Kumud Dhital

Kumud Dhital (Nepali: कुमुद धिताल) 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 and, Australia.[1][2] In fall 2014, Dr. Dhital was head of the surgical team who completed the world's first “dead heart” transplant. A “dead heart” is a heart donated after circulatory death (DCD), where the heart has stopped beating.[3] As of 24 October 2014, 3 patients had received DCD heart transplants.[4] It helps to buy certain time(3 to 6 hrs) 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.[2][4] As a faculty member at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Dhital worked closely with Professor Peter MacDonald, the medical director of the St Vincent's Heart Transplant Unit.[2] St Vincent's Hospital and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute collaborated to develop their successful DCD transplant technique.[5]