Stanford University has released the list of top 2 percent scientists of the world. There is good news for India in this list too, because the names of 23 Indian scientists and surgeons are also included in the list. All of them are associated with different medical institutions, hospitals and universities of the country. This list includes many big names working in the field of liver transplant, cancer surgery, plastic surgery and modern surgery.
This list has been prepared in collaboration with Professor John PA Ioannidis of Stanford University and Elsevier Data Repository. In this, the citations received on the research papers of scientists and other research data have been made the basis. If understood in simple language, those people have been given a place in this list whose research has been used by researchers all over the world in their research.
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Which Indians got the place?
First in this list is Dr. Pankaj K. Garg (Garg Fistula Research Institute), Dr. Chetan D. Parmar (Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation), Dr. VK Kapoor (Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital), Dr. Mohammed S. Rela (VHS Medical Center India), Dr. Shailesh Vinayak Shrikhande (Tata Memorial Hospital), Dr. Prashant Bhangui (Medanta-The Medicity), Dr. Surjit Bhattacharya (Ajanta Hospital) and Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma (PGIMER Chandigarh). Among these, Dr. Pankaj Garg is known for the treatment of fistula. Whereas Dr. Mohammad S. Raila had performed liver transplant of just a 5-day-old child, for which his name is recorded in the Guinness World Records. Dr. Chetan Parmar has experience of thousands of surgeries and robotic surgeries.
Honors received earlier also
Apart from this, Dr. Chinnusamy Palanivelu (GEM Hospital, Coimbatore), Dr. Somprakash Basu (AIIMS Rishikesh), Dr. Gaurav K. Aggarwal (SGPGIMS Lucknow), Dr. Mahesh Chandra Mishra (AIIMS New Delhi), Dr. Virinder Kumar Bansal (AIIMS New Delhi), Dr. Pradeep K. Chaubey (Max Super Specialty Hospital, Delhi) and Dr. Samiran Nandi (Sir Gangaram Hospital) have also found a place in this list. Dr. Palanivelu is known for pioneering laparoscopic surgery in South India. At the same time, Dr. Pradeep Choubey was awarded Padmashree in the year 2002. Dr. Samiran Nandy's team had performed 241 liver resections between 1996 and 2005.
These doctors also made their place
Next in this list is Dr. Dhananjay B. Sharma (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College and Hospital), Dr. Subramaniam Kulathu Iyer (Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences), Dr. Pawan Agarwal (NSCB Medical College and Hospital), Dr. Vinyendra Pamecha (Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences), Dr. Ashwin Rammohan (Bharat Institute of Higher Education and Research), S. Ranjan Kumar (India Institute of Medical Sciences), Arun Kumar Prasad Singh (Jamia Millia Islamia) and Manish Dhawan (Punjab Agricultural University). Dr. Iyer works in the field of robotic surgery along with plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Pamecha is an expert in liver transplant and related surgeries. Whereas, Manish Dhawan has obtained graduation in Microbiology from Guru Nanak Dev University and master's degree from Punjab Agricultural University.
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For what purposes did the name come?
The research field of all 23 people included in this list is surgery. His work includes research on cancer, liver transplant, digestive system, plastic surgery and other research related to medical science. This achievement shows that Indian doctors and scientists are making their mark in the world through treatment as well as new technology and research.