Naresh Trehan (born 12 August 1945) is an Indian cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon.
1963
In 1963 Dr. Trehan got admission in King George's Medical College in Lucknow.
1969
In November 1969 he moved to USA and became a first-year resident at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
In September 1969 he married and moved to USA in November.
They have two daughters Shyel and Shonan.
Shyel is a lawyer married to Pankaj Sahni, who's the CEO of Medanta.
His wife, Madhu Trehan, is a journalist and writer.
1971
After graduating from King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India, he went on to practice at New York University Medical Center, Manhattan, USA from 1971 to 1988.
He returned to India and started Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre.
He serves as the chairman and managing director and chief cardiac surgeon of Medanta™-The Medicity.
1988
Trehan was the founder, director and chief cardiovascular surgeon of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center (EHIRC), which opened on Okhla Road, Delhi in 1988.
1991
He has served as personal surgeon to the President of India since 1991, has received numerous awards, including the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award and Dr. B. C. Roy Award.
2009
Presently, Trehan is the Founder Chairman of Medanta - The Medicity one of the largest multi-specialty hospital at Gurgaon, Haryana established in 2009.
Trehan has been president of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.
As chairman of Global Health Private Ltd., Trehan has overseen the building of an integrated health care facility in Gurgaon, India, currently referred to as Medanta - The Medicity.
Medicity is spread across 43 acre of land.
Collaborating with Siemens and other financial partners, Medicity combines modern medicine with traditional medicine and holistic therapies.
His mother was a gynaecologist and father was an ENT specialist, both of them practised in Lyallpur until the partition of India his family belonged to Sri Hargobindapur, Batala He was born left-handed but due to stigma, his Hindi tutor broke his left hand to force Trehan to write with the right hand.
