10 Vascular Surgeons Shaping Patient Care in 2026

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Vascular healthcare in India is undergoing a dramatic shift. Once dominated by major open surgeries with long hospital stays and extended recovery times, the field is now defined by micro-incisions, pinhole procedures, and state-of-the-art hybrid operating rooms. As conditions like diabetes, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), diabetic foot ulcers, and complex venous disorders rise across the country, the demand for specialized, minimally invasive vascular interventions has never been more urgent.

In this landmark issue, The Industry Insights (TII Magazine) presents “India’s 10 Most Renowned Vascular Surgeons – 2026.” This edition celebrates the clinical pioneers, researchers, and surgical leaders who are advancing limb-salvage protocols, aortic repairs, and endovascular techniques across Indian healthcare.

How We Shortlisted These Trailblazers

To ensure editorial transparency and maintain a high standard of selection, our editorial and research board evaluated specialists across India using a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative framework:

1. Clinical Excellence & Surgical Volume: Demonstrated success rates and mastery in complex arterial, venous, and endovascular procedures.
   
2. Pioneering Innovations: Early adoption and mastery of cutting-edge technologies, including EVAR/TEVAR, thermal ablation, and hybrid revascularization.
   
3. Limb Preservation & Public Impact: Outstanding contributions toward reducing amputation rates in diabetic populations and advancing limb-salvage care.
   
4. Academic Leadership & Peer Recognition: Significant contributions to clinical research, active participation in professional bodies like the Vascular Society of India (VSI), and a commitment to training the next generation of surgeons.
   

Through a multi-stage evaluation process—combining peer nominations, institutional track records, and clinical impact analysis—we finalized ten exemplary surgeons who represent the highest standard of vascular care in the region.

Leadership Beyond the Operating Theatre

Great surgery depends on more than skilled hands. It needs well-run hospitals, sound systems and leaders who make sure the right equipment, teams and protocols are in place when a patient arrives. That is why this edition’s cover features not a surgeon, but a healthcare leader.

Ashwin Furtado, Chief Executive Officer of Healthway Hospitals, Goa, has spent a decade helping turn a doctor-founded facility into a teaching, transplant and research institution, one that kept every service running through the pandemic and now trains specialists for the state. His story is a reminder that the quality of care a patient receives is shaped as much in the boardroom as in the operating room.

Alongside our ten vascular surgeons, this issue also honours healthcare CEOs who have gone beyond what was expected of them: leaders who built institutions against the odds, widened access to care and created organisations that run on systems rather than on any one person. Together, the clinicians and the leaders in these pages show what it takes to deliver care that patients can trust.