- Dr. Murali P Vettath is a renowned Cardiac Surgeon in India.
- He has more than 27 years of experience in treating patients with chronic heart disorders.
- He has performed more than 7,000 open heart surgeries, with more than 4,500 of them on beating heart for CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass surgery) with a mortality of less than 0.5%.
- He is the first surgeon to carry out minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS), focusing on mitral and aortic valve surgeries, and performed the first heart transplantation in North Kerala in 2015.
- He is recognized for his expertise in performing coronary artery bypass surgeries on a beating heart, rather than utilizing the heart-lung machine.