Doctors

Brief Profile:

Dr Ashok Seth is Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, Chairman of Fortis Healthcare Medical Council, and Adjunct Professor of Cardiology at JN Medical College (Aligarh Muslim University) and National Board of Examinations. Dr Seth has led the field of Interventional Cardiology for last 32-years and has contributed extensively to the development, scientific progress and education in this field and pioneered numerous angioplasty techniques for India and Asia Pacific like Directional Atherectomy, Angioscopy, Stents, Thrombectomy devices & Drug Eluting Stents, use of Impella heart support device failing heart, Bioabsorbable Stents and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), Mitra Clip Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair, Intravascular Coronary Lithotripsy (Shockwave). One of the highest angiographies and angioplasties recognized by Limca Book of Records.

He is the President - Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC), Past President- Cardiological Society of India amd Past Vice President – Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology.

He is an acclaimed teacher and has trained more than 500-cardiologists of India and abroad in advanced techniques of angioplasty.

Education and Training:

 (M.B.B.S.- J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1979

Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Banaras Hindu University, India, 1998

Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, India, 2012.

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) Honoris Causa, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India, 2012.

Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), India, 2012.

Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, 2016.

Expertise:

Directional Atherectomy

Angioscopy

Stents

Thrombectomy

Drug Eluting Stents

Bioabsorbable Stents

TAVI

Experience:

*Chairman Interventional Cardiology Department

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla Road, New Delhi

Honorary Professor of Cardiology

Gandhi Medical College, 2000- 2001

Current Honorary Professor of

Cardiology at the Medical College, 2001

Present Honorary Professor of Cardiology

 Dr DY Patil University, 2008

Honorary Professor of Cardiology 

Bangladesh Medical College, Bangladesh

Honorary Professor of Cardiology,

Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of India

Visiting Professor of Cardiology

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Chief Cardiology

Max Healthcare, Delhi, 2005- 2007

Membership and Fellowship:

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.

Master Fellows of Society of Cardiac Angiography & Intervention (MSCAI), U.S.A., 2017.

Awards and Achievements:

Padma Shri Awarded by the President of India - 2003

Doctor of the Year Award – Escorts

Padma Bhushan award by the President of India – 2015

“Lifetime Achievement Award” Interventional Cardiology’ by Chien Foundation (Singapore)

Board of Governors of Society of Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention (USA)

National Award of Republic of Spain “Crus Officer with Insignia Order of Isabella the Catholic”.

B.C.Roy National Award’ for the most ‘Eminent Medical Person’ by the President of India -2017