HONOUR TO SHALBY HOSPITAL HEART CHIEF CONSULTANT

Ludhiana, February 19, 2019: It is a matter of great pride for Punjab that Dr Harinder Singh Bedi – Chief Consultant Cardio Vascular Endovascular & Thoracic Sciences at Shalby Hospital Mohali – was invited to deliver 2 guest lectures at the prestigious Medinspire 2019 mega conference by the DY Patil University in Mumbai on 15 – 17th Feb 2019. This was one of the largest Medical International Multi disciplinary Summits ever. Dr Bedi delivered 2 lectures on Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery.
Dr Bedi delivered his first lecture on beating heart arterial bypass surgery. He is a pioneer in this field having the world’s first series of 100 patients with multivessel beating heart surgery with angiographic follwoup. This technique was published in the medical journals and in the Limca Book of World Records. The talk was much appreciated by a large National and International gathering of heart surgeons including Dr Prof Alistair Royse from Australia, Dr Carlos from Zurich, Dr Asai from Japan and Dr KM Cherian from Chennai.
Dr Bedi started the first heart surgery centre in the private sector in Punjab in 1995 and has a number of other world first surgeries which have made cardio vascular surgery safe and predictable. He is one of the senior most Cardio Vascular surgeons of India. He has earlier worked at the St Vincents Hospital in Australia where he has had extensive training in Heart and Lung transplant. His second lecture was on 3D printing technology for treating a large lung malformation – this was the first time in the word that this was ever done. Dr Bedi also has an innovative procedure which is named after him – the Bedi-LIMA buttress technique.
Both of Dr Bedi’s lectures were well appreciated. He also chaired three important sessions there.
Dr Bedi said that at the Shalby Hospital in Mohali all such procedures are carried out with a full time Heart Team . The aim is to deliver International level cardio-vascular services to the people of this region . Since it is a multi speciality hospital so a full back up is always available.