Chairman and Course Director : Bangla Interventional Therapeutics
Governor : American College of Cardiology, Bangladesh Chapter
Interventional Cardiologist with expertise in complex and high-risk coronary interventions. Working with passion to promote Cardiology in Bangladesh to the next level. With the cooperation of others and my relentless efforts, the subject is already having significant impact worldwide.
Professionally, well-recognized as an interventional Cardiologist with passion for innovation, adoption of new techniques, teaching and training of next generation cardiologists and dissemination of new knowledge in the field of:
Coronary intervention (with special interest in complex PCI, including left main PCI, multivessel stenting, stenting involving bifurcation lesion, restenotic lesion, long lesion, osteal lesion, also PCI in CKD, PCI in elderly patient). Primary PCI · Zero contrast angioplasty . Complex PCI of Higher-risk Indicated Patient (CHIP)· Coronary physiology and imaging· Percutaneous transluminal mitral commissurotomy.
Key positions currently holding:
Chairman & Course Director , Bangla Interventional Therapeutics (BIT). (http://www.bitmd.org). BIT is the academic partner of US-based Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), the world-leader organization in the field of Interventional Cardiology.
Governor , American College of Cardiology (ACC),Bangladesh Chapter. Editor-in-Chief , Journal of Invasive and Clinical Cardiology (JICC ISSN Print: 2617-5177; Online: 2617-5185)
Current activities:
· Teaching in post-graduate cardiology courses.
· Examiner of post-graduate cardiology examinations of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka University, and others.
· Actively involved in FCPS (Cardiology) course of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS). Patronized FCPS (Cardiology) course in National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and also served as examiner of FCPS (Cardiology) Final examination in NICVD.
· Examiner of post-graduate cardiology examinations abroad, including those of India and Nepal.
· Regularly performing almost all sorts of invasive procedures including PCI.
· Speaker/Faculty/ Proctor of different national and international conferences.
· Regularly organizing national/ international conference in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan.
· Promoting educational activities and organizing Masterclasses throughout the country for the upliftment of knowledge and skills specially targeting the budding professionals.
· Carrying out research activities.
· Reviewer of a number of national and international journals and professional online repositories.
Educational qualifications:
1984 MBBS (Rajshahi Medical College, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.)
1992 MD(National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Dhaka University, Bangladesh)
2004 PhD (Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in collaboration with Alabama Medical Centre, Birmingham, USA.)
Current publications:
Around 118
Selected Honors and Awards:
2009: Emerging Young Leadership Award in Interventional Cardiology by Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) 2009, Washington DC, USA.
2009: Best Case Award, Angioplasty Summit-TCT Asia Pacific 2009, Seoul, Korea.
2007: Winner of the Greatest Case Around the World in TCT 2007 on 20-25 October, Washington DC, USA.
2005: Best Scientific Poster Presenter, 15th APSC and 57th CSI meeting in Mumbai, India.
2001: Research Fellowship Award, the 5th International Conference on Preventive Cardiology, Osaka, Japan.
Meeting/Course Organizer:
Bangla Interventional Therapeutics (BIT): Chairperson and Course Director
AICT-AsiaPCR 2019: Co- Director
Experience in Cardiac Interventions:
Present number of PCI done yearly: Approximately 500.
Invasive procedures performed since 1992 are depicted below:
Diagnostic : 21,930
Coronary Angiography : 19,450
Congenital heart disease : 1,540
Others : 640
Interventional : 9338
Valve dilatation : 2,045
Mitral : 1,910
Pulmonary : 120
Aortic : 15
Congenital Heart Disease : 52
PDA closure : 10
ASD closure : 15
VSD closure : 07
Atrial septostomy : 08
BT shunt dilatation : 01
Coarctoplasty : 11
Endomyocardial biopsy : 15
Coronary Angioplasty: 7293
Plain balloon angioplasty: 450
Coronary stent implantation: 6,843
Renal stent: 160
Pacemaker Implantation : 1743
VVI : 950
Dual Chamber : 750
AICD : 12
Biventricular :16
Biventricular + ICD :15
