Education

• MBBS- SCB Medical College, Cuttack - 1993
• MD (General Medicine)- MKCG Medical College, Berhampur - 1998
• DM (Cardiology)- SCB Medical College, Cuttack - 2004

Past Positions

• Worked as Asst. Surgeon in rural areas.
• Undertook training on Blood Bank Management.
• Senior Resident in cardiology at Batra Hospital, Delhi.
• Senior Resident at ICU, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai.
• Medtronic Physician Fellowship from Washington Medical Centre Washington (USA).
• Consultant Cardiologist Apollo Hospital Jubillee Hills Hyderabad 2004-2016.
• Chief of Cathlab services and Interventional cardiology, Sr.Consultant Cardiologist at Continental Hospital From April 2nd 2016 till 30th November 2019.

Skills / Expertise

• One of first to Initiate TAVR programme in AP/Telangana Region.
• First to Implant Leadless Pacemaker in AP/Telangana Region (after its commercial availability).
• Part of team implanting one of first bio absorb able stent in India.
• One of the few who implanted LA Appendage occluder in AP/Telangana region.
• One of First to Use ulnar approach for per-cutaneous interventions- more than 250 procedures performed.
• Radial approach used in more than 500 coronary interventions.
• Performed independently All Complex Coronary interventions e.g. Primary PCI, CTO’s (Retrograde Approach Also), SVG graft interventions, Left main Interventions, Bifurcation Stenting, Rotablation etc.
• Performed Independently ASD Device closure, PDA Closure, RSOV closure, Alcohol Septal Ablation in HOCM, Peripheral Interventions (Iliac, Femoral Popliteal), Renal Stenting.
• Well Experienced in Doing Carotid Stenting, BMV’s, PVBD.
• Performed Independently Live Case To IJCTO-2018@Hyderabad.
• ADR workshop conducted Independently at Continental hospital in 6 CASES (8 Drs Participated Across INDIA)-2018.
• Retrograde CTO Workshop conducted with International Faculty in 2019 with DR.M OCHIAI.
• LAAC workshop conducted at Continental hospital@2018.
• His Area of Interest and Expertise is in doing Complex Cardiac Interventions (especially Post CABG, Chronic Total Occlusion LMCA intervention, Rotablation) etc
• He is one of the1st to start TAVR,( Non surgical Aortic valve replacement) in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana region.
• He is one of the 1st and has maximum experience in doing LA appending closure for preventing stroke in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Region.
• He is one of the 1st and has maximum experience in doing LA appending closure for preventing stroke in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Region.

Publications

• Benign Intracranial Hypertension induced by Ofloxacin. The Antiseptic (1998).
• Hematological Profile in acute Falciparum Malaria (abstract), JAPI (1996).
• Hematological Profile in Pulmonary Tuberculosis (abstract), JAPI (1996).
• Author for Logistics of Primary PCI for text book on Cardiology update 2005, edited by Dr. A.K. Kar, Page No. 447 – 456.
• Optical coherence tomography guided PCI - initial experience at Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. Rath PC, Reddy K, Agarwal MK, Purohit BV, Deb T, Reddy AM. Indian Heart J. 2014 Jan-Feb.
• Coronary Angiogram and Intervention through Translunar Approach. Pratap C Rath, Bharat V Purohit, Girish B Navasundi, Sitaram, A Mallikarjun Reddy Indian Heart Journal July - August.
• Raised serum thiobarbituric acid reactive substance levels in malaria. Mohapatra MK, Padhiary KN, Purohit BV Indian J Malariol 1999 Sep-Dec.

Research & Presentations

• Paper presented in EURO PCR 2006.
• Paper Presented in API Conference, Lucknow in Jan 1997.
• Paper presented in Intervention Council of India Meetings at Bangalore (2004), Mumbai (2005), Calcutta (2006).
• Attended as faculty in many national and International conferences.
• Written articles for many magazines.

Memberships

Awards & Recognition

Short-Biography