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{{short description|Indian interventional cardiologist}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ashok Seth
| image = Ashok Seth.jpg
| caption = Ashok Seth during 63rd Annual Convocation in [[Aligarh Muslim University]]
| birth_date = {{bda|1954|10|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[India]]
| occupation = Cardiologist
| known for = [[Interventional cardiology]]
| alma_mater = [[Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh]]
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] [[Padma Shri]] [[Indian Medical Association|IMA]] Distinguished Service Award ''Shresth Shree Award'' ''All India Khatri Mahasabha'' Award[[Andreas Gruentzig]] Award [[International Biographical Centre|IBC]] 20th Century Award NICCSI Professional Excellence Award ''Delhi Ratna Award'' [[Indian Medical Association|IMA]] Distinguished Interventional Cardiologist Award [[Rotary International|Rotary]] Vocational Excellence Award IJCP Interventional Cardiologist of the Year [[Indian Medical Association|IMA]] NDB Life Time Achievement Award DMA Medical Teachers' Award [[World Heart Federation]] Citation DMA Legend in Interventional Cardiology Award WCCPC2006 Life Time Achievement Award GSI Lifetime Achievement Award Cardiological Society of India Citation IMA-NDB Distinguished Service Award IMA Doctor’s Day Award IMA Magnanimous Award WCCPC Lifetime Achievement Award WCCPGC-2008 Lifetime Achievement Award MIDI Management Excellence Award Sunday Indian and IIPM Mega Excellence Award WCCPGC-2009 Lifetime Achievement Award IMA Dr. K. Sharan Cardiology Excellence Award [[Mason Sones]] Award Atma Jyoti Award AACIO Special Award Golden Pioneer of Interventional Cardiology Award Rotary Lifetime Achievement Award Vishisht Bihari Samman Vishisht Chikitsa Ratan [[Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh|JNMC]] Most Glorious Alumni Doc N Doc-Gammex Saviour Award DMA Centenary Award Hero Lifetime Achievement Award
}}
'''Ashok Seth''' (born 12 October 1954) is an Indian [[interventional cardiologist]],<ref name="Dr Ashok Seth Credihealth Profile">{{cite web | url=https://www.credihealth.com/doctor/ashok-seth-cardiac-surgeon/overview | title=Dr Ashok Seth | publisher=Credi Health Pvt. Ltd. | date=2017 | access-date=17 March 2017}}</ref> credited with the performance of over 50,000 [[angiogram]]s and 20,000 [[angioplasties]], which has been included in the [[Limca Book of Records]], a book for achievements and records from an Indian perspective.<ref name="Fortis">{{cite web | url=http://www.fortisescorts.in/DoctorDetail/3/Dr-Ashok-Seth.aspx | title=Fortis | publisher=Fortis | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202205135/http://www.fortisescorts.in/DoctorDetail/3/Dr-Ashok-Seth.aspx | archive-date=2 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="My Doc Advisor">{{cite web | url=http://www.mydocadvisor.com/DoctorDetail.aspx?Id=416&HospitalId=198&CId=243 | title=My Doc Advisor | publisher=My Doc Advisor | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Economic Times Interview">{{cite web | url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/backpage/interview-with-dr-ashok-seth-chairman-escorts-heart-institute/articleshow/3426486.cms | title=Economic Times Interview | work=The Economic Times| date=31 August 2008 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref> He is a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of London|Royal Colleges of Physicians of London]], [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] and [[Royal College of Physicians of Ireland|Ireland]]<ref name="Medical Tourism">{{cite web | url=http://www.medicaltourismco.com/dr-ashok-seth-india/ | title=Medical Tourism | publisher=Medical Tourism | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref> and serves as the chief [[Cardiology|cardiologist]], holding the chairs of the department of [[Cardiovascular disease|cardiovascular]] sciences and cardiology council at the [[Fortis Healthcare]].<ref name="India Medical Times JMI">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiamedicaltimes.com/2012/11/22/jamia-millia-honours-cardiologist-dr-ashok-seth/ | title=India Medical Times JMI | work=India Medical Times| date=22 November 2012 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref> Seth, a recipient of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]], was honored by the [[Government of India]] with the fourth highest [[Indian honours system|Indian civilian award]] of [[Padma Shri]], in 2003,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |date=2015 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> followed by [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest Indian civilian award, in 2015.<ref name="Padma Bhushan">{{cite web | url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952 | title=This Year's Padma Awards announced | publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] | date=25 January 2015 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Sehat">{{cite web | url=https://www.sehat.com/dr-ashok-seth-cardiologist-delhi | title=Sehat | publisher=Sehat | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref>

==Biography==
Ashok Seth graduated in Medicine (MBBS) from the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh|Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College]], [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in 1978.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="Sehat" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare">{{cite web | url=http://www.forerunnershealthcare.com/dr-ashok-seth.html | title=Forerunners Healthcare | publisher=Forerunners Healthcare | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref> Later, moving to UK for higher education, he served as a cardiologist at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham|Queen Elizabeth Hospital]] of [[Birmingham University]] until 1988.<ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> During this period, he did advanced training to secure membership of the [[Royal College of Physicians of London]] (MRCP) in 1984 and the [[Royal College of Physicians of Ireland]] (MRCP) in 1986.<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Sehat" /> He returned to India in 1988 and joined the Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, present day [[Fortis Healthcare]],<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="Medical Tourism" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> as its Chief of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology and established the Invasive Cardiology programme at the institution. He stayed with Fortis Healthcare until 2004 after which he moved to [[Max Healthcare]], erstwhile Max Heart and Vascular Institute.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> He has also been serving as an honorary professor of cardiology at several other institutions such as [[Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal]] (since 2000), [[Raipur Medical College]] (since 2001), Bilaspur Medical College (since 2001), D. Y. Patil University<ref name="D Y Patil">{{cite web | url=http://www.dypatil.in/ | title=D Y Patil | publisher=D Y Patil | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref> (since 2008) and [[Bangladesh Medical College]], Dhaka (since 1998).<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> After four years at Max, he returned to [[Fortis Healthcare]]<ref name="Economic Times Interview" /> to resume his duties there as the chief cardiologist and the chairman of its Cardiac Sciences Division.<ref name="Sehat" /><ref name="Doctors Cabin">{{cite web | url=https://www.doctorscabin.com/2232-DrAshokSeth | title=Doctors Cabin | publisher=Doctors Cabin | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204171350/https://www.doctorscabin.com/2232-DrAshokSeth | archive-date=4 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Zee News">{{cite web | url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/health-news/prevention-is-the-best-therapy-for-heart-disease-dr-ashok-seth_7661.html | title=Zee News | publisher=Zee News | date=12 April 2010 | access-date=2 February 2015}}</ref>

==Professional associations==
Ashok Seth is a member of Asian Pacific Society of [[Interventional cardiology|interventional Cardiology]] (APSIC) Board of Trustees<ref name="Medical Tourism" /> and SCAI Nominating Committee and sits on the advisory boards of ACC India, SCAI Interventional Fellows Institute (IFI), International Andreas Gruentzig Society (IAGS), E-Cypher, USA, Asia-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (Singapore)<ref name="APSIC">{{cite web | url=http://www.apsic.net/index.htm | title=APSIC | publisher=APSIC | date=2015 | access-date=3 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201032240/http://www.apsic.net/index.htm | archive-date=1 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and ERA Educational Trust and Medical College, Lucknow.<ref name="Fortis" /> He holds the chair of the Indian chapter of the Organization of International Medical Video Interventional Program (IMVIP) and is the co-chairman of SCAI International Committee.<ref name="Fortis" /> He is a voting selector of SCAI (MSCAI) Nominating Committee, Zonal vice president of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology, associate director of TCT Scientific Sessions and the president of the Delhi branch of the Cardiological Society of India.<ref name="Fortis" /> He is a founding member of Endovascular Intervention Society of India,<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> Academy of TCT,<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> New York and the [[SAARC]] Cardiac Society for Research, Training and Exchange of Expertise in Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease in Asia.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Medical Tourism" /> He is a trustee of Indo-French [[Cardiovascular]] Foundation for Research, Education and Training in the field of Angioplasty and a former trustee of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, USA.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Medical Tourism" /> He has also served as the vice president of the Cardiological Society of India<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> and as the chairman of the New Delhi branch of [[Indian Medical Association]].<ref name="Fortis" />

On 18 July 2019, Ashok Seth appointed as President of Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://medicaldialogues.in/eminent-cardiologist-dr-ashok-seth-appointed-president-of-asia-pacific-society-of-interventional-cardiology/|title= Dr Ashok Seth appointed President of Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology|date=18 July 2019|work=Medical Dialogues}}</ref>

==Legacy==
Ashok Seth is credited with pioneering many cardiological techniques in the Asia Pacific region.<ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> He is the first cardiologist in the region to perform an [[angioscopy]] and directional [[atherectomy]].<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> He is reported to be the first to use ''Impella heart support device''<ref name="Impella">{{cite web | url=http://www.texasheart.org/Research/Devices/impella.cfm | title=Impella | publisher=Texas Heart Institute | date=2015 | access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref> and [[Drug-eluting stents]], [[Bioresorbable stents]] and [[thrombectomy]] devices in India.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Medical Tourism" /><ref name="Sehat" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> He is known to have contributed to the development of ''Bioresorbable Scaffold (BRS) Stent'' as a member of the Advisory Group.<ref name="Fortis" /> The youngest person to receive a doctoral degree (Honoris Causa) from the [[Banares Hindu University]],<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> Seth's tally of angioplasty and angiogram performances is noted by the [[Limca Book of Records]] as one of the highest in the world.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="Medical Tourism" /> He is known to perform Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Revascularization,<ref name="Medical Tourism" /><ref name="Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Revascularization">{{cite journal | title=Percutaneous Myocardial Laser Revascularization | journal=The American Journal of Cardiology | date=2003 | pmid=12633794 | volume=91 | issue=6 | pages=661–6 | vauthors=Gray TJ, Burns SM, Clarke SC, Tait S, Sharples LD, Caine N, Schofield PM| doi=10.1016/s0002-9149(02)03303-9 }}</ref> reported to be among the few cardiologists in the World to perform the procedure.<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Sehat" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" />

Seth, who is reported to have contributed to reaching the treatment to the poor,<ref name="Dr Ashok Seth, Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Escorts Delhi, NDTV">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPDSZjVLmk | title=Dr Ashok Seth, Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Escorts Delhi, NDTV | publisher=ND TV | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=17 March 2013 | access-date=2 February 2015 | author=Fortis Healthcare}}</ref> is known to have involved in many research activities. His researches are documented by way of over 250 medical papers<ref name="Systemic exposure of everolimus after stent implantation: A pharmacokinetic study">{{cite journal | title=Systemic exposure of everolimus after stent implantation: A pharmacokinetic study |author1=Marcus Wiemer |author2=Ashok Seth |author3=Praveen Chandra |author4=Jo¨rg Neuzner |author5=Gert Richardt |author6=Jan J. Piek |author7=Martin Desaga |author8=Carlos Macaya |author9=Cornelis J. Bol |author10=Karine Miquel-Hebert |author11=Karolien De Roeck |author12=Patrick W. Serruys | journal=Am. Heart J. |date=October 2008 | volume=156 | issue=4 | doi=10.1016/j.ahj.2008.07.005 | pmid=18926156 | pages=751.e1–7}}</ref><ref name="Saphenous vein graft stenting using a novel filter device for distal protection">{{cite journal | title=Saphenous vein graft stenting using a novel filter device for distal protection |vauthors=Schlüter M, Chevalier B, Seth A, Bach R, Farah B, Hauptmann KE, Grube E, Schofer J | journal=Am J Cardiol |date=March 2003 | volume=91 | issue=6 | pages=736–9 | pmid=12633812 | doi=10.1016/s0002-9149(02)03418-5}}</ref><ref name="Utility of Pilot wire in angioplasty of tortuous and highly angulated coronary arteries">{{cite journal | title=Utility of Pilot wire in angioplasty of tortuous and highly angulated coronary arteries |vauthors=Chandra P, Cribier A, Seth A | journal=Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis | year=1995 | volume=37 |issue=3 | pages=268–70 | pmid=8974804 | doi=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199603)37:3<268::AID-CCD10>3.0.CO;2-E}}</ref> published in peer reviewed national and international journals.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> He has contributed chapters to 10 text books and has edited two text books on cardiology.<ref name="Fortis" /> He has also trained over 350 cardiologists in India and abroad and has performed demonstrations on advanced angioplasty techniques at over 400 international conferences and seminars in Singapore, Malaysia, Paris, China, Australia, Korea and Sri Lanka.<ref name="Fortis" /> His live demonstrations have been transmitted via satellite during the ''Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics'' conference<ref name="Medical Tourism" /> in 2003 and 2007 and at the ''EuroPCR'' in 2003 and 2006.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" />

Ashok Seth is involved with many scientific journals. He is a former Associate Editor of ''[[International Journal of Cardiology]]''<ref name="Medical Tourism" /> and sits on the editorial boards of ''Journal American College of Cardiology'',<ref name="Journal American College of Cardiology">{{cite web | url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07351097 | title=Journal American College of Cardiology | date=2015 | access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref> ''Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention''<ref name="Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention">{{cite journal| url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1522-726X | title=Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention | journal=Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions | year=2015 | access-date=3 February 2015| doi=10.1002/(ISSN)1522-726X | doi-access=free | url-access=subscription }}</ref> and ''Euro Intervention''<ref name="Euro Intervention">{{cite web | url=http://www.escardio.org/communities/EAPCI/publications/Pages/EuroIntervention.aspx | title=Euro Intervention | work=2015 | access-date=3 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204172304/http://www.escardio.org/communities/EAPCI/publications/Pages/EuroIntervention.aspx | archive-date=4 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> journals.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="Medical Tourism" /> Seth is the first Asian to be elected to the Board of Governors of Society of the Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention<ref name="Society of the Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention">{{cite web | url=http://www.scai.org/Default.aspx | title=Society of the Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention | work=2015 | access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref> (USA).<ref name="Fortis" /> He has been a member of the expert committee set up by the society for formulating the guidelines laid down by its position statement, ''Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Without On-Site Surgical Backup''.<ref name="Fortis" /> He is a member of the expert committee of the Directorate General of Health Services under its [[Central Drugs Standard Control Organization]].<ref name="Fortis" /> He also serves as the chief coordinator of the [[Council for Scientific and Industrial Research]] initiative, the NTMLI project for the indigenous manufacture of low cost [[drug-eluting stents]] within the country.<ref name="NTMLI">{{cite web | url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOICH%2F2011%2F03%2F28&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=11&EntityId=Ar01101&AppName=1 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204170755/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOICH/2011/03/28&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=11&EntityId=Ar01101&AppName=1 | url-status=dead | archive-date=4 February 2015 | title=NTMLI | work=The Times of India| date=2015 | access-date=3 February 2015}}</ref>

==Awards and recognitions==
[[File:Padma Shri India IIIe Klasse.jpg|thumb|70px|Padma Shri India]]
[[File:Spain Order Of Isabella The Catholic.JPG|thumb|70px|Spain Order of Isabella The Catholic]]
[[File:Padma Bhushan India IIe Klasse.jpg|thumb|70px|Padma Bhushan India]]
Ashok Seth is a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]], the [[Royal College of Physicians of Ireland]] and the [[Royal College of Physicians of London]].<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Medical Tourism" /><ref name="Sehat" /> Institutions such as the [[American College of Cardiology]], the [[European Society of Cardiology]], the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention, the Cardiological Society of India<ref name="CSI">{{cite web | url=http://www.csi.org.in/index.html | title=CSI | publisher=CSI | date=2015 | access-date=2 February 2015 | archive-date=16 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416073022/http://www.csi.org.in/index.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> and the International Medical Sciences Academy have also selected him as their Fellow.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /><ref name="Sehat" /> He has received the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc — Honoris Causa) from [[Banaras Hindu University]],<ref name="Medical Tourism" /> [[Teerthanker Mahaveer University]] and [[Amity University, Noida]] and the degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt — Honoris Causa) from [[Jamia Millia Islamia University]].<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="India Medical Times JMI" /><ref name="Sehat" />

Seth, a ''Dudley'' Visiting Professor of the [[University of Birmingham]], received the Distinguished Service Award from the [[Indian Medical Association|IMA]] Academy of Medical Specialties in 1994.<ref name="Fortis" /> Two years later, he received the ''Shresth Shree Award'' of the Delhi Citizens' Forum For Civil Rights and the National Award for Outstanding Contribution to Society from the ''All India Khatri Mahasabha''<ref name="Fortis" /> and in 1998, he received the [[Andreas Gruentzig]] Award.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> The year 1999 saw him getting two awards, the ''20th Century Award for Achievement'' of [[International Biographical Centre]], Cambridge and the Professional Excellence Award from the National Interventional Council of the Cardiological Society of India.<ref name="Fortis" /> The All India Conference of Intellectuals honoured him with ''Delhi Ratna Award'' in 2000, and he received the [[Indian Medical Association]] Distinguished Interventional Cardiologist Award, the [[Rotary International|Rotary]] Vocational Excellence Award and the IJCP Interventional Cardiologist of the Year Award in 2002.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" />

The [[Government of India]], in 2003, awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]]<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> and in 2005, he received [[Indian Medical Association|IMA]] NDB Life Time Achievement Award<ref name="Forerunners Healthcare" /> and the DMA Medical Teachers' Award. He was also felicitated by the [[World Heart Federation]], the same year.<ref name="Fortis" /> Delhi Medical Association awarded him again in 2006 with the ''DMA Legend in Interventional Cardiology Award'' and at the World Congress on Clinical and Preventive Cardiology (WCCPC2006), he was awarded the ''Life Time Achievement Award''.<ref name="Fortis" /> The Geriatric Society of India also extended a ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' to him, in 2006.<ref name="Fortis" />

In the year 2007, he received a citation from the Cardiological Society of India, IMA-NDB Distinguished Service Award, IMA Doctor's Day Award, IMA Magnanimous Award and the World Congress on Clinical and Preventive Cardiology 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> He received the WCCPGC-2008 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 12th Annual MIDI Management Excellence Award in 2008.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> He was awarded the ''Sunday Indian and IIPM Mega Excellence Award'', WCCPGC-2009 Lifetime Achievement Award and IMA Dr. K. Sharan Cardiology Excellence Award in 2009.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> The [[Government of Spain]] included him in the National Day Honours for the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] (Crus De Oficial Con Insignia Orden De Isabel La Catolica) in 2010,<ref name="My Doc Advisor" /> the same year as he received the [[Mason Sones]] Award from the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, USA and the ''Atma Jyoti Award'' from the World Academy of Spiritual Science.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" />

The American Association of Cardiologists of Indian Origin (AACIO) recognised Seth's services with their Special Award in 2011 and he received three more awards the same year, Golden Pioneer of Interventional Cardiology Award from the Asian Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Lifetime Achievement Award by Rotary Club of Delhi, and the Vishisht Bihari Samman from the Bihar Shatabdi Utsav Aayojan Samiti.<ref name="Fortis" /> Delhi Medical association awarded him the title, Vishisht Chikitsa Ratan and the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh]] selected him as the ''Most Glorious Alumni'' in 2012.<ref name="Fortis" /> He received three awards in 2014, Doc N Doc-Gammex Saviour Award, DMA Centenary Award and Hero Lifetime Achievement Award. The [[Government of India]] selected him again for [[Indian honours system|Republic Day Honours]] for the award of [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2015.<ref name="Padma Bhushan" /><ref name="Sehat" />

Ashok Seth has delivered several Oration Award lectures and Mohan Lal Oration, Dr. Amalendu Das Oration, [[Novartis|Hindustan Ciba Geigy]] Oration, IMA-NDB K. L. Chopra Oration, R. L. Sharma and Padmabhushan R. L. Joshi Memorial Oration, Prof. Raymond Wegmann Oration, Professor G. S. Sainani Oration and S. B. Khurana Memorial Oration are some of them.<ref name="Fortis" /><ref name="My Doc Advisor" />

==See also==
{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Atherectomy]]
* [[Drug Eluting Stents]]
* [[Ventricular assist device]]
* [[Angioscopy]]
* [[Embolectomy]]
* [[Transmyocardial revascularization]]
{{div col end}}
{{portal|India|Medicine}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal | title=Systemic exposure of everolimus after stent implantation: A pharmacokinetic study |author1=Marcus Wiemer |author2=Ashok Seth |author3=Praveen Chandra |author4=Jo¨rg Neuzner |author5=Gert Richardt |author6=Jan J. Piek |author7=Martin Desaga |author8=Carlos Macaya |author9=Cornelis J. Bol |author10=Karine Miquel-Hebert |author11=Karolien De Roeck |author12=Patrick W. Serruys | journal=Am. Heart J. |date=October 2008 | volume=156 | issue=4 | doi=10.1016/j.ahj.2008.07.005 | pmid=18926156 | pages=751.e1–7}}
* {{cite journal | title=Saphenous vein graft stenting using a novel filter device for distal protection |vauthors=Schlüter M, Chevalier B, Seth A, Bach R, Farah B, Hauptmann KE, Grube E, Schofer J | journal=Am J Cardiol |date=March 2003 | volume=91 | issue=6 | pages=736–9 | pmid=12633812 | doi=10.1016/s0002-9149(02)03418-5}}
* {{cite journal | title=Utility of Pilot wire in angioplasty of tortuous and highly angulated coronary arteries |vauthors=Chandra P, Cribier A, Seth A | journal=Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis | year=1995 | volume=37 |issue=3 | pages=268–70 | pmid=8974804 | doi=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199603)37:3<268::AID-CCD10>3.0.CO;2-E}}

==External links==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPDSZjVLmk | title=Dr Ashok Seth, Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Escorts Delhi, NDTV | publisher=[[NDTV]] | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=17 March 2013 | access-date=2 February 2015 | author=Fortis Healthcare}}
* {{cite web | url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/health-news/prevention-is-the-best-therapy-for-heart-disease-dr-ashok-seth_7661.html | title=Interview with Smita Mishra | publisher=Zee News | date=12 April 2010 | access-date=2 February 2015}}
* {{cite web | url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/backpage/interview-with-dr-ashok-seth-chairman-escorts-heart-institute/articleshow/3426486.cms | title=Economic Times Interview | work=The Economic Times| date=31 August 2008 | access-date=2 February 2015}}

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