- Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is one of the renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeons in Bangalore.
- He has 40+ years of expertise and has performed over 15,200 heart procedures and approximately 4500 pediatric heart surgeries.
- He has completed his MBBS & MS from the renowned Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.
- After that, he did a Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) from England.
- He has completed Asia’s first dynamic cardiomyoplasty surgery, which uses the chest wall muscle to rebuild the weak heart muscle.
- He is also one of the few surgeons in the world who do keyhole heart surgery using a microchip camera.
- In 1990, he performed the first open-heart surgery on a 9-day-old baby in India, making him the first surgeon in the country to do so.
- Dr. Shetty is also the founder of the multi-specialty hospital Narayana Hrudayalaya Bangalore and Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) Kolkata.
