The Department of Cardiology at AIIMS was established under the leadership of Prof. Sujoy B. Roy. The department has developed excellent facilities for clinical care and has fully developed facilities for adult and pediatric interventions including coronary interventions, valvuloplasty, device closure of congenital shunts and electrophysiology services (including radiofrequency ablation, pacemaker, bi-ventricular pacemaker and cardioverter defibrillator implantation). Laboratory testing facilities include treadmill testing, holter recording, echocardiography (including transthoracic, transesophageal, 3-D and fetal echocardiography), Tilt testing for syncope and electrophysiology testing including CARTO system mapping. The department has done pioneering work in the field of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease including juvenile mitral stenosis, coronary artery disease including angioplasties, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies and congenital heart diseases.
Following are the names of the Heads of the Department of Cardiology since its inception:
Prof. Sujoy B Roy
Prof. Madan Lal Bhatia
Prof. Rajan Tandon
Prof. Harbans Singh Wasir
Prof. Subhash Chand Manchanda
Prof.Kewal Krishan Talwar
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy
Prof. Vinay Kumar Bahl (Present Head of the Department)
Contributions
Contributions
The faculty of the Department has been participating in Community health camps frequently.
Dr. Usha Kiran participated in 4 Health Awareness campaigns from Kanya Kumari to Delhi, Delhi to Punjab, Kashmir to Chandigarh and 2 Stop Smoking campaigns and organized 2 Headache relief camps.
Dr. Usha Kiran participated in 67 National Health Melas organized by Heart Care Foundation and Medical Wing of Rajasthan Yoga Education and Research Foundation.
Dr. Usha Kiran was invited in Dhaka for introducing spirituality and Yoga in the field of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
Dr. Usha Kiran has delivered Public talks on the topic “Stress Management, raising self esteem, Positive Thinking for patients undergoing heart surgery”.
Dr. Poonam participated in Charitable Health Camps. (Rotary & Lions Club) and gives charitable health services at Ram Memorial Clinic, Madhuban Delhi and participates in school activities of "Bal Kalyan Kendra" at Noida.
Star News Coverage of the Relaxation and Meditation programme for Headache relief and Pain Management which is a part of the research conducted by Dr. Usha Kiran with Neurology Department.
Stress management and Meditation Clinic for Patients and their attendants in the CT5 Ward for last 10 years.
USA – Dr. Sanjeet Narang (Harward Medical School), Dr. Anshuman.
United Kingdom – Dr. Anand Gore, Dr. Rakesh Tondon, Dr. Santosh Mehrothra,Dr. Wali, Dr. Praveen Kalia.
Canada – Dr. Achal Dhir
Middle East – Dr. Dilip Saxena, Dr. SC Kale, Dr. Manoj Sahoo, DR. BH Rao, Dr. Aparna Juneja.
Australia – Dr. Virgina, Dr. Shashikant.
Muscat, UAE - Dr. Swatantra Mishra
National
Escorts/Apollo – Dr. Yatin Mehta, Dr. Karlekar, Dr. Rajeev Juneja, Dr. Sameer Girotra, Dr. Ajmer Singh, Dr. Ashutosh Sharma, Dr. Rawat, Dr. Rajesh Chand, Dr. Ritesh Arora, Dr. Pankaj Ingole,
Max - Dr. Neeraj Kumar.
Fortis – Dr. M. Sahoo, Dr. Vishal, Dr. Naresh Aggarwal
Batra Hospital – Dr. Praveen Saxena
Metro – Dr.Amit Kumar, Dr. Ashu Jain
Raipur Escorts – Dr. Anil Kumar.
Nizam Institute of Medical Science – Dr. R. Gopinath
Udaipur Medical College – Dr. Ashish Sood
LHMC- Dr. Usha Saha, Dr. Aruna Jain
Raipur Medical College – Dr. Prathibha Jain
SMS Jaipur – Dr. Rajni Mathur, Dr.Harish Khanna
CNC AIIMS – Dr. Minati C, Dr. S.N.Das, Dr. Parag G & Dr. Vishwas Malik.
