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Medanta appoints robotic thoracic surgeon Dr Arvind Kumar

Dr Kumar will co-chair Medanta’s Robotic Institute

Medanta has appointed robotic thoracic surgeon, Dr Arvind Kumar as Chairman, Institute of Chest Surgery, Chest Onco-Surgery and Lung Transplantation. He will also co-chair Medanta’s Robotic Institute. Dr Kumar along with his team of four consultant chest surgeons will help strengthen Medanta’s cohort driven approach of providing end-to-end diagnosis and treatment for thoracic diseases such as lung cancer, thymomas, pulmonary tuberculosis, empyema, chest wall deformity and chest trauma among others.

Dr Kumar pioneered robotic chest surgery in India in 2008, when he was a Professor of Surgery and Head of Thoracic and Robotic Surgery Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). A keen academician and researcher, Dr Kumar completed his MBBS and Masters in Surgery (M.S.) from AIIMS, New Delhi and served there as a faculty member for 24 years. An expert in key-hole thoracic and robotic chest surgeries, the leading surgeon has successfully conducted over 10,000 thoracic surgeries.

Prior to joining Medanta, Dr Kumar was the Chairman of the Centre for Chest Surgery and Lung Transplantation and Director of the Institute of Robotic Surgery at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi for eight years.

A recipient of Dr BC Roy Award, Dr Kumar is globally renowned for his vast experience and exceptional success rate in surgeries for cancer of lung, thymus, food pipe and windpipe. 

‘’With the appointment of a senior doctor like Dr Kumar and his team, the focus is to further strengthen our capability and infrastructure to provide holistic treatment of chest disorders of international standards,” said Dr Naresh Trehan, CMD, Medanta.

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