Dr. Krishna Subramony Iyer is one of India’s most experienced pediatric cardiac surgeons, recognised for his clinical expertise and commitment to providing cardiac care for children in India and other developing countries. Dr. Iyer graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, with his M.B.B.S., M.S. (General Surgery), and M.Ch. (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery). After his basic training, he joined AIIMS’s Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, where he held the position of Additional Professor until moving to Escorts Heart Institute to establish the institute’s pediatric cardiac care division. After his medical training, he joined the faculty of the cardiac surgery department of AIIMS, New Delhi. He then completed his training in infant cardiac surgery in Australia before founding AIIMS’s neonatal cardiac surgery program.
Dr. Iyer has performed surgeries on over 10,000 babies, children, and adults with congenital heart diseases. These procedures have included tetralogy of Fallot corrections, DORV, Truncus, arterial switch procedures, double switch operations, TAPVC repairs, Fontan and Fontan-type procedures, and more. Complex congenital heart diseases can be treated using a variety of one-stage and multi-stage corrections, conduit repairs, and senning operations. His current areas of interest are developing cost-effective cardiac care for children in developing countries, learning complicated neonatal cardiac surgery, performing cardiac surgery on malnourished infants and children, and saving late presentations with congenital heart disease.
Under Dr. Iyer direction, the program for pediatric cardiac care across India and the surrounding Southeast Asian nations became known as the benchmark for pediatric cardiac care. Over 14,000 congenital heart surgeries were performed by Dr. K S Iyer on patients from all over India as well as abroad in more than 15 different countries. He acted as the founding president of the Paediatric Cardiac Society of India as well as the Asia-Pacific Paediatric Cardiac Society. Currently, he serves as the Indian Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery’s editor. The World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery’s Steering Committee, the Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons’ governing council, and the World Society of Congenital Heart Surgery’s steering committee are all permanently managed by India’s best child heart specialist.
Dr. Krishna Subramony Iyer, Delhi, is an invited international member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons. Dr. KS Iyer is known for being the best pediatric cardiac surgeon in Delhi; he participates in numerous fundraising campaigns for underprivileged children, the most famous being Rotary International’s “Gift of Life” program. The Sorel Catherine Friemna Prize for proficiency in pediatrics, the Institute Gold Medal for Best Graduate of the Year at the MBBS Examination, the Pfizer Postgraduate Medical Award, the Hira Lal Gold Medal for being the best postgraduate in general surgery, and the Gold Medal and Scroll of Honor are the multiple awards that Dr. KS Iyer has achieved during his academic career.
Dr. Krishna Subramony Iyer has a strong interest in double switch operations and TAPVC repairs. Patients from various countries, including the USA, UK, Iraq, UAE, Oman, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, as well as Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Kenya in Africa and Central Asia, should seek an appointment with Dr. Krishna Iyer for the treatment.
