Thoracic Surgeon

M.S., M.Ch.
Thoracic Surgeon

PROFILE

With over 13 years of experience in Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS). Minimally invasive Thoracic Surgery. I am well versed in many procedures including: Complex Tracheal and Airway Surgery, Uniportal Sleeve Resections/ Sleeve Lobectomy, Uniportal VATS Lobectomy, Uniportal VATS Decortication, Uniportal VATS Bullectomy, Uniportal VATS Mediastinal Tumour Excision, Uniportal VATS Sympathectomy and various other VATS and open procedures. I am also experienced in all therapeutic and diagnostic Bronchoscopy procedures.

EDUCATION

• M.Ch., Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Sri Ramachandra University (2006 – 2009)
• M.S. General Surgery, Sri Ramachandra University (2003 – 2006)
• M.B.B.S, Sri Ramachandra University (1995 – 2001)

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Santosham Chest Hospital, Chennai, 2009- Present
• Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Apollo Hospital, Chennai, 2009- Present

COURSES COMPLETED

• 1. Masterclass in Pectus Deformity correction, Medanta Medicity, November 2023
• 1st Edition of Uniportal Robotic Assisted Thoracic Surgery Masterclass, Monza Oncology Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, May 22- 24, 2022.
• Uniportal Robotic Assisted Thoracic Surgery CME and Masterclass, Hyderabad, India, March 2022.
• Course in Advanced VATS with Dr. Diego Gonzalez Rivas at Kunming and Mudanjiang, China, December 2019.
• Course on Uniportal VATS with Dr. Diego Gonzalez-Rivas Shanghai – China 2016.
• ESTS course on Minimally invasive Thoracic Surgery Strasbourg, France 22, 23 September 2014.
• Observership with Dr. Robert Cerfolio in Robotic Thoracic Surgery University of Alabama 2014
• EACTS Workshop on Thoracoscopic Lobectomy
• Covidien Center, Elan court 2012, France
• Robotic Surgery Training on Cadavers, Paris – EEC 2011
• Course on VATS Lobectomy and Observer ship under Dr. Thomas De’Mico-Duke University 2010.

PUBLICATIONS

• 1. BMJ Case Reports
  Sternal Metastatectomy in a case of papillary thyroid carcinoma

  Pradeep S, Hedne N, Vidhyadharan S, Rajiv S.

  Published in October 2020 1;13(10): e235967.

• 2. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
  A rare case of familial middle mediastinal paraganglioma

  Tirunagari V, Santosham R, Santosham R, Devanayagam S.

  Published in October 2019;27(8):698-702.

• 3. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
  Adenocarcinoma in Situ in Type I Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation

  Authors – Rajan Santosham, Rajiv Santosham, Vamshidhar Tirunagari

  Published: June 21, 2019

• 4. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
  Rosai – Dorfman Disease of the Trachea: An Extremely Rare Benign Tumour

  Authors – Rajan Santosham, Rajiv Santosham, Sheba SK Jacob, Ashwin Uday Phadke, Trilok Ponduru

  Published: December 3, 2018

• 5. Pulmon
  An Adult with Swyer – James Macleod Syndrome Treated Surgically

  Authors – S. Aneeshkumar, Rajan Santosham, Rajiv Santosham, Raj B. Singh

  Published: May – August 2017, Vol. 19, Issue 2

• 6. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
  Human Pulmonary Dirofilariasis Masquerading as a Mass

  Authors – Sheba Jacob, Ashok Parameswaran, Rajan Santosham, Rajiv Santosham

  Published: July 18, 2016

• 7. Journal of evidence-based Medicine and Healthcare
  Pulsatile Lower Limb Veins – Have a Look at the Heart

  Authors – Rupesh Mandava, Ritesh Santosham, Rajiv Santosham, Roy Santosham, Rajan Santosham

  Published: January 12, 2015 – Volume 2, Issue 2,; Page: 187-192

• 8. ESTS TEXTBOOK OF THORACIC SURGERY
  Chronic Pleural Empyema: Thoracoplasty

  Published: 2014 Volume 1. Co-authored chapter 17.9

• 9. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  Endobronchial Hamartoma with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Masquerading as a Foreign Body

  Authors – Gnanamuthu Birla Roy, Rajan Santosham, Ravi Santosham, Rajiv Santosham, Roy Santosham

  Published: September 2009, Volume 25, Issue 3, pp 133-135

• 10. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  Pulmonary Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma Presenting as an Alcaligenes Xyloxidans Empyema

  Authors – Gnanamuthu Birla Roy, Rajan Santosham, Ravi Santosham, Rajiv Santosham

  Published: September 2009, Volume 25, Issue 3, pp130-132

• 11. The Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging
  How I Do It: Radiofrequency Ablation

  Authors – Roy Santosham, Bhawna Dev, Preeti Priyadharshini, Harsha Chadga, C Anupama, Rajiv Santosham, Rajan Santosham and S Vishnu

  Published: May 18, 2008

• 12. Chest – The American College of Chest Physicians Journal
  Bronchial Sleeve Resection

  Authors – Rajan Santosham, MBBS, FCCP, Sasankh, MBBS, FCCP, Ravi Santosham, MD, FCCP, Roy Santosham, MD, FCCP, Rajiv Santosham M.Ch, MS, Sami Jayaraman, MBBS, DTCD

  Published: October 2006 – Volume 130, Issue 4

• 13. Indian Journal of Bronchology
  A Case Report of Pleural Based Lesion

  Authors- Dr. S. Jayaraman, Dr. Rajiv Santosham, Dr. R.K. Sasankh, Prof. Rajan Santosham

  Published: Jan – Apr 2006; 1:2

• 14. Chest – The American College of Chest Physicians Journal
  Surgical Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis – Indications and Results

  Authors – Velappan S. Jayaraman, Rajiv Santosham, Roy Santosham, Sasankh, Ravi Santosham and Rajan Santosham

  Published: October 2005, p. 177S

• 15. Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  Tracheo-Innominate Artery Fistula –Surgical Management

  Authors – Rajan Santosham, Sudhan Nagarajan, Rajiv Santosham, R.K. Sashankh, Vijayshankar

  Published: 2005, Page 53

Presentations at National and International Conferences

• Surgery in Tuberculosis IACTSCON 2025, Delhi, India February 2025
• Thoracoplasty in case of Unresectable Lung lesions of MTB, IACTSCON 2025, Delhi, India, Feburary 2025
• Anaesthesia and Surgical Management of for Tracheal Diseases, IACTS Thoracic CME, November 2024, Jammu, India
• Thoracoplasty Tips and Tricks, ISTSCON 2024, November 2024, Hyderabad, India
• VATS vs Medical Thoracoscopy, Best practices and Innovations, BRONCOCON 2024, May 2024, Kochi, India
• VATS vs RATS, ATICON 2024 (Apollo Thoracic Intervention Conference), May 2024, Chennai, India
• Thoracoplasty, IACTSCON 2024, February 2024, Bhubaneswar, India
• ERAS in Thoracic Surgery, IACTSCON 2024, February 2024, Bhubaneswar, India
• Surgery for Tuberculosis, Indian Medical Association Mogappair Branch, February 2024, Chennai, India
• Clinical Approaches to Mediastinal Lesions and Various Surgical Approaches, IACTS Mid Term Thoracic CME 2023, December 2023, Hyderabad, India
• Thoracoplasty Tips and Tricks: ISTSCON 2023, Bengaluru, India, November 2023
• Panelist in treatment of Lung cancer, MGM Hospital, November 2023, Chennai, India
• Pediatric Airway Surgery, 23rd Annual Conference of Pediatric Cardiac Society of India, November 2023, Chennai
• Chairperson on Pleural Diseases, ISTSCON 2023, Bengaluru, India, November 2023
• 4th Hands on Training for VATS, Live Surgery for Destroyed Left Lower Lobe, October 2023, NIDCH, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Panelist Congenital Tracheal Stenosis, Kanchi Kamakoti Child Trust Hospital, September 2023, Chennai, India
• Panelist for Management of Carcinoid Tumors, Surgery vs Endobronchial Tumor, September 2023, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India
• Broncocon Silver – Panelist for Approach to Critical Airway Stenosis, August 2023, Mumbai, India
• Lecture on Various Lung Sparing Surgery in Lung Cancer, Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, Chennai
• 31st European Society of Thoracic Surgery Meeting, 4th to 6th June 2023, Milan, Italy (Invited Lecture) – ERAS in Thoracic Infections
• Godrej Karai Oration – ERAS in Thoracic Surgery, February 2023, IACTSCON 2023, Coimbatore, INDIA
• VATS in Redo and Inflammatory Lung Diseases, February 2023, IACTSCON 2023, Coimbatore, India.
• 68th IACTSCON 2022, April 2022, Jaipur, India (Invited Lecture), ERAS in Thoracic Surgery, Challenges in Indian Context.
• 68th IACTSCON 2022, April 2022, Jaipur, India (Invited Lecture), Technical Challenges in VATS Airway Reconstruction.
• Cadaveric Workshop, Surgical Anatomy & Resection Techniques in Lung Cancer, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, India, March 2022.
• TNASI 2021, Chennai December 2021
  Early Experience in Uniportal VATS
• NALCCON 2021 - Virtual December 2021
  How I do It – VATS Lower Lobectomy – Video Presentation
• ASN Nagpur 2021 – Virtual Conference, November 2021
  Uniportal VATS and ERAS with Recent Advances
• ISTSCON 2021 – Virtual Conference, March 2021
  Panelist for Benign Non-Infectious Thoracic Pathologies
• Karnataka Pulmonologist Association, Feb 2021
  Topic- Bronchopleural Fistula
• IACTSCON 2021 – Virtual Conference, Feb 2021
  Recent advances in Uniportal VATS
• IACTSCON 2020, Ahmedabad, February 2020
  ERAS (Enhanced recovery after Surgery) in Thoracic Surgery.
• ISTSCON 2020, New Delhi, January 2020
  VATS Lobectomy for Lung cancer
• 27th ASCVTS and 65th IACTSCON 2019, February 2019, Chennai
  Our experience in tracheobronchial surgery.
• 27th ASCVTS and 65th IACTSCON 2019, February 2019, Chennai
  Our experience in tracheobronchial surgery.
• Thoracic Surgery for General Surgeons, January 2019,
  Sri Ramachandra Medical College &Hospital, Chennai
• Thoracic Surgery for General Surgeons, January 2018,
  Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Hospital, Chennai
• Chest trauma, January 2017, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Hospital, Chennai.
• Overview in VATS and Live Demonstration of VATS – FIAGES Madurai, June 2017.
• VATS in Thoracic Surgery – IMA Kumbakonam, May 2017.
• Tracheoesophageal Fistula – IACTSCON 2017 Bangalore, February 2017
• Post – Operative Space Problems – IACTSCON 2017 Bangalore, February 2017.
• Basics of VATS – Bangalore, November 2016.
• VATS Lobectomy for Benign Lung Disease – Salem, October 2016.
• VATS LVRS – Tirupathi SIMS IACTS Thoracic CME, November2015.
• Challenges in VATS - IACTVS Conference, February 2015.
• Lecture on Surgical Treatment of Trachea Bronchial and Carinal Lesions Thoracic CME 2014 organized by IACTS – CMC Vellore.
• Faculty in Thoracic Surgery Conference – Organized by Medanta 2014.
• Lecture on VATS – BRONCOCON 2013, Vadodara.
• Surgical treatment of Hemoptysis- NAPCON 2011- Chandigarh.
• Surgical Management of Benign Tracheal Stenosis – NAPCON 2011 – Chandigarh.
• Thoracoscopy in Thoracic Surgery – BRONCOCON 2010 – Agra.
• Surgery for Tracheal Tumours and Stenosis – Thoracic CME, Chennai 2009.
• Rare Case of Intra Bronchial Hamartoma with Tuberculosis of Distal Lung – CTCON Pune,February 2008.
• Other Uses of a Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope – BRONCOCON, Chennai 2006.
• Our Series of 356 Tracheal Resection – Asian society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Bangkok.
• Radio Frequency Ablation of Tumours – ASI Tamil Nadu Chapter Kodai, August 2004.

THORACIC SURGERY COURSES CONDUCTED

• Thoracoplasty Workshop, 28th December 2024, Santosham Chest Hospital, Chennai, India
• VATS Workshop – ATICON 2024, May 3rd 2024, Apollo Hospital Vanagaram, Chennai, India
• Uniportal VATS Workshop – All India Institute of Medical Sciences, March 2023, New Delhi, India
• Robotic Thoracic Surgery CME in February 2023, Yashodha Hospitals Hyderabad, India.
• Organizing Secretary of ISTSCON November 2022 , Chennai, India
• Uniportal VATS Lobectomy workshop organized by Johnson & Johnson for Cardiothoracic Surgeons – October 2022
• Panelist in Transformational Thoracic Surgery in Ethicon Digital Education, 2020
• PACE Program Online, 2020
• VATS Workshop at IACTSCON February 2019
• VATS Program at Thangam Hospital, Salem, 2019.
• Animal Lab training program at Madras Medical College, 2018.
• VATS Program at Cancer Institute, Chennai 2018.
• VATS Workshop at IACTSCON February 2018.
• VATS Workshop in Ethicon Institute Mumbai, September 2017.
• VATS Workshop IACTS midterm CME in MMC Chennai, October 2017.
• VATS Workshop in Ethicon Institute Chennai, April 2017.
• VATS Workshop in Amritha hospital Kochi – February 2017.
• VATS Workshop in IACTSCON 2017 Bangalore – February 2017.
• Endo-trainer course module in by J&J, 2017