Dr. Arvind Kumar

Specialist:        Pulmonologist, Lung Transplantation
Experience:    36+ years of experience
Hospital:         Medanta – The Medicity Hospital

Brief About Doctor:

• Performed over 15,000 Thoracic (Chest) Surgeries including over 8000 surgeries by Minimally Invasive (Key-hole or VATS) and Robotic methods.
• Leads India’s largest and most Comprehensive “Chest Surgery Program” offering State of the art surgical care for different Chest ailments.
• Country’s Largest Experience in surgical management of Thymic diseases like Myasthenia Gravis & Thymoma including country’s largest experience in performing Robotic Thymectomy with an exceptional success rate.

SPECIALIZATION:

•  Robotic ThymectomyKey-Hole (VATS)
• Surgery of the ChestVATS (Key-Hole)
• Surgery for Lung Cancer
• Tracheal Resections for stenosis and tumours

EDUCATION:

• MBBS
• MS
• MNAMS
• FUICC
• FACS
• FICS
• FIAGES
  

Awards & Accomplishments

• The most prestigious “Dr. B.C. Roy National Award” by the Government of India in the category “Eminent Medical Person of the year, 2014
• Honoured with “Fakhr-e-Hind” (Pride of Nation) award.
• Awarded “Raj Nanda Fellowship” by the Raj Nanda Pulmonary Disease Research Trust in association with the British Thoracic Society
• Awarded the coveted WHO Fellowship, got trained in Advanced Tracheo-Bronchial Surgery under Dr. Joel Cooper and Dr. Patterson at Thoracic Service, Barnes Hospital, University of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), & Dr. Ralph J Lewis at Thoracic Service, St. Peter’s Hospital, New Jersey (USA), 1999
• Awarded “ASI Betadine Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Association of Surgeons of India
• Nominated for “Sir Hiralal Gold medal” for being the “Best Postgraduate of the Year” at AIIMS, New Delhi,