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Prof. Dr. Mohan Thomas he is Certified Cosmetic Surgeon with a special interest in facial cosmetic surgery. His undergraduate studies were at Mumbai University and hold Doctoral and Post Doctoral degrees from Medical College of Pennsylvania. He interned at Allegheny University, Philadelphia and completed Residencies /Fellowship in Facial Plastic and Maxillofacial surgery, General Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery at very prestigious institute such as Mount Sinai/New York University Hospital Health System and Hehnemann University Hospitals. He is Certifies Instructor at BLS , ATLS and ACLS. Dr. Thomas is a Professor of Surgery at Mount Sinai/NYU School of Medicine and a Visiting Scholar at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. He is currently and Honorary Consultant- Cosmetic Surgery at The Beach Candy Hospitals and Research Center and Cumballa Hill Heart Institute and Research Institute Mumbai.

Dr. Kashyap completed his MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College , New Delhi in 1983, and his Masters in Surgery from Delhi University in June 1988. He is a Diplomate American Board of Surgery since 1996, and a Diplomate American Board of Plastic Surgery since 1999. He completed his residency in Surgery from Robert Packer Hospital (Guthrie Clinic), Sayre, Pennsylvania, USA where he was Chief Resident from 1994-1995. Thereafter, he completed his Fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Massachusetts, USA in 1997. In 1995, he was honored as the Resident of the Year, and the Best Teaching Resident ( Robert Packer Hospital and Guthrie Clinic). In 1994, he was the distinguished recipient of the Stanley Conklin Award for Research (First Prize - Basic Science), and (First Prize - Clinical Science).

Dr. Ajeet Bana is MS & MCh. (Cardiothoracic Surgery) from G.B. Pant Hospital, New Delhi . His area of interest has been beating heart CABG and minimally invasive Cardiac Surgery. He is one of the few cardiac surgeons of India who are actively participating members of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery in promoting this surgery in various part of India . He has performed more than 2,000 Cardiac Surgical Procedures which includes beating heart coronary by pass surgery, valve repair and replacement, congenital heart surgery and vascular surgeries. He is also a keen researcher and has a number of presentations and publications to his credit. Dr. Ajeet Bana had worked as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. He joins us from Santokba Durlabhji Hospital, Jaipur, where he was working as Chief Cardiac Surgeon. Presently he is working as Senior Consultant and HOD-Cardiothoracic Surgery into the Fortis Team.

Dr. Ambuj Chowdhury is currently a Senior Consultant, Cardio thoracic & Vascular Surgery. A pass out from Mayo College, Ajmer, Dr. Choudhary completed his MBBS from S. P Medical College, Bikaner (1988). He was awarded the Dr. Indu Goyal Memorial Gold Medal for having stood first in college. He was also on the Merit List of Rajasthan University. He completed his MS General Surgery from SMS Medical College-Jaipur. (1993). He then went on to complete his M.Ch degree from SGPGI- Lucknow (1996). Dr. Choudhary has also acquired a Diplomate -National Board in Cardiovascular & Thoracic surgery in 1996. He was selected for the Starr Ahmed International Fellowship program at the St. Vincents Hospital and Research Centre in Portland, Oregon, USA in 2000. During his 2-year period he got to work with Dr. Albert Starr, who performed the first Heart Valve Replacement Surgery in the world - Starr Edwards Valve; Dr. Storm Floten; Dr. Aftab Ahmed; and Dr. Jeffery Swanson.

Dr. Hrishikesh D. Pai MD, FCPS, FICOG, has been in the field of IVF since 12 years. He did his one year fellowship in Reproductive Biology from the University of Melbourne Australia, in 1989. He is the scientific director of Two IVF units in Mumbai- 'The Babies & Us' Fertility and 'The Advanced Fertility Centre' .He is one of the pioneers in the field of Micromanipulation in India. His was the third unit in India to have started the procedure of Micromanipulation-ICSI in 1996 in Mumbai.He has received training in Preimplantation genetics at the two leading institutes in the world-the Verlinsky unit in Chicago & the Az Vub in Brussels.His unit was the third unit in India to have started Preimplantation genetics diagnosis in 1998. He has also been instrumental in establishing the first Assisted Laser Hatching Unit in India. The unit has delivered one of the first few laser hatched twins in India in the year 1999. He has helped to start many IVF units all over India. He is the Hon. professor at the D. Y. Patil Medical College, University of Mumbai. This is one of the best private Medical schools in the country Dr. Pai's unit is a teaching unit for both undergraduate & postgraduate medical students.