Dr. Praveen Kulkarni
Director - Intervention Cardiology
Heart Institute, Invasive Interventional Cardiology Unit, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai
Experience: 18+ Years
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About Dr. Praveen Kulkarni
- Director – Intervention Cardiology, Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai (Jun 2025 – Present)
- Consultant – Cardiology, Gleneagles Hospitals, Mumbai (Mar 2013 – Jun 2025)
- Consultant – Cardiology, Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai (Nov 2011 – Mar 2013)
- Senior Resident – Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi (Jun 2008 – Oct 2011)
- Junior Resident – General Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh (Jul 2004 – Jun 2007)
- DM (Cardiology) – Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi (2011)
- MD (Medicine) – Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh (2007)
- MBBS – Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru (2002)
- Indian Medical Association (IMA)
- Cardiological Society of India (CSI)
- Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC)
- Karnataka Medical Council (KMC)
- Delhi Medical Council (DMC)
- Among the first physicians in India to pioneer the use of bio-absorbable stents
- Ranked 1st in the MD (Medicine) examination at PGIMER, Chandigarh
- Placed 9th in the All-India MD/MS entrance examination for PGIMER
- Placed 5th in the All-India DM entrance examination conducted by Delhi University
- Earned a Certificate in Research Methodology & Biostatistics, PGIMER
- Delivered more than 100 community-health talks and outreach initiatives
- Interventional cardiology – complex PCI/CHIP, left-main interventions, bifurcation and primary angioplasty for acute MI; device implantation (permanent pacemakers, implantable cardio-defibrillators, CRT); mechanical circulatory support (Impella, ECMO, IABP); structural interventions (TAVR, mitral-valve procedures)
- Non-interventional cardiology – echocardiography and stress echocardiography
- Prediction of subclinical left-ventricular dysfunction using strain-rate imaging in rheumatic mitral-stenosis patients. Indian Heart Journal 62 (6): 463-529
- Exercise-stress echocardiography after revascularisation: a single-centre study. Indian Heart Journal 64 (2012): S81-S94
- Comparison of bivalirudin monotherapy with unfractionated heparin + GpIIb/IIIa inhibition in USA/NSTEMI PCI patients. Indian Heart Journal 64 (2012): S69
- Poster: Clinical significance of NT-proBNP in evaluating functional status and right-heart performance in primary pulmonary hypertension (Cardiological Society of India, Kochi)
- Poster: Right-ventricular tissue-Doppler imaging in primary pulmonary hypertension & Eisenmenger’s syndrome—correlation with right-heart catheterisation and NT-proBNP (Cardiological Society of India, Kolkata)
- Co-investigator, SERAPHIN long-term extension study on ACT-064992 in pulmonary arterial hypertension; key findings published in NEJM (“Macitentan and morbidity and mortality in pulmonary arterial hypertension”)
- Thesis: Echocardiographic comparison of primary pulmonary hypertension and Eisenmenger’s syndrome with right-heart catheterisation and BNP correlation
