DR ASHOK SETH  – BEST INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGIST DOCTOR IN INDIA

• Dr.Ashok Seth most renowned cardiologist in India and presently working as a  Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi and Head, Cardiology Council of Fortis Group of Hospitals.
• Dr. Ashok Seth has very big contributions in the field of Cardiology, especially Interventional Cardiology, Structural Heart Diseases, Endovascular Interventions, and Device Implantation, Angioplasties, Rotablation, IVC Filter placement. 
• He has been recognized extensively in India as well as across the world in numerous angioplasty techniques Directional Atherectomy, Angioscopy, Stents, Thrombectomy devices and Drug-Eluting Stents, use of Impella heart support device failing heart, Bioabsorbable Stents and TAVI and implemented it successfully both in India and other regions in the Asia Pacific. He has performed over 50,000 angiograms and 20,000 angioplasties, which has been included in the Limca Book of Records.
• Dr.Ashok Seth has been the President of the Cardiological Society of India and Vice President of the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology. He was elected Board of Trustee of SCAI (USA) for the period 2007-2010 and is presently a member of the SCAI Nominating Committee and Voting Selector of the MSCAI Nominating Committee.

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1978.
• M.R.C.P, Royal College of Physicians U.K., 1984.
• F.R.C.P,  Royal College of Physicians, London, 1995

Experience:

•   1988 to 2004 worked at Escorts Heart Institute (present-day Fortis Healthcare), New Delhi, India.
• 2004 to 2008 worked at Max Heath care, New Delhi, India.
• 2008 to till now he is an as the chief cardiologist and the chairman of its Cardiac Sciences Division, Science at Fortis Escort Institute, New Delhi, India .

Fellowship / Membership:

• Member of the Royal College of Physicians (M.R.C.P.), U.K., 1984.
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians (M.R.C.P.), Ireland, 1986
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (F.R.C.P.), Edinburgh, 1995
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (F.R.C.P.), Ireland, 1995
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (F.R.C.P.), London, 1995
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (F.A.C.C.), 1995
• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (F.E.S.C.), 2013.
• Fellow of the Society of Cardiac Angiography & Intervention (F.S.C.A.I.), U.S.A., 1995
• Fellow of the International Medical Sciences Academy (F.I.M.S.A.), 1998
• Fellow of the Cardiological Society of India (F.C.S.I.), 2011.
• Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Banaras Hindu University, India, 1998
• Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Tirthankar Mahavir University, Moradabad, India, 2012.
• Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) Honoris Causa, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India, 2012.
• Doctor of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), India, 2012.

Awards and achievements:

• Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal (2000 onwards).
• Medical College, Raipur (2001 onwards)
• Medical College, Bilaspur (2001 onwards)
• Padmashree Dr.D Y Patil University (2008 onwards)
• Bangladesh Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (1998 onwards)
• Honourary National Professor
• Annual Course on Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of India, (1996 onwards) "Dudley" Visiting the Professor University of Birmingham, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, U.K (1995)

 

Specialisation:

Cardiology, IVC Filter placement, EVAR, TEVAR, Permanent Pacemaker Implantation, Angina, Holter, Arrhythmia, Hypertension, Heart Failure, Pacemaker, Coronary Artery, Electrophysiology, Valve Heart Disease, Strain Rate Imaging, Ambulatory BP Monitoring, PH (Pulmonary Hypertension), Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT), Chest Wall Tumors and Chest Wall Reconstruction.