INTRODUCTION:

The director and head of the cardiology department at Jay Prabha Medanta Super Specialty Hospital in Patna is Dr. Pramod Kumar. He completed his DM in Cardiology at G.B. Pant Hospital in Delhi and his MD at RIMS, Ranchi. He’s been doing transradial intervention, pacemaker implantation, primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction, and heart failure care for more than 29 years. He received the Best-Case Award in 2009 from the esteemed TCT conference in San Francisco, California. In 2014, he was named Times Personality of the Year, and in 2019, The Cardiological Society of India honoured him with the Bihar Lifetime Achievement Award.

Specialization and Expertise

• Transradial complex intervention
• Complex pacemaker implantation
• Primary angioplasty in acute heart attack
• Heart failure management