Caritas Hospital

Dr. Joby K. Thomas

Senior consultant & Interventional Cardiologist

An excellent Interventional Cardiologist with more than 14 years of experience in the field of cardiology. Dr Joby K Thomas has high extensive training in the field of complex Angioplasties including Bifurcation Angioplasties, CTOS, Rotablation and Complex high risk Angioplasties involving imaging and Physiology.

He also had the privilege to get trained at Mount Sinai hospital, New York and Gottsegen Hungarian institute, Budapest for a short stint which helped him hone his interventional skills. He has significant skills in Transradial Angioplasties / from the wrist, Imaging /IVUS /OCT, FFR- assessing the physiology to avoid unnecessary angioplasties, Peripheral Angioplasties, Pacemaker and ICD implantation. He was part of many prestigious Govt. Institutions in Kerala before he started his career at Caritas Hospital.

 

Professional Qualification

DM cardiology from Government Medical College Kottayam, in 2009

MD General Medicine from Berhampur Government Medical College (MKCG) in 2006

MBBS from Government Medical College Kottayam, in 2001

 

Achievements and Expertise

Dr Joby is an accomplished speaker and is a faculty for several National and International Conferences

He was an invited faculty at EURO PCR, Paris in 2019 and European bifurcation club for two consecutive years (2018 and 2019)

He also is a faculty for India live conferences held annually in India. He is also involved in training budding talents in Interventional Cardiology by being part of several workshops conducted at Caritas hospital for beginners

He has to his credit Five Scientific Papers published in various internationally acclaimed scientific journals

 

Professional Membership

FSCAI- Fellow of Society for Angiography and Intervention

FACC – Fellow of American College of Cardiology

Member of Cardiological Society of India

Member of Interventional Cardiology Council of India

Member of Society for Coronary Imaging and Physiology

 

He is proficient in Malayalam and English.