Suvro Banerjee

Suvro Banerjee is an eminent consultant interventional cardiologist practicing in Kolkata. He has worked at various prestigious hospitals in the United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London as well as Edinburgh. His procedural skills, among others, include coronary and peripheral angioplasty, pacemaker, ICD and CRT implantation.

Dr. Banerjee is a clinical examiner for the MRCP (UK) examinations in India. He is also a postgraduate teacher in Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU). He has held the posts of executive member and treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians’ Association of Eastern India in 2006 – 2009, and 2009-2011, respectively. He was also the Course Director of PLAB-PRO, a non-profit organization that organized courses for candidates planning to take PLAB and MRCP examinations. He has been a Principal Investigator in many international clinical trials such as ARISTOTLE, ATLAS ACS2 TIMI 51, CRISP-AMI and others.

For his philanthropic and social work, Dr. Banerjee was recognized by Rotary International as a Paul Harris Fellow in 2004. He has appeared on a number of television shows and written extensively, as well as being quoted, in newspapers on health-related issues. Banerjee’s positive outlook towards health is inspiring for people who seek medical care within the city.

Education

Dr. Banerjee did his MBBS from University of Calcutta, following it up with an MD in General Medicine from SCB Medical College, Cuttack, India, and thereafter an MRCP (UK) from the Royal College of Physicians, London. His dissertation for the degree of M.D. was titled ‘A comparative study of clinical, biochemical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic parameters in hospital in-patients with Q wave and non Q wave myocardial infarction’.

Work

Current Position:

Dr. Banerjee is currently working as Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India.

Academic and Professional Awards

Dr. Banerjee has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including:

• Certificate of Honours in Physiology - Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta 1984
• Orfila Silver Medal in Forensic & State Medicine - Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta 1986
• Barnsley Health Authority Quality Award, (UK) 1997.

Publications

• “Value of qualitative troponin T estimation in decision making in patients with chest pain” in The British Journal of Cardiology, 1998.
• “Fast tracking of myocardial infarction by paramedics” in Journal of Royal College of Physicians of London, 1998.
• “Transient pathological Q waves in suspected acute myocardial infarction: ‘electrical stunning’” in International Journal of Clinical Practice: 2000.
• “Short term effect of diltiazem on portal hypertension in patients with non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis” in Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1991.
• ‘Making the most of echocardiography: A district hospital perspective’ in The British Society of Echocardiography, Newsletter, July 1999.
• ‘Cardiac Troponin: A new biochemical marker’ in Trends in Cardiology & Vascular Disease,1999.
• ‘Future of trainee overseas doctors in the United Kingdom’: bmj.com 15 Aug 2000.
• “A survey of practice of echocardiography in Scottish District Hospitals” in the Scottish Medical Journal, 2001.
• “Severe hyperkalaemia with normal ECG” in International Journal of Clinical Practice: 2001.
• “Chronic total occlusion: Femoropopliteal arteries” in Indian Heart Journal 2002.
• “Radial approach for coronary angiography: Single catheter experience” in Indian Heart Journal, 2002.
• “Intracoronary glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors in acute coronary syndrome” in Indian Heart Journal, 2005.
• “Inadvertent transvenous left ventricular pacing through an unsuspected atrial septal defect” in Journal of the Indian Medical Association, 2006.
• “Simplicity, Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Enoxaparin in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention” in the VIIIth Annual Conference of Indian College of Cardiology, 2011

Presentations

• Oral Paper Presentations: 12th international postgraduate course on myocardial infarction and angina pectoris. Davos, Switzerland, 1997
• Demonstration of TOE in Live workshop: Indian Academy of Echocardiography Kolkata, India, 2001.

Recognitions

• Faculty, CSI 2005, Mumbai
• Faculty, ISECON 2008, Kolkata
• Faculty and speaker, 4th AICT 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
• Faculty and guest speaker "Heart Rhythm Summit", 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Faculty and speaker in SingLive 2011, Singapore.
• Faculty and joint organizing secretary, VIIIth Annual Conference, Indian College of Cardiology, Kolkata, 2011
• Faculty and speaker, 2nd BIT Summit 2012, Kolkata, India

Member of Associations

• The Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• Cardiological Society of India (CSI)
• Fellow, Indian College of Cardiology (ICC)
• Founding member, The British Society for Heart failure (BSH)
• Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh (FRCP, Edinburgh)
• Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP, London)
• Founding member, Bangla Intervention & Therapeutics (BIT)

Media Snippets

• About the current developing healthcare facilities about the city, he says: “A number of good hospitals are coming up in the adjoining areas of the city thus providing good quality health care to the suburbs. A distinct change can also be noticed in the way health care is delivered now-a-days. Earlier we used to treat a patient who came to us with some ailment. But gradually the trend is changing from therapeutic health care to preventive health care. More and more people are coming to doctors to be cautious of their future ailments. Even doctors while treating a patient are predicting them with their future illnesses. Also fast growing is the trend to go for institutional help than individual ones.”

• In an interview to The Times of India, Banerjee said, “After finishing my medical degree from Calcutta Medical College, I went to UK in 1994 for further studies and also to practice medicine. The reason for leaving home was lack of proper exposure back home. My subject, Interventional Cardiology, was in an inchoate state then and there was not much scope for me to explore. However, ultimately I had to come back to India to be by the sides of my ailing parents and subsequently found that a lot has changed since I left Kolkata. Lot of good work is going on here now and also there has been an exponential rise in both quality and quantity of amenities and infrastructure. Earlier trained doctors didn’t get the chance to put their skills into practice. The hope of being able to execute my training made me decide to settle here. And I have found that not only in cardiology, in other branches of medicine too there has started a trend among the NRI docs to come back and settle in Kolkata."