David Jayakar

Background

About David Jayakar

Dr David Jayakar received his medical degree with honors at Madras Medical College in Madras, India and immigrated to the United States in 1991. Shortly thereafter, he completed his surgical residency at SUNY-Downstate, NY. He then onward completed his fellowship at University of Arizona, Tucson. He began his practice at University of Chicago and entered private practice since 2003. Dr Jayakar is certied by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and General Surgery. He belongs to numerous medical professional societies and is the recipient of numerous awards. Dr Jayakar has had various positions of leadership in hospital programs. He has performed many innovative life saving surgical procedures that has benefited many patients. At University of Chicago he perfected Beating Heart surgery and have trained many surgeons to perform the same. As a Director at St Catherine hospital, East Chicago he introduced High risk cardiac surgery, Beating heart bypass surgery, Minimally invasive Valve surgery and Arrhythmia surgery. He performed the world’s rst RF ablation on a beating heart using Cobra Adhere to cure Atrial Fibrillation in the United States. He pioneered performing Non sternotomy cardiac surgeries on a beating heart. He also introduced Beating heart valve surgeries and is credited to have a large series of patients who have benefited from his procedures. At Longview Regional Hospital under his leadership the program grew 300% over a span of 5 years and attracts patients from various cities and towns. He developed the “Second opinion” surgical program which became successful for program development. Patients who did not have options in other institutions travel to get a “Second opinion”. To date, he has performed over beating heart cardio thoracic surgeries. Many years he has achieved 0% mortality for bypass surgeries.