Consultant – Interventional Cardiologist

WORK EXPERIENCE

Consultant – Cardiology
Lisle Hospital, Kochi, Kerala
July 2012 – Present
Lisle Hospital, managed by the Arch Diocese of Ernakulam and Angamaly, is one of the oldest and largest charitable hospitals in Kerala (est. 1965). The Department of Cardiology is the largest in the state with state-of-the-art facilities in interventional and non-interventional practices. The centre has the largest experience in heart transplantation in Kerala.

Consultant Physician
M.M.T Hospital, Mukkadayam, Kerala
August 2007 – July 2009
One of the oldest mission hospitals in Central Kerala, established by Medical Mission Sisters.

Registrar – Cardiology
Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Trivandrum, Kerala
June 2006 – August 2007

QUALIFICATIONS

MBBS (1996 – 2002)
Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala
MG University, Kottayam

MD – General Medicine (2003 – 2006)
SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Orissa
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

DM – Cardiology (2009 – 2012)
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi

CLINICAL SKILLS

• Extensive experience in clinical medicine across India
• Coronary and structural heart interventions
• Complex coronary interventions (LM, bifurcation, rotational atherectomy)
• Intracoronary imaging – OCT, IVUS, VH
• Physiological assessment – FFR, IFR
• Peripheral and carotid interventions
• EVAR and TEVAR
• Structural interventions – ASD, PDA closure
• RSOV closure, post-MI VSR closure
• Paravalvular leak closure
• In-charge of advanced anticoagulation clinic
• Endomyocardial biopsies
• Heart transplantation program in-charge

PUBLICATIONS

• European Heart Journal, 34(21): 1557–1566
• ACTS guidelines for surgical treatment of heart failure and heart & lung transplantation (submitted)

BOOK CHAPTER

• Heart Transplantation – The Road Ahead, CSI Annual Conference 2017

PROFESSIONAL & SOCIETAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Cardiological Society of India – Kerala Chapter
• Interventional Cardiology Council of Kerala
• Society for Heart Failure and Transplantation
• Founder Member – Society for Cardiac Imaging and Physiology
• Founder Member – Indian National Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
• Founder Member – Cardiovascular Research Society
• Member – Cochin Cardiac Forum

INDEPENDENT REVIEWER

• Indian Heart Journal – Guidelines Committee (Heart & Lung Transplantation)

SOCIETAL POSITIONS HELD

• Organising Secretary – SFHFT 4th Annual Conference 2016, Kochi
• Treasurer – National Interventional Council Conference 2014, Kochi
• Executive Committee Member – CSI Kerala Chapter (2015–2016)
• Founder Member & Executive Committee – INSHLT (2017–2018)
• Secretary – Cochin Cardiac Forum (2016)
• Organised “NavaHridayam” public awareness program on organ donation (Dec 2017)
• Live case operator in multiple national & international conferences

INVITED INTERNATIONAL FACULTY

• CSI Asia Pacific – Ho Chi Minh City (2015)
• CSI Frankfurt (2015)
• Interventions in Heart Failure Conference – Paris (2016)
• Multiple national and state conference presentations