Dr. Krishan Avtar is a Dehradun neurologist who built a hospital so that people from the hills would not have to travel to Delhi for brain and nerve care. He is Chairman and CEO of Synergy Institute of Medical Sciences on Canal Road, Ballupur, and still heads its Department of Neurology. Public listings put his training at over three decades.
A book titled Yatra under his name does not appear in hospital pages, publisher catalogues, or news reports. What is documented is the hospital he founded, the neurology work he still does, and the family partnership that runs the place.
The long training
He completed MBBS in 1992 and MD in General Medicine in 1997 at Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut. He then took DM Neurology at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, finishing in 2001. Hospital material also calls him a gold medalist and lists a Diploma in Hospital Administration. Those letters sit on his chairman page: MD (Medicine), DM (Neuro), DHA.
His listed clinical interests are epilepsy surgery, intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, and neurocritical care — the work that happens when a seizure will not stop, when a surgeon needs the nerves watched in real time, or when a patient is hanging between the ICU and recovery.
Why Synergy exists
After practising in other cities, he returned to Dehradun with a simple complaint that many families already knew: serious neurology, cardiology, and trauma care were too far away.
The hospital opened on 1 August 2012. In a later video he put the dream in plain words: Uttarakhand should have facilities built around what people here actually need, with safety and technology that meet world-class standards, under one roof.
On the hospital website he wrote the same idea more formally:
“We stand committed to provide value added innovative, consistent and continuously improving health and medical care… We believe that it is due to blessings of Almighty and overwhelming support and patronage of all our people who have posed their trust in us that we have been able to transform our dream into reality. We dedicate our mission to people of our region with utmost humility.”
That is the closest thing to his own voice in print.
A reconstructed corridor scene, based on that message rather than an invented interview:
A family from the hills waits after a long night on the road. The son has had a seizure. Someone asks whether they should still go to Delhi.
“Stay,” the doctor says. “First we find what the brain is doing. Then we decide. You should not have to choose between a mountain road and a good ICU.”
That is the argument Synergy was built to answer.
The hospital he runs
Synergy is a multi-super-specialty centre focused on neuro, cardiac, gastro, renal sciences, trauma, and critical care, with diagnostics on the same campus. It is repeatedly described as NABH- and NABL-accredited, and as the first hospital in Uttarakhand and the adjoining region to hold both. Listings put it around 140 beds with a large ICU block. Address: Canal Road, Ballupur Chowk, Dehradun. Emergency lines are published on the hospital site.
He is Chairman and CEO. His wife, Dr. Seema Avtar, MD Pathology, is Chief Managing Director and works in the laboratory service. The administration page lists them together. It is a family-run institution with a professional specialist panel around them.
Patients on listing sites rate him highly for diagnosis and a calmer manner. Hospital videos show families thanking the neurology and critical-care teams by name. Those clips are short and polite; they do not turn him into a celebrity. They do show why the hospital talks about “compassionate” care as policy, not decoration.
The man, not only the titles
What the public record actually shows is a clinician who became a builder. He did not leave neurology when he became CEO. He still heads the department. He has given local interviews on everyday warning signs — memory loss, sleeplessness, tiredness, blurred vision — and told people those can be neurological, not just “age” or “stress.”
Yatra is a manuscript, a private memoir, or a book under another spelling, it is not yet visible in open sources. Until it is, the journey that can be told honestly is this one: Meerut and Lucknow classrooms, years of practice, a hospital that opened in 2012 so that a seizure in Doon would not automatically mean a night bus to another city, and a chairman’s note that still ends in humility rather than slogan.
That is the documented life. The rest belongs in his own pages, if and when Yatra is published.
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