Dr Belal Bin Asaf is a renowned Thoracic (Chest) Surgeon and is the Associate Director of the Institute of Chest Surgery, Chest Onco-Surgery & Lung Transplantation at the Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana. The institute is the largest volume and most comprehensive chest surgery centre in the entire country with state of art facilities catering to all surgical diseases of the chest.

Dr. Belal Bin Asaf specialises in the treatment of surgical diseases of the chest involving the lungs, mediastinum, Trachea (Windpipe), esophagus (food pipe) and diaphragm. He is recognised nation- wide as an expert and a leader in the field of minimally invasive thoracic surgery like Video assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS / Key-Hole surgery) and robotic thoracic surgery. He specializes in and has special interest in minimally invasive surgery through key-hole incisions (VATS) for lung and esophageal cancer. Dr Belal also specialises in the management of patients with Myasthenia gravis with or without thymoma who require Thymectomy and is one of the most experienced surgeons in the country for performing robotic thymectomy for both myasthenia gravis and thymoma. He is the first surgeon in the country to have performed Robotic Subxiphoid Thymectomy for patients with Thymoma. He is also amongst the very few surgeons in the country who perform surgery for Mesothelioma.