Dr Ganesan Kumar

Professional statement

Dr Ganesan Kumar is a highly experienced consultant cardiologist in Luton and Harpenden  who specialises in arrhythmia, heart failure and cardiac MRI, alongside valvular heart disease, preventative cardiology and cardiothoracic disease.

Dr Kumar completed his medical degree in general medicine in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He moved to the UK for higher training in cardiology in 1998. He works as consultant cardiologist at Luton and Dunstable Hospital since 2009 and later secured a substantive role in November 2015.

Apart from offering general cardiology services for most cardiac problems, he has championed multiple service developments. Dr Kumar led a  myocardial perfusion imaging service at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, a non invasive functional assessment that helps in the diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease and to plan revascularisation, as well as specialist heart failure clinics for the hospital and primary care trust (Luton and Central Bedfordshire, extending advice to parts of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire).

Most recently he has been reponsible for cardiac CT services through joint working with the radiology department. He also holds an accreditation in Cardiac CT, a non invasive anatomical test to diagnose coronary artery disease. 

Dr Kumar has practiced cardiology at different levels over the last 20 years and was based in Glasgow until February 2001.

Most of Dr Kumar's higher training and practice was at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. He completed additional training at Bedford Hospital's catherterisation laboratory and short training at the busy Harefield Hospital Cardio-Thoracic ITU and Electrophysiology Unit.

Dr Kumar has a keen interest in teaching and training medical students, junior doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff. He lectures at patient support group meetings.

Furthermore, Dr Kumar is a qualified advanced life support instructor, and is a member of various professional organisations, These include the Royal College of Physicians (London and Edinburgh), the British Cardiovascular Society and the British Society of Heart Failure, as well as the British Nuclear Cardiology Society, the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging and the European Society of Cardiology.