User:Shreya1234/sandbox/Dr. Suvro Banerjee

Suvro Banerjee is an eminent consultant interventional cardiologist, practicing in Kolkata. He has worked at various hospitals in the United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London as well as Edinburgh. His procedural skills, among others, include coronary and peripheral angioplasty, pacemaker, ICD and CRT implantation.He is the first doctor in Kolkata to successfully use the ICD which is the Implantable Carvioverter Defibrillatorto to treat a patient's abnormal heart rhythm.

Dr. Banerjee is a clinical examiner for the MRCP (UK) examinations in India. He is also a postgraduate teacher in Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU). He has also been involved as Principal Investigator in epidemiological studies with University of Calgary, Canada and Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK. His work on the ‘Prevalence, awareness and control of hypertension in the slums of Kolkata’ was carried out in collaboration with Kolkata Municipal Corporation. He has been conferred the fellowship of European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology.

He is the Honorary Treasurer of West Bengal Academy of Echocardiography, a post which he has held since 2013. Additionally, he is the Assistant Secretary of the Cardiological Society of India, West Bengal Branch (2014-2016).

For his philanthropic and social work, Dr. Banerjee was recognized by Rotary International as a Paul Harris Fellow in 2004. He regularly contributes to newspapers on matters of health and heart related diseases.

Education
Dr. Banerjee did his MBBS from University of Calcutta, following it up with an MD in General Medicine from SCB Medical College, Cuttack, India, and thereafter an MRCP (UK) from the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Work
Dr. Banerjee is currently working as Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India.

Academic and Professional Awards
Dr. Banerjee has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including:

•	Certificate of Honours in Physiology - Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta 1984

•	Orfila Silver Medal in Forensic & State Medicine - Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta 1986

•	Barnsley Health Authority Quality Award, (UK) 1997

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
•	Founding member, Chakraberia branch of Indian Medical Association.

•	 Executive member: Royal College of Physicians Association of Eastern India   2006 – 2009. Treasurer 2009-2011, 2012-2013

•	Academic Counselor and Teacher: Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU), for Post-graduate Diploma in Community Cardiology

•	Jt Organizing Secretary, VIIIth Annual Conference, Indian College of Cardiology (ICCCON), Kolkata 2011

•	Examiner, Post-graduate Diploma in Community Cardiology, IGNOU, 2012

•	 Examiner, MRCP(UK), 2012 onwards

•	Honorary Treasurer, West Bengal Academy of Echocardiography, 2013-2015

•	Chairman, Scientific Committee, Cardiology Update 2014, CSI-WB chapter 2014

•	Assistant Secretary, Cardiological Society of India, West Bengal Branch, 2014-2016

•	Member, Core Scientific Committee, 67th Annual Conference of Cardiological Society of India, 2015, Chennai

•	Joint Secretary, EIICCON 2015, 2016 Kolkata

•	Chairman, Scientific Committee, Eastern Zonal Echocardiography Conference, Kolkata 2016

•	Member, Organising Committee, Cardiology Symposium 2016, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh