Kumud Dhital is a Nepalese cardiothoracic specialist and Heart & Lung Transplant Surgeon at Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, India. His prior work experience was at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. In fall 2014, Dr. Dhital was part of the surgical team who completed the world's first “dead heart” transplant. A “dead heart” is a heart donated after circulatory death, where the heart has stopped beating. As of 24 October 2014, 3 patients had received DCD heart transplants. It helps to buy certain time for the dead heart to transplant in a receiver.Dhital was also an associate professor and senior lecturer in surgery at the University of New South Wales. Read More
