Dr. Naresh Trehan

Dr. Naresh Trehan

Cardiovascular & Cardiothoracic Surgery

Experience: Over 55 years

Medanta – The Medicity

Gurugram, India

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Introduction

Dr. Naresh Trehan is Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director of Medanta. He operates on blocked coronary arteries, damaged heart valves, and end-stage hearts needing transplant. He handles first-time bypass operations to the most complicated redo surgeries and transplants in the country.

About Dr. Naresh Trehan

Dr. Naresh Trehan has experience of fifty-five years in cardiac surgery. He did over forty-eight thousand open-heart surgeries. There’s probably no cardiac surgeon alive in India with that kind of volume. Most patients come to him for coronary disease too severe for stenting or heart failure so advanced that a transplant is the only option left.

Dr. Naresh operates with both hands equally well, working faster inside the chest, and patients spend less time under anaesthesia. He founded Escorts Heart Institute in 1987, which basically put Indian cardiac surgery on the global map. Ran it for twenty years, then built Medanta in 2009, which is now one of the largest hospitals in the country. And has been Personal Surgeon to the President of India since 1991.

Qualifications

  • MBBS — King George’s Medical University, Lucknow
  • Diplomate (General Surgery) — American Board of Surgery, USA
  • Diplomate (Cardiothoracic Surgery) — American Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery, USA

Awards & Recognition

  • Padma Bhushan (2001) and Padma Shri (1991).
  • Personal Surgeon to the President of India since 1991.
  • Dr. B.C. Roy National Award.
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award.
  • Named among the Seven Wise Coronary Surgeons globally (Athens 2024).

Specialities & Expertise

  • Coronary artery bypass surgery
  • Heart transplantation
  • Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
  • Robotic heart surgery
  • Complex valve repair and replacement
  • Redo cardiac surgery

Patient Experience & Approach

People say getting operated on by Dr. Trehan feels like being in the safest hands cardiac surgery has in this country. Families of transplant patients mention he took on cases other hospitals wouldn’t even consider. Patients referred from smaller cities say Medanta’s entire cardiac setup reflects the standards he built over five decades of doing this work.

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