Dr. Ashok Seth
Specialist: Cardiac Surgery
Experience: 35+ years of experience
Hospital: Fortis Escort Heart Institute, New Delhi
Brief About Doctor:
- Dr Ashok Seth is presently the Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and the Chairman of Cardiology Council, Fortis Group of Hospitals.
- Dr Seth has led the field of Interventional Cardiology for the last 30-years and has contributed extensively to the development, scientific progress and education in Interventional Cardiology in India and across the world.
- Over the past 30-years, he has pioneered numerous angioplasty techniques for India and Asia Pacific region 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).
Special Areas of Interest:
- Angioplasty techniques
- Directional Atherectomy,
- Angioscopy,
- Stents,
- Thrombectomy devices and Drug Eluting Stents,
- Use of Impella heart support device failing heart,
- Bioabsorbable Stents and TAVI
List of treatments:
- AICD Implantation Treatment
- Angiography
- ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
- Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
- Closure of defects like ASD VSD
Awards and Honors:
- Dr Seth has been honored with the prestigious National award of Padma Bhushan & Padma Shri Award by the President of India.He is the First Cardiologist from Asia to be elected on the Board of Governors of Society of Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention (USA).
- Padma Shri, awarded by the President of India
- Padma Bhushan award by the President of India
- Doctor of the Year Award – Escorts
- Board of Governors of Society of Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention (USA)
- “Lifetime Achievement Award” for outstanding contribution in the field of Clinical & Preventive Cardiology in the World
- He also was one of the youngest overseas doctors to be awarded Fellowship of all the three Royal Colleges of London, Edinburgh & Ireland.
Educations & Training:
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.),
- J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1978.
- Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Banaras Hindu University, India, 1998
- Doctor of Science (D.Sc) Honoris Causa, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), India, 2012.
- 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.
- FRCP, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians , London,
- MRCP, Member of the Royal College of Physicians , U.K.
- Fellowship, U.S.A.
