General Info

Dr Tamboli graduated from medical school in 1982 at the age of 21 from the University of Poona in India. He stood first in Internal Medicine in the graduating class amongst both medical schools of the University. He subsequently completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at the University of Illinois’s Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago in 1988 and got board certified in Internal Medicine. Thereafter, he completed his Cardiovascular Diseases fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals’ in Milwaukee and became board certified in Cardiovascular Diseases. He then was invited to stay on to continue as an Interventional Cardiology and Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin in 1990. In 1991, he was appointed Director of Interventional Cardiology at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia and was Assistant Professor of Cardiology in charge of Invasive cardiology. He then moved to Tampa in 1992 joining Bay Area Cardiology where he worked for 28 years as a senior partner leaving that practice in August 2020. In 1999, he was board certified in newly introduced Interventional Cardiology boards with the very first group in the world to be certified in that specialty. Since his initial board exams, he has successfully retaken the Cardiovascular Board and Interventional Cardiology Board every 10 years. He is a pioneer in coronary interventions in the Tampa Bay area having been involved in placing the very first heart stent in 1993 and teaching other cardiologists as a national proctor to do the same thereafter. In 2003 he also placed the first currently used medicated heart stent in Hillsborough county. In addition, he pioneered the open of blocked heart stents with invasive radiation therapy in 1998. The first peripheral intervention in a cardiac catheterization lab in the county was performed by him in 1992. He has continued to be involved in and has enjoyed seeing the evolution of complex coronary interventions and endovascular procedures