MBBS, MS, FRCS

Chairman
Narayana Hrudayalaya Limited

A cardiac surgeon of repute and a successful entrepreneur, Dr Shetty is a highly respected luminary for his ingenious ideas for reforms in the healthcare sector. His visionary leadership to make quality healthcare affordable for all has drawn global recognition.

Narayana Hrudayalaya has been an interesting case study for the likes of Harvard Business School and The Wall Street Journal.

In association with Government of Karnataka, Dr Shetty pioneered Yeshaswini, a very inexpensive micro health insurance scheme benefitting more than 3.4 million rural poor.

Dr Shetty is the current Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; Chairman of Healthcare Sector Skill Council and is a member of Health Insurance Consultative Committee constituted by IRDAI. He has also served as a Member, Board of Governors of Medical Council of India and Representative of President of India in the Board of Governors of Indira Gandhi National Open University.

A strong advocate of technology for efficient healthcare delivery, Dr Shetty takes deep interest in creating and developing software products and applications to achieve time and cost efficiency while minimizing clinical errors in healthcare delivery. Dr Shetty has a US Patent registered as inventor.

Dr Shetty is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, The Economist Innovation Award, Financial Times Arcelor Mittal ‘Boldness in Business’ Award, Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic and Business Innovation.  He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from University of Minnesota, IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur.

Dr Shetty is the Founder and Chairman at Narayana Health Group of Hospitals. The group now has 39 healthcare facilities with close to 6,000 beds.