Dr. P Ramesh Babu
Chief Cardiologist & Managing Director
MBBS, MD, DM, FSCAI
Overview
Dr. P Ramesh Babu is the Chief Cardiologist and Managing Director of Ramesh Hospitals. He completed his MBBS from Guntur Medical College and persued his MD and DM at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
He has the distinction of being nominated recently as Member of the policy making body for National Board for Examinations, New Delhi NBE for DNB Programme in Cardiology.
He has performed 97422 Coronary Angiographic Procedures including 17531 Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Angioplasty
Dr. Ramesh has a life goal of providing quality healthcare not only to the people living in cities but also to people living in semi urban and rural areas by making the services of the specialists and state-of-the-art equipment available to them.
- Completed 4290 Primary PCI Procedures
- Performed more than 24857 Cardiac Surgeries with 99% success rate
- Implemented EMR across Ramesh Hospitals
- Started Telemedicine Centers across Andhra Pradesh
- Designed Smart Ambulances with 5G technology
- Hosted Central ICU Command Station
- Conducted 100+ Primary PCIs during COVID with 99.9% success rate
Academic Career
- MBBS in Guntur Medical College (1980)
- MD-General Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi (1984)
- DM –Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi (1988).
- Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI)
Professional Experience
- Junior resident, Internal Medicine in AIIMS, New Delhi
- Senior Resident Cardiologist in AIIMS, New Delhi
- Established 1st Cardiac centre with ICCU in Vijayawada in 1988.
- The very first advanced Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath-Lab) in the Coromandel coast spanning from Kolkata to Chennai in 1996, inaugurated by the then President of India, His Excellency, DrShankar Dayal Sharma.
- Diversified into Multispecialty Services in the year 2008.
- Established 50 bedded first branch Hospital in 2011 in Vijayawada, with 256 slice iCT scanner, the first of its kind in AP & Telangana.
- Established 350 bedded Multi Super Specialty Hospital, a green project in Guntur in the year 2015, inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, Former President of India.
- Started Clouddocs remote ICU monitoring initiative
- Implemented Smart Ambulance system with 5G technology
- Implemented EMR across hospital cluster
- Hosted Central Command Station for ICU monitoring
- Started Telemedicine Centers in rural Andhra Pradesh
Area of expertise
- Interventional Cardiology
- Coronary Angiography
- Coronary Angioplasty & Stenting
- Primary PCI for Acute Heart Attack
- Complex Coronary Interventions
- Structural Heart Disease Interventions
- Emergency Cardiac Care
- Preventive Cardiology
- Cardiac Critical Care
- Tele-ICU & Remote Cardiac Monitoring
- Advanced Heart Failure Management
- Acute Coronary Syndrome Management
- High-risk Cardiac Procedures
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
- Renal Artery Stenting
Awards and recognitions
- 1st place in AP State Medical PG Entrance Examination
- 1st place in DM Entrance Examination of AIIMS, New Delhi
- Has the distinction of being nominated recently (2019) as Member of the policy making body for National Board for Examinations, New Delhi (NBE) for DNB Programme in Cardiology.
Professional Acheivements
- Treated more than 8 lakh patients, and the numbers are still growing.
- Conducted 136571 Coronary Angiographic Procedures including 25043 Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Angioplasty/Stents).
- 4290 Primary PCIs (Angioplasty/Stent Procedures in Acute Heart Attack scenario).
- More than 24857 Cardiac Surgeries with 99% success rate.
- Established 24 Telemedicine centers in the Mandal and Rural areas to diagnose and treat life threatening Acute Heart Attacks and Brain strokes within the Golden window period.
- Participated in 20 International Randomized, Multi-centric Clinical Research trials approved by the USFDA. Many such molecules are currently in use worldwide.
- Received Dr K Sharan Award for Excellence in Cardiology,instituted by theIndian Medical Association (2012).
- Fellow of the Society for Cardio Vascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI).
- Guinness World Record 2019 for gathering 1020 Cardiac Surgery Patients
- FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards 2017 – Patient Centricity
- Hospital Management Awards Asia 2017 for Innovations in Technology
- Hospital Management Awards Asia 2018 for Innovations in Technology
- Limca Book of Records for 99.9% Success Rate in Heart Surgeries
- Dr K Sharan Award for Excellence in Cardiology – IMA National Award
- More than 100 Primary PCIs completed during COVID pandemic with 99.9% success rate
- Participated in 20 International Randomized Multi-centric Clinical Research Trials approved by USFDA
