Fortis Escorts Heart Institute

Dr (Brig) Pankaj Puri is the Director of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Fortis Escorts Liver and Digestive Diseases Institute, Okhla, New Delhi. An Alumnus of Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. Dr Puri completed his MD (Medicine) from Pune University and DM (Gastroenterology) from PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has done fellowship in Liver transplant at London, UK. He was earlier the Head of Department, Gastroenterology and Hepatobiliary Sciences, at the Army Hospital (Research Referral), New Delhi, where he was instrumental in development of a successful liver transplant program. He was formerly Professor of Medicine at Delhi University and has also held the appointment of Professor and Head of Internal Medicine at Armed Forces Medical College Pune. He is served as Governing Council member for Indian National Association for study of Liver and has over 80 publications to his name. Dr Pankaj Puri has two decades of experience in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. His areas of interest include treatment of hepatitis B and C, chronic liver disease, liver transplantation and advanced endoscopic procedures and is an expert in diagnostic and therapeutic Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, ERCP and Liver Transplantation. View Profile

Dr. Viney Jetley is Director of Invasive Cardiology and Electrophysiology at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi. He has the expertise to carry out all kinds of Invasive Cardiac Procedures, such as Angiography, Stenting Rotablation along with all kinds of device implantation including pacemakers, COMBO devices, Electrophysiology & Radiofrequency Ablation. He has also performed numerous paediatric cardiac catheterizations and paediatric interventions including Balloon Atrial Septostomy, Balloon Dilatation of Stenotic Aortic, Mitral and Pulmonary Valves, Coarctation Dilatation/Stenting, and device closure of ASD/VSD/PDA. Dr. Jetley has performed more than 10,000 interventional procedures at various hospitals all over India, including all kinds of complex coronary angioplasties, with excellent outcomes. Dr. Jetley also pioneered the Interventional Electrophysiology programme in the armed forces and is skilled at electrophysiology procedures, including 2D and 3D Electrophysiology and Ablation of both the Supraventricular and Ventricular Tachycardia. He has also performed more than 1000 radiofrequency ablations. View Profile

Dr. Atul Mathur is Executive Director Interventional Cardiology at Fortis Escort Heart Institute, New Delhi. He is a pioneer in the field of both Coronary and Vascular interventions in the Asia Pacific. Apart from complex coronary procedures he is also an expert in aortic stent grafting, carotid stenting, IVC filter placement, peripheral vascular stenting, venous interventions etc. He also performs structural heart interventions like balloon valvotomies, acquired VSD Closures and LAA appendage closures. He conducts conferences and workshops at an international level to train budding interventionists. View Profile

Dr. Chandra, is a director interventional cardiology, at New Delhi's Fortis Escorts Heart Institute Research Centre. He has been at Fortis for last 21 years.Dr. Chandra is the former Head of Department of Cardiology at Noida Branch of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, and has administrative and clinical responsibilities. Dr. Chandra has been actively involved in the field of Interventional Cardiology for more than 21 years. As an accomplished interventional cardiologist, he is very experienced at treating patients with complex coronary interventions including Rotablation, Carotid Interventions, Balloon Valvotomies and Peripheral Vascular Interventions.He has been instrumental in setting up the highly acclaimed Air Ambulance Unit of Escorts Heart Institute that has enabled the transportation of more than 300 critically sick patients from all over India and neighbouring countries. Beside this, Dr. Chandra has been the in-charge of the Emergency and Heart Command Centre of Escorts Heart Institute, for more than two decades.Dr. Chandra also has a keen interest in medical informatics and electronic medical records and is involved in digitizing the cath lab processes.Dr. Chandra has authored many publications in peer reviewed national and international journals and has written chapters in many books. View Profile

Dr. S Radhakrishnan is pioneered Interventional Cardiologist in the filed of congenital & acquired cardiac lesion and he has more than 40 years of experience in the field of pediatric cardiology. He has also worked in Guy's & St. Thomas Trust Department of Pediatric Cardiology , London. Dr. S Radhakrishnan practices at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute Okhla, Delhi. He is offering exemplary are in the field of Cardiology. He has started the procedure of Balloon dilation of the Arterial Septum and PDA coil closure for the first time in India. View Profile

Dr. Vishal Rastogi is a pioneer in the field of Interventional Heart Failure Management. His experience of implanting Impella Left Ventricular Assist Device in critically ill patients is highest among theIndian doctors. Dr. Rastogi is an accomplished interventional cardiologist with vast experience of treating patient with complex coronary intervention including Rotablation, carotid intervention, peripheral vascular intervention and percutaneous aortic valve implantation to name a few. He is national proctor for Rotablation, coronary imaging like IVUS and OCT and for dedicated bifurcation stents. He is also on the Editorial board of Indian Heart Journal. He is actively involved in research and is principal investigator of many interventional and heart failure trial. View Profile

Dr. (Lt Gen) Ajit Singh Narula has over 40 years of Professional Experience in various tertiary care Armed Forces Hospital & Fortis Group of Hospitals. He has been Senior Adviser & consultant in Medicine & Nephrology to the Armed Forces & Professor and HOD at AFMC , Pune. He is a post graduate teacher and examiner in various Medical Universities. He has been bestowed with Academic Awards in the field of Nephrology. He is former Honrary Surgeon to president of India and is a resident of Presidential Awards for exceptionally service to the Nation. View Profile

Dr. Mandhani has a unique experience of working in the best state-run hospital in India, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, where he helped train more than 100 residents to acquire M.Ch. degree and then in the best corporate hospitals in NCR. The strength of his clinical care is his ethical and humane approach to deal with various problems in Urology. His skill sets are unmatched and always come in handy with his scientific reasoning due to his vast contribution in the field of urology. His expertise in robotic surgery (more than 550 cases) is unparalleled and he has been known for managing complex situations emanating from deviant outcomes of surgery done by others. His vast experience in kidney transplant surgery( more than 1000 kidney transplants ) with many modifications has been his force to reckon with. View Profile

Dr Anil Saxena is an internationally acknowledged expert in the field of cardiac arrhythmias and electrophysiology. Since joining Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in 1989, Dr Saxena has been actively involved in setting up the department of Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is one of the pioneers in implantation of ICD and biventricular pacemakers in India and has one of the largest experiences in this field. He has been performing electrophysiological studies and Radio Frequency Catheter Ablation for various complex cardiac arrhythmias for over 25 years, with thousands of successful procedures to his credit. View Profile

Dr. Aparna Jaswal is an acknowledged expert in the field of Cardiac pacing & Electrophysiology including catheter RF Ablation of Complex Arrhymias , ICD Implantation and Biventricular of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi. Since, joining Escorts Hear Institute in 1988, she has been actively involved in the Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology. She has been performing electrophysiological studies and "Radio Frequency Catheter Ablation" for various cardiac arrthymias. She has also received training n Cardiac Electrophysiology at St. Luke's Hospital, Milwaukee, USA. Dr. Jaswal has to her credit 'Certified Cardiac Device Specialist' from IBHRE, HRS. Dr. Aparna Jaswal has many research projects and has been actively participating in National & International Research Trails. She has been invited as a faculty to various national international symposia and workshops. She has to her credit for having been the first electrophysiological to start EP program in Mauritius in November 2010. View Profile

Dr. Peeyush Jain is presently engaged as Director, Non-invasive Cardiology and Head, Department of Preventive Cardiology. After pursuing MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi (1973-1978), Dr. Jain did MD (Medicine) from the same Institute. Further, he did post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiology (DM) from GB Pant Hospital in 1987 and worked at All India Institute of Medical Sciences for some time. Dr. Peeyush Jain is an internationally renowned leading expert in Cholesterol Management, Hypertension, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Nutrition, and long-term care of heart and blood vessel diseases. He joined Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute in 1993 to establish the first Department of Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiology in the country. It was at a time when the concept of preventing heart disease by lifestyle and risk factor management was practically unknown in India. Dr. Peeyush Jain is a regular guest faculty at National and International Conferences in India and abroad. He was Editor in Chief of The Heart of the Matter, a bimonthly journal of Heart and Diabetes Care from 1996 to 2006. Dr. Jain has authored 16 books on Medicine and Health in English and several regional languages of India. One book was also translated in Indonesian language. He has published more than 100 articles in medical and health journals. View Profile

Dr. Praveer Agarwal, Director Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi is a nationally renowned cardiologist who has contributed extensively to the growth, development and training in the field of Interventional Cardiology in India. He is dedicated to provide compassionate and comprehensive treatment with an aim to serve the community at large. He is one of the most versatile interventional cardiologists in India providing round the clock services, including timely management of acute heart attack patients by using various thrombectomy devices at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. He is an expert in treating all types of blockages in coronary arteries using all techniques (Rotational atherectomy, directional atherectomy, all types of Drug Eluting Stents, intravascular ultrasound, pressure wire) depending upon merits of blockages. He is also an expert in treating blockages in peripheral arteries (Carotids, subclavious, iliacs, renals and superficial femoral arteries) and abdominal aortic aneurysm using endovascular stent grafts. Dr. Agarwal has been a distinguished faculty member in various international and national meetings and conferences. He has published approximately 100 articles, reviews and abstracts in various national and international journals. View Profile

Dr. Kaushal Kant Mishra has more than 22 years of rick work experience in Orthopedics, Joint Replacement & Trauma. He has been recognized as the first Orthopedics Surgeon to perform "Uncemented Hip Replacement" in Tanzania. He has performed Hip Replacement on the youngest female in Nigeria. He has done the highest number of hip surgeries old age population between the age of 70 to 107 years. He has performed fastest hip replacement in just 18 minutes which is under process for indexing in record books. Also, he has performed Hip Replacement (Hemiarthroplasty) with just 2 inch skin incision (World's smallest incision) on 92 year old male patient. He has been nominated in " Guinness Book of World Record" for operating Hip Replacement on 107 years old patient in 2006. View Profile

Dr. Nitiraj Oberoi brings to the institution a unique blend of experience & expertise in the specialty of Orthopedics, joint replacement and sports injuries. He carries with him over 29 years of experience in these fields. He is trained at the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical college, New Delhi and The Royal College of Surgeons UK. After completing his training in New Delhi, he proceeded to The United Kingdom & at The Trinity College of Dublin , Ireland where he continued his training under various masters to develop his skills in the specialties hat he offers. After completion of his training other countries, he returned to India and worked in various capacities in leading hospitals in Delhi/ NCR area. View Profile

Dr. Krishna Iyer is one of India's front ranking paediatric cardiac surgeons, recognised for his clinical expertise and wide ranging involvement with cardiac care for children in India and other developing nations, Dr. Iyer initiated the first dedicated paediatric cardiac care program in Northern India , a pioneering initiative, at Escorts Heart Institute Research Centre( now Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute ) in 1995. Under his guidance this paediatric cardiac program has become the benchmark for cardiac care for children for India and its South East Asian neighbours. Dr. Iyer has operated on more than 10,000 babies, children and adults with congenital heart diseases comprising various procedures like arterial switch procedure, double switch operation TAPVC repairs, Fontan and Fontan type procedures, corrections for tetralogy of Fallot, DORV, Truncus etc. Senning operation, conduit repairs and wide range of one stage and multi-stage corrections for complex congenital heart diseases. He has done original work on rapid two-stage arterial switch procedure and performed the first successful rapid two stage arterial switch and double-switch operation in India. His current interests are perfecting complex neonatal cardiac surgery, cardiac surgery in malnourished infants and children, salvaging late presenters of congenital heart disease, and developing cost effective cardiac care for children in developing countries. After basic training, he joined the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at AIIMS and was Additional Professor at the time he moved to Escorts Heart Institute to set up its paediatric cardiac care division. He trained in paediatric and infant cardiac surgery under the guidance of the renowned paediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. R.B.B.Mee as Senior Fellow at the Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne in Australia in 1989. View Profile

Dr. Nitin Rai has done DM(Neurology) from premium institute GB Pant Institute post graadute medical education & research (GIPMER) hospital, New Delhi. He is an experienced Neurologist with special interest in headache, stroke movement, disorder & epilepsy. He has experience in training various type of headaches disorders including management of chronic migraine with botox therapy & greater occipital nerve block & managing trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia. He has managed various patient movement disorder like focal dystonia, hemifacial spasm, blepharospasm with botox therapy. He has presented number of research paper in national conferences and delivered talk in various forum. View Profile

More than 20 years of expertise as a leading Laparoscopic Surgoen with expertise practice and training in Minimal Access, Bariatric & Metabolic ( Surgery for Weight Loss & Diabetes Control) & Gastrointestinal Surgery (Abdominal). With over 22000laproscopic surgeries performed ,he has a strong line of credentials, both as practicing laparoscopic surgoen and academician . His area of practices and expertise include all advanced laparoscopic complex gastrointestinal surgeries and bariatric surgeries. View Profile

Dr. Sanjeev Gulati was previously working as Additional Professor in Nephrology at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, He has also worked as Associate Professor in Pediatric Nephrology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He has special expertise in managing kidney transplants and children with renal diseases and has experience at leading hospitals in UK, Australia and Canada. He played a pivotal role in the Dialysis and Transplant programme at SGPGI, Lucknow which is amongst the largest programmes in the country. He has presented papers at several international and national conferences and published more than 130 scientific papers in indexed journals including NEJM, Kidney International and American Journal of Kidney Diseases. He has also authored authored 20 chapters in textbooks (including the prestigious Oxford Textbook of Nephrology and Comprehensive Pediatric Nephrology) besides numerous guest lectures. He has also written a book on Childhood Renal Diseases. He has received several awards for my original contributions to the field of kidney diseases. His work has received recognition from the Indian Council of Medical Research, Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Indian Society of Nephrology, the Australian College of Pediatrics, Royal college of Pediatrics and Child Health UK Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Japanese Society of Nephrology.He is Vice President of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation and Member Governing Body Indian Society of Nephrology. Nephrology. He is a reviewer for several prestigious journals like Pediatrics, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Pediatric Nephrology and Indian Pediatrics and have had other editorial responsibilities also. He has also written several articles in newspapers and magazines for creating public awareness about kidney related issues View Profile

Dr. Sushil Azad works in Paediatric Cardiology Department at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. IN his 17 years of experience in Paediatric Cardioloy he has done 4000 interventional cardiology procedures on every age of group. The youngest infant he treated in cath lab was 1.5kg preterm who had a complex congenital heart disease. He specializes in dealing with congenital heart disease in all age group. He is a graduate from Pt. B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak & subsequently did his post graduation from Pt. J L N Medical College Raipur. He was instrumental in developing the Pediatric Cardiology Program at Medanta and subsequently establishing the DNA Pediatric Cardiology program at Medanta Gurgaon. He also started the Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation program at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and later established it as the only Centre in North actively doing Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation View Profile

Dr. Vivek Vij is a pioneering liver transplant surgeon credited with developing living donor surgery and standardizing safety protocols to achieve the highest of donor safety since the donor safety profile since the time of its inception in the country. He is the first surgeon from the Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy in 'Liver Transplantation'. He is the founder of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Sciences in Fortis group of Hospitals, starting a highly successful liver transplant program initially at its Noida center and then at Mohali. Dr. Vij and his team have a cumulative experience of performing more than 2500 liver transplants, having performed the majority of them at Fortis Hospital, Noida with a record 97% patient. Dr. Vij has to his credit the Lowest Biliary Complication rate (<6%) in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) worldwide. View Profile