Meet Our Team

Dr. Purendra Kumar Pati

Interventional Cardiologist

Qualification

MBBS, MD, DM, FRACP

Practice Location

  • Northern Cardiology and Specialists Clinic

Specialist Biography

Dr Pati is an interventional cardiologist with clinical and research interest in complex coronary interventions.

Backed by 28 years of experience in the field, Dr Pati is popular among physicians and patients for his astute clinical acumen and pleasant bedside manners. His interventional skills are world class, stemming from years of experience in a premier medical teaching hospital, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. After obtaining his FRACP in 2010, he is employed as the clinical lead in interventional  cardiology in the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Dr Pati is a popular teacher amongst medical students and a supervisor for advanced trainees in Cardiology. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications to his credit. His current research focuses on minimizing contrast induced renal dysfunction in coronary angiography.

Dr Pati translates his constantly updated professional knowledge into high quality, dedicated, personalized  and holistic medical care for his patients.

 


Dr. Sujith Chacko

Interventional Cardiologist

Qualification

MBBS, MD,DM, FRACP, FCSANZ, FIC (Aus)

Practice Location

  • Northern Cardiology and Specialists Clinic
  • Hyde and Partners Medical Centre, Gawler

Specialist Biography

Dr Chacko is a Clinical and Interventional Cardiologist and a staff specialist at the LyeII McEwin Hospital, NALHN.

Sujith graduated from Christian Medical College, Vellore, India in 1998. He then completed his Physician training followed by Cardiology advanced training at the same institute. After a rigorous cardiac and vascular interventional training, he joined the institute as faculty and became an Associate Professor in Cardiology.

He moved to Adelaide, Australia in 2013, worked at TQEH and was accredited as FRACP in Cardiology in 2015. His interest in Cardiology is wide-ranged and include Ischemic Heart disease, Valvular Heart disease, Hypertension, Heart failure and Peripheral Vascular disease. He completed a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals in Cardiology.

His interventional expertise is in Complex coronary interventions, Structural cardiac interventions like device closures, septal ablations, balloon valvotomies and TAVR, and also in Endovascular aortic and peripheral vascular interventions.

He practices privately at Gawler (Northern Cardiology) and widely across the regional hospitals/ centres at Port Augusta, Whyalla, Ceduna and Ardrossan.


Dr. Dimitrios Lypourlis

Electrophysiologist

Qualification

FRACP, FCSANZ

Practice Location

  • Northern Cardiology and Specialists Clinic

Specialist Biography

Dr Dimitrios Lypourlis is a highly qualified cardiologist and electrophysiologist.

Dimitrios completed his medical training at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Subsequently he was awarded a scholarship by the European Union to complete the final year of medical school at the University of Bristol, UK and graduated in 1993.

Dr Lypourlis undertook his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training in Greece and went on to complete his physician training at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, where he specialised in Cardiology.

Dimitrios developed a particular interest in cardiac arrhythmias and was accepted as an Electrophysiology Clinical Research Fellow at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK to develop this interest. In 2006 he was invited to undertake the role of Electrophysiology Fellow at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Canada in order to further extend and develop his skills in complex ablation procedures, including atrial fibrillation ablation. He was awarded his Fellowships to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 2007 and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (FCSANZ) in 2009.