Venkatesh G. Ramaiah, MD, FACS is a

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and researcher. His areas of work include innovations in the treatment of

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s and

peripheral arterial disease Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is an abnormal narrowing of arteries other than those that supply the heart or brain. When narrowing occurs in the heart, it is called coronary artery disease, and in the brain, it is called cerebrovascular diseas ...

. Formerly a director of the Arizona Heart Hospital, he currently serves as Chief of Complex Vascular Services and Network Director of Vascular Services of the HonorHealth hospital system based in

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. Dr. Ramaiah is also a co-founder of Pulse Cardiovascular Institute, an ambulatory surgical center in Scottsdale.

Biography

Ramaiah was born in

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and moved to

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, India with his family as a child. He obtained his MBBS at

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in Mumbai and completed his surgery residency at Temple University's Episcopal Campus in

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. He went on to complete a

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fellowship under renowned surgeon Dr. Edward "Ted" Dietrich at the Arizona Heart Hospital where he practiced for 20 years. He resides in Scottsdale with his wife, with whom he has two children.

Career

Ramaiah has co-authored over 90 scholarly papers and continues to work in the research and development of new minimally-invasive vascular surgery technologies. His notable work includes a patent for the non-occlusive dilation devices used in

endovascular Interventional radiology (IR) is a medical specialty that performs various minimally-invasive procedures using medical imaging guidance, such as x-ray fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasound. IR performs b ...

procedures. He serves as principal investigator for several studies involving endovascular devices and technologies. In February 2020, Ramaiah performed the first skin-puncture bypass in Arizona on a patient with a complete occlusion of the femoral artery as part of the DETOUR II clinical trial. Ramaiah is a co-author of ''Endovascular and Hybrid Management of the Thoracic Aorta: A Case-based Approach'', a textbook on the surgical management of aortic pathologies.

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