Raghavannair Suresh Kumar

About

Senior Consultant and Head.Dept.of Pediatric Cardiology,Believers International Heart Center, Believers Church Medical College Hospital,Thiruvalla,Kerala,India.2017 May-Current

Senior Consultant in Pediatric Cardiology,National Heart Centre,Royal Hospital,Muscat,Oman.2014-2017
• Post-GraduateTeacher in cardiology in Medical Colleges of Kerala. 1983 – 1991
• Established the first comprehensive paediatric cardiac service in UAE at the Mafraq Hospital, along with surgical legends Prof. A. G. Brom, Prof. Tim Cartmill and Prof. I. M. Rao. 1991 – 2004
• Head of Paediatric Cardiology in two leading institutions in India – The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai and Frontier Lifeline, Chennai. 2004 – 2014
• International scholar in paediatric cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. 1998
• Course Director for interventional paediatric cardiology at Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutics, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai. 2006 – 2012 .
• Presented papers / Invited faculty at numerous international conferences around the world.
• E-teacher for paediatric cardiology residents worldwide
URL: http://heartstrings.linkstreetlearning.com/
• Piloted the humanitarian drive “Hridayapoorvam Sakhyam”, a joint initiative of The Madras Medical Mission and Malayala Manorama, in which 400 indigent children with heart disease were operated free of cost.
Humanitarian Mission with Madras Medical Mission teams to Sri Lanka( 2004-05),Tanzania(2011)

• Humanitarian mission with the Frontier Lifeline team to Erbil, Iraq in November 2013 andMay 2014.
• Author/ Reviewer/ Examiner/ Researcher.(Publications can be viewed at Google Scholar, Research Gate and Pub Facts.)

Employment

• Believers Church Medical College Hospital SeniorConsultant and Head
  2017 - Present
• Royal Hospital Senior Consultant
  2014 - Present
• Frontier Lifeline and Dr KM Cherian Heart Foundation Senior Consultant( HOD from 01/01/14)
  2012 - 2014
• Al Mafraq Hospital/Ministry of Health Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist
  1991 - 2003
• Government Medical College.Calicut Associate Professor
  1990 - 1991

Education

• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research DM
  1981 - 1983
• Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram MD
  1977 - 1980
• Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram MBBS
  1970 - 1975

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (29)

• Preliminary Evaluation of a Mobile Application-based Tool to Aid Early Detection of Critical Congenital Heart Disease
  Journal of Neonatology 2025 DOI: 10.1177/09732179241296702
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• Dicrotic Pulse Revisited in the Pandemic Context
  Pediatric Cardiology 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-021-02702-1
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• Pulmonary artery banding for univentricular heart beyond the neonatal period
  Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals 2014
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• Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome Coexisting with Coarctation of Aorta in an Adult
  Congenital heart disease 2013
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• Right Ventricular Exclusion and Univentricular Palliation for Failed One and a Half Ventricle Repair for Ebstein's Anomaly
  Heart, Lung and Circulation 2013
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• Surgical outcome of congenital heart disease in Down’s syndrome
  Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals 2013
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• Factor VII for excessive bleeding following congenital heart disease surgery
  Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals 2012
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• Occult systemic lupus erythematosus with active lupus nephritis presenting as Libman-Sacks endocarditis
  Annals of pediatric cardiology 2012
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• Scimitar Syndrome with Right Hemianomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage into Superior Vena Cava/Right Atrium Junction
  Congenital heart disease 2012
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• Visceral heterotaxy in the developing world
  Heart, Lung and Circulation 2012
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