Dr. Ajay Kaul — Chairman in Delhi NCR

Dr. Ajay Kaul is Chairman of Cardiac Sciences at Fortis Hospital, Noida, in Delhi NCR, with more than 38 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with paediatric cardiac surgery.

His list covers coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve repair and replacement, double valve replacement and multiple valve surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, heart transplant surgery and combined heart-lung transplantation.

After MBBS, an MS in general surgery and the MCh in cardiothoracic surgery, both of his fellowships were taken in Germany: heart and lung transplant at Hannover Medical School, and minimally invasive cardiac surgery at the Leipzig Heart Centre. Those two centres correspond directly to the two ends of his list, the transplant work and the small-incision work.

His record names four areas in which he is recognised. He is acknowledged for performing one of the highest numbers of TAVR procedures in the region, aortic valve replacement carried out without open heart surgery; for expertise in total arterial coronary bypass surgery, in which the grafts are taken from arteries rather than veins; and for paediatric cardiac surgery and valve repairs. His publications related to TAVR are noted as among the highest volume contributions in that area.

Valve repair rather than replacement, and arterial rather than venous grafts, are both choices that aim at durability, and both appear on the same record as a high-volume transcatheter practice.

He is recognised as one of the top cardiac surgeons in the country and chairs cardiac sciences at Fortis Hospital in Noida.