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Dr Ashley D'cruz is the Director of the Narayana Hrudayalaya Women and Children's Institute, Bangalore.

He presently is the President of the Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons and is already proving to be one of its most active presidents. He spearheads the difficult task of securing insurance for children with congenital anomalies.

Dr D'cruz had started the pediatric liver transplant program when he was in St John’s and now has successfully completed thirty Paediatric Liver transplants in Narayana Hrudayalaya. This is probably the biggest liver transplant program in the country for children. He plays a pivotal role in this mode of treatment, long thought to be near impossible in India.

Dr D'cruz was the principal surgeon in the much publicized successful separation of conjoined twins, Peace and Patience and Laxmi the little child with multiple limbs. This received extensive international media coverage and was a success story for medical care in India. As Director of the NHWCI, he has been involved with the national insurance companies, where he is part of the think tank which is setting guidelines for uniform treatment costs in India.

He is also very close to getting the women and children's hospital to be a stand alone hospital. Community and developmental pediatrics will be a major thrust area at the hospital, apart from our delivery of cutting edge in- hospital care.

Dr. Suhel Hasan works as a Sr Consultant and Head of the Department of ENT- Head and Neck Surgery at Mazumdar Shaw Medical center and Narayana Hrudayalaya Multi Specialty Hospital, Bangalore. He is also a Post Graduate Examiner in Otolaryngology at the National Board Examinations.

Dr. Hasan has had a wide range of experience in ear, nose and throat medicine. His thesis was on Chemotherapy in Advanced Hypopharyngeal Cacinoma.

Dr. Suhel has gained expertise working in surgical fields as well and has more than 20 years of service as an ENT surgeon. He also engages himself as a guide for Post Graduate students and a Surgical Tutor in Otolaryngology at Bangalore University. Dr. Hasan is a faculty at Surgical Training Workshop on FESS and also Head and Neck Surgery and Phonosurgery.

Dr. Suhel Hasan’s primary areas of interest are Head & Neck Surgical Oncology, Surgery for Laryngotracheal Stenosis and Phonosurgery. His expertise in these fields can be attributed to working under eminent guides. Dr. Hasan actively participates in workshops and attends conferences and seminars around the globe. His paper presentations have been well received by the medical field, as a result of which he has been invited as guest speaker in various platforms.

Dr Rao Muralidhar is a consultant rheumatologist at Narayana Hrudayalaya.

Dr. Praveen Kumar is one of the world’s most experienced doctors in performing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) and Redo CABG’s.

Indeed, at Narayana Hrudayalaya 60% of the surgeries carried out are CABG and Redo CABG’s. Dr. Kumar is an Alumni of Guy’s Hospital, London, UK.

Dr. Mehrotra is a very active in Coronary Interventions specialist, within his role as Senior Consultant Cardiologist at Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital.

He is a visiting fellow at the Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA and Senior Registrar at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

Dr. Colin John is a Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, India.

Dr. Colin John, Head of the pediatric and adult surgical programmes at NH, is an alumnus of the Christian Medical College, Vellore; the Royal Adelaide Hospital; the Westmead Hospital; and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; all in Australia.

He is one of the most experienced cardiac surgeons in the world specialising in operating on children, especially those suffering from complex heart problems such as Tetralogy of Fallout (TOF) or in simple terms ‘Blue Babies’.