About
A cardiologist who also ships software
I'm Dr Kunal Ajay Patankar — MBBS, MD (Medicine), DrNB (Cardiology) — an interventional cardiologist and structural heart specialist practising at HVS Group of Hospitals, Mumbai.
My clinical world spans the full breadth of modern cardiology: coronary angiography and complex angioplasty, intravascular imaging with OCT and IVUS, structural procedures like TAVR, mitral edge-to-edge repair, balloon mitral valvotomy and ASD device closure, cardiac devices from pacemakers to CRT-D — and the long game of heart failure care and cardiac rehabilitation.
My second world is code. Working inside hospitals, I kept meeting the same enemy: friction. Registries in spreadsheets, protocols in memory, reports typed at midnight. So I started building the tools I wished existed — five of them so far, from a TAVI programme governance system to a WhatsApp-based medical AI assistant.
When neither world needs me, I head for the mountains — more on that below.
The journey
Milestones
MBBS
Where medicine began
The foundation — anatomy, physiology, and the first realisation that the heart was the organ worth a lifetime of study.
MD (Medicine)
Internal medicine
Three years of managing everything from infections to ICUs — learning that good cardiology starts with good medicine.
DrNB (Cardiology)
The cath lab calls
Formal cardiology training: coronary care, echocardiography, and the first wires and balloons of interventional practice.
Today
Interventional & structural practice
Complex angioplasty, imaging-guided PCI, TAVR and structural heart interventions at HVS Group of Hospitals, Mumbai — alongside a growing portfolio of medical software.
How I practise
Four rules I don't break
01
Imaging first
If OCT or IVUS can make a stent more precise, it belongs in the case. Guesswork is not a technique.
02
Explain like family
Every patient hears the same explanation my own family would get — plain words, honest numbers, real options.
03
Fix the system too
When a workflow wastes clinician time, I don't just complain — I write software that fixes it.
04
Skin in the game
I recommend what the evidence supports and what I would choose for myself. Nothing else.
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Nubra Valley, Ladakh
Off duty
I live beside the sea.
I recover in the mountains.
Mumbai gives me the ocean every day. So when I need to reset, I go where the horizon stands up — the Himalayas. Nothing recalibrates a person like a mountain: it is the most honest teacher of humility I know, and I come back from every trip more grounded than I left.
It's the same thing I tell every cardiac rehabilitation patient: the heart refills between beats, not during them. Rest isn't the absence of work — it's a discipline. The mountains are where I practise it, and where the clearest thinking about medicine — and more than one software idea — has come from.
Your heart deserves a plan.
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