Dr. Niket Arora is a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon at Manipal Hospitals, EM Bypass, Kolkata, with extensive experience in adult and congenital cardiac surgery. He has undergone comprehensive training across general surgery, cardiology, thoracic surgery, and paediatric cardiac surgery. His expertise includes complex bypass surgeries, valve procedures, minimally invasive techniques, and heart transplantation. Dr. Arora is also actively involved in training junior doctors, nursing staff, and physician assistants.

Educational Qualifications:

• MBBS – 2010
• DNB – Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery – 2015

Professional Experience:

• Senior Consultant – Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Manipal Hospitals, EM Bypass, Kolkata
• Extensive training rotations in General Surgery, Cardiology, Thoracic Surgery, Adult & Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
• Subspeciality training year in Cardiac Surgery
• Active member of Heart Transplant donor and recipient surgery teams

Professional Memberships:

• Member of European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Membership no. 287190)
• Member of the Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Membership no. 20135015)

Awards and Achievements:

• He has won an award paper in 63RD Annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bangalore, January 2017.
• Certificate of appreciation from the Ministry of Health and the President of Tanzania for the humanitarian mission operative camp in Tanzania, in 2015.
• 1st prize at the Cardiac Surgery Quiz at Second Postgraduate Workshop, Coimbatore, July 2014.
• Guest Speaker in Cardiac Morphology CME at The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, July 2017.
• Won Award paper on Echocardiographic outcomes of functional tricuspid regurgitation after mitral valve replacement at the 63rd Annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bangalore, February 2017.

Publications:

• 2024 ATCVSWB Award poster on Minimally invasive novel procedure and paper on Hemostasis in Cardiac Surgery
• Presentation on End Stage Coronary Artery Disease in the Cardiac CME, August 2017 at Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai.
• Publication in IJTCVS, Moving towards a competency-based training, July 2017. Varun Shetty, Niket Arora.
• Oral Presentation on Improvement in clinical outcomes after treatment of the vascular conduit in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery at the 63rd Annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bangalore, February 2017.
• Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Tracheal Surgeries – Poster presentation at 23rd Annual Meeting of Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Hong Kong, May 2015
• Publication in APC, The Pressures of Surgicel in Cardiac Surgery. Association of Pediatric Cardiology. (May 2015) Niket Arora, Roy Varghese, Sreeja Pavithran, Sivakumar Kothandam.
• Tracheostomy under Femorofemoral bypass, Poster presentation at 61ST Annual meeting of Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hyderabad, January 2015
• Lecture on Tracheostomy in Nursing CME, Chennai, October 2014
• Publication in ATS (USA), Arterial Switch Operation for Double-Outlet Left Ventricle, Roy Varghese, Niket Arora, Ejaz Ahmed Sherrif, Anil Singhi, Kothandam Sivakumar, (Ann Thorac Surg 2014,98: e 97-9)
• Publication in IJTCVS, Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm following Cardiac Surgery: Two cases managed with two different techniques. Niket Arora, VM Kurian. (Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg DOI 10.1007/s 12055-014-0330-9)
• Oral Presentation on Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm following Cardiac Surgery: Two cases managed with two different techniques at 59th Annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mumbai, February 2013.