The Leader

The Leader

Born into a medical family (father is a doctor who has been operating a 150 bedded hospital for the last 40 years), for Dr. Prasad a graduate degree in medicine was a natural outcome. Having graduated the search for specialization began and the pull was towards the glamour specialties like orthopaedics and cardiac surgery. However not wanting to get restricted to one specialty and wanting to contribute over a larger area, Anaesthesiology became the specialty of choice.

Having specialized in anaesthesiology, Dr. Prasad worked in at the family hospital for 4 years before embarking on a journey to contribute to the establishment of emergency medicine as a specialty India.

Dr. Prasad joined the Apollo Group of Hospitals and contributed to the launch of the first ever dedicated accident & emergency hospital in the country at Hyderabad. Under the leadership of Dr. Prasad the first ever emergency system in India (20 ambulances & 8 emergency rooms) became operational at Hyderabad in the year 2000. As Director of Emergency Medical Services, Dr. Prasad took this across 12 major cities in India and created a network delivering consistent standards of care in each city. This model has subsequently become the national model with many states introducing EMS in partnership with different private players.

Dr. Prasad hosted the first ever conference on Emergency Medicine in India in 1999 at Hyderabad and during this conference formed the Society for Emergency Medicine, India which is today the professional body representing the specialty in India. The first ever International Conference on Emergency Medicine was also hosted at Hyderabad 2003.

With an enriched background and many successes to his credit, Dr. Prasad now heads the entire hospital division of the Apollo Hospitals Group.

Dr. Prasad is the first individual outside Europe to be honoured with the Fellowship of College of Emergency Medicine, UK and the first individual in India to be honoured with a fellowship by the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. He has also been honoured with the Life Time Achievement Award by the Society for Emergency Medicine, India. Dr. Prasad was elected as the Best Lead across Apollo Group of Hospitals in the year 2012.

 

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R Krishnakumar, is the head –Investors Relations and Vice President –Corporate Finance of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited. He is responsible for the management information systems function apart from managing interactions with the Investors Community at large including Foreign Institutional Investors.

He holds Bechelor’s degree in commerce and is also qualified Chartered Accountant.He also hold’s Diploma in Computer Science from APTECH.

He has around 25 years of rich and varied experience in various facets of finance and commercial functions and has previously worked in the non-banking financial services space and reputed corporates such as Hindustan Lever Limited. He has been employed with the Apollo Hospital’s group since the year 2000 in various roles.

 

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Bijoyananda Chowdhury is the director of Purbanchal Banijya Vikash (P) Ltd which is one of the leading companies of the North eastern region of India providing transportation and handling services as well as oil field supply and services.

He has worked with various contracts with leading companies in the oil field sector and other. He was the first entrepreneur to set up weighbridges on both sides of the Assam-West Bengal border. He is also establishing two numbers of modern rice mills for the benefit of the local farmers of the state of Assam under the aegis of KUNKUNI RICE.

Bijoyananda Chowdhury is also the Founder Member and present Secretary of Shrimanta Shankar Academy, a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.

In the year 2006 considering the tremendous need for the establishment of college/institutes imparting quality technical education in the state and region started the first engineering college in the non-government sector under the aegis of the Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management & Technology – Guwahati.