Prof. (Dr.) Ashok SethFRCP, FACC, FESC, MSCAI, FAPSIC, FCSI, D.Sc., D.Litt.

National Honour of PADMA SHRI (2003), PADMA BHUSHAN (2015) and ‘B.C.ROY AWARD’ for ‘Eminent Medical Person’ (2017) by the President of India

Honoured by DOCTORATE FROM SIX PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES in India –BHU, AMU, Amity Univ., TMU, Shiv Nadar Univ., Jamia Millia Univ.

First Indian Interventional Cardiologist to be recognized by the Prestigious Designation of ‘MASTER INTERVENTIONALIST’ of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (MSCAI), 2017

• Chairman, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Fortis Healthcare Medical Council
• ‘Adjunct Professor of Cardiology’of JN Medical College (AMU) & Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Chennai
• Immediate Past President-Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC)
• Past President -Cardiological Society of India (CSI)
• Past Vice President–Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology (APSC)
• ‘Most Glorius Alumini of J N Medical College, AMU for past 50 Years’ at the Golden Jubilee of the College 2012
• Listed in ‘75 Changemakers of Indian Healthcare since Independence (last 75 years)’ by HEAL Foundation 2022
• Listed in ‘Game Changers in Healthcare’ by Outlook 2023
• Numbered at 45 in the ‘100 most Notable Alumini of Aligarh Muslim University over the last 100 years’ by EduRank
• Numbered at 20 in the list of ‘Notable Alumini-Famous Persons of AMU’ by Notes My Foot
• Dr Seth is one of the most internationally recognized, respected and acclaimed interventional cardiologists from India.
• Over the past 40-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), Intravascular Coronary Lithotripsy (Shockwave). One of the highest angiographies and angioplasties recognized by Limca Book of Records.
• Recipient of more than 100 National and International awards including National Award of Republic of Spain “Officer’s Cross Order of Isabella the Catholic” in 2010, ‘Lifetime Achievement in Interventional Cardiology’ Award by Chien Foundation Singapore in 2017, the ‘Golden Pioneer of Interventional Cardiology’ by the Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology in 2011 and ‘Mason Sones Award’ from SCAI (USA) in 2010.
• Founder/Course Director of five major National & International Teaching Courses – India Live, India Valves, CHIP-CTO India, AICT-AsiaPCR and Imaging & Physiology Council of India. He is also Associate Director of TCT Scientific Sessions (USA) and Program Committee Member of EuroPCR.
• Founder Advisory Board Member of several prestigious interventional scientific bodies across the world.
• Lectured at more than 600 national & international meetings and taught complex angioplasty techniques through Live Demonstration at more than 150 national & international meetings around the world.
• On Editorial Board of major scientific journals like Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, Indian Heart Journal and others. Dr Seth has more than 500-publications to his credit in peer reviewed Indian and International medical journals and has chapters in 30-books on Cardiology and has been the Editor of three books in Cardiology.
• Acclaimed teacher and has trained more than 500-cardiologists of India and abroad in advanced techniques of angioplasty.