Monday, November 30, 2009

Dibya Kumar Baruah awarded

JORHAT, Nov 30: Dr Dibya Kumar Baruah, Director of Cath-Lab Apollo Hospitals, Visakhapatnam, who hails from Jorhat has added another feather in his cap by being awarded the Best Case Award at the 21st Annual Scientific Sessions of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) held at San Francisco, USA recently. A press release stated that, Dr DK Baruah passed his MBBS and MD in General Medicine from Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, and completed DM Cardiology from Christian Medical College, Vellore in 1996. He worked as a Senior Registrar in Medicine and Cardiology from 1992-1993 in Jipmer, Pondicherry and as Consulting Cardiologist from 1996-1997 in CMC, Vellore. He was also awarded the Sri Krishna Gold Medal in APCSI-2000 for best paper presentation.

Dr Baruah has published eight research papers in International Cardiac Journal and 15 in National Cardiac Journals. He has also presented 38 abstracts in Indian Heart Journal and Cardiological Society of India.Dr Baruah is a pioneer in Interventional Cardiology and started cardiac intervention for the first time in the coastal belt of Andhra Pradesh. He has more than 12,500 catherization and more than 5,000 cardiac intervention procedures to his credit involving coronary, carotids, renal and peripherals. Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics is the biggest conference involving Interventional Cardiologists from all over the world. The meeting is the platform for presentation of results of various major cardiovascular research works as well as case-breaking trials. THE SENTINEL

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