Dr. Nisarga is nationally renowned Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon with a documented 16+ years track record of performing more than 6,000 adult and paediatric cardiac procedures. Credited with executing several historic first-in-nation and first-in-world surgeries, driven by a humanitarian passion to improve the longevity of patients afflicted with high-risk, complex cardiac and vascular conditions.• Strategic Leadership: Spearheads the highly specialized Robotic Heart Surgery and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) units across KIMS Hospitals, bringing over a decade of dedicated leadership and technological advancement to the institution.• Foundational Growth & Scaling: Proven track record of rapidly building high-volume cardiac units from inception, notably establishing a fully integrated department at Sapthagiri Hospital that achieved a 100% success rate across 50 complex paediatric operations within its inaugural month.• Clinical Excellence & Off-Pump Mastery: Independently executed over 5,000 diverse cardiac operations with exceptional outcomes. Achieved mastery in Off-Pump Beating Heart CABG, performing nearly 99% of these cases without a heart-lung machine to ensure significantly safer and faster patient recoveries.• Academic Leadership & Knowledge Sharing: Frequently invited to present scientific papers at India's top cardiac surgery conferences and CME programs. Actively advances the field by demonstrating novel surgical techniques for complex valve repairs at live medical workshops.• Comprehensive Expertise: Distinguished as one of the elite veteran cardiac surgeons in the country possessing dual expertise in both complex adult and delicate paediatric heart operations.• Surgical Innovation & Eminence: Recognized by Siliconindia as one of the top 10 most prominent cardiac surgeons in India. Continuously integrates the latest global advancements, grounded in early foundational collaboration with globally renowned pioneers in the field.• Humanitarian Commitment: Deeply dedicated to philanthropic causes and healthcare accessibility, having successfully conducted over 300 life-saving heart surgeries entirely free of cost for underprivileged patients.• Historic Awake Cardiac Surgery: First surgeon in India to perform an awake cardiac surgery on a patient with the Bombay Blood Group—a rare blood group with only about 179 documented cases in the world. Performed the procedure while completely conscious, halting the heartbeat for over 4 continuous hours in a no-ventilator scenario. Also holds the record as the youngest cardiac surgeon in India to conduct an awake cardiac surgery.• International Interventions: First cardiac surgeon in India to successfully insert an Indian-made tissue valve into an Iranian patient's heart.• World-First Complex Operations: Introduced a world-first complex operation on a single patient presenting with combined rheumatic and congenital heart disease; successfully performed an aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, AV canal repair, subaortic membrane excision, and limited septal myotomy simultaneously.