Dr Anil Kumar is an interventional cardiologist who has a vast experience of 26 years in the field of clinical and academic Cardiology. He is currently the Lead Senior Consultant of Aster Cardiac Sciences at Aster Medcity, Kochi, Kerala. He is a recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship in 1996. Dr Anil Kumar has started the program of coronary angiography and angioplasty, including primary angioplasty in JIPMER in 1995 and was appointed as the Professor of Cardiology at JIPMER in 2002. He has presented papers in several major international conferences including the World Congress of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology and has had fifteen publications in peer reviewed journals, including Heart and the European Heart Journal. Dr Anil Kumar is an examiner for the MRCP(UK) PACES examination and DM Cardiology at the Delhi and Pondicherry Universities of India