Dr. Rohan Reddy C.

OP Timings:

I. Qualifications:

• MBBS - Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru
• DNB General Surgery - Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai
• Senior Residency - Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad
• DrNB Thoracic Surgery - Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bengaluru
• Fellow (Uniportal VATS - Shanghai)
• Fellow (Robotic Surgery - Brazil)

II. Experience:

• 2019 - 2022 - DrNB Thoracic Surgery (Residency – 3 years) - Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, Narayana Health City (erstwhile Narayana Hrudayalaya), Bangalore
• 2017 - 2019 - Senior Resident, Dept of General Surgery - Dr. VRK Women’s Medical College, Teaching Hospital, and Research Centre.
• 2016 - 2017 - Senior Resident, Dept of Emergency Surgery & Trauma - Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.
• 2013 - 2016 - DNB General Surgery (Residency – 3 years) - Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai.
• 2012 - 2013 - Junior Research Fellow, Dept of Neurosurgery - NIMHANS, Bengaluru.

III. Skills/ Area of interest:

• Open and Minimal Invasive thoracic surgery - VATS (Video-assisted thoracic surgery) and RATS (Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery).
• The first assistant to more than 200 uni portal VATS (Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery) cases and performed several independently.
• Bedside assistant in more than 80 robotic thoracic surgical cases.
• Bedside assistant to the first uni portal RATS (Robotic-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery) case performed in India (da Vinci X system).
• Currently undergoing training in post-graduate Robotic thoracic surgery course held by Albert Einstein Israelite hospital, Brazil for certification by Intuitive.
• Surgeries for various benign lung diseases (including tubercular) and lung cancers.
• Mediastinal pathologies – Thymectomies (for myasthenic and non-myasthenic) and several other benign and malignant mediastinal pathologies.
• First assistant in Lung transplant cases as well (both the recipient and donor side).
• Exposure to tracheal surgeries.
• Experienced in the management of chest trauma cases.
• Good interpersonal communication skills and ability in counseling patients; fluent in Telugu, English, Hindi, and Kannada.

IV. Research, Publications & Accolades:

• “Letter of Commendation” from the National Board for ‘outstanding research work’ - Study of Outcomes in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lung Resections in a Tertiary Care Center (Doctoral thesis in DrNB thoracic surgery) - The first-of-its-kind study from India.

V.Presentations:

• Original paper presentation: Uniportal VATS – A single centre experience. IACTSCON 2022 (68th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons), Jaipur, Rajasthan
• Original paper presentation: Outcomes in Uniportal VATS Anatomical Lung Resections. ISTST (Indian Society of Thoracic Surgery-Trust) National Conference 2021; Virtual.
• Case Capsule presentation: Mediastinal Castleman disease with supraclavicular extension – challenging case. ISTST National Conference 2020; New Delhi. -  
• Poster presentation: Subxiphoid Robotic Thymectomy. ISTST National Conference 2020; New Delhi.
• Regular participation and case presentations in Monthly CME conducted by ISTST
• Poster presentation - Giant Diverticulum posing a Diagnostic difficulty; presented in IASGCON (National Gastrointestinal Surgical Conference), Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2014.

VI. Publications:

• Case Report – Delayed recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax post-recovery from COVID-19 infection.
• Case Report - Mediastinal Castleman disease with supraclavicular extension – a diagnostic dilemma and surgical challenge.
• Case Report - Placental site trophoblastic tumor in a pulmonary vascular malformation with spontaneous pneumothorax
• Case Report - Reverse Macklin effect.
• Images - Castleman disease – a rare and intriguing malady.
• Case Report – Primary Pleuro-Pulmonary Ewing's Sarcoma: Multimodal Approach with Uniportal Thoracoscopic Resection.
• Case Report - Recurrent Choledochal Cyst with Pancreatitis - A Rare Indication for Whipple’s Surgery - Case Report and Review of Literature; published in Annals of International Medical and Dental Research (Indexed).