Devi Prasad Shetty (born 8 May 1953) is an
Indian cardiac surgeon. He is chairman and Founder of Narayana Health, a chain of 21 medical centers in India. He has performed over 15,000 heart operations. In 2004 he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2012, the third highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contribution to the field of affordable healthcare.
Early Life
Shetty was born at village Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India. The eighth of nine children, he decided to become a heart surgeon when he was in tenth grade at school after hearing about Dr. Christiaan Barnard, a South African surgeon who had just performed the world's first heart transplant.[6] After completing his graduate degree in Medicine and post-graduate work in General Surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, he trained in cardiac surgery at Guy's Hospital in the United Kingdom.Devi Shetty
The king of heart Dr.Devi Prasad Shetty.He is also known as the”Henry Ford of health care. He was the first surgeon in India to perform the extremely risky, complicated and dynamic cardiomyopathy operation. He was the first surgeon in India to perform the neo-natal open heart surgery.He is the world’s first surgeon to perform a surgery to close the hole in the heart with microchip camera; the first person to conduct the first ever surgery using the stomach blood vessels to bypass the blocked arteries of the heart and the first person to use an artificial heart in India. In 2001,Dr.Shetty founded Narayana Hrudayalaya, a multi specialist hospital in Bommasandra on the outskirts of Bangalore City. He with his team pioneered the unique concept of ”Heart City”, a 2000-5000 bed conglomeration of multiple super specialty hospitals in a single campus.
==Awards and recognition==
*Padma Bhushan award for Medicine in 2012
*Karnataka Ratna award in 2001
*Entrepreneur of the Year at ET awards in 2012
*Won the 2011 The Economist Innovation Awards for the ''Business process'' field.
*Honorary Degree, University of Minnesota in 2011
*Honorary Degree, Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2014
*Schwab Foundation's award in 2005
*Padma Shri award for Medicine in 2004
*Dr. B C Roy award in 2003
*Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award in 2003
*Ernst & Young – Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003
*Rajyotsava award in 2002
*Indian of the year in public sector choose by CNN-IBN for 2012