Harsh Mahajan
Independent Director
Dr. Harsh Mahajan, 64 years, is an eminent radiologist who is the Founder and Managing Director of Mahajan Imaging, which runs a chain of diagnostic centres in Delhi and Gurgaon. He did his MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College and MD in Radiology from PGI, Chandigarh. After a short stint at AIIMS, New Delhi he won the Rotary International Scholarship to pursue a fellowship in MRI from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, USA in 1987. He set up one of India's first MRI centres in 1991 under the brand ‘Mahajan Imaging’.
He is a pioneer in the field of Imaging in India credited with bringing many new technologies into the country, is a post graduate teacher and examiner and travels widely to deliver lectures on clinical applications of latest cutting-edge technologies. He has been a speaker at events hosted by MIT in Boston, Radiology Society of North America in Chicago, European Society of Radiology in Vienna, and has delivered lectures in Japan, South Korea, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and all neighbouring countries. Over 250 practicing radiologists have been trained in his centres.
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 at Vienna, Advisor to UPSC, and is on the Govt. Committee for Make in India for MRI and several others.
He is an active social worker associated with several NGOs. He is Chairman of Tamana which runs three schools for autistic and multiply challenged children, is a trustee of Rotary Gift of Life Trust which provides free cardiac surgery to poor children, had been on the Board of Governors of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi Public School, Automobile Association of Upper India, Chairman, Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET CT, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, Chairman, Health Services Committee of FICCI, Member, Health & Mental Health Committee of National Human Rights Commission and on the Board of Punjab National and Indian Overseas Banks.