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Dr B.S. Ajaikumar is chairman and CEO of HealthCare Global (HCG). He founded HCG to realize his vision of making advanced cancer care accessible to all. Dr Ajaikumar’s contribution to the field of cancer care in India and his achievements as a first-generation physician-entrepreneur have been widely recognized. He has been given the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the CII Regional Emerging Entrepreneur Award and the BC Roy Award by Indian Science Monitor. He is also a recipient of the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award. Dr Ajaikumar has been a practicing oncologist in the United States and India for more than three decades. He completed his residency training in radiotherapy from the MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute of the University of Texas, and his residency training in oncology from the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville. He received his MBBS from St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru.
