Raj Vir Singh Yadav

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Raj Vir Singh Yadav
Born	(1937-07-27)27 July 1937 Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died	4 February 2006(2006-02-04) (aged 68)
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Surgeon
Known for	Kidney transplants

R.V.S. Yadav was born on 27 July 1937 in Nauliharnathpur (District Budaun), Uttar Pradesh, India. He was awarded the MBBS in 1961 and the MS (Surgery) in 1964 respectively from the King George's Medical College, Lucknow University, Lucknow. He received the FICS (General Surgery) in 1974 from the International College of Surgeons and the FACS (General Surgery) in 1977 from the American College of Surgeons.

Yadav performed the first kidney transplant in India at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER) at Chandigarh in 1973. He was the first transplant surgeon to be by honoured by Indira Gandhi with the Padma Shri award in 1982. He was honorary surgeon to three consecutive Presidents, Dr. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddi, Gyani Zail Singh and R. Venkataraman.

Yadav was honoured with the establishment of the Raj Vir Singh Yadav Foundation, which aims to support medical and scientific education, awareness, research and practice. It offers and supports socio-economic assistance, development, and general welfare and empowerment of the Indian societies.

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RVSY Foundation

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Medicine

1950s

Bir Bhan Bhatia (1954)
V. R. Khanolkar (1954)
Perakath Verghese Benjamin (1955)
Mahesh Prasad Mehray (1955)
Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi (1956)
Chintaman Govind Pandit (1956)
Isaac Santra (1956)
Khushdeva Singh (1957)

1960s

1970s

1980s

Jasbir Singh Bajaj (1981)
P. K. Sethi (1981)
K. Vardachari Thiruvengadam (1981)
C. P. Thakur (1982)
Raj Vir Singh Yadav (1982)
S. S. Badrinath (1983)
Raj Baveja (1983)
Shishupal Ram (1983)
Purshottam Lal Wahi (1983)
B. K. Goyal (1984)
Vera Hingorani (1984)
K. P. Mathur (1984)
N. Balakrishnan Nair (1984)
Hariharan Srinivasan (1984)
Ramniklal K. Gandhi (1985)
Samiran Nundy (1985)
Usha Sharma (1985)
M. S. Valiathan (1985)
Gopal Krishna Vishwakarma (1985)
Santosh Kumar Kackar (1986)
V. Shanta (1986)
Prabhu Dayal Nigam (1987)
Daljit Singh (1987)
Harbans Singh Wasir (1987)

1990s

N. H. Antia (1990)
M. G. Deo (1990)
P. K. Rajagopalan (1990)
M. M. S. Ahuja (1991)
Sneh Bhargava (1991)
K. M. Cherian (doctor) (1991)
G. N. Malviya (1991)
Shiela Mehra (1991)
S. C. Munshi (1991)
M. N. Passey (1991)
Jai Pal Singh (1991)
Naresh Trehan (1991)
Rathin Datta (1992)
Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed (1992)
Anil Kohli (1992)
Ramesh Kumar (nephrologist) (1992)
Usha Kehar Luthra (1992)
J. S. Mahashabde (1992)
P. V. A. Mohandas (1992)
E. T. Neelakandan Mooss (1992)
Kameshwar Prasad (1992)
Luis Jose De Souza (1992)
Amrit Tewari (1992)
G. S. Venkataraman (1992)
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury (1998)
K. A. Abraham (1999)
Raj Bothra (1999)
Balendu Prakash (1999)
Devendra Triguna (1999)
P. K. Warrier (1999)

2000s

2010s

2020s

Yogi Aereon (2020)
Padma Bandopadhyay (2020)
Sushovan Banerjee (2020)
Digambar Behera (2020)
Leela Joshi (2020)
Arunoday Mondal (2020)
Shanti Roy (2020)
Gurdip Singh (2020)
Sandra Desa Souza (2020)
Kushal Konwar Sarma (2020)
Ravi Kannan R (2020)
Krishna Mohan Pathi (2021)
Jitendra Nath Pande (2021)
Himmatrao Bawaskar (2022)
Prokar Dasgupta (2022)
Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao (2022)
Lata Desai (2022)
Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre (2022)
Dr Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) (2022)
Veeraswamy Seshiah (2022)
Bhimsen Singhal (2022)
Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) (2022)
Kamlakar Tripathi (2022)
Munishwar Chandar Dawar (2023)
Ratan Chandra Kar (2023)
Nalini Parthasarathi (2023)
Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti (2023)
Manoranjan Sahu (2023)
Gopalsamy Veluchamy (2023)
Ishwar Chander Verma (2023)

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