S-344, Greater Kailash-I, New Delhi-110048;
Ph: 9811090206.
Muzaffarnagar Medical College, Muzaffarnagar
Passion in Life
To conceptualize cost effective health awareness
modules and to propagate low cost medicare.
Mission Statement
An expression of unconditional love born to help others by
providing excellent service full of respect and value, in an
atmosphere of enthusiasm.
Salient Points
Dr. Krishan Kumar Aggarwal
is a leading senior physician, life style interventional cardiologist,
mind body consultant and an able health communicator cum
trainer. He has over 850 international and national publications
to his credit and has also written chapters in foreign books.
Trained from the USA, he was the first cardiologist to have started
the Color Doppler Echocardiography Technique in North India
in 1987. As a communicator he was responsible for the first ever “Perfect
Health Mela” in 1993 and “Run for your Heart” in 1991 events
in India and on both the occasions Govt. of India released
national postal commemorative stamps. As a researcher he
was responsible to have started the clot dissolving streptokinase
therapy in patient with acute heart attack in the country
for the first time in 1984. In national media he is the most
quoted medical doctor in the country. He has conceptualized
and implemented many first health awareness modules in the
country. He has the rare distinction of integrating all pathies
under one roof.
Assignments
Chairman
Elect, IMA Academy of Medical Specialities; Head Cardiology, Sr. Physician
and Deputy Dean Board of Medical Education Moolchand Medcity;
Hony. Professsor of Medicine and
Cardiology Mujaffarnagar Medical College, Head Preventive Cardiology National Heart
Institute; Member Delhi Medical Council; President Federation
of NCR Doctors; Immediate Past President Delhi Medical
Association; President Heart Care Foundation
of India; Editor in
Chief IJCP Group of Publications; Professor of Medicine and Cardiology
IMA College of General Practitioners, Convener National
Doctors Advisory Board National AIDS Control Organization, Member
Planning Commission Working Group on Health Informatics,
Govt. of India and Regular Columnist Navbharat Time on
Spiritual Health and FICCI Business Digest.
Talents
Leading Sr.
Physician, Cardiologist and Mind Body Consultant; World Class
Clinical Echocardiographer, Writer, Author, Anchor, Orator, Columnist,
Health Communicator, Social Worker, Educator, Teacher,
Trainer, Conceptualizer, Visualizer, Creator, Organizer, Preacher,
Administrator, Advisor, Social Activist, Researcher
and Meditation Teacher par excellence.
Qualifications
Schooling
from ASVJ Hr. Secondary School, Daryaganj, Delhi, with Distinctions
in Physics and Biology. 1st Year Zoology (Hons)
from Desh Bandhu College (DU) with Distinction in Physics. MBBS & MD
(Gold Medalist throughout) from MGIMS Wardha, (Nagpur University).
Special Trainings
In Clinical Rheumatology and Cytogenetics
At AIIMS under Dr A N Malaviya (1982); in Leprosy
Immunology at JALMA Agra (1982), Research Fellowship in Echocardiography
at University of Alabama at Birmingham USA
(1987), training in Pediatric Echocardiography at Mount Saini Hospital
New York (1987), training in Vascular Doppler Ultrasound at Oakwood
Medical Center, Detroit (1987) and certified
Meditation Teacher under Dr. Deepak Chopra from San Diego in
1988.
Out of Turn
Promotion
Joined Moolchand Hospital in 1983;
became a consultant after five months of residency.
Researcher
He has contributed
to six chapters in International Textbook on Echocardiography
(Navin C Nanda), has 14 International Publications
(Am J of cardiology, Circulation, Journal of Medicine and Echocardiography
a journal of clinical ultrasound), 115 publications
in Indexed National Journals (namely JAPI, Indian Heart Journal,
Indian Journal of heart research) and over 350 publications in
review Indian Journals.
Academic Firsts
He started the clot dissolving
streptokinase therapy along with Dr. K L Chopra
for the first time in India in 1984 and starting the technique
of colour Doppler echocardiography in north India in 1988.
Public
Health Firsts
He has given to the nation many innovative public
health modules in the field of health awareness.
He conceptualized and organized the first ever “Perfect Health
Mela” in 1993
and “Run for your Heart” in
1991. On both occasions, Govt. of India released
national postal commemorative stamps (Rs 6.50
and Rs 1 respectively).
Multifaceted Healer & A Soul Preacher
He promotes & integrates all systems
of medicine. He established department of
holistic medicine at Apollo hospital in 2000. He has
also been instrumental in conducting yearly acupressure workshops
for the last 16 years. His weekly regular columns appear in Navbharat Times in
edit page under Ananda Yoga column. He has been writing for the UK edition in
the past. He produced and co-directed 52 episodes “Body Mind and Soul” on DD
News in year 2000. In 2003 he coordinated 102 episodes of a live phone-in TV
programme “Healthy
India” for
DD Bharti with specialists on all pathies. The programs are being
continuously re-telecasted since than on a weekly basis. He advocates
the need for introducing the subject of spiritual medicine in MBBS
curriculum. He regularly conducts workshops on holistic health. He
is a certified meditation teacher, pure vegetarian and does not drink,
smoke consume tea, coffee or soft drinks. Presently,
he is the anchor cum expert in the weekly Lok Sabha TV programme “Hello Doctor”.
He intergrates all pathies under one roof. With NIMA, UP and Bulandshahar,
he has organised a series of sensitization programmes for ayurvedic
doctors.
Dedicated Community Worker
Since his early medical school days at Sewagram,
he was motivated with the Gandhian thoughts.
In the first 10 days of joining the medical school he was made
to live in Sewagram Ashram with an exposure to spiritual networking.
Within three months, he was posted in a village and attached
to look after a few poor families for the next five years. Those
10 days with the villagers changed his perspective and motivated
him in dedicating his life to the economically weaker sections
of the society.
A Great
Organizer
He organizes regular events for creating health awareness.
One of the main and now a regular annual event is Perfect Health
Mela. In 1993, He organized the first ever Mela at Talkatora
Gardens with Delhi Administration. The Mela was declared the best
event in Asia by BBC. Ever since, the Mela is being organised yearly.
Ministry of Family Welfare and later the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare Govt. of India adopted this module under the National
Health Policy and today “health mela” has become
an established mode of creating health awareness.
Creative Writer
and Pioneer In Medical Journalism
He is a prolific writer on community health subjects.
He is a frequent writer for book chapters,
papers, abstracts, newspaper columns and editorials. He has contributed
over 400 health articles in newspapers and magazines
and appearances in Radio & TV. He is one of the most quoted doctors
in the field of health (quoted over 12000 times). He has
organized over 1000 lectures, seminars and discussions. He is
Editor-in-Chief of the IJCP Group of Publications – with
over 30 journals and newspapers catering to doctors.
A Perfect Advisor
He has served as the convener of health
advisory committee DD Bharti (2002), Governing Council Member
College of Applied Sciences Univ. of Delhi (2000), Member
Delhi Legal Service Authority (1998), member of committee for experts
for control of cardiovascular diseases Ministry of Health
GOI; Delhi Coordinator for the Year of Scientific Awareness by
Department of Science and Technology GOI (2004); member of Manviya
Sanrakshan Abhiyan Samiti Ministry of HRD (2004), Member, National
Working Group on Service Delivery, National AIDS Control Program
III, Govt. of India (05-06). He has developed training modules
for Police, HIV training for DSACS, blood motivators for DST and
health folder for the parliamentarian’s
week being observed by the ministry of health in August 2006.
Awareness Stirrer
Has designed over 1000 one liner health sutras,
which serves as the rules of thumb (example food of plant
in origin contains no cholesterol). During epidemics (dengue, plague,
meningococcal meningitis, leptospirosis, epidemic dropsy),
he has been the first one to organize conferences for the doctors
and release practical guidelines for the public. He has
to his credit the maximum number of press interactions and media
health advocacy programs (over 500).
A Keen Educator, Sensitizer and Trainer
He holds
the distinction of having organized the maximum number of World
confe ences on cardiology, medical CME programs
and health events. He has been training nursing students
for the last 15 years. He provided training on first
aid and CPR for all PCR vans personals in Delhi during Raja Vijay
Karan’s
tenure as police commissioner. He trained all
DTC drivers on First Aid for continuous four years under Dept.
of Transport. He also trained the master trainers from students
and school principals on subjects like HIV-AIDS, road safety, CPR,
disaster management under Delhi govt. Besides educating about heart
diseases, he has also been instrumental in propagating basic educational
programs on HIV- AIDS, Iodine Deficiency Disorders, Dengue,
malaria, Plague, SARS, Noise Pollution, Osteoporosis and Diabetes.
A Visionary with A Difference
He conceptualized disease specific camps on
PSA, TSH, Obesity and Osteoporosis. He has designed
advertisements for various Delhi Govt. campaigns (MCD, NDMC,
prohibition, Health, DSACS). He also came out with a new logo
of allopathy (red wheel with Rx sign) which Delhi Medical Association
has adopted.
Concern for The Weaker Sections
He created the concept of life
saving drug bank, pace maker bank and free health
check up camps. From 1990-96 he organised pace maker camps
with project Pacer International, a US based NGO, where 25 to 30
free pace makers were implanted annually. He also conceived the
idea of mega free Community health check up camps; On an average
he organizes 50 such camps in a year for the community. He has
organised a series of camps in Delhi, NOIDA, Greater NOIDA, Meerut,
Saharanpur, Baraut, Bulandshahar, Khurja, etc.
Redefining Health
He has been instrumental in redefining the definition of health.
Until now health was defined as a state of physical, mental,
social, and environmental well-being. He added spiritual and financial
health components.
Social Campaigner
On 6th july 1993, on the
untimely tragic death of his elder sister due to electrocution, he launched, “Shashi
Bala save a life campaign” to
prevent electrocution deaths during monsoon season.
On 2nd Dec. 94, he conceptualized the first ever
Tongathon for the Rotary District 3010
for creating Polio Awareness where 100 Tonga rally was by Mr.
Salman Khurshid and Mr. Bishan Singh
Bedi.
On 27th July 1997 he conceptualized the “First
Ever Free Streptokinase Drug Bank”.
100 such doses were donated in
the very first year.
He organized the
first ever inter dancing school competition
in the year 2000. That traditional
Indian dancing is the right mix of
yoga, chakkra stimulation, exercise
and meditation was the concept he promoted
by involving various dancers like Birju
Maharaj, Raja Radha Kausalya Reddy,
Geeta Chandran, Shobhna Narayan and
Nalini Kamalani, to create health awareness
about exercise, dancing and health.
On
20th Jan 2002 he conceptualized the first ever-Perfect Health
Durbar based on the lines of traditional Mughal
Durbar. All the top cardiologists
on the dais solved public queries on the
spot. Same year on 31st may he was
instrumental in sensitizing and making
Delhi cabinet pass a resolution that
none of the ministers will attend
a function where tobacco promotion was
directly or indirectly implicated.
All the ministers and the CM signed
the pledge, which was also released
as advertisements all over.
In 2004
he was appointed the state coordinator
for the Year of Scientific Awareness
under the department of science and
technology, Govt. of India. On 30th
May 2004 last rites of “Mr
and Mrs Tobacco” were performed at
the cremation ground as a part of an
IEC activity by him along with Delhi
Health Minister and Industry Minister.
This was the start of a new health
awareness module on the concept that
even effigies of the bad evils needs
to be burnt or cremated with full respect
and rituals. On 5th September 2004
he conceptualized the first ever get
together in RED called GLOW RED to
sensitize the public about the rising
problem of heart disease in women.
He has organised over 12 “Walks for
Health” and “one
Tempothon” latest
being the walk for knee on 10th
Oct. 2004 at Rajpath involving patients
with knee replacement and walk for
an anemia free Delhi at ITO on 1st
July 2005.
On 5th June 2005, he designed
module for creating awareness about
healthy environment by organizing
a series of green get-togethers (people
wearing green dress).
He has designed
many health game shows like health
tambola, health tambola quiz, snakes
and ladders game, dart, ludo game,
kaun banega healthy crorepati. He
also conceptualized health informative playing
cards on subjects ‘Say
No to Alcohol’, ‘Metabolic
Syndrome’, ‘Living Health Life’, ‘HIV-AIDS’, ‘Blood
Safety’, ‘Dental
Care’,
Delhi Traffic Police, and NDMC
Messages. In this module all
52 cards carry different preventive
messages on a particular aspect
of health. He also designed a
miniature book on “Dil Ki Baatein” on
the same lines. He conceptualized
the concepts of health break
(break ke baad); health awareness using
the kites with health messages;
health awareness through competitions
(school, college, dance schools,
RWA and inter organizations)
and health infotainment modules.
During
the Kargil war, a delegation
from Heart Care Foundation, led by him
called on to the Prime Minister
of India, and donated medicines
worth lacs for the Kargil
victims. Also during the Gujarat earthquake,
he along with Maheshwari
Club sent a team of doctors at the affected
site. In the field of schools
health awareness he has been lecturing
on an average 25 schools
on an annual basis and is conducting
interactive workshops, first
aid trainings and quiz sessions.
Celebrity Involvement
He conceptualized
the idea of involving politicians,
bureaucrats and celebrities in dis persing health
messages to the community utilizing
the principle ‘Hit
the Iron When It is Hot’ and ‘Involving
People Who Count’.
He got messages released from Sh.
A B Vajpayee, Late Sh. P V Narasimha
Rao, Sh. I K Gujral, Late Gyani
Zail Singh, Late Shri Shankar Dayal
Sharma, Late Sh. Krishnakant Ji,
Sh. Bharo Singh Ji Shekhawat, Sh.
Madan Lal Khurana, Sh. Sahib Singh,
Smt. Sheila Dikshit, Sh. B L Joshi,
Sh. Romesh Bhandari, Sh. Sudewrshan
Agarawal, Sh A R Kohli, etc. The
first ever film stars’ Chat Show
on Health was organized by him
in December 1993. He has utilized
film premiers to create health
awareness with films like ‘Hum
Hain Rahi Pyar Ke’, ‘Karam Yoddha’.
The film ‘Main
Khiladi Tu Anadi’ created
awareness on HIV/AIDS. The slogan
of “I am Anadi,
If I Use Condom I’ll Become Khiladi” by
Akshay Kumar became
the talk of the town. He also involved
famous past and present cricketers,
film stars, TV stars, models, dancers
and fashion designers by making
them interact with the media on
health related topics or distributing
personalized health messages signed
by them.
Contribution to Medical Association
He
is Chairman Elect of IMA Academy
of Medical Specialities, President
of Federation Of NCR
Doctors and Immediate Past President of
Delhi Medical Association.
He has been responsible for involvement
of the Association in the community
service projects, updating knowledge
of practicing physicians and
bringing out a new logo of Allopathy.
Contribution
to Heart
Care Foundation
of India
As the founder Trustee, he
is the man behind the activities
of Heart Care Foundation of India,
a National Charitable Trust, known for providing many
firsts to the country viz conceptualizing
and establishing innovative health
awareness modules. He conceptualized
and organized the first ever-public
conference on heart care in September
1986, held at Siri Fort auditorium.
He also organized the first ever
Perfect Health Parade, on 7th April
2001; from Vijay Chowk to Lal Qila
on the lines of 26th January parade.
Flagged off by the Delhi Chief
Minister and attended by WHO Representative
to India the parade as a concept
now has become an annual symbol
of health awareness.
Accolades
and Awards
Gold Medalist through out;
He topped Nagpur University in
1st and 2nd MBBS and also
topped amongst the male candidates
in the final MBBS. He also topped
Nagpur University in the aggregate
of all the MBBS marks. He received
two university gold medals in final
MBBS. During his MBBS at MGIMS
College he topped in all the three
academic sessions, got distinctions
in physiology, ophthalmology and
forensic medicine. He had the distinction
of receiving medals in all subjects
(four Gold Medals, nine Silver
Medals, and five Bronze Medals).
At MGIMS was declared as the best
graduate of the college in 1979.
He was declared as the best intern,
resident and post graduate of MGIMS
Sewagram Wardha during his study
days. A Paul Harris Fellow he has
received many prestigious awards.
A few of them are Dr B C Roy National
ward, (Govt. Of India); Dr. D S
Mungekar National IMA Award; Delhi
Medical Association Swasthya Health
Ratna 2005-06 Award, DMA Nursing
Home Forum Medical Statesman and
Communicator of the Last Decade
2005-6 Award; DMA Dr. B N Behl
Foundation Award; Cardiology Society
of India Mumbai Branch Dr KK Datey
Oration; Rajiv Gandhi Excellence
Award; Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini
Award; Delhi Hindi Sahitya Samellan
- Sahitya Shree award (Doctor and
Philosopher of Indian Culture Award);
Rashtriya Gaurav Samman; Abhipra
Samaj Seva Puraskar; The Great
Son of the Soil Award; IMA New
Delhi Branch Swasthya Ratna Award;
IMA New Delhi Branch Life Style
Interventional Cardiologist of
the Last Decade Award; IMANDB Life
Time Achievement Award and IMANDB
Health Communicator of the Last
Decade Award .
