Dr. Kumud Kumar Dhital is an internationally acclaimed cardiothoracic surgeon and the Surgical Director of Heart & Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. Educated at Oxford University and the University of London, he has over 25 years of global surgical experience across the United Kingdom, Australia, and India and is best known as the pioneer of the world's first successful series of Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) heart transplants. His writing and clinical work leverage his extensive surgical background to examine heart and lung transplantation innovation, mechanical circulatory support, advanced thoracic surgery, and organ preservation technologies.
Dr. Kumud Kumar Dhital, Cardiothoracic & Transplant Surgeon, Program and Surgical Director of Heart & Lung Transplantation and MCS at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, stresses the importance of approaching physicians with specialist training and experience in managing advanced and complex heart or lung diseases.
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