About Midwest Heart and Vascular Associates | Board Certified Interventional & Endovascular Cardiologist & Venous Specialist located in Rapid City, SD

Research Awards 2008, 2009, 2011

Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Travel Award, Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease 2011

American Heart Association, Scientific Sessions

Outstanding Fellow Award 2012

Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Frank Hammond Sivitz Award 2012

Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

First to use the peripheral drug coated balloon in USA 2014

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

(http://www.mountsinai.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/mount-sinai-first-in-united-states-to-use-new-drug-coated-balloon-catheter--heart)

Live peripheral cases (http://www.peripheralinterventions.org) July 2014 to June 2015

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

Featured on Vumedi

(https://www.vumedi.com/pages/about/)

Faculty, CCVVC Symposium (http://www.cccsymposium.org) June 2015-16

(Complex Coronary, Valvular and Vascular Cases)

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

First to implant the Impella RP in the Dakotas and before Mayo Clinic 2016

(http://www.midwestmedicaledition.com/2016/10/29/125836/healing-hearts-in-the-hills)

Peripheral Artery Disease Section Co-Director June 2017-19

LINC Mount Sinai Endovascular Symposium

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

Co-Director, Mount Sinai Endovascular Fellows Course 2017-24

New York, NY

Faculty, New York Endovascular Summit (https://nyevs.org/) October 2020-24

New York, NY

Intra-arterial thrombolysis for FrostBite April 2019 (https://issuu.com/midwestmedicaledition/docs/med_april_may_2019_final_issuu?e=1876326/68693382)

Panelist for National and International Vascular Conferences 2020

Singapore LIVE 2020 (Annual Live Interventions in Vascular Endotherapy)

Faculty for Abbott Endomasters Course February 2020

[Advancing Complex Endovascular Intervention]

Orlando, FL

Faculty for Penumbra’s PEER September 2021

Chicago, IL

Featured in Midwest Medical Magazine for writing a book chapter and presenting at LINC 2022

https://www.midwestmedicaledition.com/articles/monument-health-physician-publishes-chapter-in-cardiology-textbook?rq=bhaskar%20purushottam

Featured in Midwest Medical Magazine for publishing in a Vascular Journal

https://www.midwestmedicaledition.com/articles/monument-health-cardiologist-publishes-study-in-vascular-journal?rq=bhaskar%20purushottam

India Roadshow for Education on Penumbra’s Latest Computer Aided Mechanical Thrombectomy and CAT Rx Technologies: Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore

September 2023

National Hybrid Arterial Forum Webinar

October 2023

Pulmonary Thrombectomy, Grand Rounds, Metropolitan Heart and Vascular Institute, Minneapolis

April 2024

Faculty for Penumbra’s PEER February 2025

Salt Lake City, UT

Featured in the Midwest Medical Magazine for presenting original research and complex case at LINC 2025

First physician worldwide to present real world experience with Penumbra Flash 2.0 Thrombectomy catheter in treating Intermediate risk Pulmonary Embolism

Largest US study featuring the use of Pheonix Atherectomy in Calcified Common Femoral and Popliteal artery Chronic Total Occlusions

https://www.midwestmedicaledition.com/articles/bhaskar-purushottam-presents-research

March 2025

Awards and Achievements

Board Certified Interventional & Endovascular Cardiologist & Venous Specialist located in Rapid City, SD