Dr. Janeel M
Senior Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon
Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgeon with experience and excellent results in all spectrums of paediatric and congenital heart surgery in India and abroad having been involved in over 3000 paediatric cardiac surgery. Trained in Paediatric & Congenital Cardiac Surgery at GreenLane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, one of the world’s first institute to start a congenital heart program. Successfully done ECMO for probably the first pregnant ECMO survivor for H1N1 disease in India at Aster Medcity Kochi. Instituted ECPRs and integrated ECMO-CPB for temporary cardiac mechanical support for cardiac cases at Apollo Children’s Hospital Instituted early extubation and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols to expedite the hospital stay in paediatric cardiac patients.
EXPERIENCE
- Consultant Adult & Paediatric Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Apollo Children's Hospital Chennai. March 2016-2021
- Senior Specialist, Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Aster Medcity Kochi. - 2014-2016
- Surgical Fellow, Green Lane Paediatric & Congenital Cardiac Services, Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland - 2012-2014
- Senior Registrar Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Apollo Children's Hospital, Chennai - 2010-2012
EDUCATION
- MBBS (1997-2002) - Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore,
- MS (General Surgery) 2004-2007 Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore.
- MCh (Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery) 2007-2010, Government Medical College, Kozhikode.
- Fellowship In Surgery at Green Lane Paediatric & Congenital Cardiac Services, Starship Children Hospital, Auckland 2012-2014
MEMBERSHIPS
- Member of Paediatric Cardiac Society of India
- Member of World Society for Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
- Member of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Surgeons.
PRESENTATIONS:
- Extra anatomic Ascending Aorta to Abdominal Aorta bypass in an 11 years old with Takayasu’s Arteritis. A poster presentation at 57th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, CTCON2011, Chennai.
- Early experience with Stanford method of Ebsteins Repair. Poster presentation at 13th Annual Conference of Pediatric cardiac society of India, PSCI2011, at SCTIMST.
- A Modified technique of Damus Keye Stamsel procedure. Poster presentation at 13th Annual Conference of Pediatric cardiac society of India, PSCI2011, at SCTIMST
- Laparoscopic pericardio-peritoneal window in a case of recurrent pericardial effusion with chylothorax after a redo Rastelli procedure. Poster presentation at 13th Annual Conference of Pediatric cardiac society of India, PSCI2011, at SCTIMST
- An Unusual case of unilateral lung hypertension in a postoperative case of Bidirectional Glenn. Poster presentation at 13th Annual Conference of Pediatric cardiac society of India, PSCI2011, at SCTIMST.
- Interesting case of enlarged PA causing RPA kinking and stenosis repaired by simple end-toend resection and anastomosis. Poster presentation at 13th Annual Conference of Pediatric cardiac society of India, PSCI2011, at SCTIMST
- Presented 'Our experience with Truncus arteriosus' as faculty at PSCI 2016 Bangalore.
- Ashwene R, Musthafa Janeel M, Neville Solomon.Midterm outcome of mitral valve repair using indigenous PTFE ring- a retrospective analysis. Oral presentation PSCI 2016 Bengaluru.
- Surgical exclusion of dysplastic Right ventricle in a case of Uhls Anomaly. Poster Presentation 7th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery July, 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
- Unique case of Aortico-Left ventricular tunnel (ALVT) arising from Left coronorynon coronory commissure. Poster Presentation, 7th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery July 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
- Early results with a standardized approach to Rheumatic mitral valve repair in paediatric population with customised PTFE ring annuloplasty-Single institution experience. Poster Presentation, 7th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery July, 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
- Solomon NA,Vaidyanathan S,Balaji V,Janeel M. Interesting case of left subclavian pseudo aneurysm in a child managed successfully IndianJThoracCardiovascSurg. 2018:1-3
- Solomon NA, Vaidyanathan S, Sugumar K, Janeel M. Adherent Intrapericardial Teratoma: A Case Report. Cardiol Ther. 2018 Dec;7(2):205-08.
- IACTS VIZHAG 2018 Video presentation - Pulmonary root translocation, a novel technique in transposition of great arteries repair.
- IACTS VIZHAG 2018- Paper presentation Right Ventricular exclusion strategies in failing biventricular hearts.