The Bidhan Chandra Roy Award is an award instituted in 1962 in memory of Bidhan Chandra Roy by the National Medical Commission. It is presented by the President of India in New Delhi every year on July 1, the National Doctors' Day. It is also the highest honour that can be achieved by a doctor in India. The award is given annually in each of the following categories:
Statesmanship of the Highest Order in India. Medical Statesman, Eminent Medical Person, Eminent person in Philosophy, Eminent person in Science Eminent person in Arts. It was first awarded in 1971 to Dr. M.N. Sarkar of Calcutta National Medical Medical College, Calcutta (earlier referred to as the Calcutta National Medical Institute), by V. V. Giri, the then President of India.
Recipients
1970s Dr. M.N. Sarkar (1971) Sandip Mukharji (1973) Arthur Saravanamuthu Thambiah (1978) Nagarur Gopinath (1978) M.P MEHREY(1972) Vikram Marwah (1979)
1980s M.N. Ghosh (1980) J G Jolly (1981) S. P. Gupta M.D., FAMS (1983) Om Dutt Gulati (1981) M. M. S. Ahuja (1982) Perugu Siva Reddy (1982) Prabhu Dayal Nigam (1983) Prem Nath Wahi (1984) M. Khalilullah (1984), Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri recipient Jagjit Singh Chopra (1986) Sunkara Balaparameswara Rao Atluri Sriman Narayana (1989) Dinesh K. Bhargava (1989)
1992 A.N. Chandrasekaran, rheumatologist
1993 Kirpal Singh Chugh Pinnamaneni Narasimharao, Vijayawada, A.P
1994 M.L. Kulkarni, Pediatrician and Geneticist V. S. Natarajan - Geriatric physician Daljit Singh, Ophthalmologist Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti, Pediatrician, Rehab Psychologist Rattan Lal Mittal, Orthopedic surgeon
1995 P. V. Chalapathi Rao, General Surgeon Sivapatham Vittal, Surgical endocrinologist
1996 Wilfred de Souza Mathew Samuel Kalarickal
1997 G. B. Parulkar N. A. Jadhav, Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine Mysore Medical College, Mysuru
1998 Arjunan Rajasekaran, Urologist and Padma Shri recipient Shashanka Mohan Bose, General Surgeon, Chandigarh S. Kantha, Former First Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
1999 Belle Monappa Hegde K.A. Ashok Pai Upendra Kaul B. C. Das Farooq Abdullah Shivadeo S. Bapat, Urologist, Pune
2000 S.Arulrhaj - Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India. Manju Gita Mishra, Patna, Bihar, India. Shashanka Mohan Bose, General Surgeon, Chandigarh
2001 I. Sathyamurthy MayilVahanan Natarajan S. K. Sama
2002 Nilima Arun Kshirsagar V. V. Radhakrishnan, S. P. Agarwal, C. P. Thakur, S. K. Sharma, G. Venkataswamy, Govind Swarup, Gourie Devi, T. R. Anantharaman, and Obaid Siddiqi K. K. Talwar, Mukkai Kesavan Lalitha, Jai Dev Wig, Rakesh Tandon and C. V. Bhirmanandham Abraham G. Thomas, Ashok Panagariya, and Saroj Chooramani Gopal Sanjiv Malik and A. K. Kesanna N. K. Venkataramana Narayana Panicker Kochupillai Laxmi Chand Gupta
2003 - 2004 Purshotam Lal Vinay Kumar Kapoor V. K. Puri M. C. Pant Shally Awasthi T. V. Devarajan Sunil Pradhan
2005 - 2013 Amrinder Jit Kanwar, Murugunathan A V. Mohan, Naresh Trehan, K. K. Aggarwal, Ajay Kumar, Anoop Misra and Lalit Kumar, S. M. Balaji, N. K. Pandey Yogesh Kumar Chawla, Rayapu Ramesh Babu, P. K. Bilwani and Prakash B. Behere Amit Banerjee P. Varalakshmi, R. K. Dhiman and S. R. Mittal Anupam Sachdeva, Alka Kriplani, A. K. Mahapatra, Drupad Nautamlal Chhatrapati, and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan Nikhil C. Munshi Tejas Patel Nikhil Tandon Kodaganur S. Gopinath H. Sudarshan Ballal (2010), Nephrologist, Director & Chairman of Manipal Hospitals Group Milind Vasant Kirtane Mahesh Verma Kumar L. Pradhan Sanjeev Bagai Gurpreet Singh Wander C. V. Harinarayan,- Sakra World Hospital Moti Lal Singh M.S. FRCS (London) FRCS (Edin) - Patna
2014 Source: Eminent Medical Person:
Anand B. R., Former Chief Medical Officer, Indian Railways, Mysore. Arvind Kumar, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi; Randeep Guleria, AIIMS, New Delhi. Eminent Medical Teacher:
Ravi Kant, Lucknow Ashwani Kumar, New Delhi Rajesh Malhotra, New Delhi Rakesh Yadav, New Delhi P.V.L.N. Murthy, Hyderabad. Best talents in encouraging the development of specialities in different branches in Medicine:
Janak Desai, Ahmedabad Rajesh Upadhyay, New Delhi Binay Karak, Patna Ashok Rajgopal, Gurgaon Davinder Singh Rana, New Delhi. Outstanding services in the field of Sociomedical Relief:
Rama Reddy Karri, Rajamahendravaram (AP); Jitender B Patel, Ahmedabad; Sudipto Roy, Kolkata.
2015 Source: Eminent Medical Person:
C. Palanivelu, GEM Institute for Gastrointestinal Disease, Coimbatore; Ashok Seth, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute & Research Center, New Delhi. Eminent Medical Teacher:
N. Sanjeeva Reddy, Chennai; C.S. Yadav, New Delhi; A.K. Bisoi, New Delhi; D.J. Borah, Guwahati; Arun Thakur, Patna. Best talents in encouraging the development of specialities in different branches in Medicine:
H.P. Bhalodiya, Ahmedabad; Parimal M Desai, Ahmedabad; Anand Khakhar, Chennai; Ambrish Mittal, New Delhi; Amlesh Seth, New Delhi. Outstanding service in the field of Socio Medical Relief:
A Marthanda Pillai, Thiruvananthapuram; John Ebnezar, Bangalore; A. Arulvisagan, Puducherry. Aid or Assistance to Research Project:
J.B. Sharma, New Delhi.
2016 Source: Eminent Medical Person:
Vipul R. Patel Neelam Mohan, ISB Alumni - AMPH Co 2020 Eminent Person - Literature:
Anil Kumar Chaturvedi Eminent Medical Teacher:
Prem Nath Dogra Unnikrishnan G. S. Umamaheshwara Rao Ved Prakash Mishra Rajeshwar Dayal Best Talents in Encouraging the Development of Specialties in Different Branches in Medicines:
Sanjay Balwant Kulkarni O. P. Yadava Pawanindra Lal D. Raghunadharao Pradeep Tandon G. Venugopala Rao Outstanding Service in the field of Socio Medical Relief:
T Rajagopal Satchit Balsari S. Geethalakshmi - Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University - Vice Chancellor Devraj Rai Pallarisetti Raghu Ram Karri Rama Reddy (Rajahmundry), award received in the year 2017 for Service of Socio Medical Relief for the year 2014. Aid or Assistance to Research Project:
Punit Gupta
2017 M.L.B. Bhatt, Vice Chancellor, K. G. Medical university, Lucknow under the category of Eminent Medical Teacher. Syed Sanaullah Mohd Tabish, AIIMS, New Delhi Avinash Supe, Seth GSMC, Mumbai (Teaching Category) Rashmi Kaur, PGI, Chandigarh Amit Singh, Bihar Farheen Zuber Patel, Gujarat Kanu Bhatia, Mumbai S.P. Bhatt, Surat Suman Prasad, AIIMS, New Delhi Satchit Balsari, Boston, USA
2018 Eminent Medical Person:
H. S. Shashidhar (Medical Director, Manasa group of hospitals Karnataka) B. K. Misra - Chairman of Neurosurgery, Hinduja Hospitals Outstanding service in the field of socio medical relief
P Raghu. Ram H. R. Surendra, MBBS, MS (ophthalmology) Kirit Premjibhai Solanki, MBBS, MS (General Surgery), FICS. Ex Professor of Surgery V S Hospital Ahmedabad (He is currently 2nd term Member of Parliament from Ahmedabad West constituency Gujarat) Best talents in encouraging the development of specialties in different branches in Medicine
Sanjay Desai
See also List of medicine awards
References
External links B. C. Roy Award Details