Dr. Aditya Kumar Singh — Director & Unit Head – CTVS (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery) in Delhi NCR

Dr. Aditya Kumar Singh is Director and Unit Head of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in Delhi NCR, with more than 17 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with vascular surgery.

His list covers coronary artery bypass grafting and redo CABG, heart valve repair and replacement, double valve replacement and multiple valve surgery, aortic root replacement, LVAD implantation, TAVI and TAVR, robotic cardiac surgery and minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

He holds an MS in general surgery and the MCh super-specialisation in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, with a further specialisation in minimal invasive cardiac surgery.

Two entries on his record are firsts rather than qualifications, and both concern that specialisation. He performed India's first combined CABG and mitral valve replacement through a single small incision, described on his profile as a landmark achievement in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and he is the inventor of numerous instruments and technologies for cardiac and minimally invasive surgery. Taking two operations that are normally done through a full sternotomy and combining them into one small incision is the kind of step that depends on having the instruments for it, which is where the second entry meets the first.

His hospital record runs through several Delhi cardiac units. He has been senior consultant and head of adult cardiac surgery at Marengo QRG Hospital, consultant in charge and head at Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute in Meerut, and consultant at Fortis Hospital in Shalimar Bagh and Metro Hospital in Lajpat Nagar, before his current unit headship at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital.