Dr. Viveka Kumar is a Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Director of the Cath Lab at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Saket, New Delhi. He completed his MBBS and MD (Medicine) from IMS (BHU), Varanasi and later obtained the DM (Cardiology) postdoc, super speciality degree through GSVM Medical College, Kanpur.
He has performed more than 7,500 PTCA & Complex Interventions including Rotablation, Left Main stenting and Bifurcation stenting, among other procedures. He has good experience in electrophysiology procedures, RF ablation, cryo-ablation, cool tip ablation, ICD, CRTs, pacemaker implantation, device/lead extraction, coronary and peripheral angioplasty, renal and carotid angioplasty, radial artery route angiograms, and balloon valvotomy to name a few. Dr Kumar has made sure that the patients can seek his help any time of the day via 24x7 online help, where he answers around a 1000 questions on a daily basis with 97% positive feedback response.
Dr.Viveka Kumar also has considerable teaching experience. During his MD course between 1991 and 1994 he taught undergraduate students, and later, during his DM programme, taught postgraduate as well as undergraduate medical students. Subsequently, from 1999-2003 he taught postgraduate DNB Cardiology students and nurses, and also supervised clinical research studies. In recent years he has been a co-guide for DNB Cardiology dissertations in five theses (2008-2012).
With fellowships from various internationally acclaimed institutions such as St. George Hospital, London (in Interventional Cardiology and EP), Southampton University Hospital, Southampton (Interventional Cardiology, EP and devices), Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin (Senior Specialist in Interventional Cardiology) and Southeast Asian Interventional Cardiology Society, Dr Viveka Kumar finds a place in the list of pioneers in the field of Cardiology.
From a long list of awards and honours, Dr Viveka Kumar has been revered with ChikitsaRatna Award (2009 - 2010) in DMA and VidyaRatna Award from Kanpur University(2010). The acclaimed cardiologist is also a privileged member of the Editorial Board of Indian Heart Journal and a is principal investigator and sub-investigator of more than 14 international trials.
