Clinical Practice
Mr Pragnesh Joshi is a Specialist Cardiothoracic Surgeon. He provides all types of heart surgery with special interest in beating heart surgery and minimally invasive heart and lung surgeries. He is a fellow of The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australia. He has had extensive experienced as a surgeon for Beating heart bypass surgery and he is also proficient in all types of heart and lung surgeries with special interest in following surgeries.
Cardiac Surgery :
- Coronary artery bypass surgery including beating heart bypass(OPCAB) with special interest in total arterial revascularization
- Minimal access minithoracotomy coronary bypass surgery
- Minimally access Aortic valve repair/replacement
- Minimal access Mitral valve surgery
- Minimal access ASD closure
- Minimal access ricuspid valve surgery
- Aortic surgery/aortic root replacement
- AF ablation/MAZE procedure
Thoracic Surgery
- Video Assisted minimally invasive thoracoscopic lobectomy
- Thoracoscopic mediastinal tumour excision/thymectomy
- Bullous lung disease/ LVRS
- Recurrent pneumothrax/pleurectomy
- Mediastinoscopy-biospy
Mr Joshi is also a supervisor of surgical education and training and is a Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and a Clinical lecturer at the University of Western Australia Medical Schools.
Background & Training
Mr Joshi has extensive experience as surgeon in Australia and overseas. He obtained specialist qualification in Cardiothoracic Surgery from Mumbai University in 2002 in India. He worked as overseas fellow/Senior Registrar at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Nedlands prior to obtaining fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He gained substantial exposure to minimally invasive valve surgery at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane and also spent some time at Heart Center Leipzig, Germany.