Dr. Ashok Seth

Dr. Ashok Seth is Asia's most celebrated interventional cardiologist, a physician whose extraordinary career at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi has created a legacy of pioneering innovation and unparalleled clinical excellence with few parallels in global cardiology. As Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute – the largest dedicated private cardiac hospital in Asia-Pacific – he has led a programme that has fundamentally reshaped interventional cardiac care in India and across the region. Dr. Seth completed his MBBS, MD and DM in Cardiology before undertaking a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology in the United States, training at one of America's foremost cardiac centres. His US training provided the foundation for a career of continuous innovation in percutaneous coronary intervention and structural heart disease that has produced landmark clinical firsts across four decades. Over his career Dr. Seth has performed over 50,000 coronary angiograms and angioplasty procedures – a volume matched by very few interventional cardiologists globally. He is widely credited as the pioneer of robotic coronary angioplasty in India, introducing the CorPath robotic system to Indian catheterisation laboratories and enabling greater precision in coronary stent deployment with reduced operator radiation exposure. He also introduced bioresorbable vascular scaffolds to India – implants that dissolve completely within two to three years, eliminating long-term stent complications for selected patients. His complex PCI expertise encompasses the most challenging coronary anatomy: chronic total occlusions, left main disease, severely calcified vessels requiring rotational atherectomy, multi-vessel disease and in-stent restenosis. He uses IVUS, OCT and FFR to guide complex interventions with precision. Fortis Escorts Heart Institute's 10 state-of-the-art catheterisation laboratories support this high-volume complex work 24 hours a day. Dr. Seth is equally accomplished in cardiac electrophysiology and device therapy – pacemaker implantation, ICD therapy, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and complex ablation for arrhythmia. In structural heart disease he participates in TAVI and other minimally invasive structural interventions. A recipient of the Padma Bhushan 2015 – India's third highest civilian honour – and the Asian Interventional Cardiology Award, he is Past President of the Cardiological Society of India and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is regular faculty at ACC, ESC, TCT and EuroPCR and has mentored generations of Indian interventional cardiologists. For patients requiring the most demanding coronary or structural heart interventions in Delhi NCR, Dr. Ashok Seth at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute represents the very pinnacle of interventional cardiology expertise.