Dr. Vijayan Ganesan — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Vijayan Ganesan is a Senior Consultant at Rela Hospital in Chennai, with more than 15 years of experience in cardiology.

His work covers both coronary and peripheral territory. He performs coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty and stenting, diagnostic cardiac catheterization, peripheral angioplasty and stenting, TAVI or TAVR and the MitraClip procedure, and implants pacemakers and ICDs. He manages coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease and heart failure.

His training moved across the country. He read MBBS at Govt Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai between 2005 and 2011, took his MD in general medicine at R.G Kar Medical College in Kolkata between 2013 and 2016, and his DM in cardiology at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology in Trivandrum. He holds the MRCP with General Medical Council registration and a licence to practise, the FSCAI in the USA, and the CCEBDM.

Much of his career has been spent in Kerala. He has worked at Aster MIMS Hospital in Kannur, at Govt Medical College in Kannur, at NIMS Hospital in Malappuram and at Meitra Hospital in Calicut, before his present post at the Rela Institute and Medical Centre in Chennai.

His case presentations have been recognised repeatedly. He won first prize at the Indian Coronary Conquest 2026, ranked first out of 600 presentations, a gold medal for a challenging case at the 16th Asia Pacific Vascular Intervention Course in 2024, and a best case award at the AICC Complication Course in 2025. He also took first prize in the Heart Failure Association of India best dissertation award in 2020.