Contributions
Founder Secretary of Heart Failure Society India: Dr. Alla Gopala krishna Gokhale was the Founder Secretary to Heart Failure Society, India. He established the society as a national body to create awareness and knowledge about heart failure, its prevention, diagnosis and better management and promote research amongst medical, paramedical and allied professionals and general public and also to facilitate establishment of infrastructure in achievement of this objective.
Heart and Lung transplantations In India and states of Telangana and Andhra pradesh: Dr Gokhale CT Associates promoted transplantations of heart and lung by doing many for the first time at national and states level.
Minimal access heart surgery: Dr Gokhale CT Associates promoted minimal access heart surgery (key hole heart surgery) by training many surgeons in India and abroad and conducting many live workshops. This helped patients to recover faster after heart surgery.