EXPERIENCE and SKILLS:

• Performing interventional procedures since 1994.
• More than 15 thousand procedures.
• Averaging 50 Coronary angiographies and 15-25 angioplasties a month, including primary and complex angioplasty.
• Averaging more than 100 radiofrequency ablations a year, with expertise in 3D Mapping and ablation of all kinds of arrhythmia with special experience in pediatric arrhythmias
• One of the first to do Metallic commissurotomy for Mitral stenosis with Prof. Alain Cribier and did more than 35 cases. Countless BMVs
• Expertise in peripheral angioplasty with training under Prof Michel Henri for carotid angioplasty.
• First trans apical Aortic valve replacement with Brazilian valve with Dr Prashanth Vaijyanath in February 2010
• Device closure of cardiac congenital defects.
• Expert in pacemaker therapy and cardiac Implantable electronic devices for heart failure and for the prevention of sudden cardiac death
• Participant in investigational stem cell therapy

Membership of Professional Bodies

International

American College of Cardiology                                        Fellow

Heart Rhythm Society  (USA)                                            Fellow

Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons (Glasg)             Fellow

Indian

Cardiological Society of India                                            Fellow & Editorial Board Advisor (2010-11, Current reviewer)

Association of Physicians of India                                     Member

Chennai Chapter, CSI                                                       Member

Indian Society of Electrocardiology                                   Member

Indian Medical Association                                                Member

Indian Heart Rhythm Society                                             Member

Tamilnadu Electrophysiolgy Council                                  Founding Hony. Secretary and Member

Achievements:

• Seventh State Rank in Tamilnadu in the Anglo-Indian High School Examination
• University First In First & Second MBBS with Distinctions in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry & Forensic Medicine
• First Radiofrequency ablation in Tamilnadu in January 1997. Established the Electrophysiology program at Railway Hospital, Chennai, Vijaya Hospital, Frontier Lifeline Hospital, ICCTVD, Chennai and at Parumala, Kerala.
• Best paper award at Annual conference of Indian College of Cardiology, August 2000.
• Invited Faculty at the TCT Asia Pacific Summit 2005 at Seoul, Korea, April 2005.
• Faculty at Bard South East Asian Electrophysiology Training Program.
• Faculty at National level in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiology
• Faculty at World Arrhythmia Conference-ICPES, Athens, Greece, 11^th to 13^th Dec 2011.
• Course Director, The Chennai Pediatric Electrophysiology Symposium, TCPES 2008, TCPES 2010 & TCPES 2012.
• ECG Forum- A monthly forum for ECG learning for the General Practitioner. Co-Founded with IMA-AMS. From 2006 to 2012, 2014-2015
• Faculty at the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society Annual Meeting, Hong Kong, 2^nd to 6^th   Oct 2013, New Delhi Oct 2014
• Textbook Chapter Textbook of Cardiology Edited by Dr M Khalilullah. Elsevier
• Editorial Adviser, India Heart Journal
• Faculty at the First Abbott Asia Pacific CRT workshop, Nanjing, China, 22 November 2019

Principal Investigator of several trials – ENGAGE AF, SAHFR, RELY, TIMI 48AF etc

PUBLICATIONS

Theses

“Radiofrequency and Microvave frequency characteristics of human tissues.”  Thesis submitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New delhi, 1982 for award of MD Biophysics.

“Inferior vena cava obstruction in patients with Amoebic Liver Abscesses.” Thesis submitted to University of Madras, 1989 for award of  MD General Medicine.