Founder Director, Cygnus Hospitals; Chevening Gurukul Fellow (King’s College, London)

Dr. Shuchin Bajaj is the Founder Director of Cygnus Hospitals. Cygnus is currently operating ten hospitals in Delhi and Haryana with a combined bed strength of 1100 beds and more than 1500 employees, with a vision to provide superspeciality and emergency healthcare to district towns of the states of India where no such facilities currently exist. It aims to expand to 15 hospitals with a bed strength of 2000 beds and revenues of Rs 500 crore by the end of 2025.

Shuchin is a highly qualified medical scholar. After completing his MBBS from PGIMS, Rohtak, he did his Doctorate in Internal Medicines (MD) from Dr S N Medical College, Jodhpur in 2004. Apart from the foregoing, he also did Certified Professional course on Diabetes Management and Total Control from American Academy of Continuing Medical Education, USA in 2008, Advanced Program in Strategic Management from I.I.M. Calcutta in 2013 and Advanced Program in Cardiac Emergencies from Boston University in 2014.

 Dr Bajaj was the recipient of the British Government’s 2015 Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence award at King’s College London, where he spent considerable time studying the various facets of Leadership, its various challenges and its learnings for India.

He was also selected for freeship to the ‘Innovating Health for Tomorrow” Fellowship at INSEAD, France in 2017 and his project for Ambulance services was the top of the class of 40 high ranked professionals from around the world.

Shuchin is also an Aspire Fellow, a Fellowship dedicated to enlightened social leadership, held at IIM, Ahmedabad and conducted by Dr. Pradeep Khandwala, Ex Director, IIMA.

He is on the board of a number of national prominent NGOs as Advisor-Health Programmes and over the last five years has been playing an active part in the Helpage International’s Regional Research Initiative on Older People’s Health as the Academic partner of the International Health Working Group.

In addition to numerous other awards and accolades, Shuchin has received the “World Wide Achievers Health Care Excellence Award 2014” for Healthcare Excellence in Internal Medicine in Delhi and NCR, ”Best Consultant in Internal Medicine in Delhi 2012” by the Time Research Media Foundation, “National Award for Excellence in Healthcare 2015” for fastest growing healthcare chain in North India along with “2015 Leaders Award”. In the past Dr. Bajaj has also received “Stars of the Industry Healthcare Awards” for excellence in managing tertiary healthcare centers in Tier-II towns, “4th MT India Healthcare Awards” for most promising healthcare chain of India, Most Promising Healthcare Brand and Best Upcoming Hospital Chain, amongst others. Dr Bajaj and the Cygnus Team were recently featured by the Economic Times in a feature on Entrepreneurs Leading Disruptive Change. Dr. Bajaj is also the winner the Healthcare Leader of the Year, 2017 Awards.

Shuchin is an avid Healthcare Investor and is associated with multiple Health Tech Companies as investor, Board Member and mentor. He is on the TBIU Board of IIT, Delhi and is also a member of the Advisory Council to the Minister of State for Health, Shri Ashwini Choubey.