Dr. Sengottu Velu is a cardiologist in Chennai with 34 years of practice. He is a consultant at Apollo Hospital on Greams Road and also consults at Kumaran Hospital in Kilpauk.He completed his MBBS at Madras University in 1992, his MD in General Medicine at Manipal Academy of Higher Education in 1996, and both a DNB and a DM in Cardiology in 2000, the latter from Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai. He has been registered with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council since 1992. He is a fellow of the Cardiological Society of India and of the Society for Angiography and Interventions, and a board member of the Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology. His awards include first prize for the Young Interventionalist Award at AICT, Bangkok, the Best Doctor Award 2012 from the Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, the Award for Excellence in Clinical Innovation from Apollo Hospitals, and an Award for Excellence in CCT, Japan.His work covers percutaneous coronary intervention, carotid angioplasty and stenting, ASD and VSD device closure, pacemaker and ICD implantation, cardiac ablation and cardioversion, CT angiography, hypertension and non-invasive cardiology. He consults in English.