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.