Dr. Nishith Chandra

MD, DM, MBBS

Director – Interventional Cardiology

FACC- Fellow of American College of Cardiology

FESC- Folio of European Society of Cardiology

FAPSIC – Fellow of Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology

FSCAI- Fellow of Society for Cardiology Angiography & Interventions

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute

PAST EXPERIENCE

• Head of Department of Cardiology in Fortis Escorts Noida, New Delhi

ABOUT

He is Director Coronary Imaging with keen interest in Coronary OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography). He has been at Fortis for the last 26 years. Dr. Chandra has been actively involved in the field of Interventional Cardiology for more than 26 years. 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 neigh-boring countries. Beside this, Dr. Chandra has been the in-charge of the Emergency and Heart Command Centre of Escorts Heart Institute, for more than two decades. Dr. Chandra also has a keen interest in medical informatics and electronic medical records and is involved in digitising the Cath lab processes. Dr.Chandra has authored many publications in peer reviewed national and international journals and has written chapters in many books.

EXPERTISE

• Complex coronary interventions
• Rot ablation
• Carotid Interventions
• Balloon Valvotomies
• Peripheral Vascular Interventions