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Padmashri Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram (born April 28, 1958) MBBS, FRCS (Glasgow), FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCS (CTh)(UK) is an Indian Cardiac Surgeon who performed the first successful Heart Transplant in the state of Kerala, India as well as the first ever successful Heart retransplant in the country. Other achievements include the first Beating heart, Awake Bypass and Total Arterial Revascularization surgeries in the state. He is also the Chairman of "Heart Care Foundation", a charitable trust that financially assists poor heart patients. ==Early life== Jose Chacko Periappuram was born in South Paravur, a small village in the Indian state of Kerala. His father, Prof. P.M. Chacko was a renowned botanist who discovered two plants and was principal at St. Thomas College, Pala, Kottayam, Kerala. His mother is Mrs. Mary Chacko. The late Fr. Abel CMI, founder chairman of Kalabhavan, Kochi, Kerala was his uncle. Jose matriculated from the St. Ephraim’s High School, and went to study BSc in Botany at the St. Thomas College, Palai from where he graduated in B.Sc. Botany in 1978. He passed MBBS from Govt. Medical College, Kottayam in 1985. He underwent one year of Senior House Surgeons Course at the Kottayam Medical College and went on to the United Kingdom for Post-graduate education and training. He passed his FRCS part 1 from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in Dublin in 1986 and completed his general surgical training from various hospitals in the Republic of Ireland. This included the County Hospital, Roscommon, Our Lady’s Hospital, Drogheda, and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital at Dublin. He passed his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow and Edinburgh in the year 1992. His higher Cardiac Surgical training was mainly at the University Hospital of Wales Cardiff and Manchester Royal Infirmary and passed the FRCS in Cardiac Surgery in 1994, one of the few cardiac surgeons to secure this degree from all three surgical colleges. His mentor was Dr I.M.Breckenridge who was a member of the team which led the first Heart surgery in England in 1960's. He further underwent training in Cardiac Transplantation at the famous Papworth Hospital at Cambridgeshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jose Chacko Periappuram」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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