Punjab govt’s health advisor Dr. KK Talwar joins private hospital at Mohali
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Former Director of PGI, Chandigarh and a renowned name in the fields of cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology, Dr KK Talwar has joined Ivy Hospital, Mohali. He will hold weekly OPD on every Saturday from 9.30 am to 2 pm.
The former Chairman of Medical Council of India, Dr Talwar has over 40-yr clinical experience in cardiology, with expertise and in-depth knowledge of diagnosis, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation for varied cardiac ailments. He has been honoured with Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian award by Government of India for his contributions in the field of Medicine. He is also recipient of B.C.Roy award and various ICMR and other National Societies Award.
His speciality area includes; defibrillator & pacemaker implantation, cardiac resynchnomiation therapy, balloon valvotomy, device closure of congenital heart defects, ablation for HOCM, percutaneous aortic aneurysm repair etc.
Punjab govt’s health advisor Dr. KK Talwar joins private hospital. He was the first to implant and introduce the Implantable Cardioverter and Defibrillator (ICD) therapy in India and South Asia region that was recorded in the LIMCA Book of World Records (1997).
Talwar, born on 30 April 1946 at Payal, a small town in Ludhiana district, did his early education in his home town and the neighboring city of Jalandhar and graduated in medicine (MBBS) from Punjabi University, Patiala in 1969.He continued his studies at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh from where secured his MD in general medicine in 1973 and DM in cardiology in 1976 and underwent training in Electrophysiology at the University of Gothenburg as a senior research fellow of the World Health Organization. His career started at his alma mater, PGIMER, in December 1977, as a member of faculty where he worked for three years before moving to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, as an assistant professor of cardiology in 1980. During the next twenty four years he worked at AIIMS, he became the professor in 1992 and the head of the department of cardiology in 2002. After leaving AIIMS in 2004, he returned to PGIMER as the director, professor and head of the department of cardiology and stayed there till his superannuation in 2011.
January 3,2021
