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.
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.
