TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE :

Current Position: Full time Interventional Paediatric Cardiologist at Frontier Lifeline Hospitals (Dr.K.M.Cherian Heart Foundation), Chennai, India.  My post involves

• Pre & Post-operative care of children and neonates who undergo complex univentricular and biventricular cardiac repair.
• Regular Foetal echocardiography clinics.
• Coordinating paediatric cardiology teaching programme for resident doctors as well as visiting trainees.
• Performing Interventional procedures such as PDA, ASD, muscular and perimembranous VSD device closures, occlusion of coronary cameral fistula using vascular plug, PDA & MAPCAs coil occlusions, aortic & pulmonary balloon valuloplasty, balloon coarctoplasty and stent placement for stenotic lesions
• As director of Frontier Lifeline Telemedicine Network Foundation, managing the telemedicine network established by me using resources provided by Indian Space Research Organisation. The network is used for free paediatric cardiac consultations to rural people as well as to transmit CME programmes to trainees and the public in the remote centres.

• Research Projects –
• Principal investigator – Therapeutic applications of Stem Cells in paediatric cardiac practice. 
• Co investigator – Identification of novel biomarkers using proteomic & transcryptomic approaches for the diagnosis & prognosis of congenital heart disease.

Visiting consultant in Paediatric Cardiology and teaching faculty at Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital, Chennai, a private paediatric superspeciality hospital.
Visiting Consultant and teaching faculty at Raja Muthiah Medical College, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
Assistant Professor at Meenatchi Academy of Higher Education & Research (MAHER) Chennai. 
Visiting Consultant at KJ Hospital & Research Institute – Research Projects – Trial assessing efficacy of recent pulmonary vasodilatory drugs including sildenafil citrate and Bosentan in patients with pulmonary hypertension secondary to congenital heart disease.
     
Initiation in to paediatric cardiology was at The Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton, U.K. It is a self-contained but multi-focal department and is the regional cardiothoracic centre for the south-west of United Kingdom. It serves a population of 2.8 million and uses the services of four adult cardiologists, four cardiac surgeons, three paediatric cardiologists, two paediatric cardiothoracic surgeons and three cardiac radiologists.  Around 300 paediatric cardiac surgeries are performed yearly. The unit is reputed for it`s interventional work. The Electrophysiology laboratory in this unit is one of the leading centres in U.K and has an active programme including AV node & Accessory pathway ablation, Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (AICD) implantations etc. I was supervised by consultant paediatric cardiologists Dr. B.R.Keeton, Dr. A.P.Salmon and Dr. J.P.Gnanapragasam.