D is Chief Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon and as a Chairman, He heads the Department of Cardio Vascular Sciences at Fortis Hospitals, Bangalore. Dr. Jawali has also been nominated as a council member to the newly constituted Medical Council of India (MCI), the premier statutory body that governs the standards of medical education and recognition of medical qualifications in the country.

He is a pioneer in minimally invasive cardiac surgery in India and has performed over 18,000 cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeries till date. He performed India’s first beating heart bypass surgery in 1992 and performed India’s first minimally invasive bypass surgery(MIDCAB)in Sept 1994. Dr. Jawali did India’s first Awake Cardiac surgery (Surgery without GA or ventilator, done under continuous high thoracic epidural) in June 1999. He also performed world’s 1st awake open heart surgery (a 74 yrs pt underwent triple bypass with aortic valve replacement without G.A. or a ventilator) in April 2002.

Dr. Jawali has been the president of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS) in 2008. He is the founder member of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgeons (ISMICS) and is the only Indian on the editorial board of its journal – Innovations in Cardiac Surgery. He is also the council member of the Asian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons. He has been the Vice President of the Indian College of Cardiology. He is on the editorial board of the journal of Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (IACTS), journal of Cardiac Anaesthesia, CTSNET (a comprehensive global website of cardiac surgeons around the world). He is the founder and the web administrator of the iacts.org(a website of the Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons). Recently He is also nominated as Member of the Medical Council of India & is on its academic council.

Professional Qualification

Awards & Honors

• Harvard Medical International Lifetime Achievement Award for Medical Excellence in India.
• Karnataka Rajyotsava Award
• The Kempegowda “Outstanding Bangalorean” Award by the Bangalore Municipal Corporation.
• “Citizen Extraordinaire” by Giants International Banglore and innumerable state & local awards
• B C Roy Award for Medical Excellence And other Innumerable state & local awards

Area of Interest

• Awake (Non-Incubated) Cardiac Surgery
• Coronary bypass surgery (Off-Pump, Arterial Grafts, Bloodless, Minimally Invasive etc)
• Left Ventricular Restoration & Valve Repair Surgeries

Some interesting media links

• Lessons from a frugal innovator
• Patients Have Heart Surgery While Wide Awake
• Two Fortis cardiologists nominated to Medical Council of India
• Wide-awake heart surgery
• Eyes Wide Open: Patient has open-heart surgery while he is awake
• What the doctor ordered: Dr Vivek Jawali, one of India’s leading cardio-thoracic surgeons, runs his operation theatre like a battlefield, but is, at heart, an artist