Dr Arun Kochar is a Senior Consultant, Interventional Cardiology at Fortis hospital, Mohali

• He has been a pioneer in initiating Radial Interventions at Fortis hospital, Mohali
• He has served in the field of cardiology for 19 years & has been involved in all major aspects of interventional and also has actively engaged in non-invasive cardiology
• He was selected as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, USA and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
• He has been a faculty member at TCT, CSI and ACC conferences
• He has performed more than 10,000 procedures to date
• He was the chairperson for a session at the prestigious annual meeting of the Cardiology Society of India (CSI) and Asia Pacific Cardiology Congress (APCC), held in Mumbai in 2005. Also for a Mid-term National Interventional Council Meeting 2013 at Science City, Kolkata, 12th to 14th April 2013
• He was selected as a TCT 2012 Advisory Faculty member for the 24th Annual Scientific Symposium of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, TCT 2012 at Miami, Florida, USA
• He was selected as a Faculty Member of the ICI 2012 (Innovations in Cardiovascular Interventions) meeting at Tel-Aviv, Israel from December 2nd to 4th 2012

Publications:

• He has published a book named Dyslipidaemia – Current and future treatment paradigm, Sep 20, 2021
• His abstract “Predictors of Surgical outcome in heart failure patients” has been accepted for poster presentation at the 4th Asian Pacific Congress of Heart Failure (31 Jan- 3 Feb 2008) in Melbourne Australia. The abstract was included in the Heart, Lung and Circulation Journal at the 2008 Congres
• His abstract “Parmacoeconomic evaluation of drugs used for the treatment of hypertension” has been accepted for presentation at 21st European meeting on hypertension in Milan, June 17th to 20th, 2011