Dr. Rehan Sayeed

Dr. Rehan Sayeed is an alumnus of the Madras Medical College where completed his basic medical education and his general surgery training. Dr. Rehan continued his medical training in United Kingdom where he graduated to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He returned to India and mentored under Dr. M. R. Girinath for Cardiothoracic training at Chennai. Dr. Rehan completed his training and graduated with a Diplomate of the National Board of Examinations.

Dr. Rehan continued his Cardiothoracic training in the United States.   In The US Dr. Rehan went on to do a Fellowship in Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Boston University Medical Center where he was the chief resident. In 2004 he joined the Children’s Hospital of Boston, the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, as Senior Resident in Pediatric Cardiac surgery training to do complex congenital heart surgery.

Dr. Rehan completed his US training at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, America’s No.1 heart center for the last 13 years in a row.  While at the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Rehan specialized in heart failure surgery and mechanical assist devices/cardiac transplantation. He is certified in Cardiac Transplantation and was a member of The Cleveland Clinic team that implanted the early Total Artificial hearts (Cardiowest).  At the clinic he also trained in minimal access cardiac surgery and valve repair surgery.

Dr Rehan Sayeed has performed more than 6,000 heart surgeries and more than 2,500 thoracic surgeries,more than 1,500 minimal access valve procedures and more than 50 heart transplants.