Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons

The restorative organization in India congregated as a relationship interestingly presumably in 1885 AD when the specialists in the recent Bengal framed the Bengal Medical Association in 1885 under the Presidency of Rai Bahadur Dr. Lal Madhav Mukherjee. Following ten years of working the affiliation was extended to incorporate therapeutic people from all over India. The All India Medical Association was framed under the President boat of Rai Bahadur Dr. Lal Madhav Mukherjee, with the Secretary being Dr. J.R.Wallace.

Their Headquarter Office was at Calcutta. Their official organ was the Indian Medical Records distributed from Calcutta by Dr. J.R Wallace. The main efficient endeavor to hold an All India Medical Conference was showed at the activity of Bengal Medical Association in 1917.The first All India Medical Conference was held at Calcutta in 1917 under the President boat of Lt. Col. Raghavendra Rao, President, Bengal Medical Association at Belgachhia Medical College. The sixth All India Medical Association was held at Madras in 1929. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy directed the meeting at Madras where the classification was changed as "Indian Medical Association (IMA)" and from that point forward IMA is a mainstream name and just association of qualified medicinal people of India. The surgical specialities developed with the progression of time and the specialists now felt the need their very own relationship. At the All India Medical Conference held at Chennai in 1937 the thought began coming to fruition. Under the administration of Dr R N cooper, Sir A Lakshmanasamy Mudaliar and others the Association of Surgeons of India was shaped and enrolled in October 1938. They held the initially meeting at Mumbai. Under the mentorship of Sir A Lakshmanasamy Mudaliar and Dr A Venugopal the ASI central command came to fruition at Madras (present Chennai).

The advancement of Cardiac surgery in the nation and the relationship amongst specialists and doctors drove numerous to feel a joined meeting would be important and more valuable. In August 1972 Dr. Sujay B. Roy and Dr. N. Gopinath brought the Cardiologists and Cardiothoracic Surgeons together for the principal joint Conference sorted out at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. The Thoracic Surgery Section of the ASI was enlisted as the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of India (A.T.C.V.S.I) in the year 1982. The primary issue of the Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (I.J.T.C.V.S) with Dr. Solomon Victor as the Editor was distributed additionally around the same time. The ATCVSI kept on holding its mid-term gatherings with the Cardiological Society of India and the Annual Meetings with the Annual Conference of the ASI. Progressively, the cardiovascular-thoracic specialists needed to assume basically an optional part, both amid the mid-term and the yearly meetings. Their endeavors to hold the Mid-term Conference before October or to move the Annual Conference of the ASI from December to February met with no achievement. The Annual Conferences turned out to be daintily gone to issues and the Mid-term Conferences barely talked about papers on General Thoracic and Vascular Surgery.