Marital status:
Married with 4 children
Education and Qualification:
MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
MS (General Surgery) from Kasturba Medical College,
Mangalore
Trained and worked as cardio thoracic surgeon under National
Health Service UK at Brompton Hospital and Guys Hospital London
Between 1983-1989.
Professor of International Health - University of Minnesota
Medical School, USA
Professor, Rajeev Gandhi University of Health Sciences,
Karnataka, Bangalore
FRCS London
Languages Spoken:
Tulu, Kannada, English, Hindi, Bengali
Contribution to Cardiac surgery:
First Heart surgeon in India to perform heart surgeries on
newborn babies, used Micro chip camera to close holes in the
Heart.
Pioneered operations for complex problems of the Heart like
Pulmonary Endarterectomy, Redo Heart surgery, Valve Repairs in
newborn Babies and Aortic Aneurysm surgeries.
Contribution to the field of Medicine:
Dr. Shetty and his team have performed over Seventy thousand major
heart surgeries out of which Fifteen Thousand operations were on
children, many of them new born babies.
First team in the world to coin the term Micro Health
Insurance.
Helped Karnataka state Government to launch Yeshashwini Micro
Health Insurance considered as the largest Micro Health Insurance
Programme in the world.
Arogya Raksha Yogana in association with Mrs. Kiran Majumdar
Shaw of Biocon.
First team in the world to coin the term "Health City" and in
the process of creating 5000 bed Health cities in every state
capital of India
Manages worlds largest Telemedicine Programme through Indian
Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Manages a chain of Rural Clinics in Karnataka and Uttar
Pradesh.
Awards:
Rajyotsava Award - 2002
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award - 2003
Ernst & Young - Entrepreneur of the Year - 2003
Padmashree - 2003
Dr. B C Roy Award - 2004
Citizen Extraordinaire, Rotary - 2004
India Innovation Award - 2004, By NDTV & EMPI (Awarded to
Micro Health Insurance Division)
Social Entrepreneurship Award - World Economic Forum -
2005
Mission:
Dr. Shetty and his team have a mission to make healthcare
affordable to the masses living in third world countries.
