Dr. Ashwin B Mehta brings over five decades of extensive experience in the field of cardiology. Throughout his distinguished career, he has performed and overseen more than 20,000 angioplasty procedures and over 100,000 angiographies.

His areas of expertise include complex angioplasty, rotablation, laser atherectomy, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to medicine, he was honored with the Padma Shri by the President of India in 2004. He has also received numerous accolades, including multiple lifetime achievement awards from various organizations. Notably, he was awarded the Jaslok Ratna Award in 2020—an honor that remains unique in the history of Jaslok Hospital.

Dr. Mehta has held several prestigious leadership roles, including serving as President of the World Congress of Coronary Heart Disease in 1981 and 1986, and as President of the Cardiological Society of India in 1998.

He has been a pioneer in interventional cardiology in India. In May 2002, he was instrumental in introducing the country’s first drug-eluting stent (DES). He was also among the early adopters of primary angioplasty for myocardial infarction (PAMI) and conducted one of the first systematic studies comparing angioplasty with thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction at Sion Hospital.