Dr. Anup Banerji is a highly respected Interventional Cardiologist with over 44 years of distinguished medical service. A decorated medical leader and academician, he has played a pivotal role in advancing interventional cardiology, medical education, and healthcare administration in India. He has led large-scale hospital systems, contributed extensively to cardiac research, and was instrumental in national healthcare initiatives including COVID-19 preparedness. His expertise in complex cardiac interventions and structural heart disease is widely recognised.

Educational Qualifications:

• MBBS – 1981
• MD (General Medicine) – 1989
• DM (Cardiology) – 1997

Professional Experience:

• Senior Consultant – Cardiology
  Manipal Hospitals, E.M. Bypass, Kolkata
• Professor of Cardiology & Dean of Academics
• Examiner – DM & DNB (Cardiology)
• Executive Director – AIIMS Awantipora
• President’s Honorary Surgeon (PHS)
• Senior Leadership Roles – Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS)

Professional Memberships:

• Lifetime Member of Cardiological Society of India
• Executive Member of the Council of NBE

Awards and Achievements:

• Param Vishisht Seva Medal – Highest Military award for Distinguished Service
• Sena Medal – Gallantry Award of the Indian Army
• Selected as Executive Director of AIIMS Awantipora
• Identified as a Subject Expert for assisting the UPSC in Interviews/Personality Test Boards
• Instrumental in planning and execution of various operations for the preparation of hospitals for COVID-19. Including procurement of equipment and consumables for 230 hospitals and Tri-service synergy.
• Instrumental in rolling out the SRESHTA scheme (for the reemployment of retired officers of the Armed Forces Medical Services in various Government Medical colleges)
• Instrumental in rolling out the SANGAM scheme (to augment the teaching capabilities of all the medical colleges of the country)
• Telemedicine Project AFMS.
• Initiated and ensured the first-ever telemedicine project for connectivity between Ships and Submarines with the static hospitals of the Indian Navy.
• Revised the technical training curriculum for Paramedical staff at AMC Centre and College. (06/2018 - 12/2018)
• First-ever LAA closure in the Armed Forces.
• Multinational Field Training exercise, MedEX, was organised under his able leadership at Lucknow, which was attended by a large number of foreign delegates.
• Has received a Gallantry Award of the Sena Medal for his role in the Indian Army Mount Everest Expedition

Publications:

• Chapters in the CSI update books
• Hypertension in young
• Ischaemic preconditioning
• Articles in Indexed Journals
• Percutaneous Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect with Amplatzer Device
• Dual Tran catheter Intervention in Ventricular Septal Defect and Pulmonary Valvular Stenosis
• Catheter ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias: Single-centre experience in the Armed Forces
• The Armed Forces Medical Services Response to COVID-19
• Feasibility and Safety of Device Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect
• Effect of Antihypertensive Medicines (Taken for Control of Blood Pressure), on Quality of Life in Asymptomatic Hypertensive Individuals