Doctor Profile

Dr Parvathi U Iyer presently Director, Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care at the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute at New Delhi is a Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery Specialist. After graduating from AIIMS, she received training in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive care at the Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. 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 – Pediatrics – Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh, 1982
• Fellowship – Neonatology – Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, 1993
• Fellowship – King George V Hospital, Sydney, 1992

Memberships

• Life Member – Indian Association of Paediatrics
• Member – Paediatric Cardiac Society of India
• Full Member – Asia Pacific Paediatric Cardiac Society
• Member – Editorial Board Pediatric Cardiology
• Council member & Asia Representative – Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society

Experience

• Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Director- Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla Road , currently working
• Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Asst. Professor- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) , 1994

Awards and Achievements

• Secured an Award for the best paper at the Pediatric Cardiac Symposium – Royal Children`s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia,
• Secured second rank in Delhi University in the Pre ‑ Medical Examination
• V B Raju Award