Dr. Akash Batta has completed MD internal medicine and DM cardiology from the prestigious PGIMER, Chandigarh, India which has recently been recognised as worlds best specialised hospital. During his interventional cardiology fellowship, he gained abundant experience in all aspects of interventional cardiology. He has keen interest in academics and research as evident by numerous publications in reputed International and national PubMed and Scopus indexed journals. He serves as an editorial member for 2 cardiology journals and a peer reviewer for more than a dozen of reputed medicine and cardiology journals. He has published more than 50 high impact peer reviewed articles over the last 3 years. He recently won the coveted young scholar of the year (CSI travel award) at the annual CSICON 2022 which is the highest Cardiology level meeting in India. Currently, he is working as an Assistant professor in the Department of Cardiology at Dayanand Medical College and hospital, Ludhiana. He takes keen interest in patient care and management while balancing the academic life. His key areas of interest include peripheral and and structural interventions. He runs a dedicated weekly pulmonary artery hypertension clinic, the first of its kind in Northern India and has enrolled one of the largest cohort of PAH in India.