Dr. Ripen Gupta — Vice Chairman & Unit Head of Cardiology in Delhi NCR

Dr. Ripen Gupta is Vice Chairman and Unit Head of Cardiology at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in the Delhi NCR, with more than 28 years of experience. His profile records four areas: cardiology, cardiac sciences, interventional cardiology, and cardiac electrophysiology and pacing.

That last area gives his list its shape. He performs AF, SVT and VT ablation and cardiac ablation for arrhythmia, and implants pacemakers and ICDs. On the interventional side he performs coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty and stenting, TAVI or TAVR and the MitraClip procedure, with echocardiography, coronary artery disease and heart failure completing the list. Few cardiologists on the platform combine a full ablation range with structural intervention in this way.

His M.B.B.S. and MD in internal medicine were both taken at Government Medical College under Punjabi University, and his DM in cardiology at King George's Medical College under Lucknow University. His fellowship in interventional cardiology was awarded through the National Board of Examination.

His hospital history is long and runs through several of the major Indian cardiology centres. He has been at Government Medical College in Patiala, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, at King George's Medical College in Lucknow, at the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, at Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, at Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, and at Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, before his current post in Saket.