Best Heart transplant transplant surgeons: TOP 12 doctors

• Dr. Naci Karacaoglan specializes in advanced heart transplant procedures.
• Utilizes techniques such as ventricular assist devices, total artificial hearts, and minimally invasive transplant surgery.
• International practice includes training at Ankara Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt and Haydarpasa Numune Hospital.
• Renowned for his expertise in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery since 1991.
• Holds essential medical certifications from Turkey’s reputable institutions.
• Member of distinguished medical associations for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
• Offers online consultations, accommodating international heart transplant patients.
• Fluent in Turkish, with proficiency to provide care to a diverse patient base.

• Dr. Raul Felipe Abella, specializes in heart transplants, with 5,000+ cardiac surgeries.
• Utilizes methods like ventricular assist devices, biatrial and bicaval techniques.
• Expert in minimally invasive surgery, robotic-assisted transplants, and donor heart preservation.
• International practice in France, Switzerland, USA, and leading Spanish hospitals.
• Leads Cor Barcelona International Center at Hospital Universitario Dexeus-Grupo Quirónsalud.
• Offers remote consultations for global patients seeking heart transplant expertise.
• Speaks Spanish, English, and Italian, facilitating communication with diverse patients.

• Dr. Barbaros Dokumaci specializes in Heart transplant surgery.
• Employs techniques like ventricular assist devices, ECMO, and minimally invasive surgery.
• Trained internationally in countries renowned for cardiology, exact locations unspecified.
• Board-certified with a focus on transplant cardiology and advanced heart failure.
• Active member of professional societies dedicated to heart transplantation.
• Offers online consultations for Heart transplant evaluations and follow-ups.
• Fluent in multiple languages, providing care for diverse patient populations.

Dr. Sandeep Attawar is famous cardiothoracic surgeon in India. Serves as the Director of the Cardiac Surgery&Thoracic Organ Transplant Program at Gleneagles Global Health City.

Specialty

Dr. Sandeep Attawar is a specialist in cardiothoracic surgery. He has participated in over 10,000 open and closed heart surgeries in adults and children.

His expertise also covers heart and lung transplant with a 85-90% success rate.

Work experience

• Since 2017 – Director & Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery, Thoracic Organ Transplantation & MCS Program at Global Hospital Chennai (Gleneagles Global Health City)
• 2013-2017 – Head of the Cardiac Surgery, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart Transplant Department at Fortis Gurgaon Memorial Research Institute
• 2012-2013 – Director of Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Organ Transplantation at Global Hospitals Group in Chennai
• 2010-2012 – Vice President and Director of Cardiac Sciences Center at Narayana Health in Jaipur
• 2005-2010 – Chief heart surgeon and Head of the Cardiosurgical Division at Apollo Dhaka
• 2003-2005 – Senior cardiac surgeon consultant at the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Calcutta
• 2000-2002 – Cardiac surgeon at Cardiac AJ Hospital and Research Center in Mangalore, Manipal Heart Foundation in Bangalore, and Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore.

Education

• The Medical Faculty Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology – Degree in general medicine, specialty in general surgery, specialty in cardiothoracic surgery.

Membership in organizations

• The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery
• The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
• The Minimally Invasive Robotic Association
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• Being Human Foundation.

BRIEF SUMMARYOF WORK EXPERIENCE 

Including those I had transplanted during my fellowship at RUSH University in Chicago (n=86), I have performed a total of 705 liver transplants (%94 adult) both from living (%75) and cadaveric (%25) donors. And, additionally 340 kidney transplants which were mostly from living donors, too. Of these, 12 were combined liver and kidney transplantations either from cadaveric or living donors. Currently, I am the Director of Organ Transplant Program at GUVEN Hospital in Ankara. As of March 2018, here in GUVEN Hospital, we have performed 145 liver transplants (118 from living donors) with 1, 3 and 5 years patient survival of 91.2%, 86%and 83%, consecutively(ELTR data analysis). Since 1997, besides organ transplantation, I have also been operating on complicated hepato-pancreato-biliary patients

Head of the Pediatric Heart Transplantation Department, Heart Surgeon