Dr. Praveen Chandra is an Indian

cardiologist Cardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery di ...

and chairman of

interventional cardiology Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplast ...

at Medanta - The Medicity,

Gurgaon Gurgaon (), officially named Gurugram (), is a satellite city of Delhi and administrative headquarters of Gurgaon district, located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest ...

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. He is recognised for his work in the field of

coronary angioplasty Angioplasty, also known as balloon angioplasty and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, is a minimally invasive endovascular procedure used to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins, typically to treat arterial atherosclerosis. A ...

. He has also served as director of Cardiac Cath Lab & Acute MI Services at

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and consultant cardiologist at Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center, New Delhi. He is a fellow of the

Endovascular Interventional radiology (IR) is a medical specialty that performs various minimally-invasive procedures using medical imaging guidance, such as x-ray fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasound. IR performs bot ...

Intervention Society of India and the Asia-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Chandra has been a distinguished faculty member in various international meetings and was the organiser and director of the AMI course held in New Delhi for 2005 and 2006. He has published approximately 100 articles, reviews and abstracts in various national and international scientific

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s. He is an alumnus of King George Medical College (KGMC), Lucknow. He was born in 1963 in

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to Dr. U.C. Verma and completed his intermediate from Colvins Taluqadar College, Lucknow. The

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awarded him the civilian honour of the

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in 2016. As a writer, he has contributed to a number of publications including

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chandra, Praveen Indian cardiologists Living people Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine 20th-century Indian medical doctors Medical doctors from Haryana People from Gurgaon 1963 births