Doctors

Brief Profile:

Dr. Z.S. Meharwal is an Executive Director, Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery and is part of the founding team of Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. Dr. Meharwal completed his MBBS, MS (General Surgery) and M.Ch (Cardiothoracic Surgery) from King George’s Medical College, Lucknow. He has worked as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at prestigious King’s College Hospital in London. He has more than 30 years of experience in cardiac surgery with over 30000 surgeries to his credit, including complex heart operations.

He is a pioneer in many new cardiac operations in the country. Dr Meharwal is amongst few cardiac surgeons performing heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices implantation. Dr Meharwal has been actively involved with teaching and training. He is the Programme Director of DNB Cardiothoracic Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. He has trained many cardiac surgeons in India and abroad who are now independent cardiac surgeons at different centres.

Has been invited in national and international meetings as faculty and has published extensively in peer reviewed national and international journals. Dr Meharwal has received many awards including President’s award for his contribution in the field of Cardiac Surgery

Education and Training:

MBBS, King George Medical College, Lucknow, 1982- 1988

MS, King George Medical College, Lucknow, 1989

M.Ch, King George Medical College, Lucknow

MNAMS

Expertise:

• Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.

• Surgery of ascending aortic aneurysms and dissections.

• Off pump coronary artery bypass surgery.

• Valve repair and replacement.

• Major Vascular surgery.

• CABG in patients with poor ventricular function.

• Carotid endarterectomy.

• Surgery for heart failure, including heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices.

Experience:

Executive Director*

Cardiology - Fortis Escorts, Okhla, New Delhi

Consultant - Cardiac Surgeon, King College Hospital, London, UK

Consultant - G B Pant Hospital, Delhi

Consultant - King George Medical College, Lucknow

Membership and Fellowship:

Member - Cardiological Society of India

Member - Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons

Member - Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Member - International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Member - Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Awards and Achievements:

Citation Award by President of India Sri APJ Abdul Kalam on the occasion of International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Meeting - 2002.

Listed in Marquis who is who in the world 2005

Saharanpur Aditya Samman-by Govt of UP for contribution in Medical Field - 2005

Entered into Limca Book of Records-2008 for performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery on 94 year old man who is the oldest patient to undergo CABG