Dr. Nikhil Kumar — Senior Director in Delhi NCR

Dr. Nikhil Kumar is Senior Director at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute in the Delhi NCR, with more than 39 years of experience across cardiology and interventional cardiology.

His list covers three distinct kinds of catheter work. Coronary intervention includes angiography, angioplasty, complex angioplasty and CTO angioplasty. Device work covers pacemaker, ICD and CRT or CRT-D implantation. Congenital and structural work covers ASD, VSD and PDA device closure together with TAVI or TAVR. He also manages coronary artery disease and valvular heart disease, and provides preventive cardiology care.

He holds an MBBS, an MD in general medicine and a DM in cardiology.

His career began in the army and is unusual in that respect. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Cardiology at Army Hospital Research and Referral in New Delhi, and from that post received two service commendations: the General Officer Commanding in Chief's Commendation for meritorious service in 2001 and the Chief of Army Staff's Commendation in 2006.

He afterwards moved into the private sector as Director of Cardiology for the Metro Group of Hospitals in New Delhi, then Director of Cardiology at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurgaon, and now holds his senior director post at Fortis Hospital in the same city.

Taken together the record describes a cardiologist whose academic and clinical standing was built in military service before moving to lead cardiology departments across three private hospital groups.