Dr. Harsh Mahajan
Founder & Chief Radiologist – Mahajan Imaging
Chairman – CARING (Centre for Advanced Research in Imaging, Neuroscience and Genomics)
Chairman – Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET CT, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
Consultant – International Atomic Energy Agency
Former Honorary Radiologist to the President of India
Former National President of Indian Radiological & Imaging Association and Indian Society of Neuroradiology
Dr. Harsh Mahajan is an eminent radiologist who is the Founder and Managing Director of Mahajan Imaging, which runs a chain of diagnostic centres in Delhi. 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 and went to the world famous MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas , USA in 1987 to do a fellowship in MRI. He set up one of India's first MRI centres in 1991, which would qualify as a startup in today's parlance. This was started even before AIIMS, PGI or other large hospitals had an MRI.
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 an invited speaker to MIT in Boston, Radiology Society of North America in Chicago, European Society of Radiology in Vienna, and has lectured in Japan, South Korea, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and all neighbouring countries. Over 250 practicing radiologists have been trained in his centres.
He currently has centres which are stand alone facilities in Delhi and Gurgaon, in Private- Private partnership with Sir Ganga Ram, PSRI and Fortis Hospitals and Public-Private partnership with the Govt of India at Safderjang Hospital. Mahajan Imaging Pvt. Ltd. is unique in that it straddles all healthcare delivery systems in India. They have the distinction of being of service to several presidents and prime ministers of India, top corporate honchos and also the poorest of poor with concessional and free scans. They have an ethos of helping the underprivileged, with the affording patients subsidizing the poor.
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 atrustee of Rotary Gift of Life Trust which provides free cardiac surgery to poor children, has been on the Board of Governors of Sriram College of Commerce, Delhi Public School, Automobile Association of Upper India and on the Board of Directors of Punjab National and Indian Overseas Banks.
