Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Registration
Merits
Special Interests
Personal Information
National conferences
Paper Presentations
Timeline
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C S VARMA PONNAMANDA

C S VARMA PONNAMANDA

Doctor
Bhimavaram

Summary

Entrepreneurial doctor with a proven track record of driving healthcare innovation, building sustainable systems, and delivering results through clear communication and focused leadership

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
4036
4036
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Founder & CEO

Teja Super Speciality Hospital
Bhimavaram
09.2021 - Current
  • Founded Teja Super Specialty Hospital in a semi-urban region, navigating land acquisition, licensing, and public utility challenges to establish a fully operational 55+ bed facility.
  • Personally led the hiring and training of over 30 clinical and support staff, balancing local talent development with strategic recruitment of key specialists to meet super specialty requirements.
  • Bootstrapped the hospital’s early operations, leveraging private financing, vendor credit models, and minimal capital expenditure strategies to maintain positive cash flow from year one.
  • Designed a location-sensitive pricing model to ensure affordability for rural patients while maintaining service viability for complex procedures like angioplasty and dialysis.
  • Established the Government Arogyasri Unit within the hospital, integrating government insurance workflows with in-house processes—resulting in a 30% increase in patient footfall within a year.
  • Actively involved in community health engagement, including free mega camps, school screenings, and maternal health awareness drives that reached over 10,000 people in 2 years.

Junior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Frontier Lifeline Private Limited
Chennai
08.2019 - 08.2021
  • Company Overview: Frontier Lifeline Hospital. Email: pcs.varma@gmail.com
  • Cardiothoracic surgery
  • Endoscopic Saphenous vein harvesting.
  • Adult cardiac surgery
  • More than 1000 cases of CABG experience (assisted + performed under senior consultant cover)
  • Re-do CABG
  • OPCAB experience
  • Mitral valve surgery
  • Aortic valve surgery
  • Aortic Homograft harvesting
  • ECMO
  • Participated in Orthotropic HEART TRANSPLANT, single LUNG TRANSPLANT.
  • Congenital cardiac surgery - ASD, VSD, TOF, participated in all complex congenital surgery.
  • Thoracic surgery - Decortication for empyema, participated in VATS lobectomies, Thoracoscopy, Bronchoscopy, pleurodesis, thoracoplasty.
  • Vascular surgery - AV fistula, Embolectomy.
  • Cardiac anaesthesia - Endotracheal Intubation, Central lines, Femoral lines, IABP insertion.
  • Animal experiments at MEDIVILLE. Dr. KM Cherian Heart Foundation.
  • Experience in Bovine jugular vein harvesting, Bovine pericardium harvesting, Porcine Heart valve harvesting.
  • Frontier Lifeline Hospital. Email: pcs.varma@gmail.com
  • Paper presentation at National conferences.
  • E-poster presentation at National conferences.
  • National conferences attended.

Education

Diplomate of National Board (DNB) - Cardiothoracic Surgery

National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences
Delhi
08-2018

Junior Resident Doctor -

ANDHRA MEDICAL COLLEGE
Visakhapatnam, India
04-2010

MBBS -

ANDHRA MEDICAL COLLEGE
Visakhapatnam, India
04.2001 - 01.2009

Skills

  • Extensive experience in adult cardiac surgery including 1000 CABG cases, re-do CABG, OPCAB, valve surgeries, ECMO support

  • Assisted in heart and lung transplants; exposure to complex congenital surgeries (ASD, VSD, TOF)

  • Skilled in thoracic procedures: decortication, VATS lobectomy, bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, pleurodesis
    Proficient in vascular surgeries: AV fistula creation, embolectomy

  • Competent in cardiac anesthesia techniques: intubation, central/femoral line access, IABP insertion

  • Involved in animal surgical models and biomaterial harvesting (bovine jugular vein/pericardium, porcine valves)

Registration

Andhra Pradesh Medical Council, India, 64279

Merits

  • Gold Medal in the Physiology Medal Examination in 2004
  • Gold Medal in the Pathology Medal Examination in 2006
  • First Prize in General Surgery Prize Examination 2008

Special Interests

  • Minimally invasive Adult Cardiac surgery
  • VATS – Thoracic surgery
  • Heart transplant
  • ECMO

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 06/10/85
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

National conferences

  • Annual Conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Trivendrum, Kerala, 2014
  • Annual Conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Lucknow, 2015
  • Annual Conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Hyderabad, 2016
  • Annual Conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Bangalore, 2017
  • Annual Conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Visakhapatnam, 2018
  • Annual Conference of ASCTVS and Annual Conference of Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Chennai, 2019

Paper Presentations

Paper presentation at National conferences

  • Use of Decellularised Bovine pericardium for left ventricular remodeling, IACTS 2015
  • Tricuspid valve repair using with Teflon felt-single center experience, IACTS 2016
  • 5Yrs experience of Del Nido cardioplegia in adult population, IACTS 2016


E poster presentation at National conferences

  • Tracheal reconstruction and odontoid fracture fixation- single stage repair, IACTS 2018
  • Glomus tumour of trachea, IACTS 2018
  • Congenital tracheal stenosis and ventricular septal defect repair, IACTS 2018
  • Repair of saccular aneurysm using with Decellularised aortic homograft, IACTS 2018

Timeline

Founder & CEO

Teja Super Speciality Hospital
09.2021 - Current

Junior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Frontier Lifeline Private Limited
08.2019 - 08.2021

MBBS -

ANDHRA MEDICAL COLLEGE
04.2001 - 01.2009

Diplomate of National Board (DNB) - Cardiothoracic Surgery

National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences

Junior Resident Doctor -

ANDHRA MEDICAL COLLEGE

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