— PHOTO: K. PICHUMANI
EMINENT ARRAY: Cardiologist Ajit S. Mullasari of the Madras Medical Mission addressing the media in Chennai on Friday. To his left are cardiologists Larry Latson, Neil Wilson and Eulogio Garcia.
CHENNAI: Madras Medical Mission’s Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases willcelebrate its 20th anniversary on Wednesday. At the event, Professor M.S. Swaminathan will felicitate the team behind the hospital.
A three-day medical education programme, ‘International Interventional Cardiovascular Symposium – Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutics’, is under way. The symposium, that began on Friday, brings together over 300 delegates, including interventional cardiologists in the adult and paediatric segment, radiologists, surgeons and physicians.
The international faculty includes consultant paediatric cardiologist Neil Wilson, paediatric interventional cardiologist Larry Latson from the United States, peripheral interventional cardiologist Michel Henry of France and interventional cardiologist Eulogio Garcia from Spain.
The specialists, with expertise in aortic and pulmonary valve replacement procedures, will share their experiences. About 25 live surgical procedures will be performed during the symposium, senior cardiologists Mathew Samuel and Ajit S. Mullasari said here on Friday. The symposium will witness lectures, live case transmissions from the catheterisation laboratory and interactive debates.
On Saturday Dr. Wilson will speak on ‘percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation,’ a non-surgical implantation of mechanical valves.
The institute, the first major initiative of MMM, has grown from a 30-bed hospital with one operating room to a 250-bed facility at Mogappair. It has to its credit over 28,000 cardiac surgical procedures. .
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