Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale is an Indian cardiac surgeon at

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Life

He is known for being the first to perform a successful human-to-human heart transplant and first successful lung transplant in the state of

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. He was honored by the Government of India with the Padma Sri award in 2016.

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External links

Dr. Gokhale CT Associates - official website
o {{DEFAULTSORT:Gokhale, A. G. K. 1959 births Living people Indian cardiac surgeons Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine 20th-century Indian medical doctors Scientists from Vijayawada Medical doctors from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century surgeons