Eminent Medical personalities conferred with Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri

The second similar pride moment for the medical community comes with gastroenterologist Dr D Nageshwar Reddy selected for Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian award. He is the Chairman of the biggest gastroenterology hospital in the world i.e. Asian Institute of Gastroenterology located at Hyderabad. This is his second recognition for his contribution in the field after having received the Padma Shri award in 2002.

This year also saw several more selections for Padma Shri, with notable doctors including few names like Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Gopichand Mannam (Star Hospitals in Telangana) ; cardiac surgeon Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale (Yashoda Hospitals ); paediatric surgeons Dr Shiv Narain Kureel and Dr Nayudamma Yarlagadda; orthopaedic surgeon Dr John Ebnezar (consultant paediatric surgeon based out of Guntur); and

surgeon Dr Ravi Kant (Surgical Oncologist in Preet Vihar, Delhi), Dr Praveen Chandra (leading Cardiologist and Chairman of Interventional Cardiology at Medanta) and Dr Daljeet Singh Gambhir (Clinical Advisor to MIVT India of MIV Therapeutics Inc); Dr M V Padma Srivastava (Department of Neurology, Neurosciences Centre, AIIMS) and Dr Sudhir V Shah (Professor and Head department of Neurology at KM school of PG medicine and research, ); Dr Chandrasekar Seshadri Thoguluva (gastroenterology MEDINDIA Hospitals); Dr M M Joshi (founder MM Joshi Eye Institute);

Dr H R Nagendra, Predrag K Nikic and Hui Lan Zhang (yoga); Dr Ram Harsh Singh (ayurveda); and Dr Anil Kumari Malhotra (homeopathy) have also been named among the winners of the Padma Shri award.