Doctor profile
Dr. Ravinder Singh Rao
MD, DM, FACC (Fellow of the American College of Cardiology)
Dr. Rao is an interventional cardiologist who focuses on structural heart disease: treating problems with the heart’s valves and other structures through catheters instead of open surgery.
His overseas training includes an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and a Structural Heart Disease Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA. He is Chief Interventional Cardiologist and Chairman of RHL Heart Center, Jaipur.
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Qualifications & experience
[Draft: details below come from Dr. Rao’s own website, his YouTube channel, his Lilavati Hospital profile and the news reports linked below. Confirm current figures and wording with Dr. Rao before publishing.]
Qualifications
- MD, SMS Medical College, Jaipur
- DM (Cardiology), SMS Medical College, Jaipur
- FACC, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
Overseas training
- Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Mount Sinai, New York (July 2013 to June 2014)
- Structural Heart Disease Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA (July 2014 to June 2015), where he performed more than 100 TAVI procedures
Experience
- More than 700 TAVI procedures performed
- Practising in India since July 2015, after his fellowships in the USA
- Chief Interventional Cardiologist and Chairman, RHL Heart Center, Jaipur
- Live TAVI cases performed for India Valve, India Live and other conferences
- Invited to proctor (guide other heart teams through) TAVR procedures in Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia and other South-East Asian countries
- Principal investigator in several clinical trials
Notable procedures
- First-in-man TAVI with an indigenous (Indian) valve, presented at TCT USA 2017
- First transcatheter double valve replacement in India
- First transcatheter mitral valve in MAC (mitral annular calcification)
- First MitraClip procedure in India after its approval
- First live TAVI case from India to TCT Russia
- Invited to AIIMS, New Delhi, to perform its first TAVI case
- India’s first reported tricuspid TEER procedure for Barlow’s disease (2026)
Awards
- West Zone Young Scholar Cardiology Award, 2011: first prize
- All India Young Scholar Cardiology Award, 2011: second runner-up
- Silver sponsorship for a paper presentation at the European Respiratory Society Congress, Vienna, 2009
- Eswaran Shakuntala certificate of merit for proficiency in pathology, 2005
Where to see Dr. Rao
- [Mumbai TAVR Clinic address and timings]
- Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Bandra (W), Mumbai: call +91 78917 91586 to confirm OPD timings
- RHL Heart Center, Milap Nagar, Jaipur: Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Selected publications
- Maniar H, Lindman BR, Escallier K, Novak E, Rao RS, et al. Delirium after surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement is associated with increased mortality. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2016.
- Rao RS, Shapiro RL, Lasala JM. No reflow leading to catastrophic hemodynamic collapse in a patient with severe aortic stenosis and its management. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 2016;87(5):983–988.
- Rao RS, Maniar H, Zajarias A. Sapien valve: past, present and future. Cardiac Interventions Today, 2015;9:35–41.
- Gupta R, Rao RS, Mishra A, Sharma SK. Recent trends in epidemiology of dyslipidemia in India. Indian Heart Journal, 2017;69:382–392.
In the news
- The Times of India, March 2019: a first in Maharashtra, a mitral valve replaced through a minimally invasive procedure. Dr. Rao was part of the team.
- DNA India, January 2019: an Indian-made TAVR valve, the first of its kind in Rajasthan.
- The Times of India, December 2018: Dr. Rao spoke at PGI Chandigarh about transcatheter aortic and mitral valve techniques for patients considered very high risk for open-heart surgery.
- DNA India, May 2018: transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) used for the first time in Rajasthan.