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Dr. Bal Krishna Goyal
Dr. Bal Krishna Goyal (also known as B.K. Goyal or Bal Krishan Goyal; 19 November 1935 – 20 February 2018) was one of India’s most distinguished cardiologists and medical educationists. He was the only cardiologist outside the United States to serve as Honorary Consultant Cardiologist to the world-famous Texas Heart Institute in Houston, and he […]
Dr. R. Marthanda Varma
Dr. R. Marthanda Varma (Ravivarma Marthanda Varma; died 10 March 2015) was a pioneering Indian neurosurgeon, one of the first five neurosurgeons in the country, and the founder-director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru. He developed a surgical procedure for Parkinson’s disease that came to be known as “Varma’s […]
Dr. M. Khalilullah
Dr. M. Khalilullah (Mohammad / Mohd. Khalilullah) is a pioneering Indian cardiologist who developed the country’s first indigenous pacemaker and played a foundational role in establishing modern cardiology, electrophysiology and interventional techniques in India. He is a former Honorary Physician to the President of India and a recipient of the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and […]
Dr. Ashok C. Shroff
Dr. Ashok C. Shroff (often referred to as A.K. Shroff or Dr. Ashok Shroff) is a distinguished Indian ophthalmologist and a leading figure in modern eye care in the country. He received the Padma Shri in 1990 for his contributions to ophthalmology. He completed his MS in Ophthalmology and further qualifications including D.O.M.S. and D.O. […]
Dr. Madhav Gajanan Deo
Dr. Madhav Gajanan Deo (born 6 April 1932), popularly known as M.G. Deo, is an eminent Indian oncologist, pathologist and medical educationist. He is recognised for his pioneering work in molecular medicine, cancer research and the promotion of scientific collaboration in India. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1990. Born in […]
Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya
Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya (born 7 January 1947) is an Indian physician known for his long service in public health administration, particularly in the Union Territory of Daman and Diu. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 2012. Born in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, he graduated in medicine (MBBS) from Goa Medical College […]
Dr. Noshir Hormasji Antia
Dr. Noshir Hormasji Antia (8 February 1922 – 26 June 2007), often known as N.H. Antia or Noshir H. Antia, was a pioneering Indian plastic surgeon and social worker. He is remembered for founding one of India’s earliest dedicated plastic surgery units, for his groundbreaking work in reconstructive surgery for leprosy patients, and for his […]
Dr. Pylore Krishnaier Rajagopalan
Dr. Pylore Krishnaier Rajagopalan (also known as P.K. Rajagopalan; 27 October 1930 – 29 April 2024) was a pioneering Indian vector-control scientist, biologist and acarologist. He made major contributions to the control of vector-borne diseases in India and served as the founding director of the Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC) in Pondicherry (now Puducherry). The […]
Prof. Shanmugam Kameswaran
Prof. Shanmugam Kameswaran (1923 – 26 June 2021) was a pioneering Indian otorhinolaryngologist (ENT surgeon), teacher and institution-builder. He served as the longest-serving Director of the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology at Madras Medical College and was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990 as well as the Dr. B.C. Roy National Award. Born in 1923, he completed […]
Dr. M. Krishna Bhargava
Dr. M. Krishna Bhargava (Mallappa Krishna Bhargava; 17 July 1927 – 20 June 2009) was a distinguished Indian pathologist, cancer administrator and institution-builder. He is best remembered for transforming the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology in Bangalore from a small 50-bed hospital into a major regional cancer centre. The Government of India awarded him the […]
Dr. Muthu Krishna Mani
Dr. Muthu Krishna Mani (commonly known as M.K. Mani) is a pioneering Indian nephrologist widely regarded as one of the founders of modern nephrology in the country. He served for many years as Chief of the Department of Nephrology at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, and is best known for his expertise in the management of renal […]
Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy
Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy (born 5 February 1933), popularly known as Prathap C. Reddy, is an Indian cardiologist and entrepreneur who founded Apollo Hospitals, India’s first major corporate hospital chain. He is widely credited with transforming private healthcare in the country and making advanced medical care more accessible. The Government of India awarded him the […]
Vipin Buckshey
The Man Who Looked into the Eyes of Presidents Vipin Buckshey was only twenty-two when he walked out of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1977 with an optometry degree in his hand and a quiet fire in his heart. Born in Gwalior on 3 June 1955, he had studied at Frank Anthony […]
Dr. Shiela Mehra
Dr. Shiela Mehra (also spelled Sheila Mehra) is a distinguished Indian gynaecologist and obstetrician, known for her long service in women’s healthcare and her leadership at Moolchand Hospital in New Delhi. The Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri in 1991. She graduated from Lady Hardinge Medical College in 1959. She then went to […]
Dr. Govind Narain Malviya
Dr. Govind Narain Malviya (G.N. Malviya) is an Indian physician and leprologist known for his pioneering work in the treatment, reconstructive surgery, and rehabilitation of people affected by leprosy. He served as Deputy Director and later as Head and Scientist G in the Department of Reconstructive Surgery at the Central JALMA Institute for Leprosy (now […]
Dr. Jagdish Prasad
Dr. Jagdish Prasad is a renowned Indian cardiologist and cardiac surgeon, former Director General of Health Services (DGHS) of the Government of India, and a Padma Shri awardee (1991). He is widely known for his clinical work in heart disease and for providing free treatment to many patients over a long career. Hailing from Nalanda […]
Dr. Jai Pal Singh
Dr. Jai Pal Singh (13 May 1930 – 24 September 1997) was a distinguished Indian surgeon, medical educator and administrator. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991 for his contributions to surgery and medical education. Born on 13 May 1930 in the cantonment town of Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, to Dr. Yogendra Singh (a medical […]
Dr. Kotturathu Mammen Cherian
Dr. Kotturathu Mammen Cherian (K.M. Cherian; 8 March 1942 – 25 January 2025) was a pioneering Indian cardiac surgeon, widely regarded as one of the fathers of modern heart surgery and paediatric cardiac surgery in the country. He performed India’s first successful coronary artery bypass surgery and the country’s first heart-lung transplant. The Government of […]
Dr. Jitendra Nath Pande
Dr. Jitendra Nath Pande (J.N. Pande; 14 June 1941 – 23 May 2020) was a pioneering Indian pulmonologist, clinician and medical educator. He served as Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, and is remembered as one of the founders of modern respiratory […]
Dr. Narendra Kumar Pandey
Dr. Narendra Kumar Pandey (N.K. Pandey) is a distinguished Indian surgeon specialising in general, laparoscopic and thoracic surgery. He is the founder, Chairman and Managing Director of the Asian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) in Faridabad and a recipient of the Padma Shri (2014) and the Dr. B.C. Roy National Award. Born on 1 January […]
Dr. Naresh Trehan
Dr. Naresh Trehan (born 12 August 1946) is one of India’s most celebrated cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeons. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Medanta – The Medicity in Gurugram and has performed more than 48,000 successful open-heart surgeries. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1991 and the Padma Bhushan […]
Dr. Ravinder Kumar Bali
Dr. Ravinder Kumar Bali (R.K. Bali) is a prominent Indian dental surgeon and public health dentistry specialist. He is best known as the Founder President of the Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry (IAPHD), established in 1993, and has played a key role in promoting preventive and community oral health across India. He holds a […]
Dr. Mohinder Nath Passey
Dr. Mohinder Nath Passey (M.N. Passey; 1934 – 30 May 2002) was an Indian physician and rheumatologist who served as an honorary physician to the President of India. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1991. Born in 1934 (in Lahore, then part of undivided India; the family later settled in Gwalior […]
Dr. Rustom Phiroze Soonawala
Dr. Rustom Phiroze Soonawala (also known as Rustom P. Soonawala or R.P. Soonawala; 4 December 1928 – January 2025) was a pioneering Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist. He received the Padma Shri in 1991 for his contributions to family planning and women’s health. Born into a medical family in Mumbai, young Rustom often accompanied his father […]
Dr. Susil Chandra Munshi
Dr. Susil Chandra Munshi (also spelled Sushil Chandra Munshi or S.C. Munshi) is a distinguished Indian interventional cardiologist. He serves as Director of the Department of Cardiac Research and Education and Honorary Consultant in Cardiology at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1991. A Fellow of the American […]
Dr. Sneh Bhargava
Dr. Sneh Bhargava (born 23 June 1930) is a pioneering Indian radiologist and the first — and so far only — woman to serve as Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She received the Padma Shri in 1991 for her contributions to medicine. Born in 1930 in Ferozepur (then […]
Dr. Man Mohan Singh Ahuja
Dr. Man Mohan Singh Ahuja (M.M.S. Ahuja; 16 August 1929 – 12 July 1998) was a pioneering Indian physician and endocrinologist. He played a foundational role in establishing modern endocrinology and diabetes care in India and received the Padma Shri in 1991. Born in 1929 in Multan (then in British India, now Pakistan), he began […]
Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati
Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati (S.I. Padmavati or S. Padmavati; 20 June 1917 – 29 August 2020) was India’s first woman cardiologist and one of the true pioneers of modern cardiology in the country. She received the Padma Bhushan in 1967 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1992. Born on 20 June 1917 in Magwe, Burma (now […]
Dr. Ramachandra Dattatraya Lele
Dr. Ramachandra Dattatraya Lele (R.D. Lele; 16 January 1928 – 24 June 2022) was a pioneering Indian physician widely regarded as the Father of Nuclear Medicine in India. He received the Padma Bhushan in 1992. Born on 16 January 1928, he trained in medicine and later developed a deep interest in the medical applications of […]
Dr. Thayil John Cherian
Dr. Thayil John Cherian (popularly known as T.J. Cherian or TJC; 29 August 1920 – 6 March 2006) was a pioneering Indian cardiothoracic surgeon from Kerala, known for his skill, social commitment and compassionate approach to patients. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1972 and the Padma Bhushan in 1992. Born […]
Hakim Abdul Hameed
Hakim Abdul Hameed (14 September 1908 – 22 July 1999) was a distinguished Indian Unani physician, educationist and philanthropist. He was the founder-chancellor of Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University) and a former chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1965 and the Padma Bhushan in 1992. Born on […]
Dr. Gursaran Prasad Talwar
Dr. Gursaran Prasad Talwar (G.P. Talwar, also known as Pran Talwar; born 2 October 1926) is a pioneering Indian biochemist and immunologist. He is widely regarded as the father of immunology in India and is best known for developing the world’s first leprosy vaccine and advancing research in immunocontraception. He received the Padma Bhushan in […]
Vaidya Brihaspati Dev Triguna
Vaidya Brihaspati Dev Triguna (21 June 1920 – 1 January 2013) was a renowned Indian Ayurvedic physician and one of the foremost experts in pulse diagnosis (Nadi Vaidyam). He received the Padma Bhushan in 1992 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2003. Born on 21 June 1920 in Bara Pind, Jalandhar district, Punjab, he trained in […]
Dr. Amrit Kaur Tewari
Dr. Amrit Kaur Tewari (also known as Amrit Tewari; 5 September 1938 – 13 January 2018) was a pioneering Indian paediatric dentist and dental academic. She served as Dean of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, and as Head of its Oral Health Sciences Centre. The Government of India awarded […]
The Light Behind the EyesA story of Janardan Shankar Mahashabde
The Light Behind the EyesA story of Janardan Shankar Mahashabde In the bustling lanes of Indore in the middle of the last century, where the air carried the scent of spices and the distant clang of temple bells, a young man named Janardan Shankar Mahashabde walked with a quiet intensity. The city was changing—India newly […]
Dr. Sohrabji Pestonji Shroff (S. P. Shroff / Sorabji P. Shroff)The ophthalmologist who turned a single room into a century of sight
Dr. Sohrabji Pestonji Shroff (S. P. Shroff / Sorabji P. Shroff)The ophthalmologist who turned a single room into a century of sight In the early years of the twentieth century, when blindness was too often accepted as fate in India, a young Parsi ophthalmologist returned home with a different conviction. Sohrabji Pestonji Shroff began practising […]
Lt. Col. George William Gregory BirdThe British haematologist who gave India its first organised blood bank
Lt. Col. George William Gregory BirdThe British haematologist who gave India its first organised blood bank George William Gregory Bird was born on 7 November 1916. He qualified in medicine in 1941 and almost immediately joined the British Army Medical Corps. During the Second World War he served with Base Transfusion Units in the Middle […]
Dr. Chintaman Govind Pandit, the virologist who built the scientific backbone of medical research in free India
Dr. Chintaman Govind PanditThe virologist who built the scientific backbone of medical research in free India Chintaman Govind Pandit was born on 25 July 1895. A brilliant student, he graduated in medicine from Grant Medical College, Bombay, and soon left for London on a scholarship. In 1922 he became the first person to receive a […]
Dr. Jacob Chandy, the father of modern neurosurgery in India
Dr. Jacob ChandyThe father of modern neurosurgery in India Jacob Chandy was born on 23 January 1910 in Kottayam, Kerala, into a devout Anglican Syrian Christian family. After graduating in medicine from Madras Medical College in 1936, he worked for a time in Bahrain with the American medical missionary Paul Harrison. It was Harrison who […]
Dr. Khushwant Lal Wig: The physician who helped shape medical education at India’s premier institute
Dr. Khushwant Lal WigThe physician who helped shape medical education at India’s premier institute Khushwant Lal Wig was born on 30 September 1904 in Gujranwala, in the Punjab of British India, into a prosperous family. He studied at the local Mission High School, then at Government College and Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College in Lahore, before graduating […]
Dr. Rafiuddin Ahmed, the father of modern dentistry in India
Rafiuddin Ahmed was born on 24 December 1890 in Bardhanpara, in the Bengal Presidency of British India. After early education and a period at Aligarh, he made his way to the United States, working his passage across the ocean. In 1915 he graduated as a Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Iowa College […]
Dr. Mohammad Abdul Hai, the physician of Patna who served both patients and the President
Mohammad Abdul Hai, known to colleagues and students as Dr. M. A. Hai, was a distinguished physician of Bihar whose career bridged the late colonial period and the early decades of independent India. He held the qualifications of MD, FRCP (Edinburgh) and TDD (Wales), the last reflecting his specialised knowledge of tuberculosis — a disease […]
Brig. Santosh Kumar Mazumdar, the father of nuclear medicine in India
Brig. Santosh Kumar MazumdarThe father of nuclear medicine in India Santosh Kumar Mazumdar was born on 1 September 1920 in Dinajpur, North Bengal (now in Bangladesh). His father, Dr. S. N. Mazumdar, was one of the founder members of the Patna Medical Association. Young Santosh first earned a first-class B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics from Patna […]
Dr. Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit, the first Director of AIIMS, who built a temple of medical excellence
Dr. Bhalchandra Babaji DikshitThe first Director of AIIMS who built a temple of medical excellence Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit was born on 7 September 1902 in Amravati into a family of distinguished lawyers. He broke with family tradition and chose medicine. In 1925 he graduated MBBS from Grant Medical College, Bombay. He followed this with a […]
Pandit Shiv Sharma, the Ayurvedic physician who carried classical wisdom into the modern age
Pandit Shiv SharmaThe Ayurvedic physician who carried classical wisdom into the modern age Pandit Shiv Sharma was born into a family steeped in traditional learning. He trained as an Ayurvedic physician and rose to become one of the most respected voices for classical Indian medicine in the mid-twentieth century. Before Partition he served as Professor […]
Dr. Dwijendra Nath Mukerjee: The quiet physician of Bengal whose lifelong service earned the nation’s honour
Dr. Dwijendra Nath MukerjeeThe quiet physician of Bengal whose lifelong service earned the nation’s honour Dwijendra Nath Mukerjee belonged to the generation of doctors who practised medicine in West Bengal through the turbulent decades of Independence and its aftermath. He devoted his professional life to the care of patients in a state still recovering from […]
Hakim Abdul Hameed: The Unani physician who turned healing into an institution of service
Hakim Abdul Hameed was born on 14 September 1908 in Delhi, the elder son of Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed, who had founded the Hamdard Dawakhana in 1906. The name Hamdard — “one who shares the pain” — became the guiding principle of his life. After completing his studies at Tibbia College, Delhi, in 1930, he […]
Dr. Puliyur Krishnaswamy Duraiswami, the pioneering orthopaedic surgeon who built the foundations of modern bone and joint surgery in India
Dr. Puliyur Krishnaswamy DuraiswamiThe pioneering orthopaedic surgeon who built the foundations of modern bone and joint surgery in India Puliyur Krishnaswamy Duraiswami was born on 23 April 1912 in the village of Puliyur in Tamil Nadu. Though he first studied mathematics, he soon turned to medicine and graduated MBBS from the University of Madras in […]
Dr. Jerusha Jhirad: The pioneering obstetrician who realised a childhood dream and transformed women’s health in India
Dr. Jerusha JhiradThe pioneering obstetrician who realised a childhood dream and transformed women’s health in India Jerusha Jacob Jhirad was born on 21 March 1891 in Shivamogga, Karnataka, into the Bene Israel Jewish community. As a child of eleven she watched her sister recover from a serious illness under the care of a woman doctor […]
Dr. Ernest Joachim Joseph Borges. The pioneering cancer surgeon who gave hope when few dared to operate
Dr. Ernest Joachim Joseph BorgesThe pioneering cancer surgeon who gave hope when few dared to operate Ernest Joachim Joseph Borges was born in 1909 in Bombay into a Goan family with roots in Ucassaim. He studied at St. Xavier’s and graduated from Grant Medical College, later earning his MS from the University of Bombay with […]
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