Dr. Vikram Puttaswamy

Dr Vikram Puttaswamy is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon who specialises in major and complex endovascular and vascular surgical procedures. He trained at Royal North Shore, Royal Melbourne and Westmead hospitals and has been practicing as a Vascular Surgeon since 2005 in the public and private sector.

He is a Fellow in Vascular Surgery of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and completed a Fellowship in General Surgery before training in Vascular Surgery.

As well as being a VMO at North Shore Private Hospital, The Mater – North Sydney, Sydney Adventist Hospital and Lady Davidson Hospital, he is the Vascular Surgery Head of Department at Royal North Shore Hospital.

He is also involved in the teaching of undergraduate students in his role as Clinical Senior Lecturer – Sydney Medical School (Northern), is the Supervisor of Vascular Surgery Training at Royal North Shore Hospital and is engaged in numerous university and industry funded research projects.

Dr Puttaswamy grew up in Canberra and went to Newcastle University. He is a keen sportsman and has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of contemporary sport. In particular he loves cricket! We have also been informed by reliable third parties that he is the “Trivia King”. Dr Puttaswamy lives in the northern Sydney suburbs with his wife (also a Dr) and two teenage children.

Hospital Appointments and Roles

Royal North Shore Hospital – Head of Department
Royal North Shore Hospital - Supervisor of Vascular Surgical trainees
North Shore Private Hospital – Visiting Medical Officer
Sydney Adventist Hospital - Visiting Medical Officer
Mater Hospital (North Sydney) - Visiting Medical Officer
Lady Davidson Hospital - Visiting Medical Officer

Other Roles

Vascular Surgery Liaison RNSH - Paired Kidney Exchange (PKE)
Managing Director – North Shore Vascular Laboratory
Clinical Senior Lecture – Sydney Medical School (Northern)

Qualifications

FRACS (Vascular)
FRACS (General)
Bachelor of Medicine University Newcastle 1990

Publications List

A trauma related study looking at equestrian injuries treated at the Prince of Wales, Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Children’s Hospitals.
Poster presentation at N.S.W. Registrar Paper Day 1993
The role of HIDA scanning in the evaluation of Roux en Y Hepatojejunostomy.
Oral presentation at the R.AC.S. General Scientific Meeting in Melbourne 1996
Measuring changes in glutathione distribution in the enterohepatic system of rats using radiolabelled cysteine.
Poster presentation at the Gastroenterological Society of Australia’s Scientific Programme in Adelaide Sept. 1996
The role of HIDA scanning in the evaluation of Roux en Y Hepatojejunostomy.
Poster presentation at the Gastroenterological Society of Australia’s Scientific Programme in Adelaide Sept. 1996
Hepatobiliary glutathione may influence the enteric glutathione system of the rat
Poster presentation at the Gastroenterological Society of Australia’s Scientific Programme in Brisbane Sept. 1997
Equestrian injuries – a prospective study
J. Lim, V. Puttaswamy, P. Crowe
Oral presentation at N.S.W. Registrars Paper Day 1997 by J. Lim (Winner of Noel Newton Medal)
Hepatobiliary glutathione may influence the enteric glutathione system of the rat
V. Puttaswamy, G. Keogh, S. Collins, L. Robbie, M. Scariot, M.A. Rose, J.M. Ham
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 1997 12(S):A66
Western blot analysis of bile or intestinal fluid from patients with septic shock or systemic inflammatory response syndrome, using antibodies to TNF-alpha, IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta.
L. Belov, V. Meher-Homji, V. Puttaswamy & R. Miller
Immunology and Cell Biology 1999 Feb; 77(1): 34-40.
Hyperbaric oxygenation treatment of acute paraplegia after resection of a thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm
V. Puttaswamy, M. Bennett, JE. Frawley
Journal of Vascular Surgery Dec 1999; 30 (6) : 1158-61
Popliteal artery compression by a tibial osteochondroma with associated thrombosis and distal embolisation
JM Hemli, MS Barakate, V Puttaswamy & M Appleberg
Aust. N.Z. J. Surg. Jun 2000: 70 (6), 459-61
Venous thromboembolism following elective varicose vein surgery : a prospective analysis
V. Puttaswamy, M. Neale, C. Fisher & M. Appleberg
Oral presentation at the R.AC.S. Annual Scientific Meeting in Melbourne, May 2000
Oral presentation at Venous Meetings Canberra 2000
Gold Coast 2001
Reflow in excluded popliteal artery aneurysms : a common problem
V. Puttaswamy, C. Fisher & M. Appleberg
Oral presentation at the ISCVS Meeting in Perth
July 2000
Eversion carotid endarterectomy
TA Iseli, V Puttaswamy, WA Campbell & NR Atkinson
Aust. N. Z. J. Surg. Oct 2001: 71 (10), 570-3
Pattern of equestrian injuries presenting to a Sydney teaching hospital
J Lim, V Puttaswamy, M Gizzi, L Christie, W Croker & P Crowe
Aust. N. Z. J. Surg. Aug 2003: 73 (8), 567-71
Clinical efficacy of metal stents for the treatment of focal abdominal aortic stenosis
K Eftekhar, N Young, J Fletcher, L Bester, L Wong & V Puttaswamy
Australasian Radiology Mar 2004: 48 (1), 17-20
Propaten: A revolutionary synthetic graft for lower limb reconstruction
V Puttaswamy
Oral presentation at 6th International Congress of Asian Vascular Society, Bangalore India November 2004
Acute hypertension after thoracic endograft repair of traumatic aortic transaction
V Puttaswamy, T Wagner & M Neale
Oral presentation at the International Endovascular Symposium, Sydney December 2004
Heparin bonded ePTFE in the treatment of lower limb arterial disease
V Puttaswamy
Oral presentation at Veith Innternational Vascular Symposium New York Nov 2005
The endovascular management of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (EVRAR)
V Puttaswamy
Invited Oral presentation at RACS ASC Sydney, May 2006
Early results of self-expanding nitinol stents in the treatment of femero-popliteal occlusive disease
V Puttaswamy
Oral presentation at Cordis Lower Limb Workshop
ANZSVS Meeting, Cairns September 2006
Fenestrated endograft and iliac bifurcation devices for complex aortic disease.
V Puttaswamy
Invited Oral presentation at Indian Vascular Society
Baroda, India, November 2007
Fenestrated endograft and iliac bifurcation devices for complex aortic disease.
V Puttaswamy
Invited Oral presentation at inauguration of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre (MIOT)
Chennai, India, March 2008
One hundred and seventy-eight consecutive pancreatoduodenectomies without mortality: role of the multidisciplinary approach
Jaswinder Samra, Raul Alvarado Bachmann, Julian Choi, Anthony Gill, Michael Neale, Vikram Puttaswamy, Cameron Bell, Ian Norton, Sarah Cho, Steven Blome, Ritchie Maher, Sivakumar Gananadha, Thomas Hugh
Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int Vol 10 No 4 August 15, 2011
A comparison of covered vs bare expandable stents for the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease
Bibombe Mwipatayi, Shannon Thomas, Jackie Wong, Suzanna Temple, Vikram Vijayan, Mark Jackson, Sally Burrows, Co-Investigators (Vikram Puttaswamy)
Journal of Vascular Surgery Vol 54 No 6 December 2011
Grafts for Mesenterico-Portal Vein Resections Can Be Avoided during Pancreatoduodenectomy
Frank Wang, Ranjan Arianayagam, Anthony Gill, Vikram Puttaswamy, Michael Neale, Sivakumar Gananadha, Thomas Hugh, Jaswinder Samra
Journal American Coll Surg Vol 215, No 4, Oct 2012
Adverse Tumour Biology Associated with Mesenterico-Portal Vein Resection Influences Survival in Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
F Wang, MClinEpid, FRACS, AJ Gill, MD, FRACP, M Neale MM, FRACS V Puttaswamy, MBBS, FRACS, S Gananadha, MS FRACS, N Pavlakis, PhD, FRACP, S Clarke, MD, FRACP, TJ Hugh MD, FRACS, and J S Samra, D Phil, FRACS
Annals of Surgical Oncology 21:1937-1947 (2014)
Combined Bilateral Carotid Endarterectomy and Coronary Bypass Surgery
Paterson, H., French, B., Puttaswamy, V., Hendel, N., Byth Wilson, K., Denniss, A.
Journal of Cardiovascular Disease, 2(2), 68-72. (2014).

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