Dr. Krishna Iyer is one of India's Top ranking paediatric cardiac surgeons, renowned for his clinical expertise and wide ranging involvement with the cardiac care for children in India and other developing countries who come for his consult. Dr. Iyer, the Best Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon in India has initiated the first dedicated paediatric cardiac care program in Northern India that is a pioneering initiative, at Escorts Heart Institute Research Centre (now Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute) in 1995. Under his guidance, a paediatric cardiac program has become the standard for cardiac care for children in India and its South East Asian neighbours. Dr. K S Iyer Fortis Escorts Hospital Delhi has operated on more than 10,000 babies, infant children and adults with congenital heart diseases, including various procedures like double switch operation TAPVC repairs, arterial switch procedure, corrections for tetralogy of Fallot, Fontan and Fontan type procedures, Truncus, DORV, etc.
Senning operation, conduit repairs and a wide range of one stage and multi-stage corrections for the complex congenital heart diseases. The Best pediatric cardiologist in Delhi has performed original work on the rapid two-stage arterial switch procedure and also performed the first successful rapid two stage arterial switch and double-switch operation in India. His current interests are salvaging late presenters of congenital heart disease, perfecting complex neonatal cardiac surgery, cardiac surgery in malnourished infants and children and developing cost effective cardiac care for children in the developing countries. Dr. Iyer completed his M.B.B.S, M.S. (General Surgery) and M.Ch. (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. After completing his basic training, he joined the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at AIIMS and was an Additional Professor at the time he moved to Escorts Heart Institute to set up its paediatric cardiac care division.
He is trained in paediatric and infant cardiac surgery under the guidance of the renowned paediatric cardiac surgeon, Dr. R.B.B.Mee, a Senior Fellow at the Department of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery at Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia in 1989. Since his return back to India, he has endeavoured to encourage the speciality of paediatric and congenital heart surgery in India, particularly in the non-governmental sector.
The Infant Heart Surgeon Escorts has contributed effectively to further know the cause of paediatric cardiac care through over a hundred research publications in both the national and international journals, also authored sections in medical books on paediatric and neonatal cardiac surgery and travelling to different cities across India and abroad for delivering lectures. He has been the founder President of Asia-Pacific Paediatric Cardiac Society and has also been President of Paediatric Cardiac Society of India. He is currently the Editor of the Indian Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery. The best child heart specialist in india is a permanent member of the Steering Committee of the World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, and the governing council member of the World Society of Congenital Heart Surgery and the Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons
Dr. Krishna Subramony Iyer, Delhi is invited international member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons. Considered as the best pediatric cardiac surgeon in Delhi, he is involved with many charities for underprivileged children, most remarkably the 'Gift of Life' program of Rotary International. During his academic career, Dr. KS Iyer has won many awards, including the Sorel Catherine Friemna Prize for proficiency in Paediatrics, the Institute Gold Medal for Best Graduate of the year at MBBS examination, Pfizer Postgraduate Medical Award, Hira Lal Gold Medal for being the best postgraduate in General Surgery and Gold Medal and Scroll of Honour. He was awarded the Doppler award for the best paper at the Sixth International Symposium on Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery held in Washington D.C. in 1994. He has been designated as Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary International Foundation for humanitarian services of children.
Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
30 Years
His interests include, surgical treatment of all forms of congenital heart disease in newborns to adults, including simple or complex. Expertise in surgery for complex transpositions, pulmonary hypertension late presenting CHD and complex neonatal surgery.
