Dr. Parvathi U Iyer is currently Director, Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care at the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI), New Delhi - one of the busier Paediatric cardiac programs in India. She is a pioneer in the specialty of Paediatric cardiac critical care. She was passionately involved in setting up the Paediatric program in 1995 - the first integrated program that incorporated an intensivist in India. She is the country's first pediatric cardiac intensivist who helped start the first dedicated pediatric cardiac ICU in Northern India in the year 1995, training over 20 pediatric cardiac intensivists. She has worked as an Assistant Professor at AIIMS and has won many awards for her outstanding services in cardiology.
Education
MBBS: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) | New Delhi- 1978
MD: Paediatrics - Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Chandigarh- 1982
Royal Children& 39;s Hospital | Melbourne- 1993
Fellowship: King George V Hospital Sydney- 1992
Procedures
Congenital Heart Disease Treatment
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)
Mitral Valve Repair
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
Heart Surgery
Heart Transplant
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Repair
Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) Closure
Tetrology of Fallot (TOF) Surgery
Transposition of the Great Arteries
Blalock-Taussig Shunt (BT Shunt).
Specializations
Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA) Treatment
Blalock-Taussig Shunt (BT Shunt)
Pulmonary Artery Banding (PAB)
Congenital heart disease treatment
Ebstein Anomaly
Heart Surgery
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery (On-pump Surgery)
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
Mitral Valve Repair
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
Heart Transplant
Heart Valve Replacement Surgery
Heart valve repair surgery
Left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
Membership
Pediatrics Cardiac Society of
India Indian Association of Paediatrics
Asia Pacific Paediatric Cardiac Society
Editorial Board Pediatric Cardiology
Council member & Asia Representative - Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society
