Dr. Ashok Seth
Specialist: Cardiac Surgery
Experience: 35+ years of experience
Hospital: Fortis Escort Heart Institute, New Delhi
About doctor:
- Dr Ashok Seth is presently the Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and therefore the Chairman of the cardiology Council, Fortis cluster of Hospitals.
- Dr. Seth has led the field of Interventional cardiology for the last 30-years and has contributed extensively to the event, scientific progress and education in Interventional cardiology in India and across the globe.
- Over the past 30-years, he has pioneered numerous operation techniques for India and Asia Pacific region like Directional Atherectomy, Angioscopy, Stents, cutting out devices & Drug-Eluting Stents, use of Impella heart support device failing heart, Bioabsorbable Stents and Transcatheter semilunar valve Implantation (TAVI).
- With a thriving expertise of over thirty years, he’s illustrious for activity over 50,000 angiograms and 20,000 angioplasties.
- He has been featured within the “LIMCA” Book of records for activity one in all the best numbers of angiograms and angioplasties within the world.
- Dr Seth is that the 1st cardiologist in the Asia Pacific region to perform associate degree Angioscopy and directional Atherectomy.
- He is additionally counted amongst the few cardiologists within the world to perform the procedure – transcutaneous heart muscle optical maser Revascularization.
- Dr Seth is one in all the youngest folks to be honored with the academic degree of Science (D.Sc.) honoris suit by Banaras Hindu University.
- Dr Seth has been honored with the distinguished 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 Society of internal organ Angiograms and Intervention (USA).
- He is associate degree acclaimed teacher and has trained over 500-cardiologists of India and abroad in advanced techniques of angioplasty.
Speciality Interest:
- Thrombectomy devices and Drug Eluting Stents,
- Use of Impella heart support device for failing heart,
- Bioabsorbable Stents and TAVI
- Angioplasty techniques
- Directional Atherectomy,
- Angioscopy,
- Stents,
List of treatments:
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
- Biventricular Pacing
- AICD
- PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
- Coronary Angiogram
- PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
- Coronary Angioplasty
- Aortic Stent Grafting
- EPS-Electrophysiological
Education:
- 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.
