Dr. Jaygopal Pathiyil Balgopalan
MD, DM, DNB, FACC, FICC, FCSI, FESC, FSCAI, FRCP (E)
- Director, HOD & Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Lakshmi Hospital, Palakkad, Kerala.
- Editor in chief of the Journal of the Indian College of Cardiology
- Chair – Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative (GHATI) of American College of Cardiology
- Past National President of the Indian College of Cardiology
- President of the Cardiological Society of India – Kerala Chapter
- Heart failure Council member of the Asian Heart Society
- Principal Investigator & National Co-Ordinator of Heart Failure Registry – Indian College of Cardiology.
- Vice President of the Society for Heart Failure and Transplantation
- Involved in landmark trials like CREATE, KERALA ACS, ACS QUIK, and HF QUIK and AF registries
- Has 75 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- More than 32 years of interventional cardiology experience and performed more than 28,000 procedures