Best CABG (High Risk) Doctors in the World

Dr Ashok Seth is one of India's Top Cardiologist and is internationally renowned for his outstanding contribution in the field of interventional cardiology. He is currently the Chairman of Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi and the Head of Cardiology Council of Fortis Group of Hospitals. He has numerous awards and accolades to his credit including national awards like Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, Fellowship from all three Royal College of Physicians, youngest physician to receive Honorary Doctorates from prestigious institutes of India and many more.

Dr Ashok is on various international committees for cardiology and has published over 250 papers in reputed national and international journals. He is a pioneer surgeon and has been associated with the team involved in the development of Bioresorbable Scaffold (BRS) Stent and angioplasty techniques like Directional Atherectomy, Angioscopy, Stents, Thrombectomy devices and Drug-Eluting Stents, etc.

Dr Seth also holds the recognition for being the first from Asia to be elected on the Board of Governors of Society of Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention (USA), the official professional and regulatory body of interventional cardiologists in the USA.

Clinical Focus

• Cardiology, 
• Angioplasty techniques
• Directional Atherectomy, 
• Angioscopy, 
• Stents, 
• Thrombectomy devices and Drug-Eluting Stents, 
• Use of Impella heart support device failing heart,
• Bioabsorbable Stents and TAVI

Awards

• The 'LIMCA' Book of Records - one of the highest numbers of angiographies (50,000) and angioplasties (20,000) in the world.
• National Award of Republic of Spain "Officer's Cross Order of Isabella the Catholic", 2010 
• 'Mason Sones Award' - SCAI (USA), 2010
• Honoured by the Government of India with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award, 2003
• Honoured by the Government of India with Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award, 2015

Clinical Focus

• Expertise in Ablation of various complex arrhythmias
• Three Dimensional Mapping
• Implantation of Pacemakers
• ICDs
• CRT
• CRT D

Awards

• Won Dr. Wazir Gold Medal as Best student for the year from Diplomate of National Board in 2003
• Won Pinnamineni Venkateswara Rao Gold Medal for Best out-going student for the year in 1992-93 from Andhra Pradesh University of Health Sciences.
• Won Outstanding Achievements Felicitation from Indian Council for Human Relations on International Womens Day in 2010

Clinical Focus

• Complex transpositions
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Complex neonatal surgery

Awards

• Secured National Merit Scholarship for the year 1971 ? 1972 for meritorious performance in the Indian School Certificate examination.
• Awarded Ganpatrao Chittre Scholarship for securing second rank in the Inter?Science examination of the Bombay University in April, 1972.
• Awarded Institute Gold Medal for Best Graduate of the year at the MBBS examination in Dec.1977.
• Awarded and delivered Sadasivan Oration at the Annual Conference of the Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeons of India held in Kolkata in Feb, 2011
• Pfizer Postgraduate Medical award, Gold Medal and Scroll of Honour in 1979
• Hira Lal Gold Medal for being the best postgraduate in General Surgery in Dec.1981.
• Recommended for honours at the M.Ch. examination in Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery held in Dec. 1984.
• Started the first dedicated pediatric cardiac program in Northern India at FEHI in 1995
• Awarded Dynamic Indian of the Millenium award by the KG Foundation, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu in August,2009