Tejas Patel

Tejas Patel is a cardiologist from Ahmedabad, India and chairman and chief interventional cardiologist at Apex Heart Institute, Ahmedabad. Patel, a recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian medical award, was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his service to the nation.Recently he reported to have performed 100,000 cardiac procedures which is one of the highest number of procedures performed by any single operator in the world. In early 2018, Patel-owned Apex Heart Institute became the first hospital outside USA to introduce robotic angioplasty & stenting by acquiring Corindus Corpath Vascular Robotic System GRX200 for $1.5 million. The system is designed to make angioplasty safer, precise and more accurate. On 5th December 2018, Tejas Patel , Sanjay Shah and their team of doctors at Apex Heart Institute created a history in the field of interventional cardiology by performing world's first-in-man telerobotic coronary intervention from Akshardham temple located in Gandhinagar roughly 32 kilometers away from the patient. The operation used the high speed internet provided by Reliance Jio Infocomm and Corindus Vascular Robotics Corpath GRX 200 which the hospital had acquired in January 2018. The surgery was broadcast live worldwide.