Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani is a world-renowned heart surgeon who has been bestowed with the Padma Shri Award by the president of India. He completed his MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi in 1969. Later, he pursued his education by doing MS in General Surgery from the same university in 1975, followed by MCh in CTS from Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu in 1979. He has performed more than 18000 cardiac surgeries on both adults and pediatrics till now, achieved zero mortality in more than 500 consecutive surgeries, and was a pioneer in the Beating Heart Coronary Artery Bypass procedure. Along with Coronary Artery Surgery, he has performed many valve procedures and congenital heart surgeries.