Written by INDUS MED NEWS 23 February, 2026 8:41 pm .
INDUSEM Leader Dr Naman Agrawal, Scientific Chair of EMINDIA, spearheaded the successful 4th Annual Cardiovascular Emergencies Symposium (ACES26), held from 6–8 February 2026 at AIIMS Raipur, bringing together clinicians, educators, and leaders in emergency medicine from across India and abroad.
ACES26, India’s only national conference dedicated exclusively to cardiovascular emergencies, witnessed participation of over 150 learners and educators from more than five states, including physicians, residents, nurses, and paramedical professionals. The conference was organised by the Department of Trauma & Emergency Medicine, AIIMS Raipur, in collaboration with the Emergency Medicine Association of India.
About ACES
The Annual Cardiovascular Emergencies Symposium (ACES) is a national academic initiative focused exclusively on cardiovascular emergencies, emphasising ECG interpretation, bedside echocardiography, rapid decision-making, and systems-based emergency care. Now in its fourth edition, ACES serves as a collaborative platform for clinicians, educators, and researchers committed to improving outcomes in acute cardiac care.
Vision-Driven Academic Leadership
Under the academic chairmanship of Dr DK Tripathy, HOD, Department of Trauma & Emergency Medicine, AIIMS Raipur, ACES26 was conceptualised as a platform to move beyond conventional conferences and build a high-quality, evidence-driven, interconnected, and technology-enabled ecosystem for cardiovascular emergency care in India.
Dr Agrawal articulated a forward-looking vision that integrates standardised emergency cardiology training, national academic collaboration, data-driven research, and innovative educational formats, with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes in time-critical cardiac emergencies across diverse healthcare settings.
The conference was inaugurated by Lt Gen Ashok Jindal (Retd.), Executive Director & CEO, AIIMS Raipur, who emphasised the importance of competency-based training in life-threatening emergencies and appreciated the Department of Trauma & Emergency Medicine for consistently creating nationally relevant academic platforms.
National and International Academic Engagement
A major highlight of ACES26 was the keynote address by Dr Sagar Galwankar, President of INDUSEM, who joined from Florida, USA. Addressing the national CME, he spoke on existing gaps and future directions in cardiovascular emergency training in India, reinforcing the need for globally aligned, context-specific emergency care education.
Scientific Programme and Innovation
The three-day programme featured three focused hands-on workshops—Emergency Echocardiography, ECG for Nurses, and India’s first Gamified ECG Workshop—along with a national CME and academic poster presentations. These learner-centric formats, strongly championed by Dr Naman Agrawal and Dr Roshan Mathew, were widely appreciated for their practicality, engagement, and relevance to frontline emergency care.
ACES26 reinforced AIIMS Raipur’s growing role as a national hub for emergency cardiology education and highlighted the emergence of AIIMS Raipur as a key academic leader in emergency medicine, committed to building connected, future-ready systems of cardiovascular emergency care in India.
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About INDUSEM
The INDUSEM mission is to envision and implement the future of Patient Care across the world. The partnership brings together Expert Educators, Inquisitive Innovators and Physicians supporting Safe Patient Care across India, United States and the World. INDUSEM is the Top International Partnership across the World and brings together Institutions, Individuals and Initiatives focused on improving patient care globally. Till date INDUSEM has reached over 50,000 Experts and its reach continues to grow daily. For more information, visit www.indusem.org
About EMA
The Emergency Medicine Association was founded in 2015 during the INDUSEM2015 World Congress of Academic Emergency Medicine in New Delhi. EMA is the Official voice of competent Emergency Experts. Working towards provision of quality emergency care The EMA is an organized Guild of Emergency Leaders in Health and Medicine focused on Developing, Practicing and Progressing Emergency Medicine. EMA has a strong relation with partner organizations, individuals and institutions across the world. The EMA boasts of a strong DNA with its relationships which are geared towards potentiating growth. EMA has the support of the INDO-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative, the Academic College of Emergency Experts in India and the Academic for Clinical Emergency Nursing in India. For More Information: www.emaindia.net
About AIIMS Raipur
AIIMS Raipur is one of the SIX AIIMS healthcare institutes being established by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY). With the aim of correcting regional imbalances in quality tertiary level healthcare in the country, and attaining self sufficiency in graduate and postgraduate medical education and training the PMSSY planned to set up 6 new AIIMS like institutions in underserved areas of the country. For More Information: https://www.aiimsraipur.edu.in/
