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{{Short description|Indian heart surgeon}}
{{for|the film director|R. Ravikumar}}
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{{Infobox medical person
|name = R. Ravi Kumar
|profession = [[Surgeon]]
|specialism = [[Cardiovascular surgery]]
|known_for = World’s First Robotic Double Valve Replacement, 2011.<br /> World’s first Robotic combined Mitral Valve Replacement and CABG, 2011.<br />India’s first Robotic Aortic Valve Replacement, 2010.<br />India’s first Robotic Mitral Valve Replacement, 2006.
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'''R. Ravi Kumar''' is an Indian cardiac surgeon known for his work in [[Robotic surgery|robot-assisted cardiac surgery]].<ref name="newindianexpress.com_2012" /> He has been associated with several medical institutions in Chennai, including Chettinad Health City and [[MGM Hospital]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-02-01 |title=Heart failure and heart attack – can you tell the difference? |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/heart-failure-and-heart-attack-can-you-tell-the-difference/articleshow/89268733.cms |access-date=2026-01-24 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref name="url.com_20112">{{cite news |author=indiatimes.com |date=2011 |title=Rare robotic surgery done in city hospital |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/rare-robotic-surgery-done-in-city-hospital/articleshow/7631028.cms |access-date=November 21, 2025 |work=Times of India |publisher= |location=Chennai}}</ref>

== Education ==
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R Ravi Kumar graduated from [[Stanley Medical College]] and obtained the [[FRCS]] from [[Edinburgh]]. He worked at the [[Harefield Hospital]] in the UK under [[Magdi Yacoub]], involving himself with adult [[cardiac surgery]] including heart and lung transplant and aortic [[Allotransplantation|homografts]]. Kumar then underwent surgical residency in [[Boston]] in the United States. Following this he worked with [[Albert Starr]] in [[Portland, Oregon]]. He pursued his cardiothoracic residency at the [[University of Texas]], South Western Medical Center in [[Dallas, Texas]]. He continued at the same institution as an advanced fellow in Heart & Lung Transplant and is [[United Network for Organ Sharing|UNOS]] (United Network for Organ Sharing), certifiable for Heart & Lung Transplant. He is a surgeon with American Board Certification in General Surgery and Cardiac Surgery who is also UNOS certifiable for heart and lung transplantation and ventricular assist devices.

==Career==
By 2010<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-02-23 |title=Surgery on patient with unique heart condition |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/Surgery-on-patient-with-unique-heart-condition/article16816541.ece |access-date=2026-01-24 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and as of 2011, he was director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Robotic Surgery Center at the Chettinad Health City.<ref name="url.com_2011">{{cite news |author=indiatimes.com |date=2011 |title=Rare robotic surgery done in city hospital |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/rare-robotic-surgery-done-in-city-hospital/articleshow/7631028.cms |work=Times of India |location=Chennai |publisher= |access-date=November 21, 2025}}</ref> By April 2014, he was senior interventional cardiologist at Global Health City in Chennai.<ref name="ewindianexpress.com_2014">{{cite news |author= |date=April 3, 2014 |title='Cold' Carriers to up travel time for transplant hearts |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2014/Apr/03/cold-carriers-to-up-travel-time-for-transplant-hearts-593801.html |work=The New Indian Express |location=Chennai |publisher= |access-date=November 23, 2025}}</ref> In May 2016, he led a team of doctors at Chettinad Health City in performing the first robotic-assisted double valve replacement heart surgery.<ref name="newindianexpress.com_2012">{{cite news |author= |date=May 16, 2012 |title=City doctors perform rare surgery |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2011/Mar/05/city-doctors-perform-rare-surgery-232733.html |work=The New Indian Express |location=[[Chennai]] |publisher= |access-date=November 23, 2025}}</ref>

In 2019, he was senior transplant cardiologist at [[Gleneagles Global Hospitals|The Gleneagles Global Hospital Chennai]], and associate director of the Heart and Lung Transplantation Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Valayapathy |first=R. |date=2019-06-15 |title=Gleneagles Global hosp launches heart clinic in Tiruchy {{!}} Gleneagles Global hosp launches heart clinic in Tiruchy |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/150619/gleneagles-global-hosp-launches-heart-clinic-in-tiruchy.html |access-date=2026-01-24 |website=www.deccanchronicle.com |language=en}}</ref> He was senior consultant and clinical lead of the Cardiology and Heart Failure Programme at MGM Healthcare in early 2022.<ref name="thehindu.com_2022">{{cite news |author= |date= February 23, 2022|title=Kashmiri woman gets new lease of life after a heart transplant in Chennai |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/kashmiri-woman-gets-new-lease-of-life-after-a-heart-transplant-in-chennai/article65076804.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |location=Chennai |publisher= |access-date=November 23, 2025}}</ref>

===Specialties===
Kumar has done varied robotic heart surgical procedures like: robotic [[mitral valve repair]] and [[Mitral valve replacement|replacement]], adult ASD closures, [[aortic valve replacement]], [[Robot-assisted double heart valve replacement|double valve replacement]] and [[Coronary artery bypass surgery|CABG]]. His areas of special interest are, all types of adult heart surgery, robot-assisted heart surgery, [[pulmonary thromboendarterectomy]] for chronic pulmonary [[Thrombosis|thrombo-embolic disease]], [[aortic aneurysm]] repair, surgery for [[Heart failure|cardiac failure]], heart and lung transplant and [[ventricular assist device]].

=== Achievements ===

* India's first Robotic Mitral Valve Replacement, 2006. Heart surgeons at CARE Hospital here have replaced the mitral valve in the fist-sized muscular organ of a 23-year-old patient using [[Da Vinci Surgical System]].<ref>{{cite news |date=7 October 2006 |title='Da Vinci' replaces heart valve |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/da-vinci-replaces-heart-valve/article3058140.ece |access-date=2024-04-30 |newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref>
* India's first Robotic Aortic Valve Replacement, 2010. 18-year-old patient with complaints of palpitations, chest discomfort, chest pain on exertion. Patient had aortic valve stenosis (shrunk) and regurgitation (leak) with reduced pumping of the heart. He underwent robotic aortic valve replacement.<ref name=":0" />
* World's First [[Robot-assisted double heart valve replacement|Robotic Double Valve Replacement]], 2011. 23-year-old male who had chest discomfort, shortness of breath and palpitations for 4 years. Had mitral valve stenosis (shrunk) and regurgitation (leaking) and aortic valve stenosis (shrunk). Had robotic double valve replacement.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Achievements {{!}} Robotic Heart Surgery |url=http://www.drrravikumar.com/achievements/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925142753/http://www.drrravikumar.com/achievements/ |archive-date=2017-09-25 |access-date=2014-05-26 |website=Dr.R.Ravi Kumar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rare robotic surgery done in city hospital |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-05/chennai/28657850_1_robotic-surgery-cardiac-surgery-robotic-hands |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405083659/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-05/chennai/28657850_1_robotic-surgery-cardiac-surgery-robotic-hands |archive-date=2012-04-05 |work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=5 March 2011 |title=Chettinad Hospitals doctors use robotic arms to perform surgery |url=http://www.thehindu.com/health/medicine-and-research/article1510263.ece |newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref>
* World's first Robotic combined Mitral Valve Replacement and CABG, 2011. 66-year-old man with complaints of chest pain and shortness of breath. Patient had coronary artery disease and severe mitral valve leak. Patient had combined robotic mitral valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery.<ref name=":0" />

==See also==
*[[Healthcare in Chennai]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, R. Ravi}}
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian cardiac surgeons]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian surgeons]]
[[Category:Indian cardiologists]]

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