Dr. Amit Chandra - Leading Cardiologist in India

Dr. Amit Chandra is the director of the department of cardiac surgery at Medanta Medicity Hospital, Gurugram. He has more than 34 years of experience and specialises as a cardiac surgeon in performing procedures like TAVR surgery, mitral valve clip procedure, and triple bypass heart surgery.

He has previously worked as a chief surgeon at Prime Heart Institute and as a senior consultant of the cardiac surgery department at Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre. Dr. Chandra has performed more than 2000 independent cardiac surgical procedures. His chief areas of interest are heart valve repair, mitral, tricuspid, and aortic.

This cardiothoracic surgeon completed his MBBS from King George Medical College in 1987. He then went on to pursue his master's in general surgery from the same college. Following this, he completed his M.Ch. in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery in 1992. 

Dr. Denton A. Cooley, of the famous Texas Heart Institute, USA, trained him in cardiac surgery. He has been performing independent cardiac surgery since 1998, and he has performed over 10,000 cardiac operations, including CABG and valve surgeries.

Although he has had outstanding results with CABG and other operations, he has perfected mitral valve repair and is one of the few surgeons in India who have performed complex mitral valve surgeries. He has invented novel mitral valve repair techniques known as Medanta Correction. It has received worldwide praise and has been presented twice at the Mitral Conclave in New York, USA.

Dr. Chandra is known for being compassionate towards his patients and for providing personalised treatment plans to every one of them. He is also an active researcher who has published in multiple national and international journals.