Mr Girish Narayanasamy Viswanathan

Dr Girish Viswanathan is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in coronary intervention. His areas of expertise include treatment of simple and complex coronary artery disease, coronary physiology, intracoronary imaging, coronary chronic total occlusion intervention. He also serves as the departmental Clinical Director for Cardiology within the Plymouth trust and steers a group to monitor the performance of the cardiac network for the whole region. 

Girish graduated in India and completed his post-graduation in Internal medicine from Madras Medical College and Medical University in 2001. He has completed his medical rotation in Manchester deanery and was awarded with MRCP and higher speciality training in cardiology (CCT) from Wales in 2012. He later undertook an advanced coronary intervention fellowship in Bournemouth.

He has also been awarded best researcher in the UK in 2014 by Diabetes UK and his work has been presented at various National and International conferences. He still holds an honorary contract with Newcastle University and trains his fellow researchers.He regularly teaches medical and dental students attached to Plymouth University and supervises the Cardiac Physiology students and Physician associates. His surgical cases are regularly shown as teaching examples at international meetings.