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Our Doctors - Goa:
Dr. Guruprasad Datta Naik, Chief Cardiologist

Dr. Guruprasad Naik graduated from Goa Medical college (1992) and received his DM-Medicine from the same university (1996). He went on to get his ABIM (Internal Medicine) from St. Vincent Hospital, USA and ABIM (Cardio Vascular diseases) from Louisiana University Medical Center, USA.

He has been a practicing Cardiologist since 1997. He began his career as a Fellow in Cardiology at Louisiana State University Medical Center, Junior Consultant at the Manipal Heart Foundation. He was Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology, St. John's Hospital in Bangalore. In St. John's hospital he was in charge of the Catheterisation Laboratory and actively participated in the Cardiology Fellowship Teaching Program. Dr. Naik has worked as Associate Consultant Cardiologist with the Manipal Heart Foundation and then as Interventional Cardiologist for four years in the Marshfield Clinic in USA.

He has several research publications to his credit and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI) and is a Member of the American Medical Association and Wisconsin Medical Society. He was awarded the Herbert Weinberger award for outstanding patient care (1999) at the Touro Infirmary, New Orleans USA.

At the Vivus-SMRC center, Dr. Naik is in-charge of one of the most sophisticated and state-of-the-art digital cathlab.
Dr. Anand Sancheti, Chief Cardio Thoracic Surgeon

Dr. Anand Sancheti completed his MCh (CVTS) from KEM Hospital, Mumbai in 2002. He did his MBBS from JNMC Wardha and his MS (General Surgery) from GMC, Nagpur.

He worked as senior registrar in Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery for six years in addition to the three year experience in General Surgery & Allied Specialties. He received the Adult Cardiac surgery fellowship at RNSH, Sydney, and worked in Australia for 2 years. He has been working as a Consultant in Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery for more than one year.

Dr. Sancheti holds the credit of being the first cardiac surgeon to do an 'AWAKE' double valve open-heart surgery and the first do an AWAKE congenital heart disease ASD closure in Western India including Maharastra, Gujarat and Goa.

Dr. Pankajam Vaidya, Cardiologist

Dr. Pankajam received her MBBS from Karnataka University and then went on to get her DNB in General Medicine and Cardiology. She worked as Senior Cardiac Registrar in Vivus Heart Centre, BMJ, Bangalore. Her previous experience includes working at Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and BARC hospital in Mumbai. She is a member of National Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

She has published several papers and attended national and international conferences in Cardiology.

Dr. Paresh K. Desai, Radiologist

Dr. Paresh Desai has done his MD in Radiodiagnosis from Goa University and worked as a Resident in Goa Medical College. In the busy OPD and In-patients at the Goa Medical College, Dr. Desai has handled 50 patients per day on an average, for different radiology investigations covering Conventional Radiology, CT scanning, Ultrasonography and Doppler, mammography, MRI.

Dr. Desai was:

Awarded the Best Student Award in the Goa Medical College in the year 2003.
Best Paper Award at the National Seminar in Advances in Radiology at Regional Cancer Centre , Trivandrum in
  Aug 2005
Dr. Desai has published his research work in several national and international journals. He has attended many conferences where he has received Best paper awards.
Dr. Anand Thakur, Chief of Laboratories

Dr. Thakur started his career as resident Intern at Ispat General Hospital soon after completing his MD in Pathology from University of Dharwad. He then was the Resident House Officer in TELCO and RMO at BALCO and Western India Shipyard Limited. He then took up the Directorship of SIDAD's Laboratory in Goa. Under his directorship SIDAD's laboratory became the FIRST in the Konkan region to be accredited by National Accreditation Board for Laboratories (NABL).

Dr. Thakur has further honed his skills by undergoing several training programs in the areas of:

Occupational Health - Industrial Health CheckUp, Large Group Diagnostics Testing, Customised Industry
  Specific Health Examinations, Industrial Health Research & Demographic Survey.
Medicine - Industrial Health CheckUp, Large Group Diagnostics Testing, Customised Industry Specific Health
  Examinations, Industrial Health Research & Demographic Survey.
Pathology - HistoCytopathology Reporting, Histotechnics, Automated Analysers Operations, Plebotomy,
  Microbial Culture.
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