Dr Ganesh Kumar did his medical school from the prestigious Seth GS Medical College and KEM hospital (King Edward-VII memorial hospital), Mumbai. After completing his internship from the same institute, he pursued his post graduation in General medicine (MD- General Med) at the same hospital (under Bombay University) in early nineties. He also cleared his Diplomate of National Board exams in Internal Medicine from the Ministry of Health & family Welfare, New Delhi. Subsequently he pursued his post Doctoral degree from KEM hospital under University of Mumbai in Cardiology (DM Cardiology) in 1999 and also additionally cleared his Diplomate of National Board exams in cardiology from the Ministry of Health & family Welfare, New Delhi.

His keen interest in research took him to Haifa, Israel and joined as a clinical fellow in Division of Invasive Cardiology at the Rambam Medical Center under the guidance of Prof. Rafael Beyar. Here he was awarded fellowship in interventional cardiology. While working there he developed keen interest in Robotics, and conceptualized and started developing use of robotics for angioplasties for the first time in history along with Prof  Beyar at the Brucer Rappaport faculty of medicine, Haifa. Initially in 2001, he studied it in glass models, and successfully conducted experiments in animals (mini-pigs and sheep models). Once it was declared a success in animals, his paper was published in the prestigious Journal of Euro Interventions. Subsequently, he was involved as a team member to conduct the First In Man Study (FIM study) in Romania (after approval from the Romanian government) where for the first time in the world a robotic arm was used to do angioplasty procedures with stent implantations. This was successfully done in 14 patients and was published in the prestigious Journal of American College of cardiology in Jan 2006.
 In the mean time Dr Ganesh Kumar joined as a chief in the dept of Interventional cardiology at the Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai in Nov 2004.                
  Being involved in this prestigious project right from the inception, he was chosen as the principal investigator for the only out of  US center for the ongoing multicenteric US-FDA trial with this Robotic arm. In addition to 5 major centers in the US, his hospital in Mumbai, India was the only other center outside US to conduct this study. Last month (May,2007) he did 11 angioplasties with 100% success using this robotic arm for the first time in Asia as a part of this multicenteric trial.

On completion of this study, in the very near future, the use of this robotic arm can benefit in the following ways:

1. Accurate placement of stents with 0.5mm precision, a big advantage to the patient,
2. Since the doctor(operator) will perform and guide the robotic arm with the help of joy stick from a remote distance, the operator will not be exposed to hazardous x-rays that they are continuously exposed to in routine practice while performing manually,
3. It is a matter of connectivity—an operation can soon be conducted from a different city. This will make technology reach remote areas with experts sitting in different far off location.

Some of the  achievements by Dr Ganesh Kumar:

• Best Resident in the Dept. of Internal Medicine during 3 years residency training  for MD in Internal Medicine at KEM hospital.
• DP Basu Award for the best paper ‘Newer Observations in Idiopathic Left ventricle Outflow Tract Tachycardia’ presented (joint presentation) at the 53rd annual CSI conference, Hyderabad, Dec-2001.
• ' The Dr. IVAN PINTO GOLD MEDAL' was awarded in the D.M examination in the discipline of Cardiology by the University of Bombay.
• Identified and reported the first case of familial Mediterranean fever in India in 1996-97.
• Number of national and international scientific publications  to his credit.
• First in the world to be a part of the team to use robotics in performing angioplasties.
• In June 2007, IES proposed to confer the ‘BHARTIYA SHIROMANI PURASKAR’ and ‘gold medal’ for enhancing the image of India.