Two eminent cardiologists from Fortis Healthcare, Dr Ashok Seth, Chairman, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, and Dr Vivek Jawali, Director and Chief Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeon, Fortis Hospital, Bangalore, have been nominated to the newly constituted Medical Council of India (MCI), the statutory body that governs the standards of medical education and recognition of medical qualifications in the country.
A gazette notification of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, published recently, announced the names of the council members. Apart from elected members, the Central and State Governments nominate medical professionals of pre-eminence to the MCI. While, Dr Seth was nominated by the Delhi Government, Dr Jawali was nominated by the Karnataka Government, both for a period of four years.
Dr Ashok Seth received the Padma Shree in 2003 and is well known for his contribution to the growth of cardiology, especially interventional cardiology, across the world. He is credited with pioneering a number of angioplasty techniques over the past 20 years and has been training the next generation of cardiologists.
A pioneer in minimally invasive surgery in India, Dr Jawali has so far performed over 18,000 complex heart surgeries. He has the distinction of performing India’s first minimally invasive bypass surgery in 1994.
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