Daljeet Singh Gambhir

Daljeet Singh Gambhir is an Indian cardiologist, medical academic, researcher and inventor and the Group Director of Cardiology at Kailash Group of Hospitals and Heart Institute, Noida.^[1] He is the inventor of Infinnium Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent, a reportedly cheaper drug-eluting stent which he first presented at the EuroPCR meeting held in Paris in 2003.^[2] A fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences^[3] and an honorary fellow of the Indian College of Cardiology, he is reported to have performed over 10,000 coronary interventions.^[4] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to medicine.^[5]

Biography

Daljeet Singh Gambhir graduated in medicine from Maulana Azad Medical College and followed it up with a post graduate degree (MD) from the same institution after which he secured the degree of DM.^[6] He started his career as an assistant professor at the department of cardiology of Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, New Delhi in 1985 where he became a professor in 1993, at the age of 44.^[7] During his tenure, he is known to have established a radiation therapy department at the hospital for the treatment of coronary restenosis.^[8] Later he moved to Kailash Group of Hospitals where he is the group director of cardiology and the chief executive officer of its heart institute.^[9]

Gambhir, known to have specialized in non-surgical coronary interventional techniques, is reported to have performed over 10,000 interventional procedures.^[4] He is known to have conducted researches and clinical trials on various interventional techniques and invented a drug-eluting stent, known as Infinnium Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent, which was presented at the Paris EuroPCR meeting of 2003 after conducting clinical trials on 80 patients.^[2] The stent was reported to have been more cost effective than the ones available at the market during that time. He has published over 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has contributed chapters to many medical text books published by others.^[6] He is one of the founding members of the Indian College of Cardiology and a former president of the institution (2007–08), where he is a life member.^[10] He is the clinical advisor to MIV Therapeutics, a medical institution working on biocompatible coatings for passive and drug-eluting stents,^[8] and a consultant editor of the Indian Heart Journal.^[11] He is a former president of the Cardiological Society of India (2002–03), chaired its scientific committee in 2002 and is a member of its executive committee.^[12]

Awards and honors

The National Academy of Medical Sciences elected Gambhir as their fellow in 2004.^[13] He has received the State Award from the Government of Delhi as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Delhi Medical Association.^[4] The Government of India included him in the Republic Day honors list for the civilian award of the Padma Shri in 2016.^[14][15] He is also recipient of the Distinguished Physician Award of the Association of American Cardiologists of Indian Origin^[7] and an honorary fellow of Indian College of Cardiology (2005), Cardiological Society of India (2006) and College of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology (2007) and the American College of Cardiology.^[9]

See also

• Drug-eluting stent

References

External links

• "Padma Recipients among Delhi University Alumni" (PDF). Delhii University Alumni Association. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
• "How to Tackle Heart Attack". YouTube video. TENNEWS DOT IN. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2016.