Dr. Avinash Inamdar (www.avinashinamdar.com) is a Philanthropic Cardiac Surgeon, offering advanced Cardiac Surgical treatment to the needy and poor people of India He performed more than 10,000 Heart operations of which 4000 heart operations were carried out free of cost at Government Hospitals – Sassoon Hospitals, Poona Chest Hospital and CPR Hospital, Kolhapur. He also established “Dr. Inamdar’s free surgery pattern in India.” He started off, at Poona Chest Hospital, Aundh Pune (1992) as an Honorary Cardiovascular Surgeon and worked successfully for 10 years till 2002. During this tenure, he operated upon more than 1500 heart patients. He received several awards, Suryaduttadistinction, and appreciations from various NGOs (Pune ki Asha, Yuva Bharati, HriSurya Datta etc) for this meritorious and selfless service.In 1993, Dr. Inamdar established a heart foundation in the memory of his father named, “Krishnajee Heart Foundation.” Under this banner he was running the “Inamdars Heart Hospital” in Aundh, Pune offering excellent heart surgical treatment to the no affording patients in very economical packages. In 2002 he was also appointed by the government as an Honorary Cardiovascular Surgeon to serve the common man on a large scale. He is available for consultations and counseling at the Inamdar Heart Clinic, Aundh, Pune.