Dr. Krishna S Iyer

About Specialist

Dr. Krishna S Iyer — published by Fortis as Dr. Krishna Subramony Iyer — is Chairman and Head of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi. His hospital profile records surgery on over 10,000 babies, children and adults with congenital heart disease. In 1995 he established northern India's first dedicated paediatric cardiac care programme at what was then Escorts Heart Institute Research Centre, a programme Fortis describes as having become a benchmark for paediatric cardiac care in India and neighbouring South East Asian countries. His operative range covers arterial switch and double switch procedures, TAPVC repair, Fontan and Fontan-type surgery, correction of Tetralogy of Fallot, DORV, Truncus, Senning operations, conduit repairs, and single and multi-stage correction of complex congenital conditions.

Key Procedures

• Arterial switch operation
• Double switch procedure
• TAPVC repair
• Fontan and Fontan-type surgery
• Correction of Tetralogy of Fallot
• DORV correction
• Truncus repair
• Senning operation
• Conduit repair
• Single-stage and multi-stage correction of complex congenital heart disease

Awards & Recognitions

• Institute Gold Medal, Best Graduate of the Year at MBBS examination
• Sorel Catherine Friemna Prize for proficiency in Paediatrics
• Pfizer Postgraduate Medical Award, Gold Medal and Scroll of Honour
• Hira Lal Gold Medal, best postgraduate in General Surgery
• Doppler Award for best paper, Sixth International Symposium on Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery, Washington D.C., 1994
• Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International Foundation, for humanitarian services for children