Dr. Kewal Kishan Talwar Best Cardiologist In India

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.

Qualifications

• MBBS from Punjab University in 1973
• MS from P.G.I.M.E.R in 1976
• DM (Cardiology) from P.G.I.M.E.R in 1989
• F.A.M.S
• F.I.N.A
• F.A.C.C

Experience

• 45 + years of experience in Cardiology medicine.
• Performed the first implantation of Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy in South Asia
• developed Heart failure & Heart transplant program at AIIMS

Awards

• Patron of the Heart Rhythm Society of India and President of the Heart Failure Society of India (2009-2012)
• President of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS – 2009-2012).
• President, International Society of Heart Research (Indian Section).
• Hon Advisor to the Government of Punjab on Health and Medical Education.
• Chairman, Board of Management, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot. Chairman, Board of Governors, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research, Chandigarh (NITTTR)
• Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (IISER).

Fellowship/ Membership

• Member, Institute Body, Sree Chitra Institute of Medical Sciences (SCIMS), Thiruvananthapuram,
• Member Jawahar Lal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondichary
• Member All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
• Member, Punjab Governance Reforms Commission (PGRC) and the Chairman, Task Group on Health and Medical Education of PGRC, Chandigarh.
• DMC

Specialization

• Cardiology Medicine
• Heart Transplant
• Heart failure treatment