Dr. Sunip Banerjee is a Senior Interventional Cardiologist with over 30 years of experience, specializing in high-volume coronary, peripheral, device-based, and structural heart interventions.
Educational Qualifications
- MBBS – Calcutta Medical College
- MD (Medicine) – Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal
- DM (Cardiology) – PGIMER, Chandigarh
- Fellowships: FSCAI (USA), FSCI, FACC (USA)
Professional Experience
- Founder & Chairman, Kolkata Heart Lung Center (2021–Present)
- Honorary Secretary, Cardiological Society of India, West Bengal
Previous Leadership Positions:
- Director / Chief of Cardiology – Medica Superspecialty Hospital
- Chief Interventional Cardiologist – Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS)
- Chief of Cardiology – Fortis Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Cardiology – PGI Chandigarh
- Also served as visiting Interventional Cardiologist at multiple major hospitals in Kolkata
Key Areas of Clinical Strength
- Complex coronary interventions (including bifurcation and left main disease)
- Primary & radial angioplasty
- Peripheral vascular interventions (carotid, renal & peripheral arteries)
- Device therapy: Pacemaker, ICD, CRT implantation
- Renal denervation therapy in resistant hypertension
- Management of heart failure & cardiac amyloidosis
- FFR-based physiological lesion assessment
Academic & Conference Involvement
Regular faculty and invited speaker at premier national & international interventional cardiology meetings, including:
- TCT (USA)
- EuroPCR (Paris)
- National Interventional Council forums
- BIT (Bangla Interventional Therapeutics)
- Cardiological Society of India scientific meets
Delivered numerous lectures and workshops on PCI strategy, FFR, hypertension & complex coronary disease approaches
Publications & Scientific Contributions
- Authored clinical research articles and book chapters in interventional cardiology and heart failure management
- Actively involved in multicentric clinical trials in coronary intervention and cardiovascular outcomes research
