Born on 4 th sept.1956 to a middle class couple at Ooty.

His father Late Mr.Lakshmanan was a merchant. Mother Masiammal is house wife. He is the eldest of their four children, one sister and two brothers.

He started his primary education at Ooty Municipal high school. At the age of 9 he was put in a boarding school at Sri Vivekananda higher secondary school at Tirupparaithurai, a small village near Trichy. After completing his schooling he did his PUC at Bishop Heber College, Trichy. In 1974 he joined Stanley Medical College at Madras and completed his basic medical education in 1981. During his undergraduate course period itself he was interested in surgical speciality and this brought him to the General surgery department of Coimbatore Medical college, Coimbatore, as senior house surgeon.

Subsequently he did his Masters in gen.surgery at Madurai Medical College between 1982 to 1985.

Then worked as general surgeon at Swedish Mission Hospital, Tiruppattur. Started his cardiac surgical carrier at JIPMER, Pondicherry as senior registrar in the dept of cardiac surgery. He received his superspeciality training in Cardiac surgery at Madras Medical College in 1988.

After his education worked with Dr.KM Cherian at Madras Medical Mission, Madras. In 1990 had a small stint at Brioompton hospital, London in cardiac surgery.

His zeal to return to mother country saw him come back to join Manipal hospital Bangalore as consultant cardiothoracic surgeon.

In 1993 he joined as Head of the department of cardiac surgery at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Puttaparthy, were he gained enormous sugical experience. the inner drive for campaigning for community cause also came by seeing the enormous social activities taking place there.

Later he worked at Mediciti hospitals, Hyderabad before he cam to Combatore.

He joined Sri Ramakrishna Hospitals in 1997 and started the cardiovascular surgery department, here His fields of interest includes coronary artery bypass surgery, pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac transplantation.