Dr. Gaurav Kumar — Senior Consultant in Delhi NCR

Dr. Gaurav Kumar is a Senior Consultant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi NCR, with more than 27 years of experience. His record lists pediatric cardiac surgery, cardiac surgery and pediatric cardiology.

His procedure list runs the full span of congenital heart work. ASD and VSD closure are listed both surgically and by device, so the same team can choose between opening the chest and passing a catheter. TOF repair and the arterial switch operation are the two major corrections performed in infancy. The Glenn and Fontan procedures are the staged route used when a child has one functional ventricle instead of two. PDA device closure, balloon pulmonary valvotomy and pediatric echocardiography complete the list.

His qualifications are MBBS, MS in general surgery, DNB in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, FRCS-CTh in cardiothoracic surgery from England, a fellowship in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery taken in Australia, and an MBA. He practises at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.

Much of his career was spent in military service. The General Officer Commanding Medal was conferred on him three times: in 1998 for medical care delivered to soldiers and civilians in the Western Sector, and in 2004 and again in 2005 for surgical care provided to soldiers in the Eastern Sector.

His published work is co-authored across specialties, including a case report on single atrium and ventricle physiology with bilateral cleft lip and palate, a comparison of airway devices in children, a paper on hypercholesterolemia in a child, and work on aspergilloma in pulmonary hydatid disease.