Govindaswamy Bakthavathsalam, known as G. Bakthavathsalam and sometimes as Dr. Beta, is an Indian surgeon born on 5 April 1942 in Annur in the Coimbatore district. In 1964 he graduated from Madras Medical College with a Master of Science degree and an MBBS, and he then completed postgraduate training in surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is chairman and managing trustee of the Dharmaveera K. Govindaswamy Naidu Medical Trust, which operates the K. G. Hospital in Coimbatore, and he helped expand that hospital under his leadership. His recognitions include the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, which he received from Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1984, the Padma Shri for his work in medicine in 2005, and an honorary D.Sc. from MGR Medical University in 2009.
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