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Dr. Pillai has been associated with Lilavati Hospital from 1997-2006 and then from 2016. He has an overall experience of 32 years.

He has dealt with, Angiographies – 20,000 (approximately) and Angioplasties 8,000 (approximately)

Overseas Training

• Had initial training on Coronary intervention at Cleveland Clinic Ohio in the year 1989 for 6 months with Dr. Patrick Withlow.
• From time to time had training for complex PTCA and newer devices at Washington Adventis Hospital, Washington, DC in 1993, 1996, 1997, at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio;

Area Of Interest

• Current interest is complex cardiac intervention using Rotablator & IVUS especially in LM bifurcation. Has extensive experience in percutanous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) & stenting -both through radial and femoral approach and other newer devices

• Pioneered Interventional Cardiology work in India and was one of the first to perform Coronary Angioplasty with Dr. Samuel Mathew in 1986.
• Silver Medal for standing first in Final MBBS (Medicine), 1973 – Nagpur University.
• Passed DM Cardiology (First Rank) in April 1982.
• BARD International First Prize for Best Case Contest as Interventional Cardiologist, 1996.
• Awarded "Interventional Cardiologist of the Year – 1996" by the Cardiological Society of India (CSI) in recognition of outstanding work in Interventional Cardiology, which included three months of training at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA.
• Procter for Rotablator & IVUS (Boston Scientific).

• Value of Echocardiography in Detecting Rheumatic Tricuspid Stenosis, Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasonography, Volume 4, No. 3.
• Real-Time Two-Dimensional Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Left Atrial Myxoma, reprinted from Pakistan Heart Journal, Volume 15, April-June 1982, No. 2.
• Infective Endocarditis: An Enigma of Diagnosis and Treatment, reprinted from Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (1981), 27 (3), 167-172.
• M-Mode Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Patients with Infective Endocarditis, JAPI, 1983, Vol. 31, No. 10.
• Noninvasive Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Ebstein’s Anomaly (M-Mode versus 2D), Indian Heart Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1983.