Senior Consultant - Interventional Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure, Heart Transplant, MCS & Pulmonary Hypertension
OP Timings:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
12:00pm -
08:00pm | Cath Day | 08:00am -
04:00pm | 12:00pm -
08:00pm | Cath Day | 08:00pm -
04:00pm | As per call |
Qualifications & Education:
- MBBS – Madurai Medical College & Govt. Rajaji Hospital, TN MGR Medical University
- MD (General Medicine) – Thanjavur Medical College, TN MGR Medical University
- DM (Cardiology) – Madurai Medical College & Govt. Rajaji Hospital, TN MGR Medical University
- Training in Coronary Imaging (OCT) – Wakayama University, Japan
- Observership – Advanced Heart Failure, LVADs, Heart Transplantation – University of Minnesota, USA
Areas of Expertise:
- Interventional Cardiology Procedures
- Primary Angioplasty for Acute Heart Attacks
- Complex Coronary Interventions such as Left Main Interventions, Bifurcation PCI, and Calcium Modification Procedures – Rotablation, IVL, Orbital Atherectomy
- Imaging-Guided Interventions – OCT, IVUS
- Functional Studies – iFR, FFR
- Advanced Heart Failure – Evaluation and Management
- Right Heart Study
- Heart Transplant
- LVAD, RVAD
- Device Therapies for Advanced Heart Failure
- Endomyocardial Biopsy
- Structural Interventions
- TAVI
- Device Closures for Various Holes in the Heart
- Cardiac Device Implantations
- Pacemaker Implantations, AICD, CRT
- Valvular and Cardiovascular Disease Management
- Management of Valvular Heart Diseases, Hypertensive Heart Disease, and Cardiomyopathies
- Complete Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension
Clinical Interests:
- Advanced Heart Failure including Mechanical Circulatory support (ECMO, VAD`s) and heart Transplant
- Pulmonary Hypertension
Professional Experience:
- Consultant Cardiologist- Narayana Health at St Martha`s Heart Centre, Bangalore (2012-2020)
- Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Heart Failure Specialist – Sparsh Hospitals, Bangalore (2020-2024)
- Senior Consultant Cardiologist & Heart Failure Specialist – Sakra Hospital, Bangalore(2024-2025)
Research & Publications:
- Comparative study of echocardiography and electrocardiography criteria for detecting left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive patients Int J Res Med Sci. 2021 Nov;9(11):3364-3369
- Unusual cause of chest pain: Congenital absence of pericardium: Curr Trend cardiol 2021Vol 5 Issue 5
- Strain imaging in STEMI- Young investigator award at the Annual CSI conference at Kolkota, 2010
- Poster presentation on Strain rate imaging in patients with AMI in Echo India conference
- An Interesting Case of Tricuspid Atresia with long survival in the Annual CSI conference, Kochi 2009
- A case of Hypertension in the young- best case presentation award in the annual Hypertension conference award (2011)
Memberships:
- Cardiological Society of India
- International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant
- Indian Society of Heart and Lung Transplant
- Bangalore Society of CSI
- FSCAI (Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions)
Languages Known:
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu
