Interventional cardiologist Dinar Shukla, MD, has lost his bid to return to work at Health Sciences North, an academic hospital in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, after an appeals board ruled that his behavior was disruptive and inexplicable. The boards final decision is now available in full, providing a detailed look at a controversy that went on for several years.

CTV News reported on the appeal boards decision first, noting that things began in 2014, when Shukla helped develop the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program at Health Sciences North (HSN).

Almost immediately, Shukla began having regular problems with his fellow cardiologists. This would eventually lead to another physician being put in charge of the hospitals TAVR team. The choice led to a schism of sorts in the hospitals cardiology department; doctors on Shuklas side vs. doctors who were not on his side. As detailed in the board's decision, the doctors who supported Shukla referred to themselves as Concerned Cardiologists.

Issues at the hospital continued to get worse and worse as time went on. Shukla accused one colleague of performing a TAVR procedure without the required oversight, for instance, though other members of the TAVR team said this was not true. Shukla also said he had to step up and save a patient due to complications other cardiologists could not addressthat claim was also refuted by his colleagues as well,

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Cardiologist at heart of TAVR controversy loses hospital privileges due to 'disruptive,' 'inexplicable' behavior - Cardiovascular Business