Overview

Dr. Krishna Iyer is one of the leading pediatric cardiac surgeons in India who specializes in congenital heart disease in children. At the beginning of the 1990s, he started Escorts Heart Institute’s program for pediatric cardiology – the first such service in Northern India — and soon set standards for such care throughout the country and in Southeast Asia. Dr. Iyer boasts ten-plus years of experience performing general pediatric cardiac surgery procedures, including arterial switch operations, Fontan procedures, TAPVC repairs, Tetralogy of Fallot, and DORV corrections, among others. He introduced rapid two-stage arterial switch operation in India besides performing the first-ever operations on this technique. At present, Dr Iyer is concerned with neonatal cardiac surgery, management of malnutrition patients, and solutions for offering cost-effective cardiac operations for the developing world. He is also deeply involved with Rotary’s “Gift of Life” foundation in supporting children in need of open heart surgeries throughout the world.