Dr. Rajesh Thachathodiyl

Dr. Rajesh Thachathodiyl earned his MBBS and MD (General Medicine) degrees from S.C.B. Medical College Cuttack in Orissa. In 1998, he joined Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (Amrita Hospital) as faculty after completing his cardiology residency at K.M.C. Manipal. Dr. Rajesh has worked in Interventional Cardiology for fifteen years. He has extensive expertise doing rotablations, CTO recanalization, left main interventions, saphenous vein graft interventions, carotid artery interventions, endovascular stent grafts, and other peripheral treatments. He has advocated for Radial Access Interventions in Amrita and is recognised nationally and worldwide in this specialty. Dr. Rajesh is a regular faculty member at the 'Kamakura Live' Summit in Japan and the CTO Summit in Kobe, Japan, in addition to holding the first 'AMRITA TRANSRADIAL SUMMIT' in Amrita Hospital, Kochi in 2008, where Dr. Shigero Saito was the International Faculty. He has also gained critical acclaim in the subject of 'Chronic Total Occlusion,' and in the year 2013, he was the national faculty at the INDO - JAPANESE, CTO summit in Mumbai. He has taught radial access difficult coronary interventions to a number of young aspiring cardiologists. Dr. Rajesh has led the Cardiac CT and Cardiac MRI programmes since 2005 and 2007, respectively. Apart from holding the first 'AMRITA TRANSRADIAL SUMMIT' in Amrita Hospital, Kochi in 2008, where Dr. Shigero Saito was the International Instructor, Dr. Rajesh is a frequent faculty at the 'Kamakura Live' Summit in Japan and the CTO Summit in Kobe, Japan. He has also gained critical acclaim in the field of 'Chronic Total Occlusion,' and was the national faculty in the INDO - JAPANESE, CTO summit in Mumbai in 2013. He has educated a number of young aspiring cardiologists in radial access complicated coronary procedures. Dr. Rajesh has been in charge of the Cardiac CT programme since 2005, and the Cardiac MRI programme since 2007.

Qualification

• MD
• DM
• FACC