Dr. Piroze M. Davierwala is the Lead Senior Consultant and Director of Coronary Bypass surgery at the Leipzig heart center in Germany. Following his residency in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (1997-2000), he did a 3-year clinical fellowship at the University of Toronto. Following the completion of his training, he worked as a consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery in 2 private hospitals in the city of Pune, India, before acquiring a position on staff at the Leipzig heart center, Germany in 2009, where he has been working ever since. He has a keen interest in minimally invasive valvular and coronary surgery, aortic and mitral valve repairs, complex reconstructive surgery for endocarditis and has established the technique of multi-vessel minimally invasive CABG with bilateral internal thoracic arteries. His research work chiefly encompasses clinical studies, which have been published in numerous peer-reviewed international journals and he is an author of several book chapters as well