After finishing medical graduation in India, Dr. Refai moved to the UK for further training. His career in Cardiology was undertaken at World Class Tertiary Cardiac Centres like St.Bartholomews Hospital (London), Imperial College Hospital (formerly called as Hammersmith Hospital, London), St Georges Hospital (London), The Essex Cardiothoracic Surgeon Centre (Essex) and Kings College Hospital (London). He moved back to India after 14 years of specialist training in advanced Interventional Cardiology. He is currently practising in Apollo Main Hospital, Greams Road, Chennai. Immense experience in treating all forms of cardiac illness such as heart attack, heart failure, valvular heart disease, Interventional cardiology such as Angiogram, angioplasty (Stent placement), Bioabsorbable Stent placement, device implantation, Advanced Interventional Cardiology such as Rotablation, Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Angioplasty, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Transcatheter valvular interventions and device closures (pinhole procedures).TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve implantation) fellowship undertaken at Kings College Hospital, London which is one of the high volume TAVI centres in the world performing TAVIs from 2007.He has published extensively in the field of Cardiology with more than 50 peer reviewed publications in reputed International Journals. Invited Faculty in various national and International conferences. He also regularly reviews manuscripts for national and International journals for publication. You can get the phone number of Dr. Refai Showkathali on Timesmed.com.