Gopal Bhatnagar
NationalityCanadian
EducationMD, University of Western Ontario; MEd, OISE, University of Toronto
Alma materUniversity of Western Ontario
EmployerCleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Known forHeart surgery, electronic cigarettes
Websitehttp://trilliumhealthpartners.ca/

Gopal Bhatnagar is a Canadian cardiac surgeon based in Toronto, Canada.[1] Bhatnagar headed the cardiovascular surgery unit[2] at Trillium Health Centre[3] and served as chief of staff at Trillium Hospital from 2005 to March 2013. He is a practitioner of beating heart surgery and performs minimally invasive cardiac surgery.[4][5][6] He has also led the cardiovascular department unit at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. In his early life he lived in London, Ontario and joined the Canadian Armed Forces. He has competed in a couple of bodybuilding competitions and won his first, and placing second in his second.

Honors

On March 8, 2013, Trillium Health Partners announced the endowment of the Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar Chair in Cardiac Health System Leadership.[7] He has also been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal as well as numerous other awards for his dedication to cardiovascular surgery.

E-cigarette company

Bhatnagar, along with Boris Giller and Ashutosh Jha, co-founded an electronic cigarette company called 180 Smoke Vape Store.[8][9][10][11] In 2010, Bhatnagar claimed that vaping is safer than smoking.[9][12] Bhatnagar and his partners later sold 180 Smoke to Origin House, and he currently is pursuing other business opportunities, both in and out of the healthcare space.

Sources

  1. ↑ "Trillium Hospital". Trillium Foundation.
  2. ↑ "Trillium board, executive teams give $1.5 million". Mississauga News. Nov 22, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Meet our Cardiac Care Champions - Trillium Health Centre Foundation". Trilliumgiving.ca. 2013-03-27. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar". Trillium Health Centre Foundation.
  5. ↑ "Can you teach an old doc new tricks?". National Review of Medicine.
  6. ↑ "Trillium Health Centre Launches Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery". Trillium Health Centre.
  7. ↑ "Trillium Health Partners Celebrates The Careers of Outgoing Chiefs".
  8. ↑ "E-Cigarettes Mainstream Enough for Toronto Main-Street (Yonge)". Toronto Life. 30 June 2014.
  9. 1 2 Buckner, Dianne (9 April 2015). "New e-cigarette industry says regulations off the mark". CBC News.
  10. ↑ Nelson Bennett (20 October 2015). "Local e-cigarette shops wreathed in haze of regulatory uncertainty". Business In Vancouver.
  11. ↑ "Reviews & Complaints". Better Business Bureau – Accredited Business. 30 September 2015.
  12. ↑ Joseph Hall (21 April 2014). "E-cigarettes are odourless, so can you use them anywhere?". The Hamilton Spectator.
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