Gopal Bhatnagar

Gopal Bhatnagar
Residence Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Education MD, University of Western Ontario; MEd, OISE, University of Toronto
Employer Trillium Health Centre
Known for Heart surgery, electronic cigarettes
Website https://www.180smoke.com, https://www.180smoke.ca, http://trilliumhealthpartners.ca/

Gopal Bhatnagar is a Canadian cardiac surgeon, Entrepreneur and Public Health Advocate based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] Bhatnagar is the Head of Cardiovascular Surgery unit[2] at the Trillium Health Centre, which he himself established in 2000.[3] He teaches part-time at the University of Toronto and contributes to medical research. In 2012, Bhatnagar co-founded 180 Smoke, a company that sells electronic cigarettes.[4]

He was the Chief of Staff at the Trillium Hospital from 2005 to March 2013. He is a practitioner of beating heart surgery and one of a few surgeons in North America to perform minimally invasive cardiac surgery.[5][6][7]

Body Building

Bhatnagar is a body builder and competes yearly in Exhibition Body Building. Bhatnagar was the Grandmaster at the 2014 UFE Body Building Competition.[8]

Awards

In September 2009, the New York weekly newspaper India Abroad included Bhatnagar in its Power List of the 30 most influential Canadians of Indian descent.[9]

He is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[10] On March 8, 2013, Trillium Health Partners announced the endowment of the Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar Chair in Cardiac Health System Leadership to honour his services to the medical profession and the Trillium Health Centre.[11]

180 Smoke Vape Store

180 Smoke Vape Store is a Canadian electronic cigarette company selling e-cigarettes and related accessories.[12] It is a crowd-sourced company,[13] co-founded by Gopal Bhatnagar,[14] Boris Giller and Ashutosh Jha.[15]

Gopal Bhatnagar says vaping is safer than smoking.[12] Bhatnagar says there is no solid evidence that vaping is effective for quitting smoking.[16] In 2016, the 180 Smoke Vape Store made an effort to switch 25,000 cigarette smokers to vaping.[17]

Sources

  1. ↑ "Trillium Hospital". Trillium Foundation.
  2. ↑ "Trillium board, executive teams give $1.5 million". Mississauga News. Nov 22, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Meet our Cardiac Care Champions - Trillium Health Centre Foundation". Trilliumgiving.ca. 2013-03-27. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  4. ↑ "E-Cigarettes Mainstream Enough for Toronto Main-Street (Yonge)". Toronto Life. 30 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar". Trillium Health Centre Foundation.
  6. ↑ "Can you teach an old doc new tricks?". National Review of Medicine.
  7. ↑ "Trillium Health Centre Launches Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery". Trillium Health Centre.
  8. ↑ "Grand master Body Building Winner 2014".
  9. ↑ "India Abroad - August 2009". Indiaabroad-digital.com. Retrieved 2013-03-31. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ "QE-II Diamond Jubilee Medals". Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce.
  11. ↑ "Trillium Health Partners Celebrates The Careers of Outgoing Chiefs".
  12. 1 2 Buckner, Dianne (9 April 2015). "New e-cigarette industry says regulations off the mark". CBC News.
  13. ↑ Debra Thimmesch (7 October 2014). "Canadian Doctor Promotes a 3D Printed Adapter for Converting Hookahs to E-Hookahs". 3dprint.com.
  14. ↑ Nelson Bennett (20 October 2015). "Local e-cigarette shops wreathed in haze of regulatory uncertainty". Business In Vancouver.
  15. ↑ "Reviews & Complaints". Better Business Bureau – Accredited Business. 30 September 2015.
  16. ↑ Joseph Hall (21 April 2014). "E-cigarettes are odourless, so can you use them anywhere?". The Hamilton Spectator.
  17. ↑ Fox, scott (20 September 2016). "180 Smoke Vape Attempting To Get 25,000 Smokers Off Cigarettes". z1035.com. Evanov Radio Group.
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