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Consultant · Department of Cardiology

Dr. Meera Iyer

Specialty: "Consultant Cardiologist"   Experience: "11+ yrs"   Hospital: "City, Country"
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Clinical Profile

Board-certified consultant cardiologist with 11+ years of clinical experience in interventional cardiology, acute coronary care and heart failure. Has performed 2,500+ PCI procedures, leads a cath-lab quality programme and publishes clinical research.

Procedural Competence

Coronary Intervention
Echocardiography
Acute Cardiac Care
Heart Failure
Device Implantation
Clinical Research
Clinical Areas: Acute coronary syndrome, Heart failure, Arrhythmia, Preventive cardiology
Professional: Clinical governance, Teaching, Research, MDT leadership

Clinical Appointments

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist @ City General Hospital[Jan 2020 → Present]

Consultant in a 40-bed cardiac unit with a 24/7 primary PCI service.

  • Performs 450+ coronary interventions a year, including complex CTO and left-main PCI.
  • Cut door-to-balloon time from 78 to 52 minutes by redesigning the STEMI pathway.
  • Clinical lead for cath-lab audit, governance and morbidity & mortality meetings.
Senior Resident, Cardiology (DM) @ Sample Institute of Medical Sciences[Jul 2016 → Dec 2019]

Super-speciality residency in cardiology.

  • Managed a high-volume CCU and performed 800+ diagnostic angiographies under supervision.
  • Ran the echocardiography lab rota, reporting 3,000+ TTE and TEE studies.
Resident, Internal Medicine (MD) @ State Medical College Hospital[May 2013 → Jun 2016]

Postgraduate residency in internal medicine.

  • Rotations in emergency, ICU, nephrology and endocrinology, with 70+ admissions a week.

Research & Quality Improvement

Radial-first STEMI pathwayQuality improvement · 2021

Hospital-wide protocol that cut access-site bleeding by 60% and door-to-balloon time by 26 minutes.

Publication: Radial vs femoral access in elderly PCIIndian Heart Journal · 2020

Retrospective cohort of 1,240 patients; first author.

Heart Failure Clinic ProgrammeService development · 2022

Nurse-led titration clinic that reduced 30-day readmissions by 18%.

Qualifications & Fellowships

Fellow, European Society of Cardiology (FESC) (2023)
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Instructor (2022)
Fellow, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography (FSCAI) (2021)
DM, Cardiology
Sample Institute of Medical Sciences, 2016 - 2019
MD, Internal Medicine · MBBS
State Medical College, 2006 - 2016