Dr Naresh Trehan

In 1969 Dr. Trehan was one of hundreds of Indians who went to to the United States. By the mid-1980’s was earning over $1.5 million a year as a Manhattan heart surgeon. Then he did what few Indian doctors do: he came back, prompted largely by the Indians who kept showing up on his operating table and asking why they could not get the same quality of care back home. He was driven to return, he said, by ”a certain amount of arrogance — a kind of national pride.”

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS

• Chairman and Managing Director Global Health Pvt. Ltd. (MediCity)
• Senior Consultant, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi
• Personal Surgeon to the President of India.
• Honorary Visiting Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery, LPS Institute of Cardiology, Kanpur (U.P.)
• Appointed as Honorary Consultant, Cardiothoracic Surgery, to the Armed Forces Medical Services, with effect
• Appointed as Honorary Visiting Professor of Surgery, Bangladesh Medical College, Dhaka

HONOURS

• PADMA BHUSHAN AWARD by President of India in recognition of distinguished service in the field of Medicine in 2001.
• PADMASHRI AWARD by President of India in recognition of distinguished service in the field of Surgery in 1991.
• Doctor of Science Honoris Causa at the  “18th Convocation of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi” in March 1996, for recognition of his attainment and position of eminence and contributions made by him for the country and the people of India.
• Doctor of Science Honoris Causa is conferred on the occasion of the convocation of the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 4th March 2004.
• Honorary Fellow Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Australia in 2002.
• Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Award in the services category for yeoman services to the healthcare industry.
• Doctor of Science, being conferred by King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, on 22nd Janaury’2007.