Dr. Aashish Contractor is the Head of Department, Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation at the Asian Heart Institute. Dr. Contractor has worked and trained in the United States, under Dr. Neil Gordon, considered one of the authorities and pioneers in the field of Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation. He has also worked with Dr. Dean Ornish, bestselling author of the book, 'Reversal of Heart Disease', and on the board of physicians to the United States President.

Dr. Contractor returned to India in 2001 and set up the first telemetry monitored Cardiac Rehabilitation program in India, in the city of Mumbai. He then set up the department of Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation at the Asian Heart Institute, and has been with the Institute, since its inception. As part of the Asian Heart Team, Dr. Contractor has been the Medical Director for the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, since its inception in 2004. He is part of the team of doctors who treated our Hon'ble Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, after his redo bypass surgery in January 2009.

Dr. Contractor has several publications, both in textbooks as well as Journals. He is currently involved in a study looking at physical activity and cardiac risk factors in 1000 school children. Dr. Contractor is the Secretary (since 2007) and Governing Council Member (since 2000) of the National Society for Prevention of Heart Disease and Rehabilitation (NSPHERE), and Governing Council Member, of the All India Association for Advancing Research in Obesity. Dr. Contractor is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester, United Kingdom. He serves as the Certification Director of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in India, since November, 2003, and is the only person authorized in the country for the same. In addition he is Faculty & Member of Board of Studies, SVT College of Home Science, SNDT University, since 2005. He received training in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology from the University of Virginia, USA, and graduated from T.N. Medical College, University of Mumbai, India.

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