MITRAL RUMBLES

 

 

By Dr. Ross Feldman,
Medical Lead,
Cardiac Sciences Manitoba

March 21, 2022

Announcements

Sals Star of the Week: Dr. Nitin Ghorpade (introduced by Dr. Rakesh Arora)

This week the Section of Cardiac Surgery is proud to announce our pick for the Sals Star, Dr. Nitin Ghorpade. 

Dr. Ghorpade is originally from Mumbai, India. After completion of his basic surgical training in India, he had further training in Australia and then moved to Edmonton for heart-lung transplant surgery training. Dr. Ghorpade completed training in 2007 and was RCPSC certified the same year. He has been working as a cardiac/heart-lung transplant surgeon since 2007 with special interest in high risk complex cardiac surgery and transplant/heart failure surgery. He joined us in 2014 as full-time faculty in the Cardiac Sciences Program.

Dr. Ghorpade has a keen interest in resident education and training and has been actively involved in the residency program here as well as other centers where he worked before joining the faculty at the University of Manitoba. Notably he has started the a highly sought-after fellowship in Advance Cardiac Surgery and more recently took on the role of the Cardiac Surgery Program Director in 2020. Under his leadership we have seen this year a record number of applicants to our resident program! Further, he has had the Herculean task of preparing for our upcoming accreditation next week.  He has received multiple awards for his skill in pedagogy over his career to date. Additionally, Dr. Ghorpade has stayed an active participant in clinical research and as well has been mentoring cardiac surgery residents in their clinical research work.

This recognition is a small token of our acknowledgement for all the work he has undertaken and continues in support of our resident and fellowship trainees!

This Week’s Faculty Publications

Weiang Yan, Rakesh C Arora Commentary: Stronger together: Interinstitutional collaboration is a key step to improving patient outcomes after contemporary extracorporeal membrane oxygenation  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Apr;163(4):1375-1376. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.11.003. Epub 2020 Nov 6.

Carly Lodewyks, Rakesh C Arora Commentary: Absolute creatinine values and preoperative acute kidney injury in cardiac surgery patients: Are we barking up the wrong tree?  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Apr;163(4):1390-1391. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.03.093. Epub 2020 Apr 9.

Virendra K Arya, Waiel Al-Moustadi, Vikas Dutta  Cardiac output monitoring – invasive and noninvasive  Curr Opin Crit Care. 2022 Mar 11. doi: 10.1097/MCC.0000000000000937. Online ahead of print.

Ross