Dr. Kewal Kishan Talwar is a Padmabhushan Prize winner and a Renowned cardiologist and former chairperson of the Medical Council of India. He was the head of the Department of Cardiology AIIMS, New Delhi & Director of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. Before Joining PSRI Hospital, he was Chairman Cardiology Dept. in Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, for 6+ years. He is credited with having performed the first implantation of Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy in South Asia & has been featured in the LIMCA Book of World Records in 1997. He is also credited with a curtain-raiser to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in India and is included in the LIMCA Book of World Records.
He has been awarded many awards, including the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian honor in the category of medicine. He was a former president of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) and an associate of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). The Government of India awarded him the highest civilian award, the third in the form of Padma Bhushan, in 2006 for his contribution to medicine.
His research on Cardiac arrhythmias has helped establish it as a specialty in India and helped establish the Heart failure & Heart transplant program at AIIMS. His research has been documented through the use of a variety of publications comprising 270 and 240 abstracts that have been published in numerous peer-reviewed medical journals. He also has contributed 15 chapters to different medical textbooks.
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