Dr. Avijit Basu graduated MBBS as gold medallist for a best outgoing student from CMC, Vellore in 1991. He did MS in General Surgery from PGIMER, Chandigarh between 1992-95.

He completed MCh in CardioThoracic and Vascular Surgery from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in 1998. He completed FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh2000.

After working in Pune for a few years, he completed his training as Overseas Fellow in the Cardiac Surgery Department of the prestigious Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Australia.

Following his return to India in 2003, he worked as consultant Cardiac Surgeon to set up the Cardiac Surgery department in Apollo Victor Hospital; Goa. He has worked for several years as a consultant and senior consultant Cardiac Surgeon in Chennai at Madras Medical Mission and BharathiRajaa Speciality Hospital. After spending a year on Sabbatical at Mauritius; where he worked in the Government Cardiac Centre; he returned to settle in Pune in 2017.

Areas of specialization and interest include various aspects of Adult Cardiac Surgery; including total Arterial Revascularization, Beating Heart (Off-Pump) CABG, Valvular surgeries including repairs and replacement, Redo operations, Aortic surgery and complex high-risk operations in patients with multiple co-morbidities. He has done a number of routine and complex pediatric heart operations including neonatal surgery.