi, J.S.N. Moorthy, M.R. Girinath Indian Journal of Thoracic & Cardio Vascular Surgery 1983 ; 2 : 39- 40
• Surgical Management of Partial Atrio Ventricular Canal Defects M.R. Girinath, Vijay Dikshit, K. Vardharajan, L.F. Sridhar. Proceedings of the World Conference on Open Heart Surgery, 1985, Bombay, India Chapter 17 ; 29 – 90
• Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Indian Patients M.R. Girinath, Vijay Dikshit, K. Subramanyam, K. Vardharajan. Proceedings of the World Conference on Open Heart Surgery, 1985, Bombay, India.
• Surgery For Coronary Artery Disease M.R. Girinath, Vijay Dikshit, Bakhtawar Murali Venkatraman South India Surgical Clinics, July 1988 Vol 3 : 215 – 218 Co-author of chapter in API text book of Medicine V edition Chapter Title – Surgical Aspects of Coronary Artery Disease Section : Cardiology edited by Dr. M.L. Bhatia

Rewards and prices

• Received FIE National Award in 1994 from Dr. Manmohan Singh, Union Finance Min- ister for excellence in Medical Sciences, along with many other luminaries like Mr. Arun Shourie (Journalism), Mr. Ashok Kumar (Film actor), Mr. R.C. Bhargava (Maruti Udyog)
• Rama Krishna Mission honored for dedicated service to humanity.
• Facilitated by the Medtronics Inc. USA for achieving 5000 Open Heart Surgeries in the year 2000.
• Facilitated by the Chairman, Apollo Group Padma Bhushan Dr. Pratap C. Reddy for excellent services and for being the part of the team which perform 10,000 Open Heart Surgeries at Apollo Group. in the Year 2006.
• Facilitated by the Chairman Apollo Hospital, Mr. Chiranjeevi (Film actor) for completing 20000 Heart Surgeries in the year 2016.