Thiruvananthapuram: Dr V K Ajit Kumar, senior grade cardiology professor and interventional cardiologist and electrophysiology specialist, has been given the charge of the director of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST).
The charge has been given following the superannuation of Prof K Jayakumar on May 31.
After completing MBBS from AFMC, Pune, and MD and DM from PGI, Chandigarh, and Delhi, Dr Kumar, did his super-speciality fellowship in electrophysiology from Australia.
Dr Kumar joined SCTIMST in 1989; later on, started interventional electrophysiology cath lab and pioneered electrophysiology fellowship course in India.
He is one of the pioneers in radiofrequency ablation procedures and has also developed the interventional cardiology programme in SCTIMST.
He was the head of the cardiology department in SCTIMST from 2016 to 2019.
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Dr Ajith Kumar new director of Sree Chitra
