Dr. Ashok Seth- famous cardiac surgeons of India
Qualification:
- MBBS (J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1978)
- MD
- FRCP
- MRCP
- Fellowship
Brief Profile:
Dr. Ashok Seth is one of the famous cardiac surgeons of India. Internationally He is famous for his contribution to the interventional cardiology field. Now he is the Head of Cardiology Council of Fortis Group of Hospitals and Chairman of Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi. For Cardiology, he is on many international committees. He has been joined with the team involved in the development of angioplasty techniques and Bioresorbable Scaffold Stent such as Angioscopy, Thrombectomy devices, Stents, and Drug-Eluting Stents, etc. Dr. Seth is the 1st from Asia who selected on the Board of Governors of the Society of Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention, the official professional and regulatory body of interventional cardiologists.
Highlights:
- Dr. Ashok Seth is one of the most respected & coveted an interventional cardiologist in India.
- With a thriving experience of over 32 years, he is renowned for performing over 50,000 angiograms and 20,000 angioplasties.
- He has been featured in the “LIMCA” Book of records for performing one of the highest numbers of angiographies and angioplasties in the world.
- Dr. Seth is the first cardiologist in the Asia Pacific region to perform an Angioscopy and directional Atherectomy.
- He is also counted amongst the few cardiologists in the world to perform the procedure – Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Revascularization
- Dr. Seth is one of the youngest peopleS to be honored with Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) honouris Causa by Banaras Hindu University.
- He also was one of the youngest overseas doctors to be awarded Fellowship of all the three Royal Colleges of London, Edinburgh & Ireland.
- Dr. Seth has been honored with the prestigious National award of “Padma Bhushan” and “Padma Shri” Award by the President of India.
- He is the First Cardiologist from Asia to be elected on the Board of Governors of the Society of Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention (USA).
- Dr. Seth has successfully trained over 350 cardiologists in India and abroad and has also performed demonstrations on advanced angioplasty techniques at over 400 international conferences and seminars in various Asia Pacific Countries.
- He has more than 250 publications to his credit in various prestigious journals nationally & internationally.
- He has his articles in renowned print media like Economic Times, Times of India.
- Mason Sones Award- SCAI (USA), 2010
- National Award of Republic of Spain
- He has published more than 250 papers in national and international journals
- His name is recorded in the book The ‘LIMCA’ for one of the highest numbers of angiographies (50,000) and angioplasties (20,000) in the whole world.
Hospital Website: https://www.fortisescorts.in/