Dr. A. B. Mehta has rich experience of more than 50 years in the field of Cardiology. By this time, he has performed and supervised more than 20,000 Angioplasties and 100,000 Angiographies.
His special interests are: Complex Angioplasty, Rotablation, Laser Atherectomy, Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) & Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).
He has received the prestigious Padmashree Award from the President of India in 2004. He has received Life Time Achievement Award from many organisations apart from many other awards. Above all, he has received the Jaslok Ratna Award (2020); so far not given to anybody else in the history of Jaslok Hospital.
He has enjoyed the position of President of World Congress of Coronary Heart Disease (1981 & 1986) and the position of President of Cardiological Society of India (1998).
He has done pioneering work and was responsible for placing First Drug Eluting Stent (DES) in the country in May 2002. He was one of the first ones to start Primary Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (PAMI) and also published first systematic trial comparing Angioplasty with thrombolysis in Acute myocardial infarction from Sion Hospital.
Awards/Fellowship
President of International conference of Coronary artery disease: 2000-2008
President of Cardiological Society of India – 1998
President of World Congress of Coronary Heart Disease – 1981
President of World Congress of Coronary Heart Disease – 1986
President of Association of Physicians of India – 1988
President of Indian Society of Electrocardiology
Course Director, “India Live”
Awards/Certificates
Padmashree Award from the Govt. of India in 2004
Maharashtra Gaurav Award for the most outstanding contribution in Cardiology, by the Govt. of Maharashtra (2004)
Distinguished Doctor Award presented by the Indian Medical Association, Mumbai Branch on the occasion of “Doctor’s Day”, 1st July 2008
Mahavir Mahatma Award for Oneness and towards social upliftment (Times Foundation, 2006)
The CTO – Man of The Year Award, the First of its type, for the Indian Chapter of 2nd Indo European Course on Revascularization (IECR/IEIC), presented at New Delhi on 20th December 2008
Life Time Achievement Award, International Integration Medical Council & Chemtech Foundation in 1999
Andreas Gruentzig Memorial Award for dedication and contribution for the growth of Angioplasty in India
Most outstanding Young Person of the Year Award by Jaycee in 1978 (Shared with Amitabh Bachhan)
Appreciation Award by Association of Medical Consultants, Mumbai presented on Alkem Doctors’ Award Nite on 26th June 2011 at Mumbai
Golden Contribution Award received at AICT 2012 at New Delhi, on 6th Oct. 2012
Life Time Achievement Award at the 1st IJCTO meet, at Mumbai on 8th June 2013
Felicitation Award for outstanding contribution in the field of Cardiology at MGM Hospital, Navi Mumbai on 26th July 2017
Life Time Achievement Award at the 19th Annual Conference of Pediatric CSI at U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology & Research Centre, Ahmedabad on 15/09/2018
Life Time Achievement Award at the CSI conference 2018 at BKC, Mumbai on 22nd Nov 2018
Life Time Achievement Award by the Asia Pacific Vascular Intervention Couse society at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi on 28th June 2019 for his outstanding contribution to the field of Interventional Cardiology
Received the prestigious “Dronacharya of Interventional Cardiology” award by Continuous Medical Education Award & Summit 2019, New Delhi By the Union Ministry, IHW-CNN18, & Omnicuris & State Medical Council Presidents on 8th August 2019 at Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi
Received Excellence in Cardiology Award at the The Times Healthcare Leaders Award 2021 on 25th February 2021
Excellence in Cardiology Award, vishesh puraskar from Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Smriti Pratishthan for exemplary contribution to the field of Cardiology on 24th November 2021
Received the First Jaslok Ratna Award felicitated by the Trustees & Management of Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, in the year 2020.
