Dr. Tapas Raychaudhury Cardiac Surgeon in Kolkata

Dr. Tapas Raychaudhury

Cardiac Surgeon, Kolkata

MBBS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS (Edin)

  • 40 Years Experience
  • 1 Hospital

About

  •  Dr. Tapas Raychaudhury give second opinion on patients' reports and try to manage heart patients on medicine alone without any surgery or baloon angioplasty. In selected cases, He perform mini-bypass surgery with remission up to 20 years.
  • He is the first surgeon to perform the first 75 consecutive multi-vessel Bypass surgery in Kolkata between 1984 and 1986
  • He then built B.M. Birla Heart Hospital as its first Project Director
  • In February 1996 he performed the first Beating Heart Bypass surgery in Eastern India and in the same year he performed the first Mini-Bypass Surgery of Kolkata through a small 4 inch cut in the left side of the chest
  • From 2002 onwards, this pioneer bypass surgeon, along with his team members performed over 11,000 Bypass surgeries for low and middle income group at an affordable mean cost of only Rs 65,000 with99% success
  • He worked in a high profile Cardio-thoracic center in Manchester before returning to Kolkata
  • He joined as The Project Director of B.M. Birla Heart Center and built the hospital the way you see it to-day
  • He was then invited to join Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia, as the Chief Resident and worked there for two years before returning to Kolkata permanently
  • By this time he has already performed 5000 open heart surgeries
  • Till date his total number of heart surgeries has gone past 15,000 operations
  • Languages : English, Bengali, Hindi

Specialities

  • Cardiac Surgery

  • Cardiothoracic Surgery

  • Cardiovascular Surgery

Expertise


Education

  • Post graduate training in United Kingdom after completing 2 years house job in surgery in Kolkata
  • Fellowship (FRCS) from both London and Edinburgh

Practice Information

Fortis Hospitals, Kolkata

Fortis Hospitals, Kolkata

#730, EM Bypass Road, Anandapur, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700107

TUE, THU, SAT

03:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Achievements & Contributions

  • He was presented the honorable Dedicated Physician Award from the Government of West Bengal by the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mrs. Mamata Banerjee in July 2019
  • He then joined Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, as a post-fellowship registrar in Cardiac surgery and published four mile stone scholarly articles on cardiac surgery in some of the most prestigious scientific journals
  • Life Member of Cardiological Society of India
  • Life Member of Association of Surgeons of India
  • Expert panelist in Cardiac surgery in West Bengal Medical Council
  • Life member' and 'Past National Executive Committee member of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons
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