Dr. Z S Meharwal is part of the founding team of Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. He is a pioneer in many new cardiac operations in the country. Dr Meharwal is amongst few cardiac surgeons performing heart transplantation and ventricular assist devices implantation. Dr. Meharwal has been actively involved with teaching and training. He is the Programme Director of DNB Cardiothoracic Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. He has trained many cardiac surgeons in India and abroad who are now independent cardiac surgeons at different centres.

Clinical Interest:

• MI Cardiac Surgery
• Surgery for heart failure including
• Heart transplantation
• Off pump Coronary Artery bypass surgery
• Carotid endarterectomy
• CABG
• Valve repair
• Valve replacement
• Major Vascular surgery

• MBBS, MS (General Surgery)
• MS - General Surgery
• MCh (Cardiothoracic Surgery) from King Georges Medical College, Lucknow.
• MNAMS

Current Experience

• HOD of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute.

Previous Experience

• He has worked as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at prestigious Kings College Hospital in London.
• G B Pant Hospital, Delhi from 1988-1989
• Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, King College Hospital, London, UK from 1993-1997

• Citation Award by President of India Sri APJ Abdul Kalam on the occasion of International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Meeting - 2002.
• Listed in Marquis who is who in the world 2005
• Saharanpur Aditya Samman-by Govt of UP for contribution in Medical Field - 2005
• Entered into Limca Book of Records-2008 for performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery on 94 year old man who is the oldest patient to undergo CABG