Harsh Mahajan, MD

Dr Harsh Mahajan is a radiologist and founder/managing director of Mahajan Imaging, which runs a chain of diagnostic centers in Delhi, India. He earned his bachelor of medicine from Maulana Azad Medical College and medical degree in radiology from PGI, Chandigarh. After a short stint at AIIMS, New Delhi, he won the Rotary International Scholarship and went to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in 1987 for a fellowship in MRI. He also set up one of India's first MRI centers in 1991.

Dr. Mahajan is a pioneer in the field of imaging in India, credited with bringing many new technologies into the country. He is a postgraduate teacher and examiner, and he delivers lectures on clinical applications of cutting-edge technologies. He has been an invited speaker to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Radiology Society of North America in Chicago, European Society of Radiology in Vienna, Austria, and has lectured in Japan, South Korea, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar. More than 250 practicing radiologists have trained at his centers.

He currently has stand-alone facilities in Delhi and Gurgaon in partnership with Sir Ganga Ram, PSRI and Fortis hospitals, and in partnership with the Government of India at Safderjang Hospital. Mahajan Imaging has served several presidents and prime ministers of India and poor, underserved patients.

Dr Mahajan has received many accolades and awards including the Padma Shri in 2002. He was the National President of Indian Radiology and Imaging Association in 2012. He is consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, and is on the Government Committee for the Make in India initiative for MRI.

He is an active social worker associated with several nonprofit organizations. He is chairman of Tamana, which runs three schools for autistic and intellectually disabled children, and as a trustee of Rotary Gift of Life Trust, which provides free cardiac surgery to poor children.