Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan

Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi (India)

Dr Ganesan Karthikeyan is a clinical, interventional cardiologist and a Professor of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, and a Senior International Fellow of the Population Health Research Institute, at McMaster University, Canada. He is an Associate Editor of Heart, Deputy Editor of Open Heart, and Co-Editor (South Asia) of the European Heart Journal. His research is mainly focused on cardiovascular diseases affecting low and middle income countries, including valvular heart disease, particularly rheumatic heart disease (RHD), mechanical valve thrombosis, anticoagulation, and indigenous drug-eluting stents. In his spare time he writes an occasional blog, and dabbles in photography. In addition to English and a couple of regional Indian languages, he knows a smattering of French.