Dr. Dinker Rai is an eminent surgeon and the Chief of Vascular Surgery and Vascular Laboratories at the Interfaith Medical Center in the borough of Brooklyn in New York since 1987. A graduate of St. Aloysius’ school, Dinker was an accomplished cricketer who had an opportunity to represent his state of Karnataka in Ranji Trophy.  While he could have made cricket as his career and          excelled in it, he chose the other fork on the road and decided to become a physician. Dinker is also a talented     artist and has the distinction of presenting his portrait of John F Kennedy to the president at the age of fourteen, which incidentally has been archived in the Kennedy      museum. 

 

Medicine opened up many more doors for Dr. Rai. Naturally inquisitive and innovative, the study of venous diseases captured his imagination and resulted in

some pioneering work in that field. Every surgeon is an artist and Dr. Rai carried this axiom to the limit when he put his artistic talents to good use. He also discovered new devices including a new venous catheter that bears his name – Dr. Rai Catheter.

 

Dr. Rai put forth a unique theory about the motions of the valves in the heart, which has put him in center stage of futuristic thinking in the physiology of the human heart. He has traveled extensively throughout the world as a proponent of this theory that is slowly being accepted by the medical community. Dr. Rai is confident that his theory will  eventually be accepted universally in the field of cardiology.

 

Recipient of many special awards and recognitions, Dr. Rai is a tireless researcher, scientist, surgeon and artist with many interests.  He is also a scholar in Sanskrit and Vedanta. He is especially interested in Sankhya philosophy, which forms the basis of ancient Hinduism.  He put forward the theory that the Greek mathematician Pythagoras visited India to study Sankhya philosophy in Ellora and Elephanta.  His work in the field of Indian        philosophy and culture has been recognized and in 1999 he had been invited to attend the World Religion Conference of the United Nations, hosted by King Abdullah of Jordan.

 

Above all Dinker is a family man.  He lives in Long Island New York with his wife Shakila and three children – Seema, Arjun and Rahul.

 

 

DR. DINKER RAI