[vc_row type=”vc_default” css=”.vc_custom_1615053571448{padding-top: 70px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][ultimate_heading main_heading=”ABOUT DR. BENNY JOSE” alignment=”left” main_heading_style=”font-weight:bold;” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:26px;” main_heading_line_height=”desktop:32px;” main_heading_margin=”margin-bottom:20px;”][/ultimate_heading][vc_column_text]Dr. Benny Jose has a cumulative of 13 years of experience in treating cardiac ailments. He has gained the majority of his experience by working as a senior faculty in Asia’s largest cardiology institute, the U. N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre (affiliated to B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat). With an experience of over 5000 interventional and triple that of diagnostic coronary procedures, his interventional skills are beyond question. The interventional services that he extends include complex coronary interventions, including but not limited to use of ancillary cutting edge technologies like rotablation, intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography assisted coronary interventions.

Beyond coronary interventions, he also routinely performs peripheral vascular interventions like that for occluded blood vessels of the limbs, aortic interventions and carotid inteventions.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][vc_single_image image=”1881″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1615053548829{margin-top: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Device therapy for congenital heart diseases like ASD, PDA also comes under his forte. Pacemaker implantation is a treatment that corrects a variety of heart rhythm disorders and Dr. Benny has experience of over 200 such cases.

His greatest pride, however, is having had the opportunity to teach and groom three generations of cardiologists at B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad and impart his interventional skills to the residents and junior faculty in cardiology. His becoming the global cardiology lead in LearnEfficient.com helps him retain his academic interests and furthers his ambitions in teaching.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1615053548829{margin-top: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_tta_tabs color=”pink” spacing=”30″ alignment=”center” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”Qualification” tab_id=”qualification”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]

  • MBBS: Government Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala, India
  • MD Medicine: B. J. Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • DM Cardiology: Government Medical College, Calicut, Kerala, India

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  • Senior faculty (Assistant Professor) and post-graduate teacher at U. N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India from August 2018 to December 2020
  • Director of cath lab at St. John’s hospital, Kattappana, Idukki, Kerala from March 2017 to July 2018
  • Assistant to chief cardiologist at Fathima hospital, Calicut, Kerala, India from September 2016 to February 2017

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  • Cardiology Society of India, Kerala chapter
  • Indian Medical Association

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Specialization” tab_id=”specialization”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]a. 2D and 3D echocardiography
b. Transesophageal echocardiography
c. Non-interventional and preventive cardiology
d. Complex coronary interventions (radial access specialist)

  • Bifurcation lesions
  • Left main lesions
  • Chronic total occlusions
  • Primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
  • Rotablation
  • Intravascular lithotripsy
  • Intravascular ultrasound
  • Optical cohorence tomography
  • Perclose device closure of femoral access site

e. Peripheral vascular interventions of upper and lower limbs
f. Carotid interventions
g. Device closures for congenital heart disease
h. Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) implantation, also known as pacemakers for rhythm disorders

  • Single chamber pacemaker
  • Dual-chamber pacemaker
  • Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (AICD) implantation

i. Precutaneous valvular interventions of mitral and pulmonary valves

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  • Bilateral variant origin of subclavian artery branches
    Author(s): Panakkal BJ, Rajesh GN, Parakkal HB, Subramaniam G, Vellani H, Sajeev CG. doi:10.1259/bjrcr.20150429
  •  A case of dyspnoea and visible neck pulsations
    Author(s): Panakkal Jose Benny, Gopalan Nair Rajesh, Chakkanalil Govindan Sajeev. doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308831
  • ISCHEMIA trial (2013 – 2016)
    • Was site coordinator
    • Our centre eventually contributed the largest number of study patients for this pivotal trial.
  •  ACS QUIK trial (2013 – 2016)
    • Was site coordinator
  •  Predictors of Troponin I elevation in doxorubicin cardiotoxicity (2013 – 2016)
    • DM Cardiology dissertation project

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