Dr Vinodh B Nanjayya

Dr Vinodh B Nanjayya

• v.nanjayya@alfred.org.au

Dr Vinodh B Nanjayya is a Senior Intensive Care Specialist and Head of Cardiothoracic ICU at the Alfred Hospital. After becoming the fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM), he completed a fellowship in Critical Care Echocardiography from the Alfred ICU. He holds DDU (Critical Care) and a Masters in Biostatistics. His main areas of clinical expertise is in the ICU management of patients with mechanical cardiac support devices (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ventricular assist devices and Impella®), post-heart and lung transplantation, and complex cardiac surgery. He is a current examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) Fellowship examination and the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (Critical Care). He has been an active member of the CICM ultrasound special interest group and is the current deputy chair of ultrasound special interest group. He is the convenor of the echocardiography courses (basic, advanced, and trans-oesophageal echocardiography) run by the Alfred ICU and regularly teaches in many courses conducted by the Alfred ICU. He has conducted and published research in post-cardiac arrest, Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR), and ultrasound in ICU. He has presented in both national as well as international conferences on topics related to critical care echocardiography and Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. He has co-authored guidelines for the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation on E-CPR and ultrasound guidance for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).