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Brief Profile :

Fellowships Workshops & Meetings Attended/ Participated

• Visiting fellow interventional cardiology, Rouen, France 
• Fellow CRT course: Crossings Brussels, Belgium 
• Fellow Carotid Interventions: Crossings, Brussels, Belgium
• Faculty at TCT, Euro-PCR,TCT-Asia Pacific, PCR-Asia Pacific and numerous international meetings
• On Advisory Panel - St. Jude Medical, CRM

Experience

Presently working as a Chairman & HOD in Cardiology Department at BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi

Previous Experience:

• Director & Senior Consultant, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi
• Director - Narinder Mohan Heart Centre
• Senior Consultant - Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
• Assistant Professor of Cardiology - AIIMS, New Delhi
• Clinical Registrar- JN Medical College, Aligarh

Clinical Experiece:

• Coronary Interventions -  Over 25, 000 Complex angioplasties, Rotablation
• Structural Heart Diseases - Mitral - Over 4000 including Emergency, pulmonary edema and pregnant patients. Pulmonary - over 200 congenital pulmonic stenosis opened with Polyethylene and INOUE balloon. Congenital and Rheumatic Young Aortic stenosis- Over 100 retrograde and antegrade technique using INOUE balloon. Adult Congenital Device Closure- 100 aprx.
• Endovascular Interventions - Renal, Carotid, Coarctations, Aortic and subclavian, Iliofemoral, popliteal angioplasties. IVC Filter placement, EVAR, TEVAR.
• Device Implantation - Permanent pacemaker Implantation - over 3000 including ventricular, atrial, dual chamber pacemakers, AICD, Biventricular pacemaker (Heart failure pacing) and Combo (CRT-D) devices.

Education & Training

• Visiting fellow interventional cardiology, Rouen, France 
• Fellow CRT course: Crossings Brussels, Belgium 
• Fellow Carotid Interventions: Crossings, Brussels,

Memberships

• Member National Academy of Medical Sciences
• Cardiology Society of India

Awards

• Sujoy B. Roy Young Investigator Award. Cardiological Society of India, 5th Annual Conference - 1989
• Col. K.L. Chopra Research Award, Cardiological Society of India,  9th Annual Conference - 1993 
• Sujoy B. Roy Young Investigator Award, Cardiological Society of India, 13th Annual Conference - 1997

Research Papers & Publications

1. Bahl VK, Chandra S, Goswami KC, Manchanda Sc. Crosswire for recanalization of total occlusive coronary arteries. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn. 1998 Nov; 45(3):323-7; discussion 328.
2. Bahl VK, Chandra S, Goswami KC, Manchanda Sc. Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in young adults by antegrade, transseptal approach using Inoue balloon. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn. 1998 Jul; 44(3):297-301.
3. Bahl VK, Chandra S. Inoue balloon for dilatation of aortic stenosis. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn.