Request Appointment With Dr Rajiv Karnik
MBBS MD DM - Cardiology
- Dr. Rajiv Karnik is a veteran cardiologist with four decades of experience in India and abroad.
- He consults and performs cardiac catheterisation interventions at the Fortis Hospital in Mulund.
- In the past Dr. Karnik has served at a wide range of hospitals, including as visiting clinician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA, and as Honorary Registrar at Freeman Hospital, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
- Dr Rajiv Karnik has a rare distinction of topping the Bombay University in M.B.B.S., M.D. as well as DM (Cardiology) examinations and secured six gold medals.
- He is the only DM cardiologist in Bombay University to create this record. He was the first Cardiologist in the city of Bombay to implant ICD – Pacemaker device at Bombay Hospital. His special interest is in Coronary interventions, pacemaker & implantable defibrillator (ICD) device implantations as well as academic and clinical cardiology.
- He was working on the project of Telemedicine assisted by Arthur Anderson Co, during which he was awarded Rashtriya Ratna award in 1992.
MBBS MD DM - Cardiology
Education
- MBBS - KEM Hospital, Bombay University , 1974
- MD- General Medicine - KEM Hospital, Bombay University , 1982
- DM - Cardiology - KEM Hospital, Bombay University , 1984
- FCSAI - USA
Membership
- American College of Cardiology
- Cardiological Society of India
- Association of Physicians of India
- European Society of Cardiology
Awards
- Rashtriya Ratan Award
- Dr. Ivan Pinto Gold Medal
Procedures
- Cardiac Ablation
- Electrophysiology Studies (EPS)
- Coronary Angiography
- Coronary Angioplasty
- Pacemaker Implantation
- Heart Valve Replacement Surgery
