As a child Dr.Naresh Trehan lived at Connaught Place in a three-room apartment.
Trehan’s parents were well known doctors in Pakistan but the Partition made them refugees in New Delhi.
Since childhood he was keen on learning new things. He did his MBBS from KG Medical College, Lucknow (1968).
He met his wife Madhu who is a journalist at the age of 16. Trehan is happily married with two daughters.
He started practicing heart surgery under the guidance of Dr. Frank Spencer at New York University and is now one of India’s leading cardiologists.
As Executive Director and Chief Cardiovascular Surgeon of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, Delhi, Trehan, he performs a large number of surgeries every month.
- Academic appointments:
- Clinical Instructor of Surgery, New York University Medical Center, New York (1971- 1974)
- Teaching Assistant in Surgery, New York University Medical Center, New York (1971- 1974)
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, New York University Medical Center (1981-1988)
- Career between 1991-2000:
- Personal Surgeon to the President of India, June1991.
- Honorary Consultant to the Cromwell Hospital, U.K., March, 1994.
- Honorary Visiting Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery, LPS Institute of Cardiology, Kanpur, June, 1996.
- Honorary Consultant, Cardiothoracic Surgery, to the Armed Forces Medical Services, March, 1997.
- Honorary Visiting Professor of Surgery, Bangladesh Medical College, Dhaka, April, 2000.
- Awards received:
- India International Gold Award, 1995
- Rajiv Gandhi National Unity Award, 1995
- India International Gold Award, 1995
- India International Gold Award, 1995
- Rotary Ratna Award,1996
- Life Time Achievement Award, 1999
- Padma Bhushan Award, 2001
- Padmashree Award
- Honorary Fellow Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australia, 2002
- Jewel of India in the Millennium, 2002
- Life Time Achievement Award, 2002