Educator & speaker
Two audiences.
One obsession: clarity.
To cardiologists, I present cases — the complex, the humbling, the instructive. To communities, I translate cardiology into language that changes behaviour before the first chest pain. Both talks are the same job: making the heart understandable.
On stage
Case presentations
Cases taken to national conferences — and to the faculty meetings where they get argued over.
8–10 August 2025
Orbital atherectomy and the intimal stripping OCT found first
8th Imaging & Physiology Council of India (iPCI) Conference · Trident Hotel · Hyderabad
A calcified lesion treated with orbital atherectomy, where OCT showed stripping of the intima — a finding that can perforate the vessel if it is post-dilated aggressively.
11–13 September 2025
Transcatheter mitral repair in a breathless 78-year-old
India Valves 2025 · Jaipur
Case footage of a MitraClip procedure in an elderly patient who had become breathless at rest.
2024
Zero-contrast PCI in chronic kidney disease
Institutional faculty meeting · P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre · Mumbai
How angioplasty can be completed with almost no contrast — two millilitres in this case — using intravascular ultrasound and landmark technique, presented to the hospital's cardiology faculty.
15 June 2024
Upper GI bleeding after angioplasty, on dual antiplatelet therapy
Gastroenterology and Cardiology at Crossroads · Mumbai
with Dr Chandrashekhar K. Ponde and Dr Philip Ibrahim
A joint gastroenterology–cardiology session on managing high-bleeding-risk patients who bleed while the stent still needs protecting.
2023
Isoprenaline-induced tachycardiomyopathy after mitral valve replacement
Academy of Cardiology (AOC) annual meet · Meril · Vapi
A cardiomyopathy that appeared after valve surgery and traced back to the drug, not the valve.
Off stage
Public & professional education
Standing programmes rather than one-off dates — the talks that repeat because the questions do.
Ongoing
Cardiac evaluation in older adults
Rotary club sessions · Mumbai
Why an older heart deserves assessment before symptoms arrive, and what that assessment actually involves.
Ongoing
Before you join the gym — the cardiac check nobody asks for
Gymkhana member sessions · Mumbai
Pre-participation cardiac evaluation before strenuous exercise or competitive sport.
Ongoing
Advanced cardiac therapies, for the people patients call first
Awareness sessions for insurance professionals · Mumbai
Insurance advisors are often the first or second call a patient makes after a diagnosis. A session on what modern cardiology can now offer, so they can point people to the right question.
Ongoing
What's new in interventional and structural cardiology
CME sessions for physicians and general practitioners · Mumbai
Continuing medical education on advanced cardiac therapies for the doctors who see these patients first.
Ongoing
Preventive cardiology in the community
Health camps · Mumbai
Screening and plain-language sessions on the risk factors that decide whether a heart attack happens at all.
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Topics I love speaking on
- Complex and calcified coronary intervention — case-based
- Imaging- and physiology-guided PCI: OCT, IVUS, FFR/RFR
- Structural heart therapy: TAVR and transcatheter mitral repair
- Contrast-sparing angioplasty in chronic kidney disease
- Antiplatelet therapy in the high-bleeding-risk patient
- Preventive cardiology and pre-participation screening
- Building health-tech as a practising clinician
Media kit
Press photographs, bios in three lengths, an introduction slide for your screen and the full CV — ready for conference brochures and event pages.
Dr Kunal Ajay Patankar
MBBS, MD (General Medicine), DrNB (Cardiology)
Interventional Cardiologist & Structural Heart Specialist · Heart and Vascular SuperSpeciality Hospitals
Planning a conference or health camp?
From cath lab case sessions to community heart talks — let's put a date on the calendar.