Dr Kohli is an outstanding and accomplished cardiovascular surgeon with wide and varied clinical experience and expertise in different aspects of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. During his long career he has worked with renowned cardiac experts: Professor Randas Batista at Hospital Angelina Caron (Brazil) on reduction ventriculoplasty for heart failure; Professor Hertzer and Dr. Matthias Loebe at Berlin Heart Institute (Germany) on VADs (Ventricular Assist Devices) and cardiac transplantation; Professor George Wieselthaler at
Vienna General Hospital (Austria) and Professor Ettore Vitali at Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital (Italy) on the implantation and results of continuous flow VADs, heart transplantation and management of heart failure patients; Professor Vincent Dor at Nice University Hospital (France) on the outcome of Dor's procedure for ventricular aneurysm repairs; Professor Antonio Calafiore at the University of Chieti (Italy) on the principal of septal exclusion technique and repair of mitral valve in remodeling of the ventricular anatomy; and Dr. Valavanur Subramanian at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York (USA) on minimally invasive cardiac surgery. He has also worked as a post-doctoral Fellow at St
Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York (USA) before coming back to India in 1995.
Dr Kohli was the first surgeon to perform coronary artery bypass in Jammu Medical College in 2001. He is also the first surgeon to have performed coronary artery bypass on a beating heart in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2002. He has conducted over 15,000 cardiac surgeries and has over 150 scientific publications at national & international level to his credit. He conducts regular OPDs in Patna and Uttarakhand. He also provides OPDs in Jammu for the underprivileged. He has received numerous awards for his contributions in the field of cardiovascular surgery
