DM - Cardiology from King George Medical College,Lucknow |Max Super Speciality Hospital, Bathinda
About Dr. Nishith Chandra
He is Director Coronary Imaging with keen interest in Coronary OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography).
He has been at Fortis for last 26 years.
He is the former Head of Department of Cardiology at Noida Branch of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, and has administrative and clinical responsibilities.
He has been actively involved in the field of Interventional Cardiology for more than 21 years.
As an accomplished interventional cardiologist, he is very experienced at treating patients with complex coronary interventions including Rot ablation, Carotid Interventions, Balloon Valvotomies and Peripheral Vascular Interventions.
He has been instrumental in setting up the highly acclaimed Air Ambulance Unit of Escorts Heart Institute that has enabled the transportation of more than 300 critically sick patients from all over India and neighboring countries.
He has been the in-charge of the Emergency and Heart Command Centre of Escorts Heart Institute, for more than two decades.
He has a keen interest in medical informatics and electronic medical records and is involved in digitizing the cath lab processes.
He has authored many publications in peer reviewed national and international journals and has written chapters in many books
Fellow - Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, USA
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Education
DM - Cardiology from King George Medical College,Lucknow