Awards, Memberships, and Honors

  • Course Director for CHIPCTO INDIA – 2019 – the first Indian conference to focus on CHIP patients, New Delhi, India
  • Course Co-Director for India Live 2019, Mumbai, India
  • Founding member of IFACI (Indian Foundation for Advanced Cardiac Interventions)
  • Course Co-Director for IJCTO 2019
  • Course Co-Director for Guangzhou CTO course
  • Invited Faculty for CCT Kobe Japan 2018
  • Invited Faculty for TCTAP 2019
  • Live Case Operator for India Live (CTO) – 2019 and 2018
  • Live Case Operator at various regional CTO congresses most recently at SEOUL CTO CAMP 2019
  • Live Case Operator at 9th  NHC CTO Course, Singapore 2018
  • Live Case operator – CTO at MyLive 2018 and 2017
  • Invited faculty at TCT-AP 2018 and Chaired Various CTO sessions. Invited Faculty for TCT 2018
  • Invited International Course Director IJCTO 2018
  • Invited Faculty and moderated CTO sessions at ASIA-PCR 2018
  • Course-Director for CTO conference in Guangzhou 2017
  • Invited Faculty for TCT 2017
  • Invited Faculty and chaired sessions (CTO related) and live case operator at INDIA LIVE 2018
  • Invited faculty at CTO LM summit 2018
  • Invited Faculty and live case operator at MYLIVE 2018 (upcoming)
  • Invited faculty and live case operator at MYLIVE 2017
  • Invited Faculty and live case operator at Bahrain LIVE 2017
  • Chaired several sessions, debates, multiple live cases in China 2017 including China Interventional Therapeutics 2017, Great wall 2017, OCC 2017.
  • Invited faculty and Live case Operator at Taiwan Live 2017
  • Invited faculty and Live case Operator for CTO conference in Saudi Arabia 2017
  • Chairperson at India Live     2017 in several CTO sessions.
  • Faculty and Chairperson at India Live 2017
  • Faculty for Mastering the Complex 2017 at Johannesburg as SCAI Faculty
  • Faculty at Transcatheter Therapeutics (TCT) 2016–LargestInterventional Meeting in the World
  • Chairperson at sessions in India Live 2016
  • Chairperson at India Live CTO talk – Boston Scientific

Certifications

  • Level II certification in nuclear cardiology, and coronary CT at Geisinger Medical Center, PA and level I in cardiac MRI.
  • Board-certified in American Board of Internal Medicine – 2005
  • Board Certified in American Board of Internal Medicine – Interventional Cardiology – 2010
  • ACLS and BLS
  • Board-certified in American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease–2009

Book/Book Chapters

  • Co-author 2nd edition manual of Coronary Chronic Total OcclusionInterventions: A Step-by-Step Approach. EmmanouilBrilakis(2017)Post-cath Complications; Introductory Guide to Cardiac Catheterization.2nd Edition.Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2011 Peripheral Interventional procedures. 1001 Questions: An Interventional Cardiology Board Review. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2012
  • Antegrade approach to Chronic Total Occlusions. NIC Companion Book of Interventional Cardiology 2016