CURRENT POSITION
Senior Consultant Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon, Specialist in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, ECMO and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Ananthapuri Hospitals and Research Institute, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.- PRS Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
The Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London, UK
Senior Consultant Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon, Specialist in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, ECMO and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Senior Consultant Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon and Head of Department
Sree Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences and Heart Institute, Kulasekharam, Tamilnadu, India.
Senior Consultant Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon, Director – Structural Heart Surgery and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Meitra Hospital, Calicut, Kerala, India.
FRCS (CTh)
Intercollegiate Speciality Board, UK. 2008
Cardio-thoracic training
London Deanery, London UK.
FRCS
Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow, UK. 1998
FRCS Part 1
Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK.1998
MS (Gen Surgery)
Kerala University, Trivandrum, India. 1997
General Surgery Training
Medical College Hospital, Trivandrum, India. 1994 - 1997
MB BS
Tamilnadu MGR Medical University, Madras, India. 1994
Medical School
PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore, India. 1988 – 93
- Off-pump An-aortic Total Arterial Revascularisation
- Off-pump Complex coronary artery revascularisation
- MIDCAB
- Mitral Valve Repair
- Minimally invasive Mitral Valve surgery
- Minimally invasive Aortic Valve and aortic surgery
- Aortic surgery including valve sparing aortic root surgery, Aortic arch surgery, Hybrid aortic aneurysm repair with debranching
- ECMO and Mechanical Circulatory support
- European Association of Cardio-thoracic Surgeons (EACTS) -18641
- Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland (SCTS)
- International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgeons (ISMICS)
- Indian Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS)
- Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSNET)
- First Prize for Poster presentation – Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK. 2008
- Gold Medal for best student in Medicine – PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, India. 1993
- First rank Surgery MBBS examination – PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, India. 1993
- First rank Medicine MBBS examination – PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, India. 1993
- Pathology prize examination - PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, India. 1991
- Minocycline induced pigmentation of aortic valve and sinuses of Valsalva.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2009;88:1704. E Belcher, M Soni, F Azeem, M Petrou - Near fatal presentation of a bronchogenic cyst compressing the left main coronary artery.
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2008:135:1395-1396. F Azeem, C Rathwell, W Awad - Fast track failure after cardiac surgery – development of a prediction model.
Critical Care Medicine. 2006 Dec 34(12):2875-82. C Vasilis, P Tekkis, F Azeem, A Darzi, T Athanasious - Can the use of radial artery be expanded to all patients with different surgical grafting techniques. Early clinical and angiographic results in 600 patients. Journal of cardiac surgery. 2005 Jan-Feb; 20(1):1-7. S Al-Rauzzeh, F Azeem, M Amrani et al
- Use of radial artery grafts reduces the morbidity of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients aged 65 years and older.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. October 2002; 74:1144 – 1147. T Modine, S Al-Ruzzeh, F Azeem, M Amrani et al