Dr Aashish Contractor is the Director of the Department of Rehab Medicine and Sports Medicine at the Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai, India. He has been with the hospital since inception and set up the department. He completed his medical education from the TN Medical College, Nair Hospital, Mumbai and his postgraduate training at the University of Virginia in the United States. He has worked and trained in the United States, for several years.
He set up the department of Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation at the Asian Heart Institute, and was with the Institute, since its inception, in 2002 to 2014. He was part of the Asian Heart team of doctors involved in the redo bypass surgery of former Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in January 2009, and was incharge of the PM’s rehabilitation team.
Dr Contractor has been the Medical Director for the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, since its inception in 2004 till 2014. He is the Vice-Chairman of the ICCPR (International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation), and Governing Council Member of the National Society for Prevention of Heart Disease and Rehabilitation (NSPHERE). 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 2003, and is the only person authorised in the country for the same. In addition he is Faculty and Member of Board of Studies, SVT College of Home Science, SNDT University. He has received several academic and social service awards, the most recent being an award for excellence by his alma mater, Campion School, in 2009, and the ‘Outstanding Zoroastrian in Medicine’ award by the Zoroastrian Trust Funds in India in 2016.
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