Dr. Pramod Kumar Acharya is a Bhubaneswar-based Cardiologist with over four decades of experience in his profession, having started his career way back in 1970 with the peripheral services of the state government of Orissa. Currently, he practises in Bhubaneswar at his clinic in Nagapalli and at the Ayush Hospital in Bhoi Nagar. He is also Senior Consultant Cardiologist to Neelachal Hospital, and to State Bank of India as well.

After clearing the DM (Cardiology) examination from GSVM Medical College in Kanpur in 1980, Dr. Acharya started out in the field of clinical cardiology, which was a nascent subject at the time. As there were no facilities for interventional cardiology back then, he was instrumental in establishing the cardiology department at Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswar (a state headquarter government hospital), where he was stationed until 2002. He was the Chief Medical Officer at the hospital from 2000 to 2002.

During the course of his service, Dr. Pramod Acharya was sponsored by the World Health Organization as a WHO Fellow to travel to USA for training on preventive cardiology, where he was associated with the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. He also spent time at the Minnesota Lung Center and Boston University. He was then posted as the Director of Health Services, Orissa from June 2002 to October 2002, before he was attached to the Kalinga Hospital and the SUM Hospital in Bhubaneswar as Consultant Cardiologist. Dr. Acharya was also associated as Clinical Tutor in Medicine at the MKCG Medical College, Berhampur.

Dr. Acharya has strong administrative skills too. He organised all the state API conferences and CMEs at Bhubaneswar between 1984 and 2000. He also organised four state (Orissa Chapter) CSI conferences and the national RSSDI conference in 1999. As a Director of Health Services of Orissa state, he has travelled to most district headquarters, during which time he updated local physicians on developments in preventive cardiology.