Gopal Bhatnagar


Gopal Bhatnagar is a Canadian cardiac surgeon based in Toronto, Canada. Bhatnagar headed the cardiovascular surgery unit at Trillium Health Centre and served as chief of staff at Trillium Hospital from 2005 to March 2013. He is a practitioner of beating heart surgery and performs minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

Honors

On March 8, 2013, Trillium Health Partners announced the endowment of the Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar Chair in Cardiac Health System Leadership.

E-cigarette company

Bhatnagar, along with Boris Giller and Ashutosh Jha, co-founded an electronic cigarette company in Canada. In 2010, Bhatnagar claimed that vaping is safer than smoking. In 2014, Bhatnagar said that there is no solid evidence that vaping is effective for quitting smoking.