Dr. D. Rajasekhar
Consultant
FICC, FCSI, FACC, FSCAI, FESC Director, Emergency Medicine
Specialization
Cardiology
Location
Amara Hospital, Tirupati
Profile Overview
MBBS, MD, DM (Cardiology)
Professional Profile
- MBBS | 1986 — JIPMER, Puducherry (University of Madras)
- MD, Internal Medicine | 1989 — PGIMER, Chandigarh
- DM, Cardiology | 1993 — SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram
- Asst. Professor (Cardiology) — SVIMS Tirupati | Jan 1994 – Apr 1997
- Associate Professor (Cardiology) — SVIMS Tirupati | Apr 1997 – Apr 2001
- Head of Cardiology — SVIMS Tirupati | Mar 1998 – Present
- Additional Professor (Cardiology) — SVIMS Tirupati | Apr 2001 – May 2005
- Professor of Cardiology — SVIMS Tirupati | Jun 2005 – May 2015
- Dean, SVIMS — SVIMS Tirupati | Sep 2010 – Jan 2014
- Registrar, SVIMS — SVIMS Tirupati | Aug 2007 – Apr 2008
- Senior Professor (Cardiology) — SVIMS Tirupati | Jun 2016 – Feb 2026
- Coronary Angiography & Angioplasty (PCI)
- Primary PCI in STEMI
- Complex Coronary Interventions
- IVUS-guided PCI & Coronary Imaging
- Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy (PTMC)
- Balloon Mitral Valvotomy
- ASD Device Closure
- 2D & 3D Echocardiography
- Tissue Doppler Imaging
- CT Coronary Angiography
- Stress Echocardiography
- Heart Failure Management (ARNI, SGLT2)
- Dyslipidaemia & Atherosclerosis Prevention
- Cardiovascular Risk Factor Modification
- Emergency Medicine residency program development
- American Heart Association training (BLS, ACLS, PALS)
- Trauma training (ITLS, ATLS)
- Simulation-based medical education
- Faculty development programs
Awards & Recognition
- K.V. Naidu Memorial Award — September 2000
- AP State Government Award — Best Performance 2001–2002, Republic Day, Chittoor
- Dr. Subhashini Yaturu Gold Medal — 2015, Best Original Research, SVIMS
- State Best Teacher Award — 2015, Chief Minister of AP, Visakhapatnam
- Merit Certificate, Chittoor District Collector — Republic Day, 26 Jan 2019
- Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy State Award-2023 — 19 May 2023, 30 years’ service at Tirupati
- Life Time Achievement Award — Kurnool Heart Federation, World Heart Day, 29 Sep 2024
- SVIMS Merit Certificate — 15 Aug 2025, outstanding services 30+ years
- Life Time Achievement Award — Telangana Chapter CSI, Feb 2026
- Merit Certificate, District Collector Tirupati — Republic Day, 26 Jan 2026
- Department of Cardiology, SVIMS achieved 25,000 cardiac interventions — 23 Sep 2025 (only hospital in AP in public sector)
- SVIMS Cardiology completed 1,000 interventions in 2025 — 16th consecutive year since 2010
Academic Appointments
- Assessor, MCI and NMC — over 50 assessments
- Examiner in DM Cardiology Final Exams — across 100+ universities in India
- Examiner, NBE — both DNB and FNB in Cardiology
- Trained 70 DM Cardiology students over 23 years (2003–2026)
- Chairman Scientific Committee, ISAR — 12th Annual Conference, Tirupati, 1999
- Organising Secretary, ISAR — 15th Annual Conference, Tirupati, 2002
- Editor & Publisher — Current Advances in Atherosclerosis Research Vol. V, 2003
- Organising Secretary, 14th Annual Conference, AP Chapter CSI, 2007
- Chairman Research Committee, SVIMS (2011–2014)
- National Vice President, Indian College of Cardiology (2018–2019)
- National President, Indian College of Cardiology (2021–2022)
- President, AP Chapter, Cardiological Society of India (2018–2019)
- Chairman Scientific Committee, 27th National Conference ICC, Bangalore, 2021
- Convenor, Research Advisory Committee, SVIMS (2022–2026)
- Reviewer — IHJ, IJMR, JICC, JAPI, Echocardiography, and other indexed journals
