Faculty

Contact
Dr. Varsha Rakshitha P.
Assistant Professor
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School
Medical College
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Department
Department of Cardiology
Qualifications
- Fellowship in Electrophysiology
M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, 2021
- DM Doctorate of Medicine- Cardiology
Doctorate of Medicine- Cardiology, 2018
- Post Graduate Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2017
- MD (Doctor of Medicine – General Medicine)
M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, 2014
- MBBS
M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, 2008
Experience
Academic Experience
- Junior Resident - July 2014 – July 2017 – IN RMC
- Senior Resident - August 2017 – August 2018 – IN RMC
- Senior Resident - Department of Cardiology - August 2018 – September 2021 – in RMC
- Associate Consultant - Department of Cardiology - October 2021-till date in RMC
- Significance of ST Changes in Lead aVR in patients with Acute Anterior Wall Myocardial Infarction
- Case Report: “Ivabradine: Boon or Bane”
- Distal versus Proximal Radial artery access for Coronary intervention
Area of Interest
- Structural heart disease and interventions
- Complex coronary interventions
- Electrophysiology
- Cardiovascular Imaging
- Cardiac transplant and heart failure management
- Representative of Cultural team (music) at school and college level
- Participation in old age home and orphanage home activities run by school and college
- Travel and Medical tourism
- Completed Level 2 (out of 3) in National level Carnatic music exam
- Performed at several Classical Music concerts - solo and group concerts
- Participated in National Pulse Polio Vaccination Programmes
- Volunteered in various health camps and screening camps conducted
- Secured 271 Rank in State Level entrance exam to join M.B.B.S
- Award - Best outgoing undergraduate in Paediatrics - M.S Ramaiah Medical College 2014
- Top Scorer Awards in under graduation - M.S. Ramaiah Medical College 2008-2014
- 11th rank in MD General Medicine exit exam from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
- 5th rank in DM Cardiology exit exam from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
- Honorary clinical fellowship in the department of Cardiac imaging (MRI) at St Bart’s hospital NHS at London, England for 4 weeks
- His bundle pacing - is it the final frontier of physiological pacing? - A single centre experience from the Indian sub-Continent - V S Prakash, Anupama V Hegde, U M Nagamalesh, S Ramkumar, Y Sai Krishna, Varsha Rakshitha Prakash, Archana Ratna Potluri
- Conferences attended pertaining to Cardiology Publications: 7
- Evaluation of Uric Acid to Albumin Ratio as a marker of Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Acute Coronary Syndrome (submitted for publication) - Sana Sulthana, Mohammed Suhail K, Varsha Rakshitha Prakash (corresponding author), Aditya Karthikeyan, Shaikh Mohammed Aslam S, Suhas G C, Ashwin Kulkarni
- Indian Medical Association (Life Member)