Transplant Surgeon at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills who did the 1st successful heart transplant, first successful lung transplant and 1st successful implantation of ventricular assist device in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. He has one of the largest experiences in minimally invasive heart surgery in India. So far he did 46 heart and lung transplants- 40 heart transplants including
a heterotopic heart transplant and 4 single lung transplants and one each of double lung transplant and combined heart-lung transplant and more than 15,000 plus open heart surgeries - adult as well as pediatric with a success rate of 98.4%. Dr Gokhale, a noted name among the medical fraternity in general and cardiothoracic surgeons has the distinction of performing India’s first heart-kidney combined transplant and performing heart transplant for a 69 year old person (oldest man to undergo heart transplant in India).