INTRODUCTION:

Dr. Vijay Kohli is an outstanding cardiovascular surgeon, with wide and varied clinical experience and expertise in different aspects of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. He has collaborated on research on heart failure with Professors Hertzer at the Berlin Heart Institute in Germany and Randas Batista in Brazil. He has worked with Professor George Wiesel Haler at Vienna General Hospital, Austria on implantation of various VADs (Ventricular Assist Devices) and heart transplantation and management of heart failure patients. He has also had the opportunity to work with Professor Vincent Dor on the outcome of Dor’s procedure for ventricular aneurysm repairs and with Prof Antonio Calafiore Chieti, Italy on the principle of septal exclusion technique and repair of the mitral valve in remodelling of the ventricular anatomy. In 2001, he was the first surgeon at Jammu Medical College to conduct a coronary artery bypass. He has worked with Professors Hertzer at the Berlin Heart Institute in Germany and Randas Batista in Brazil on heart failure studies.

Experience

• Principal Consultant at Escort Heart Institute & Research Center 2002-2005.
• Senior consultant at Escort Heart Institute & Research Center 1997-2002.
• Senior Director, Cardiac Surgery at Medanta -The Medicity since 2009.
• Senior Consultant, Cardiovascular Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi 2007-2009.
• Director of Cardiac Surgery at Escort Heart Institute & Research Center 2005-2007.

Memberships

• Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS).

Awards and Recognitions

• Distinguished Services Award for starting the cardiac surgery programme in Jammu Medical College in the year 2001 – 2001.
• Cardiologist Society of India – 2001.
• Achievement Award for starting the cardiac surgery programme in Norvic Hospital in the year 2002. – 2002.
• Medal from the President of India – 2002.