Dr. Naresh Trehan

Dr. Naresh Trehan is the Chairman and Managing Director of the Company. He was appointed on the Board of the Company on August 13, 2004. He has been the Chairman and Managing Director of the Company since June 1, 2007 and was re-appointed on August 1, 2021. He is the Promoter and has also been appointed as the Chairman - Heart Institute and the Chief Cardiac Surgeon. He holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lucknow and has been awarded a certificate in specialty of thoracic and cardiac surgery by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He has served in the training programme and as the ‘Fellow in Thoracic Surgery’ at the New York University Medical Centre at Bellevue Hospital, University Hospital and Manhattan V.A. Hospital, New York, USA. He is also an elected fellow of the American Society of Angiology and the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-thoracic Surgeons. He has been admitted to honorary fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2000. He has been awarded the academic title of ‘Honorary Professor’ of the National Scientific Research Medical Center Joint Stock Company, the Republic of Kazakhstan. He has been awarded the ‘Padma Bhushan’ in 2001 and the ‘Padma Shri’ in 1991 by the Government of India and Dr. B.C. Roy Award by Medical Council of India in 2005. He has also been awarded a special award dated November 14, 2021 by the American Association of Cardiologists of Indian Origin for his outstanding contributions as ‘Indian Father of Cardiac Surgery’.