Founding Director
Dr Joseph Vettukattil is a world-renowned congenital cardiologist with expertise in advanced cardiac imaging and interventions. He is currently the founder and director of Institute of Advanced Medical Research and Innovations Forum (IAMRAI), Hyderabad and Research Professor at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. He was invited to establish the Betz Congenital Heart Centre, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Corewell health, Grand Rapids, Michigan and was the co-director of the Congenital Heart Centre. He also served as the Betz endowed chair for Paediatric cardiology research. His contributions to the field include development of interventional heart devices like AFR, VB Stent, Versatile septal occluders and many other devices in the pipeline. He was the first to conceptualize and develop Integrated 3D Printing and to print heart from 3D echocardiography. He described Spiral ASDs and a new technique for stent fenestration of the atrial septum, the variation in the at