Clinical
Leadership.

Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is one of India's most influential cardiac surgeons and healthcare visionaries — founder and chairman of Narayana Health, widely recognized for developing scalable and affordable healthcare delivery models.

His journey began with a radical conviction: high-quality cardiac surgery should not be a privilege reserved for the wealthy. At a time when open-heart surgery cost what an average Indian earned in years, Dr. Shetty engineered a system that brought the price down dramatically without compromising clinical outcomes.

By applying economies of scale rigorously to medicine, Narayana Health made life-saving procedures accessible to millions. His model attracted global attention — studied by institutions from Harvard to the World Health Organization.

Naresh Trehan is among India's most respected cardiovascular surgeons and the founder of Medanta — one of India's premier multispecialty healthcare institutions.

With more than four decades of surgical experience and a career that spans continents, Dr. Trehan returned to India with a singular mission: to build a world-class hospital that could match the best institutions globally while remaining rooted in Indian soil.

Medanta became a symbol of that aspiration — a hospital that brought together advanced cardiac surgery programs, medical education, and multidisciplinary patient-centered care under one roof. His approach to mentoring generations of healthcare professionals has had a multiplier effect on Indian medicine far beyond the patients he has personally treated.

Randeep Guleria is an internationally respected pulmonologist and former Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences — India's most prestigious medical institution.

During some of the most complex public health challenges faced by modern India, Dr. Guleria became a trusted voice — communicating scientific guidance clearly, managing institutional pressures with calm authority, and steering evidence-based respiratory medicine practices at a national scale.

His tenure at AIIMS reflected the best of institutional leadership: strengthening medical education, advancing research, and ensuring the institution remained true to its founding mission even under extraordinary pressure.