About Dr. Vijay Kohli

• Dr. Kohli: A Pioneering Cardiac Surgeon with extensive clinical expertise in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.
• During his long career, he has worked with renowned Cardiac Expert. With professor Randas Batista, at Hospital Angelina Caron in Brazil, as a surgical treatment for heart failure.
• With Professor Hertzer and Dr. Matthias Loebe at Berlin Heart Institute on VADs and Cardiac Transplantation
• With Professor George Wieselthaler at Vienna General Hospital (Austria) ; and Professor Ettore Vitali at Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital (Italy) on the implantation and results of continuous flow VADs, heart transplantation and management of heart failure patients; Professor Vincent Dor at Nice University Hospital (France) on the outcome of Dor’s procedure for ventricular aneurysm repairs;
• Professor Antonio Calafiore at the University of Chieti, Italy, specializes in the principles of the septal exclusion technique and the repair of the mitral valve in the remodeling of ventricular anatomy. and Dr. Valavanur Subramanian at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York (USA) on minimally invasive cardiac surgery.
• He also served as a post-doctoral fellow at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, USA, before returning to India in 1995.
• Dr. Kohli was the first surgeon to perform coronary artery bypass surgery at Jammu Medical College in 2001.
• He was the pioneering surgeon to perform coronary artery bypass surgery on a beating heart in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2002.
• He has performed more than 15,000 cardiac surgeries and has authored over 150 scientific publications at both national and international levels.
• He holds regular outpatient department (OPD) clinics in Patna and Uttarakhand, and he also offers OPD services in Jammu for underprivileged patients.
• He has been honored with numerous awards for his contributions to the field of cardiovascular surgery.

Work experience

• Dr. Vijay Kohli’s current position is Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Max Healthcare, Dwarka Delhi
• Vice Chairman – Cardiac Surgery,at  Medanta Hospital, The Medicity, Gurugram
• Senior Consultant – Cardiac Surgery, at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
• Director – Cardiac Surgery, Escort Heart Institute & Research Center, Delhi
•  Postdoctoral Fellow and Principal Research Associate – Division of Cardiac Science, St. Luke’s & Roosevelt Hospital Medical Center, New York