Dr Girish Viswanathan

• 22 years of experience
• Consultant cardiologist, Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital (present)
• Consultant cardiologist, Peninsula Heart Clinic (present)
• Consultant interventional cardiologist, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (present)

Dr Girish Viswanathan is a consultant cardiologist in Plymouth, Devon, who specialises in chest pain, shortness of breath and hypertension, alongside angioplasty, coronary artery disease and preventive cardiology. He privately practises at Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital  and Peninsula Heart Clinic, while he is a consultant interventional cardiologist at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.

Dr Viswanathan completed his medical degree at Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University in 1997, followed by postgraduate training in internal medicine at Madras Medical College. He pursued further medical training in the UK, obtaining MRCP (UK) and completing higher specialist cardiology training in Wales in 2012. He then undertook an advanced coronary intervention fellowship in Bournemouth before taking up his consultant role in Plymouth in 2014.

His expertise includes managing simple and complex coronary artery disease, performing coronary angioplasty and stent procedures, and using advanced techniques such as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), optical coherence tomography (OCT), and fractional flow reserve (FFR). He has performed over 800 coronary interventions at Derriford Hospital, with nationally reported outcomes demonstrating lower-than-expected mortality rates and complications. His cases are regularly used for teaching at international meetings.