Dr Ashok Seth is an indian interventional Cardiologist credited with the performance of over 50,000 Angiograms and 20,000 Angioplasties, which has been included in the Limea Book of Records. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Ireland and serves as the chief cardiologist, holding the chairs of the department of cardiovascular sciences and cardiology council at Fortis Healthcare. He is the first cardiologist in the Asia Pacific region to perform an Angioscopy and Directional Atherectomy.

HIS Contribution to Healthcare Landscape in India ;

He has led the field of Interventional Cardiology for the last 32-years, contributing extensively to the development, scientific progress and education in this field. He pioneered numerous angioplasty techniques for India and the Asia Pacific 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), Mitra Clip Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair, Intravascular Coronary Lithotripsy (Shockwave). His contribution to the landscape of cardiology in India is immense.

Change-Making Positions Held ;

* A few in the world to perform Percutaneous Myocardial Laser

Revascularization.

* Founder/Course Director of five major National & International Angioplasty

Teaching Courses in India.

* He has over 350-publications to his credit in Indian and International medical journals.

Laurels Brought to Dr Ashok Seth ;

* Conferred Padma Shri by Government of India in 2003.

* Conferred Padma Bhushan Award by Government of India in 2015.

* President, Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology since 2019.

# Youngest Doctor to have conferred with the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from BHU.

* Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

* 20th Century Award for Achievement of International Biographical Centre, Cambridge.

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi: Cardiac Care Par Excellence ;

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has been established as one of the pioneers in the field of cardiac care under the astute leadership of Dr Seth. Its path-breaking services to heart patients are commendable.