Gurukumar Bhalachandra Parulkar (1 December 1931 – 4 May 2021) was an Indian cardiothoracic surgeon and a professor emeritus at

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. He also served as the president of the Association of Surgeons of India in 1984.

Biography

Born on 1 December 1931 at

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in the Indian state of

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, Parulkar served as an associate of

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, a pioneer of cardiac surgery in India. A graduate of the

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, he did advanced training at

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and on his return to India, he introduced the technique of ''hypothermic circulatory arrest technique of resection of aortic aneurysms'' in India. He was one of the doctors who attended to the victim in the

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. Parulkar received the

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from the Medical Council of India in 1997. The

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awarded him the

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, the third highest civilian award, in 1998. He is also a recipient of the 2009 ''The Marathon Teacher Award'' of the

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and a number of other honors. Parulkar died on 4 May 2021, at the age of 89.

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