Dr. T. S. Kler
Interventional Cardiologist
Chairman - Cardiac Sciences
30+ years of experience
Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI), Gurgaon Delhi-NCR
Opening Hours
Monday – Friday 8.00 – 7:00 pm
Saturday 9.00 – 8.00 pm
Sunday 10.00 – 9.00 pm
About Dr. T. S. Kler
- Padma Bhushan Dr. T. S. Kler is currently working as Chairman, Fortis Heart and Vascular Institute at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram & Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
- Dr. Kler, completed his MRCP from the UK & then returned to India in 1989 & was one of the founding doctors of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.
- He is Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), UK and Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC) and he is lifetime member of IMA, CSI, ICC, API, IHRS, & HRS.
- Dr. Kler is a very active interventional cardiologist and has performed more than 25,000 coronary, renal, carotid & peripheral angioplasties.
- He is pioneer in electrophysiology & he established the first dedicated Electrophysiology department in India at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.
- He initiated radio Frequency Ablations programme at Escorts in 1993.
- He was the first doctor in India to implant an ICD, CRT-P & CRT-D.
- He also did the first HIS bundle pacing in India in 2015.
- He was instrumental in starting RF Ablation & cardiac devices implantation programmes in many centers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka & Pakistan.
- Dr. Kler has trained more than 200 doctors from India & abroad in the field of interventional cardiology & electrophysiology.
Qualification & Training
- MBBS
- MD (Medicine)
- DM (Cardiology)
- F.R.C.P. (U.K.)
- FACC (USA)
- D.Sc (Honoris Causa)
Areas of Clinical interests
- Complex Coronary Interventions & Angioplasty using Advanced Techniques.
- Cardiomyopathy
- Devices in Heart Failure
- Cardiac Pacing & Electrophysiology and sudden Cardiac Death
Memberships
- Founding President of Heart Rhythm Society of India (HRS)
- Life Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC)
- Fellow Royal Colleges of Physicians of the (FRCP) UK
- Life Member of Cardiological Society of India (CSI)
- Vice President of Indian College of Cardiology (ICC)
- Life Member of Indian Medical Association (IMA)
- Life Member of Association Physicians of India (API)
- Life Member of Delhi Medical Association (DMA)
- Life Member of North American Society of Pacing & Electrophysiology (NASPE)
Awards achieved by Dr. T. S. Kler
- Life time achievement award by Indian Medical Association
- Padma Bhushan by the government of India in 2005.
- In 2014, he was honored with Delhi Medical Association Centenary Award.
- Received Times HealthCare Achievers Awards in 2017 in the category “Legends of Medicine”
List of Treatments
- Arterial Switch
- Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
- ECMO Support
- Cardiac Catherisation for congenital
- Device Closure- ASD VSD
- Balloon Septostomy
- Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
- Pulmonary and Mitral
- Closure of Fistulas
- Fetal Echocardiogram
- Coronary Angiogram
- Cardiac OPD Procedures
- ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
- 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
- Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
- Echocardiography with Color Doppler
- Transesophageal Echocardiography – TEE
- Stress Echocardiographyn
- Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
- Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test
- 64 Slice CT Angiography
- CARDIAC SURGERY – ADULTS
- Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration surgery
- Valve Repair Replacement
- Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
- Ross Procedure
- Cardiac Tumour Treatment
- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Treatment
- Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
- Minimal access surgeries for valves
- ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
- Aortofemoral Bypass Surgery
- PTE – Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
- Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
- Closure of defects like ASD VSD
- Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
- TAPVC – Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair
- Renal Angiogram
- Cerebral Angiogram
- Peripheral Angiogram
- PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
- Coronary Angioplasty
- Peripheral Angioplasty
- Aortic Stent Grafting
- EPS-Electrophysiological
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
- IVC Filter Insertion
- Biventricular Pacing
- AICD Implant
- Trigger Point Injection (TPI)
- PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
- Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
- Angiography
- Aortic Valve Replacement
- Mitral Valve Replacement
- VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
- Heart Double Valve Replacement
- PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Double Chamber
- CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
- PDA Device Closure
- Single Bypass and Valve Replacement