Jai Raman, MD, M Med, PhD

Professor of Surgery

Dr. Jai Raman is a highly skilled cardiac and thoracic surgeon known for his efforts to develop new and innovative surgical procedures, especially for the treatment of heart failure. He helped develop ventricular containment (or the wrap procedure), which uses an innovative mesh bag to stop the heart from enlarging in patients with heart failure. He performed the first eight of these procedures in the world. In addition, Dr. Raman developed the geometric endo-ventricular repair procedure--a new technique to reconstruct badly scarred heart chambers to restore the shape and size of the heart's ventricles. Additionally, Dr. Raman has made significant contributions to the development of new programs at the University of Chicago in minimally invasive valve and complex aortic surgery.

Dr. Raman is also an expert in the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. He has created new surgical instruments to perform intra-operative radiofrequency ablation to eliminate the tissue that causes abnormal heart rhythms.

His work to develop new techniques to repair mitral and tricuspid valves and adapting minimal access techniques has been particularly successful. These procedures have spared many patients from requiring early total heart valve replacement. He specializes in "redo" valve surgery through small incisions.

Dr. Raman is actively participating in a number of research initiatives. He has convened a multi-center international clinical trials group in the Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery. His clinical research interests include renal bio-markers in cardiac surgery, kidney protection in heart surgery, arterial grafting and less invasive valve and arrhythmia surgery. He is the principle investigator in multi-center, randomized clinical trials exploring:

Sodium bicarbonate as a protective agent in cardiac surgery
Use of sternal plates in closing the breast bone after cardiac surgery
Patency and fate of the radial artery as a bypass graft in coronary artery surgery

In total, Dr. Raman has performed nearly 2,500 heart surgeries and more than 700 thoracic operations. His surgical expertise encompasses a wide range of cardiac and thoracic procedures, with particular skill in complex, high-risk cardiac surgeries.

Practice Location

Center for Advanced Medicine
5758 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Year Started Practice

1985

Board Certification

Cardiothoracic Surgery (Royal Australasian College of Surgeons)
FRACS–-Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Australia

Medical School

MBBS–-St John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India

Master's Degree

MMed–-University of Sydney, Australia

PhD

University of Melbourne, Australia.

Internship

St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India

Residencies

St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia (cardiothoracic surgery)
Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia (general surgery)
Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (cardiac and thoracic surgery)
Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia (cardiac surgery)

Fellowships

Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (general and thoracic surgery)
Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, Australia (pediatric cardiac surgery)
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (pediatric cardiac surgery)

Memberships

American Association for Thoracic Surgery
American Heart Association
American Medical Association
Australasian Society of Cardiac & Thoracic Surgeons
Australian Medical Association
International College of Surgeons (Fellow)
Society of Thoracic Surgeons