About Us

Dr Ritesh Sukharamwala

Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist

Academic Milestones in Nutshell:

MBBS (2002) - Government Medical College, Surat.

MD in Pediatrics (2005) - GMC, Surat. Senior Registrar ship in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care (2006) - Escort's Heart Institute, New Delhi.

Fellowship in Interventional Pediatric Cardiology (2009) - Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Bangalore (RGUHS).

Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist (August 2009 onwards) - Surat

 

Qualification:

MBBS,

MD (Pediatrics) (2002-2005)

Fellowship in Pediatric cardiology (2007-2009)

 

Designation:

Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist in

The Little Heart- Centre for Congenital Heart Disease. Surat (Dec. 2011-till date)

B.D.Mehta Mahavir Cardiac hospital, Surat (Jan 2013 till date)

CARE Hospital- The Heart Institute, Surat (Aug. 2009-Jan 2013)

 

Specialist in :

  ASD/PDA/VSD device closure

  Emergency procedures like

  Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty for critical Aortic Stenosis/Coarctation of aorta

  Balloon Pulmonary Valvuloplasty for critical Pulmonary Stenosis

  Balloon Atrial Septostomy for TGA babies.

  PDA stenting for duct dependent congenital heart disease

  Pediatric diagnostic catheterization

  Permanent Pacemaker implantation

 

 

Academic Achievements

 

Awards
Examination
Institution
/university
Month &Year

1st  MBBS 

Government Medical College, Surat,
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University.
Gujarat.

May1998

2nd MBBS

Nov1999

3rd MBBS

May2001

MD(PED)

Oct.2005

Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology

Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute Of Cardiac Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health and Sciences, Bangalore. Karnataka

July 2009

 

Work profile As a Consultant in Surat

3000-4000 pediatric echocardiography/year
125-130 pediatric and neonatal catheter interventions/year
Interventions cath – PDA device/ coil closure, ASD device closure. VSD device closure, BAV, BPV, Balloon Coarctoplasty, Coil Embolisation of MAPCA s, Coil Embolisation of Veno-Venous Collaterals, Transvenous PPI and twin procedures
Training post graduate program in
Government medical college, Surat,
DNB program at Nirmal Children Hospital

 

Medical Registration

Under  Medical Council of India (Gujarat)
M.B.B.S. - G - 31587  (dated 24th July 2002)
M.D. [Pediatrics] -  G - 13818  (dated 28th October 2005)

Best performance award at annual national conference of PCSI 2012 in chennai in "Nightmare session in cardiac catheterization laboratory" for performing Balloon Aortic valvuloplasty successfully in sick 1.8 kg 34 weeker preterm baby.

 

Published Article

Ritesh B Sukharamwala, PV Suresh, Neeraj Aggarwal, Sunita Maheshwari. When to suspect an Aortopulmonary window in a pink Tetralogy of Fallot. Indian Heart J 2008;60:146-148.

Sejal Shah, Ritesh Sukharamwala, Sunita maheshwari, "Aortic atresia with aortopulmonary window simulating an arterial trunk: A case report". Cardiology in the Young. 2009; 19:304-306.

 

Articles Accepted For Publications

Neeraj Aggarwal, Ritesh Sukharamwala, Anant Rao, Sunita Maheshwari. "Unexplained LVH: an unusual association with Propionic academia", Accepted for publication in Indian Heart Journal.

 

Paper Presentations

Ritesh Sukharamwala, Mukesh Singh, Jagdish Mange.Difficult preoperative assessment of size of surgically inaccessible additional muscular vsd in a patient with tetralogy of fallot Asia Pacific Society of Pediatric Cardiology (PCCS), New Delhi India, Jan 2014

 

Ritesh Sukharamwala. Difficulty in transcatheter closure of perimembranous VSD, A-Z fistulae conference/workshop at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietman. December 2013


Ritesh Sukharamwala, Kiran VS, Sejal Shah, Shekar Rao, Chinnaswamy Reddy HM, Sunita Maheshwari. Anatomy and age of d-transposition of the great arteries vis-a-vis surgical options exercised: Analysis of 542 cases from a single center. 10th Annual conference of the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India (PCSI) AIMS, Kochi, Nov 2008


Ritesh Sukharamwala, Suresh PV, Bidari LH, Sunita Maheshwari. Utility of Tele-echocardiography in Pediatric Cardiology as an effective diagnostic tool: A pilot. 10th Annual conference of the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India (PCSI) AIMS, Kochi, Nov 2008


Ritesh Sukharamwala, Sejal Shah, Kiran VS, Shekhar Rao, Chinnaswamy Reddy, Sunita Maheshwari. Arterial Switch Operation In Patients With Transposition Of Great Arteries With Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction. 10th Annual conference of the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India (PCSI) AIMS, Kochi, Nov 2008


Sudeep Verma, Ritesh Sukharamwala, Kiran VS, Shekar Rao, Chinnaswamy Reddy HM, Sunita Maheshwari. Surgical management of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: Analysis of mortality and contributing factors. 10th Annual conference of the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India (PCSI) AIMS, Kochi, Nov 2008


Ritesh Sukharamwala, Amit Misri, Suresh P.V., Sunita Maheshwari. Critical pulmonary stenosis-how to cross the pulmonary valve. Asia Pacific Society of Pediatric Cardiology (PCCS), Jeju Island, S Korea, May 2008


Ritesh Sukharamwala, Mukesh Singh, Jagdish Mange.Difficult preoperative assessment of size of surgically inaccessible additional muscular vsd in a patient with tetralogy of fallot Asia Pacific Society of Pediatric Cardiology (PCCS), New Delhi India, Jan 2014

Dr Ritesh Sukharamwala have won the prestigious best performer award in "night mare session in cardiac catheterization laboratory" at national PCSI(Pediatric Cardiac Society of India) annual conference held on 4th to 7th October 2012 in Chennai. He got the award for performing Balloon aortic valvuloplasty successfully in a 3 day old,(birth weight-1.8kg), sick(34-36 weeker) preterm who had Critical Aortic Stenosis.


Pediatric Cardiac Society of India(PSCI) will send Dr Ritesh Sukharamwala in one of the world's best centres for more advanced training in interventional pediatric cardiology.