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Our History

From a small section within the Association of Surgeons of India in 1954 to India's most prominent independent cardiothoracic surgical association — the story of IACTS spans seven decades of clinical ambition, collegial unity, and a relentless pursuit of surgical excellence.

Our Legacy

Seven decades of cardiovascular surgical excellence in India

The Early Years

The medical fraternity in India congregated as an association for the first time probably in 1885 AD when the doctors in the erstwhile Bengal formed the Bengal Medical Association under the Presidency of Rai Bahadur Dr. Lal Madhav Mukherjee. After ten years of functioning the association was expanded to include medical persons from all over India. The All India Medical Association was formed with the Secretary being Dr. J.R.Wallace. Their Headquarter Office was at Calcutta. Their official organ was the Indian Medical Records published from Calcutta. The first systematic attempt to hold an All India Medical Conference was manifested at the initiative of Bengal Medical Association in 1917.

Thoracic Surgery

With the growth of the surgical specialties the various sections in the ASI started taking shape. In December 1954 at Nagpur during the occasion of the Annual Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India (A.S.I) the cardiovascular thoracic surgeons of India met together and resolved to unite into a separate body to be known as the Thoracic Surgery Section of ASI. They held their first annual meeting along with the Annual Conference of the ASI the very next year. Through the efforts of Late Dr. Meherji Mehta and Dr. B.L. Gupta, the thoracic surgeons of India conducted their scientific meeting independently for the first time in September 1970 at Bombay.

The Early Years

The medical fraternity in India congregated as an association for the first time probably in 1885 AD when the doctors in the erstwhile Bengal formed the Bengal Medical Association under the Presidency of Rai Bahadur Dr. Lal Madhav Mukherjee. After ten years of functioning the association was expanded to include medical persons from all over India. The All India Medical Association was formed with the Secretary being Dr. J.R.Wallace. Their Headquarter Office was at Calcutta. Their official organ was the Indian Medical Records published from Calcutta. The first systematic attempt to hold an All India Medical Conference was manifested at the initiative of Bengal Medical Association in 1917.

Thoracic Surgery

With the growth of the surgical specialties the various sections in the ASI started taking shape. In December 1954 at Nagpur during the occasion of the Annual Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India (A.S.I) the cardiovascular thoracic surgeons of India met together and resolved to unite into a separate body to be known as the Thoracic Surgery Section of ASI. They held their first annual meeting along with the Annual Conference of the ASI the very next year. Through the efforts of Late Dr. Meherji Mehta and Dr. B.L. Gupta, the thoracic surgeons of India conducted their scientific meeting independently for the first time in September 1970 at Bombay.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.

“Persistence; Progress; Prosperity”.