COURSES & CONFERENCES :

• Schering- Plough Investigator`s Meeting 
  Hotel Concorde La Fayette, Paris, France – Sep 1996.
  
  
• Advanced Paediatric Life Support Course
  Conquest Hospital, Hastings, UK -Nov 1996.
  
  
• British Paediatric Cardiac Association – 8^th Annual Conference
  Alder Hey Children`s Hospital , Liverpool, UK – Nov 1997.

• Cardiology in the Young –Annual Conference
  Institute of child health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK – April 1998.

• The Wessex Arrhythmia Focus Meeting
  Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK – Oct 1998.

• Paediatric Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology 
  Institute of child health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK – Nov 1998.

• Doppler Ultrasound in Cardiology
  Royal Hospital For Sick Children, Glasgow, UK – Nov 1998.

• British Paediatric Cardiac Association – 9^th Annual Conference
  Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK – Nov 1998.

• Advanced course in Fetal Cardiology
  Guy`s and St.Thomas Hospital, London, UK – March 1999.

• South Pedicon 2000 Chennai. Guest Lecture on` Recent advances in Paediatric Cardiology`

• Indian Association of Paediatrics Tamil Nadu state conference – 2001 Chennai ; Guest lecture on ` Refractory congestive cardiac failure`

• British Paediatric Cardiac Association – 11^th Annual Conference, Leicester, U.K 2002.

• Paediatric Cardiac Society of India
  Annual Conference 2003, Chennai, India.

              Papers presented in World Congress

1. Innovative technique for pulmonary valvuloplasty in a neonate with Ebsteins anomaly and critical pulmonary stenosis-  a case report. (Poster presentation)
2. Telepaediatric cardiology – An effective means of delivering cardiac care in developing countries. (oral presentation)

The First Asia-Pacific Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac SurgeryBangkok, Thailand. Nov 1-4, 2006.Paper presented

• Nitinol Vascular Plug for percutaneous occlusion of coronary cameral fistula- a case report (Oral presentation)

12^TH International Society for Telemedicine & Health International Conference,  Nov 2,3 2007 Chennai

Guest Lecture – Applications of telemedicine in paediatric cardiology practice in India.

• International Conference on Stem Cell, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Dec 1,2,3^rd 2007, Chennai

Guest Lecture – Stem Cell Application in Paediatric Population : The FLL Experience.

• The Chennai Pediatric Electrophysiology Symposium, 5-6^th Jan 2008, Chennai.

Guest Lecture – Epidemiology of Arrhythmias in Children.

Aim:

• To practice all aspects of paediatric cardiology in an institutional set-up and contribute to raising awareness regarding the sub-speciality and the services offered amongst the general public as well as medical professionals.

• To be actively involved in academic and research activities in paediatric and fetal cardiology.