Meditrina Hospital
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Dr. N PRATHAP KUMAR [MD DM FIC (ITALY)] Chief Interventional Cardiologist
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
MBBS from Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala in 1988 MD (General Medicine) from B J Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 1992 DM (Cardiology) from Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala in 1997 Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology from University Hospital, Torino, Italy in 2002
CARDIOLOGY TRAINING
DM Trainee (Cardiology Dept.) in Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, India from June 1995 to June 1997 Trained in Invasive Cardiology in Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai and at Railway Hospital, Perambur, Chennai in 1996 Trained in Interventional Cardiology in University Hospital, Torino, Italy from June 2001 to April 2002 Peripheral interventional training in first stirum clinic, Bruchsal, Germany under the guidance of Dr. Marx Stengel in January 2004 Completed heart failure therapy implanting physician training course from Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hongkong in April 2004 Completed Peripheral Interventional training with Dr. Mark Wholly, a renowned interventional radiologist, UPMC, Pittsburgh, USA in October 2006 Observer ship at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York in 2006 for 3 weeks Completed Cardiac Electrophysiology training in June 2007 from Krannet Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis Attended IVUS course in Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam in October 2011
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Head of Dept. & Officer in charge of Cardiology at Bishop Benziger Hospital, Kollam, Kerala, India from July 1997 to April 2001 Fellow in Interventional Cardiology at University Hospital, Torino, Italy from May 2001 to April 2002 Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Medical Trust Hospital, Cochin, Kerala, India from May 2002 to April 2003 Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Z H Sikder Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh from May 2003 to October 2003 Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Sahakarana Hrudayalaya, Pariyaram Medical College, Kerala, India from November 2003 to May 2006 Consultant Cardiologist & Director of Cath lab services at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India from June 2006 to May 2007 Chief Interventional Cardiologist at PRS Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, India from June 2007 to December 2010 Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Meditrina Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, India since January 2011
Meditrina Hospital
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ACHIEVEMENTS
Completed more than 8500 coronary angioplasties and 30% of it will come as complex interventions. Maximum left main interventions and more number of CTO by any operator in this part of country with a success rate of 99.9% Created and established one non-invasive cardiac centre in Kollam and established two invasive centres in Kerala from beginning and created success in other two Running 4 state of art cardiac centres with cardiac catheterization laboratories in Changanachery, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar and Trivandrum
INTERNATIONAL FACULTY
Interventional cardiovascular international symposium held in Malaysia in July 2004 Complex cardiovascular therapeutics in Japan in October 2004 HDL symposium held in Bali, Indonesia, July 2005. ACS update held in Penang, Malaysia, August 2005. CSI and ASIA – PACIFIC CARDIOVASCULAR meeting held in Mumbai 2005 JIM (joint interventional meeting) held in ROME in February 2006 SingLive 2006 held in February 2006 Complex Coronary angioplasty meeting in Belgrade, Serbia in April 2006 Sing Live 2007 held in January 2007 CIT held in March 2007 Operator in live case in first Indo – European course on Revascularisation in New Delhi in January 2008 Sing LIVE in March 2008 held in Singapore CIT held in Beijing in 2008 Asia Pacific TCT in 2008 BASIC PLUS in Belgrade in 2008, did a live case in the meeting Beijing in CIT 2009 Sing LIVE in 2009 in Singapore Interventional cardiology meeting in Krakow, Poland Asia PCR in Singapore in 2010 CIT held in Beijing in 2010 Asia Pacific TCT in 2010 Euro-PCR in 2010, 2011 Basic plus in Belgrade in 2010 and did a live case International Interventional Forum in Turin, Italy in 2010 Euro-PCR in 2011 Asia-pacific TCT in 2011 INDIA LIVE 2012 and did a LIVE CASE from Trivandrum to Delhi Asia-pacific TCT in 2012 Mediterranean TCT in 2012 CACTO 2012 TCT India 2012 CAD and Asia PCR 2012
Meditrina Hospital
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NATIONAL FACULTY CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE meeting in Agra in 2005 Interventional Cardiology Meeting in Mumbai in 2005 CTO summit in Chennai in November 2005 CSI, India, in New Delhi held in December 2006 AMI meeting in New Delhi in January 2008 ACT in Chennai in 2009 CAD India in 2009 NIC meeting in India in 2010 NIC meeting in 2011 Faculty and organizing committee member in NIC meeting in 2012 Organizing secretary, ICCK 2010 (Interventional cardiology council of Kerala)
RESEARCH
6 scientific papers presented in National Cardiology Conference in 1995, 1997 and 2001 Scientific paper presented in State Cardiology Conference 1 scientific paper presented in Italian college of cardiology conference in December 2001 1 scientific paper presented in American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting held in Atlanta in March 2002 Interesting case presentation in Award session in Asia Pacific TCT in 2010, Asia PCR in 2010, International Interventional Forum in Turin in 2010 Investigator in OASIS – 6 Trial National Co-coordinator for CLIMATE registry
ORGANISATIONAL POSITIONS
Organizing secretary and course director of SACCI 2009 in Trivandrum and other faculties were A. Asacura from Japan, Y. Louvard from France, I. Sheiban from Italy, Thomas Ischinger from Germany, J. Escanned from Spain and Hue from Vietnam Vice President of Indian College of Cardiology, Kerala Chapter, 2010 Organizing Secretary, ICCK, 2010 President of Indian College of Cardiology, Kerala Chapter, 2011 EIB game changer award winner from Times of India in 2011 Managing director, Meditrina Hospital, Pattom, Trivandrum Managing director, Meditrina cardiac centre, St.Thomas Hospital, Changanachery
ASSOCIATIONS
Member of Indian Medical Association and Academic wing chairman and executive committee member of Kollam branch in 1998-99, 1999-2000 Life member of Cardiology Society of India Life Member of Indian College of Cardiology Life Member of Indian Academy of Echocardiography Life Member of American College of Cardiology - Epidemiology Council Member, Board of studies, Modern Medicine, Kannur University, Kerala