1. Sharad Panday was on the team of surgeons who performed the first-ever heart transplant in India at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College in Mumbai.
10 Facts About Sharad Panday
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Sharad Panday was a specialist in bloodless heart surgery, and was an early exponent of bloodless open heart surgery in India.
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Sharad Panday was born on 22 October 1934 in Bombay, India.
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Sharad Panday was a recipient of the Ontario Heart Foundation fellowship in 1969.
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Sharad Panday, who trained under the Canadian surgeon Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, adopted the technique and tailored it to Indian conditions.
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Sharad Panday performed bloodless open heart surgeries at KEM in the 1970s and 1980s.
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In 1986 Sharad Panday performed a rare heart operation at the Nanavati hospital in Bombay, wherein a large tumor was removed from the left ventricle of a 29-year-old patient.
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Sharad Panday was attached to Breach Candy Hospital and Holy Family Hospital, Mumbai.
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Sharad Panday was elected as the first president of the latter society on 15 June 1991.
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Sharad Panday died on 8 November 2004 at his residence in a suburb of Mumbai.