Today, The Heart Centre functions as a comprehensive cardiac facility offering non-invasive diagnostics, invasive evaluation, and interventional cardiology. Its strength lies not merely in infrastructure, but in a clinical philosophy shaped by restraint, rationality, and long-term outcomes. A significant proportion of its patients come from modest backgrounds, many of whom receive care at subsidised rates or through flexible payment structures, without any dilution in quality or attention.

Central to this model is a carefully assembled team that reflects the Centre’s values. Among its most respected clinicians is Dr Sameena Khalil, Senior Consultant Cardiologist, whose work embodies the ethos Dr Khalilullah sought to institutionalise. With over two decades of experience, she is recognised as one of the few senior female cardiologists in India managing both adult and paediatric cardiac patients, a distinction that carries particular significance in a demanding speciality.

Dr Sameena Khalil’s academic grounding spans MBBS from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, followed by DNB in General Medicine from UCMS and GTB Hospital, New Delhi, and DNB in Cardiology from Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre. Her professional journey includes academic tenure as Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, and clinical roles at Escorts Heart Institute and G.B. Pant Hospital, before she joined The Heart Centre in 2012.

Her clinical expertise covers adult and paediatric echocardiography, coronary interventions like angiography, angioplasty, pacemaker implantation, and specialised work in heart failure management. Yet patients often speak first of her empathy, clarity and calm presence, especially during criticial moments, qualities that resonate strongly with the Centre’s patient-first culture.