A. B. Gopalamurugan MBBS, MRCP, MD, FRCP, CCDS, FACC

Dr. A. B. Gopalamurugan following his under-graduation in India, left India and undertook postgraduate training posts in the UK. He was then awarded an MD degree by the University of London for his research at St.Thomas’s Hospital, London funded by the British Heart Foundation. He then trained as a cardiology specialist registrar rotating through North London hospitals and obtained formal accreditation in interventional electrophysiology and device therapy.

He trained in pediatric electrophysiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he continues to be an honorary consultant. He obtained formal European accreditation in Interventional Cardiology and Electrophysiology. He worked as a consultant cardiologist in the UK for some years delivering a full range of cardiac services. He was one of the very few consultant cardiologists in the UK who performed coronary interventions, catheter ablations for complex arrhythmias, and structural interventions.

After spending 16 years in London, UK, he moved to India and is currently working as a senior consultant interventional cardiologist based in Chennai, South India where he is delivering state-of-the-art cardiac services with a specific focus on complex cardiac interventions and electrophysiology interventions, percutaneous valves and endovascular interventions.

Dr. Gopalamurugan is well known internationally and nationally as the pioneer of cutting-edge interventional cardiology and transcatheter valve replacement therapy. He is the founder and course director of the country’s largest course for transcatheter valve therapies (www.indiavalves.in). To date, he has introduced the maximum number of transcatheter valve therapies to India. He has performed 3 of the world’s first transcatheter valve therapies too.

His research interests are Interventional Cardiology, Electrophysiology, Cardiology, Coronary Angioplasty, Left Main Angioplasty, Coronary Artery Disease, and Endovascular Interventions.