• Dr Attawar Sandeep is the Founder Director and Chairman of Thoracic organ transplants and Assist devices at KIMS Institute for Heart & Lung transplantation

• His team have performed close to 217 thoracic organ transplants ( of which 134 were Double lung transplants ) in this period , with over 28 left ventricular assist device implants

• He is working as  the Founder Director and Chairman of Thoracic organ transplants at KIMS Hospital,Hyderabad

• His specialization includes Advanced Heart Failure, Terminal Lung Disease ,The Solid Thoracic Organ Transplant  

• He now focuses, solely on a top down realignment of pre-existing cardiac and respiratory services into heart and lung transplant centers.

• He is on the international panel of 24 experts to form the consensus guidelines for Lung Transplantations at the ISHLT this year.

• These guidelines are the Lung transplant Bible for over 250 hospitals all across the Globe that pursue the science of Lung transplantation.

• He  is a firm believer in universal access to quality care and outcomes in heart and lung transplants,striving to provide the highest quality of care to patients at his institution.

• His  interests are European history, study of western classical music.

• He is also an active member in international cardiothoracic forums such as the International society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), Society of Thoracic surgeons (STS ) and the European association of cardio-thoracic surgery ( EACTS ).

• He is also a contributor for the textbook of ‘’ Transplantations & Mechanical Circulatory Support for end stage Lung and Heart disease’’ Published by Wiley Publishing due for release next year.

• He has  published in leading journals such as the Annals of Thoracic Surgery (ATS), and regularly contributes to papers and presentations delivered across the world.

• He specializes in setting up greenfield heart surgical services since 2001

• He is a scientific advisor for Reliant Heart and is involved in advancing the field of mechanically assisted circulation or Long term Ventricular assist devices (LVAD).

• He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Thoracic disease

• He is currently the proctor for JARVIK HEART and Heart Mate III in India and South East Asia.

• He has since 2011 expanded this repertoire to Thoracic organ transplantation and mechanical circulatory support .