Dr. Vijay Kohli
Experience: Over 40 years
Max Super Speciality Hospital
Dwarka, New Delhi, India
Introduction
Dr. Vijay Kohli is the Vice Chairman & Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Max Dwarka, who repairs mitral valves instead of replacing them whenever the valve anatomy allows it. Handles aortic valve surgeries and emergency aortic dissection repairs.
About Dr. Vijay Kohli
Dr. Vijay Kohli has experience of forty years of opening chests and fixing hearts. He has done over fifteen thousand cardiac surgeries. Got his MCh from PGIMER Chandigarh, which remains one of the toughest surgical training programs in the country. She has the exposure to advanced heart failure surgery, ventricular assist devices, and transplant work began.
He did the first coronary artery bypass at Jammu Medical College in 2001 and the first beating-heart bypass surgery in Kathmandu, Nepal, pioneering new surgical possibilities in those regions. Max’s previous roles include Vice Chairman of Cardiac Surgery at Medanta Gurugram, senior consultant at Indraprastha Apollo, and Director of Cardiac Surgery at Escorts Heart Institute, Delhi.
Qualifications
- MBBS — Government Medical College, Jammu.
- MS (General Surgery) — Government Medical College, Jammu.
- MCh (CVTS) — PGIMER, Chandigarh.
- Post-Doctoral Fellow — St. Luke’s & Roosevelt Hospital, New York.
- FIACS — Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons.
Awards & Recognition
- Distinguished Service Award in Cardiac Surgery by the President of India.
- Gold Medal for Best Scientific Publication — Cardiological Society of India.
- First coronary bypass at Jammu Medical College.
- First beating-heart bypass in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Previously Vice Chairman of Cardiac Surgery at Medanta Gurugram.
- Previous Senior Consultant at Indraprastha Apollo.
- Member of ISMICS, AATS, AHA, and IACTS.
Specialities & Expertise
- Coronary bypass, including beating-heart surgery
- Minimally invasive heart port surgery
- Mitral valve repair
- Aortic valve and dissection surgery
- Ventricular remodeling
- VAD implantation and heart transplant
Patient Experience & Approach
Families say Dr. Vijay Kohli’s conversations before surgery are straightforward. Patients who underwent beating-heart bypass mention that their recovery felt smoother than expected because the heart was never stopped during the operation. Families whose relatives had advanced heart failure say the VAD discussion was handled honestly — what it can do, what it can’t, and whether transplant is realistic down the line.