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{{short description|Indian Cardiologist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dr. Ramakanta Panda
| image =Dr. Ramakanta Panda.jpg
| caption =
| nationality = Indian
| birth_name = Ramakanta Madanmohan Panda
| birth_date = 3 April 1954
| birth_place = Damodarpur, [[Jajpur district]], Odisha, India
| education = MBBS Fellowship in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery M.Ch. in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
| alma_mater = [[Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College|BJB College]], Bhubaneswar [[SCB Medical College]], Cuttack [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi|AIIMS New Delhi]], [[Cleveland Clinic]], USA
| module = {{Infobox medical details
| profession = Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon
| field =
| work_institutions = [[Asian Heart Institute]] Asian Hospitals
| specialism = Cardiac Surgery Redo Bypass Surgery
| research_field =
| prizes = [[Padma Bhushan]]
}}
}}

'''Ramakanta Panda,''' MCh, is the Chief Consultant for Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery and the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the [[Asian Heart Institute]], a speciality cardiac care hospital under the aegis of Asian Hospitals, at the [[Bandra-Kurla Complex]] in [[Mumbai]], India. He set up the Asian Heart Institute in 2002. As of 2016, Dr. Panda has performed over 20,000 cardiac surgeries including over 1800 redo bypass surgeries and over 3000 high risk surgeries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/indianexpressgroup/docs/ehm-201409pages_new |title=Express Healthcare September, 2014 by Indian Express |website=Issuu.com |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
He specialises in coronary artery bypass grafting using only arterial grafts over a beating heart, redo bypass surgery, valve repair and repairing complex aneurysms.
Dr. Panda's 99.6% success rate in bypass surgery is widely recognized as a world-class standard.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} Dr Panda is also called 'one of the safest heart surgeons in the world'<ref>{{cite web |author=Dr. Ramakanta Panda |url=http://medgatetoday.com/drramakanta_indiastop.html |title=Medgate today Magazine, Bi-Monthly Magazine |website=Medgatetoday.com |access-date=2016-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004005706/http://www.medgatetoday.com/drramakanta_indiastop.html |archive-date=2015-10-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and 'the 'surgeon with the safest hands'.<ref name="tribuneindia1">{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100411/edit.htm |title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Opinions |website=Tribuneindia.com |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref> Medgate Today honored Dr. Panda as the No 1 heart surgeon and one of the 25 living legends in the healthcare of India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medgatetoday.com/e-magazine-May-June2016.html |title=Medgate today Magazine, Bi-Monthly Magazine |website=Medgatetoday.com |access-date=2016-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529085328/http://www.medgatetoday.com/e-magazine-May-June2016.html# |archive-date=2016-05-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Ramakanta Panda was born at Damodarpur village of Jajpur district.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mohanty|first1=Debabrata|title=The boy who trekked 16 km to school grew up to be the Prime Minister of India's surgeon|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-boy-who-trekked-16-km-to-school-grew-up-to-be-the-pm-s-surgeon/415406/|access-date=12 January 2015|work=Indian Express}}</ref>
He studied for two years at [[Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College|BJB College]] and then went to [[SCB Medical College]], Cuttack; he was the university topper in both places.<ref name="moneylife1"/>
He was a topper at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences|All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)]], where he did his postgraduation in surgery and heart surgery between 1980 and 1985.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Swarup|first1=Harihar|title=Surgeon with 'safest hands'|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100411/edit.htm#5|access-date=12 January 2015|work=Tribune}}</ref>

He completed his fellowship training at the [[Cleveland Clinic]], USA.<ref name="moneylife1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140709152617/http://www.moneylife.in/article/interview-with-dr-ramakant-panda-of-asian-heart-institute/4985.html]</ref>
He also worked for one year as Senior Registrar at the [[Harefield Hospital]], in the United Kingdom, where he had the opportunity to train under Professor [[Magdi Yacoub]], considered to be one of the world's most prolific cardiac surgeons and heart transplant specialists.<ref>{{cite web|last=Dunning |first=Joel |url=http://www.ctsnet.org/sections/videosection/giants/2011giant_yacoubM |title=Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub |website=CTSNet.org |date=2012-01-03 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>

==Professional experience==
Dr. Ramakanta Panda is credited and recognized among his peers as one of the first in India to introduce "total arterial revascularization", as well as being one of the pioneers of "off-pump" bypass surgery, redo bypass surgery and high-risk surgeries.<ref name="medicalsecondopinions1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20141107070825/http://www.medicalsecondopinions.com/doctorprofile/ramakanta-panda]</ref> He is particular about bringing the latest medical advances to India. AHI was the very first hospital in Western India to employ the da Vinci Si Surgical System.

==Breakthrough cases==
Asian Heart Institute has outstanding results, some of the best in the world, especially for high risk patients, achieved by adhering to a very strict patient care protocol, 24-hour monitoring of patients in ICU by senior doctors, one-to-one nursing care of critical patients, and a core team of highly experienced doctors & other professionals.
*Some of the rare surgeries performed at Asian Heart Institute by a team of doctors under the leadership of Dr. Ramakanta Panda:
#Man survived 17 blocks in heart through a record number of 12 grafts. Mithalal Dhoka, a businessman from Yadagiri district of Karnataka, had 17 blockages in arteries of his heart. Dr Ramakanta Panda used a record number of 12 arterial grafts to restore blood flow -to fix Dhoka's heart.<ref name="toi">{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Man-survives-17-blocks-in-heart/articleshow/32520316.cms |title=Man survives 17 blocks in heart - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2014-03-23 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#A first-of- its -kind surgery performed at AHI -Dipesh Shah suffered from a major heart problem and doctors described his case as 'extremely rare' with a risk of developing permanent infections. But 39-year-old Shah's heart valve was successfully repaired without serious repercussions after a first-of-its-kind surgery.<ref name="afternoondc">{{cite web|url=http://afternoondc.in/feature/a-first-of-kind-surgery/article_966 |title=A first-of-kind surgery |publisher=Afternoondc.in |date=2010-04-20 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#10-hour-long complicated heart surgery on a 76-year-old man, Jaswantrai Ajmera, with a very weak heart that involved 5 bypass grafts and a valve replacement procedure.<ref name="mumbai mirror">{{cite web|url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/76-year-old-stable-after-complicated-heart-surgery/articleshow/16216405.cms |title=76-year-old stable after complicated heart surgery |publisher=Mumbai Mirror |date=2012-03-24 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#65-year-old's third bypass surgery at Asian Heart Institute. Having had two bypass surgeries already, 65-year-old Uma Charan Patra did not imagine that he would need yet another bypass surgery to keep his heart beating.<ref name="dna">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-65-year-old-rearing-to-go-after-third-bypass-surgery-1350183 |title=65-year-old rearing to go after third bypass surgery | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis |website=Dnaindia.com |date=2010-02-20 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#6 Heart procedures performed on Omani citizen undergoing a heart operation for the third time. After having had his heart cut open twice in two different countries, Alriyani was finally gifted a second lease of life by the doctors in the city who performed six procedures on him at a go.<ref name="times">{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Omani-back-from-death-after-6-heart-procedures-at-a-go/articleshow/20657798.cms |title=Omani back from death after 6 heart procedures at a go - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2013-06-19 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#Iraqi boy's rare heart surgery at Asian Heart Institute. A seven-year-old Iraqi boy underwent a successful open heart surgery to fix a hole in his heart.<ref name="DNA paper">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-iraqi-boy-undergoes-rare-heart-surgery-1389214 |title=Iraqi boy undergoes rare heart surgery | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis |website=Dnaindia.com |date=2010-05-29 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#6 hour surgery conducted to remove rare heart tumor and correct 3 blocks-62 year old not only suffered from three blockages but also had a tumor growing in his heart <ref name="DNA newspaper">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-six-hour-surgery-to-remove-rare-heart-tumour-3-blocks-1407241 |title=Six-hour surgery to remove rare heart tumour, 3 blocks | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis |website=Dnaindia.com |date=2010-07-09 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#Giant bulge removed from aorta-18 hour surgery saved a 30-year-old with aneurysm of 8.5 cm diameter in artery.
#10 Bypass grafts give man fresh lease of life-10 bypass grafts created to bypass clogged arteries through an eight hour long procedure.<ref name="Times of India news">{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Man-gets-fresh-lease-of-life-with-10-bypass-grafts-at-a-go/articleshow/16428759.cms |title=Man gets fresh lease of life with 10 bypass grafts at a go - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2012-09-17 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#AHI cardiac surgeons use girl's own heart to fix her valve-13 year old was suffering from rheumatic heart, a condition in which the heart valves are damaged.<ref name="DNA link">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-doctors-use-girl-s-heart-cover-to-fix-her-valve-1542616 |title=Doctors use girl's heart cover to fix her valve | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis |website=Dnaindia.com |date=2011-05-13 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
#67 year old undergoes five times valve replacement surgery-Dr. Ramakanta Panda performed 12 hour long surgery on Saraf who removed the valve that slipped inside her heart chambers. She had undergone 4 times heart operations in the past.<ref name="Times of India news link">{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Mumbai-woman-operated-upon-fifth-time-for-heart-valve-replacement/articleshow/51564384.cms |title=Mumbai woman operated upon fifth time for heart valve replacement - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2016-03-26 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>

==Notable surgeries performed==
Dr. Panda has, in the last few years, performed a number of high-profile cardiac surgeries on members of the Indian government. In January 2009, Panda led the AHI team<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200901241640.htm | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | title=One graft successfully performed on Manmohan Singh | date=January 24, 2009}}</ref> that operated on<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=10334 |title=Oriya Doctor Ramakanta Panda leading PM Singh's bypass surgery, Odisha Current News, Odisha Latest Headlines |website=Orissadiary.com |date=2009-01-24 |access-date=2016-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822081805/http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=10334 |archive-date=2016-08-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Manmohan Singh]], the then Prime Minister of India. This successful 'redo bypass', the second for Singh, further cemented Panda's reputation as India's leading cardiac surgeons <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medindia.net/news/indiaspecial/singh-is-king-redo-heart-bypass-surgery-on-manmohan-a-success-46711-1.htm |title=Singh is King: Redo-Heart Bypass Surgery on Manmohan a Success |website=Medindia.net |date=2009-01-24 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref> In 2009 Dr Panda also did a 5 arterial bypass on former parliamentary affairs minister, Mr [[Rajiv Shukla]].
In August 2010, Panda operated on [[Tarun Gogoi]], Chief Minister of the north-eastern Indian state of [[Assam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Top-docs-wrestled-over-Assam-CMs-surgery/articleshow/6279475.cms |title=Top docs wrestled over Assam CM's surgery - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2010-08-09 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
In January 2014, Panda operated on [[D. Raja]], a leader of the Communist Party of India <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-cpi-leader-d-raja-discharged-after-bypass-surgery-1946721 |title=CPI leader D Raja discharged after bypass surgery | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis |website=Dnaindia.com |date=2014-01-07 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
In June 2014 he operated on Odisha Congress leader and former minister Narasingha Mishra.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Bhubaneswar/Odisha-Congress-leader-undergoes-bypass-surgery/articleshow/35881294.cms |title=Odisha Congress leader undergoes bypass surgery - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2014-06-01 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
In August 2014, Panda operated on [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]], ex Railway Minister and a significant politician from the state of Bihar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-rjd-chief-lalu-prasad-yadav-undergoes-successful-cardiac-surgery-condition-stable-2014233 |title=RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav undergoes successful cardiac surgery, condition stable | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis |website=Dnaindia.com |date=2014-08-27 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>

Panda has also performed many successful cardiac surgeries that are widely recognised to have been extremely complex and challenging.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141231104423/https://asianheartinstitute.org/breakthrough-cases.html ]</ref>
The most recent one was on 56-year-old Omani citizen Qassin Nasser Sultan Alriyani, who was gifted a second lease of life when Dr Panda performed six life saving procedures at a go on his heart. After having had his heart cut open twice in two different countries, Alriyani was "finally literally snatched back from death by the cardiac surgeons at Asian Heart Institute (AHI), Mumbai."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141231094716/http://www.arrowtimesmedia.com/news-events/pms-heart-surgeon-brings-omani-patient-back-from-the-dead-performs-6-heart-procedures-at-a-go.html]</ref> In 2016, Dr Panda successfully operated on Puspa Saraf who underwent a 5th time operation to replace the aortic valve and Ascending Aorta.<ref name="Times of India news link"/>

==Contribution to the nation==
Panda actively promotes a healthy lifestyle for India and his comments and counsel are widely sought after by the media. He also releases educational messages to the nation on various occasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/vIlAwholsdpds9kEyc82KP/2015-Resolution-Sweat-the-small-stuff.html |title=2015 resolution: Sweat the small stuff |website=Livemint.com |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref><ref>( [http://cityplus.jagran.com/city-news/indians-are-more-prone-to-heart-diseases_1411627734.html]</ref><ref name="healthcare.financialexpress.com">[http://healthcare.financialexpress.com/latest-issue/43-budget-14-reactions/2956-there-doesn-t-seem-to-be-a-great-focus-on-healthcare-per-se ]{{dead link|date=August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/asianheartinstitute |title=Asian Heart Institute |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=2014-12-12 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
On World Heart Day he addressed the country and spoke on why taking statins, as efficacious as they can be, should not replace living healthily in the battle against heart disease.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/indians-at-high-risk-of-small-dense-cholesterol/articleshow/30488748.cms |title='Indians at high risk of small dense cholesterol' - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2014-02-16 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref><ref name="healthcare.financialexpress.com"/>
Asian Heart Institute is also the health partner of the prestigious Mumbai Marathon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scmm.procamrunning.in/ |title=Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (SCMM) - PROCAM |website=Scmm.procamrunning.in |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref> AHI has been the Official Medical Partner for this event since its inception in 2004 and maintains First Aid stations and provides emergency medical services all along the 42 km route. A contingent of AHI patients always runs in the marathon, each one having undergone a bypass surgery at AHI.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ehealth.eletsonline.com/2013/01/99-asian-heart-patients-run-mumbai-marathon/ |title=Heart Patients From AHI Also Ran Mumbai Marathon | EHEALTH |website=Ehealth.eletsonline.com |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref>
Many complete the entire marathon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://in.news.yahoo.com/heart-surgery-man-run-third-time-marathon-183000747.html |title=After heart surgery, man to run for third time in marathon |website=In.news.yahoo.com |date=2013-01-13 |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141231093950/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/After-heart-surgery-man-to-run-for-third-time-in-marathon/Article1-989302.aspx ]</ref> AHI emergency medical services have always proved to be life-saving during this event. All of the AHI marathon runners are felicitated at the annual '''Braveheart Awards''' held by AHI.

== [http://konarkcancerfoundation.org/ Konark Cancer Foundation] ==
Along with [[Neurosurgeon]], [[B. K. Misra]] and former [[Police Commissioner of Mumbai]], [[Arup Patnaik]], he set up the [http://konarkcancerfoundation.org/ Konark Cancer Foundation] for patients coming to the [[Tata Memorial Hospital]] for cancer treatment, providing them with financial support of up to INR 1 lac per patient, logistical support such as finding food and shelter for their attendants, providing other voluntary support, collecting and donating blood, medications and prosthesis. Around 10,000 patients and their families have been benefited since its inception.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/ex-mumbai-police-chief-now-helps-cancer-patients/article17914884.ece|title=Ex-Mumbai police chief now helps cancer patients|first=Jyoti|last=Shelar|date=April 11, 2017|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><ref>http://konarkcancerfoundation.org/about-3/</ref>

==Recognition==
In January 2010, Ramakanta Panda was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest civilian award in India by [[Pratibha Patil]], the [[President of India]]. Dr. Panda has also been conferred with Degree of Doctorate in Science (Honorius Causa) from Utkal University, Orissa and Utkal Ratna by the Oriya Sahitya Samaj.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Ravenshaw-revokes-decision-to-confer-honoris-causa-on-business-honcho/articleshow/15472253.cms |title=Ravenshaw revokes decision to confer honoris causa on business honcho - Times of India |website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |access-date=2016-08-10}}</ref><ref name="medicalsecondopinions1"/>
The Central Board of Taxes, Government of India, has awarded him the prestigious '''Rashtriya Samman Patra''' twice, for being one of the highest taxpayers in India.<ref name="moneylife1"/><ref name="tribuneindia1"/>
He was nominated to the AIIMS governing body.<ref>{{cite web|title=LEAD A FULFILLING LIFE POST CARDIAC SURGERY|url=http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/health-care/2010041748307.htm|publisher=IndiaPRwire|access-date=12 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214010/http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/health-care/2010041748307.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==References==
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{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 2010–19}}
{{Padma Award winners of Odisha}}

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