Dr Z. S. Meharwal is Director and Coordinator of Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. He is part of the founding team of Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. He did his M.B.B.S, M.S (General Surgery) and M.Ch (Cardiothoracic Surgery) from King George Medical College, Lucknow. He has worked as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at prestigious King's College Hospital in London.

• Pioneer In Field Of ‘Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery’in India.
• Beating Heart Coronary Bypass Surgery”In Mumbai. Performed Over “15000” Operations Till Date,
• First to perform and establish open heart surgery in Mumbai and western India.

Area of expertise
Aortic Aneurysm Operations, Complex Heart valve repair and replacement operations.

Work Experience:

• Clinical experience of more than 40 years
• Director, Professor & Head of Department of Cardiology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
• Former Professor & Head, Department of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi

Education & Training:

During his illustrious career, he has to his credit more than 15,000 complex coronary angioplasties. He is at present doing all coronary procedures through radial route. He has done about 40,000 interventional procedures. He is a pioneer in starting primary angioplasty in Punjab, and has performed maximum number of primary angioplasty in this region with minimum Door to Balloon time which is better than any Cardiac Centre, not only in India but anywhere in the world.

Dr. Arup kumar Ghosh is a Consultant in adult cardiac Surgery in our institute. He has vast experience in different spectrum of adult cardiac surgery, he has been working in the specialty for last 20 years. He has 100% survival in coronary artery bypass surgery (99% cases are done off pump and multiple arterial grafts). He also has vast experience in Mitral-Tricuspid surgery and aortic valve replacements.

Work Experience

Work Experience

• Dr. B Ramesh is the leading cardiologist in the country having 25 years of experience.
• He is instrumental in bringing department of Cardiology to world class standards.
• Working in Apollo Hospitals since last Assignment

Dr Ganesh Kumar is working at Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital as a chief of Cardiology since the inception of the cardiac services in 2004.

Dr Parneesh Arora is DM (Cardiology) from prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences and also holds DNB in Cardiology. He has more than 17 years of experience in intervention Cardiology which includes angiography, angioplasty ,pace makers, device implantations etc. His work experience includes stints at some of the best cardiac institutes like AIIMS and Escorts. He has numerous publications in national and international journals.