About Us

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Dr. Vikas Kohli is Director of the Delhi Child Heart Center in South Delhi and a Visiting Consultant  to the Apollo Hospital & Apollo Cradle & Rainbow Children’s Hospital. He is a Fetal, Neonatal and Pediatric Cardiologist, established the Pediatric Cardiology Program at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in 2003 and subsequently initiated Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program His focus is Interventional Cardiology and Fetal Cardiology. 

He has performed several thousand device closures of ASD and VSD in children and Adults. He has also performed extremely high risk interventions in neonatal patients and Premature babies. The smallest babies he has performed an angioplasty is 1.1 kg. 

He has also performed innovative procedures like Flow Restrictor implantation in several patients for the first time in India. Dr. Vikas Kohli graduated in with 5 gold medals from the University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1986. He subsequently finished his Pediatric training from PGIMER (Chandigarh). He completed his Pediatric Residency (USA) from the Montefiore Medical Center, New York and trained in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Miami. He subsequently practiced Pediatric Cardiology in Florida, USA. 

He has been Director of Pediatric Cardiology at RTIICS, Kolkata; he also has been In-charge of Non-Invasive Lab, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. He has been awarded Best Research in Pediatrics Award at the National Indian Academy of Pediatrics Conference 1991 & at the University of Miami Best   Research Award in 1996. 

He has also been awarded the American Heart Association/Genentech Award 1996; The American College of Cardiology – Affiliate in Training Award 1997. In addition, he has received the award for Excellence in Medical record documentation by the Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida. 

He has more than 50 publications. He has written more than 5 chapters. He is currently on the Board of Editors for 3 Journals and reviewer for 5 Journals.