Testamur in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography Examination (Advanced PTEeXAM) by National Board of Echocardiography, USA

Fellowship of Trans Esophageal Echocardiography (FTEE) (IACTA)

Post Doctoral Fellowship in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesiology (Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology)

DM Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesiology (Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology)

DNB Anaesthesiology (NBE)

MD Anaesthesiology(JIPMER, Puducherry)

MBBS (JIPMER, Puducherry)

5th July - till date: Assistant Professor, Anaesthesiology

20th March 2023- 3rd July 2023: Assistant Professor (Ad Hoc) Department of Anaesthesiology

2022: Post Doctoral Fellow in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesiology (SCTIMST)

September 2021 - December 2021, January 2023 to 17th March 2023: Consultant Cardiac Anaesthesiologist in Paediatric Interventional Cardiology/ Cardiac Surgery unit, SAT Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram Medical College

2018-2021: Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology DM Senior Resident (SCTIMST)

May 2017 - August 2017: Senior Resident, Anaesthesiology (BJMC and Sassoon Hospital, Pune)

2014- 2017: MD Anaesthesiology Junior Resident (JIPMER, Puducherry)

2007 - 2013: MBBS + Internship (JIPMER, Puducherry)

National level 2nd Rank in FTEE, 2022

Dr Suda Balan Memorial Endowment prize and Gold Medal in ENT - JIPMER, Puducherry

University topper for multiple subjects during MBBS

One of the 6 selected participants in the Janak Mehta Award paper presentation for the best original research among young cardiac anaesthesiologists in India, IACTACON 2023, Jodhpur.

1st prize in national level Echocardiography Quiz competition conducted by IACTA (2020, IACTACON Goa).

TN Jha and KP Chansoria Travel Grant and National Award for Best Paper presentation- 2016, ISA Ludhiana.

National level Anaesthesiology quiz (ISACON 2016, Ludhiana)-Second Prize

1st Prize- Original Paper presentation- 2016 ISA State Conference (Puducherry).

1st Prize- Quiz competition-2016 ISA State Conference. (Puducherry)

Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia, Transesophageal echocardiography

Program Coordinator for academic activities in the Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesiology

Fellowship in Trans Esophageal Echocardiography (FTEE)

Life Member of IACTA

Life Member of ISA

Member of the Association of Alumni of Sree Chitra Cardiac Anaesthesiologists

Digital stethoscope derived Single lead electrocardiogram and Artificial Intelligence to detect low Ejection fraction- A multicentric Trial

Effect of 5% EMLA cream on post-operative sore throat following endotracheal intubation in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgeries, Cath lab procedures and interventional radiology procedures-a randomized controlled study.

A Lung Ultrasound Based Comparison of Post-Operative Respiratory Outcome After Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery In COVID-19 Recovered And COVID-19 Unaffected Children- A Pilot Study.

Comparison of TEE-guided TAPSEs with TTE-Guided M Mode TAPSE in adult and pediatric cardiac surgeries for the assessment of Right Ventricular Function

A study on the effect of intraoperative continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on the postoperative pulmonary function in overweight patients undergoing lower limb, lower abdominal or vaginal surgeries under spinal anesthesia- A Randomized Control Trial.

6 years after MD

Effect of 5% EMLA cream on post-operative sore throat following endotracheal intubation in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgeries, Cath lab procedures and interventional radiology procedures-a randomized controlled study by Dr Amrutha Harikumar

Part of Organizing team of NICE 2019 and NICE 2022 Workshop

First author presentations- 8

Mamatha Munaf, Divya Jacob, Unnikrishnan K. P, Varghese T Panicker M, Thomas Koshy, Electromechanical dissociation in the intensive care unit after mitral valve replacement-An unusual cause., Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia (2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2023.06.044

Varsha A. V, Munaf M, Shrinivas V Gadhinglajkar - Inadvertent puncture of dilated right ventricle during transversus thoracis muscle plane block: Lessons learnt. Accepted for publication in the Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia on 31/05/2023.

Nithyanandan P, Mamatha Munaf, Saravana Babu, Sharmila S. Three-dimensional trans-oesophagal echocardiographic detection of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction by residual native mitral leaflet following mitral valve replacement in a hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy patient. Accepted for publication in the Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia on 28/01/2023.

Saravana Babu, Rupa Sreedhar, Mamatha Munaf, Shrinivas V Gadhinglajkar. ?Sepsis in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: an updated review?, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, available online 11 February 2023 (article in press), https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2023.02.011.

Mamatha Munaf, Shrinivas V Gadhinglajkar, Prasanta Kumar Dash, Suneel P R, Sunil Sagar. Radial artery pseudoaneurysm following pediatric radial arterial cannulation. Accepted for [publication in the Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia on 25/12/2022.

Mamatha Munaf, Saravana Babu, Subin Sukesan, Sabarinath Menon, Thomas Koshy. Aberrant behaviour of a normal anatomic variant causing inferior vena cava flow obstruction in the right atrium following surgical closure of a sinus venosus atrial septal defect, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, available online 18 February 2023, https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jvca.2023.02.020

Munaf M, Pappu UK, Veetikadu VA. A Worm in the Heart: One of a Kind! J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2023;37(4):677-678.doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2022.12.015

Munaf M, Gadhinglajkar S, Dash PK, A J. Computed Tomography Scan Evidence of Bronchospasm and Its Resolution During Computed Tomography Coronary Angiogram in a Child With Kawasaki Disease: A Case Report. A A Pract. 2021;15(3): e01388. Published 2021 Mar 8. doi:10.1213/XAA.0000000000001388

Munaf M, Palamattom J D, Menon S, Dharan S B, Koshy T. A Lung Ultrasound-Based Comparison Of Postoperative Respiratory Outcome After Paediatric Congenital Heart Surgery In Covid -19 Recovered And Covid-19 Unaffected Children-A Pilot Study. Accepted for Publication in Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia on 15/05/2023

Munaf M, Rajeswari C, Rajaram M, Balachander H. A study on the effect of intraoperative continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on the postoperative pulmonary function in overweight patients undergoing lower limb, lower abdominal or vaginal surgeries under spinal anesthesia. Adv Respir Med. 2020;88(3):176-182. doi:10.5603/ARM.2020.0105.