Explore about the Famous Indian surgeon Jose Chacko Periappuram, who was born in India on April 28, 1958. Analyze Jose Chacko Periappuram’s net worth, age, bio, birthday, dating, height-weight, wiki. Investigate who is Jose Chacko Periappuram dating now? Look into this article to know how old is Jose Chacko Periappuram?
Jose Chacko Periappuram Birthday Countdown
Jose Chacko Periappuram Biography
Jose Chacko Periappuram (born 28 April 1958) is an Indian cardiac surgeon and medical writer who performed the first successful heart transplant in the state of Kerala, India, as well as the first successful heart retransplant in the country. His other achievements include the first beating heart, awake bypass and total arterial revascularization surgeries in the state. Credited with the performance of over 25,000 cardiac surgeries, Periappuram is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of London. He is the founder and Chairman of “Heart Care Foundation”, a charitable trust that financially assists poor heart patients. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, in 2011.
Jose Chacko Periappuram was born in South Paravur, a small village in Ernakulam district of the Indian state of Kerala, born to P. M. Chacko and Mary Chacko couple. His father , P. M. Chacko, was a known botanist who is credited with the discovery two plant species and served as principal at St. Thomas College, Pala from 1979 to 1984. Fr. Abel, the founder chairman of Kalabhavan, was his paternal uncle. After completing his matriculation studies from St. Ephraim’s High School, Mannanam, he joined St. Thomas College, Palai, from where he earned a BSc with botany as the optional subject. He passed MBBS from Govt. Medical College, Kottayam in 1985 and after a year of senior house surgeoncy at the Kottayam Medical College, he proceeded to the United Kingdom for post-graduate education and training.
Secretary of the Kerala Medical Association in 1981
He completed his FRCS part 1 from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in Dublin in 1986 and completed his general surgical training from various hospitals in the Republic of Ireland. This included the County Hospital, Roscommon, Our Lady’s Hospital, Drogheda, and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital at Dublin. He passed his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow and Edinburgh in the year 1992. His higher cardiac surgical training was mainly at the University Hospital of Wales and Manchester Royal Infirmary and passed the FRCS in cardiac surgery in 1994, one of the few cardiac surgeons to secure this degree from all three surgical colleges. His mentor was I. M. Breckenridge, who was a member of the team which led the first heart surgery in England in the 1960s. He further underwent training in cardiac transplantation at the Papworth Hospital.
On his return to Kerala, Periappuram joined Medical Trust Hospital, Kochi, where a 34-year-old heart patient by the name of K. A. Abraham reported with the possibility of survival hanging on a heart transplant. It was coincidental that the family of Sukumaran, who died in a road accident, agreed to donate the deceased’s heart. In May 2003, the team led by Periappuram performed the first heart transplantation in the state of Kerala, thus making it the third state in India to achieve this feat.
An executive committee member of the Indian Cardio-Vascular Association for three years from 2005 to 2008
National Organizing Secretary of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular Conference in 2005
The Forum for Growth, Development and Progress of Kochi honoured him for services. He was also felicitated by the Lisie Hospital and the Indian Medical Association. He was also felicitated at the Piravom Boat race in 2011.
On 6 March 2014, Jose became the first cardiac surgeon to conduct a successful heart re-transplant in the country. 9 months later, Gireesh, the fourth transplant patient had developed a fever which led to a valve infection and thus an unusable heart which had to be replaced.
On 24 July 2015, Jose and his team from Lisie Hospital used the services of the Indian navy by using their Dornier aircraft to transport the heart harvested from a patient in Thiruvananthapuram, about 210Â km away, and reached back to Lisie Hospital in just 75 minutes. The roads were emptied by the police for the ambulance and it took them 20 minutes from when they landed at the naval base.
‘Hridayasamagamam’ was a family get-together of those who had undergone bypass surgery organised as a rehabilitation programme by the Heart Care Foundation and the Lisie Hospital at the hospital.
On 9 May 2020, Jose and his team from Lisie Hospital used the services of the Govt of Kerala’s Heli service to transport the heart harvested from a patient in Thiruvananthapuram, about 210 km away to Grand Hyatt Bolgatty Palace Helipad, The roads were emptied by the police for the ambulance and reached via road to Lisie Hospital in just 4 minutes.
What's Jose Chacko Periappuram Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Jose Chacko Periappuram Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
