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Zainulabedin Ismail Hamdulay (born 15 January 1970) is an Indian cardiac surgeon. He is the director of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at Global Hospital Parel, Mumbai. He is the joint secretary & treasurer at Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons and also the founder trustee of Hamdulay Heart Foundation, a charitable trust dedicated to serving the underprivileged cardiac patients. Hamdulay has performed over 6,000 cardiac surgeries.
Early life
Zainulabedin Hamdulay was born in Parli, Maharashtra, India. His primary school education was at St. Joseph High School in Solapur. He joined D.B.F Dayanand College of Arts and Science for his Bachelor’s degree in Science. He passed MBBS in 1982 and then further went on to complete his M.S in 1996. He completed his M.Ch Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery from the University of Mumbai. Dr. Hamdulay is an alumnus of Sion Hospital and also has studied and trained in cardiac surgery at Toronto General Hospital in Canada, and Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital in the United Kingdom.
Career
Dr. Zainulabedin Hamdulay has accepted his first fellowship in Military Hospital Pune and then later he got accepted for a fellowship in Liverpool, UK, to train in pediatric cardiac surgery at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. Later on, he accepted a fellowship at Manchester Royal Infirmary for adult cardiac surgery. Subsequently, he also went on to work for the Toronto General Hospital for cardiac transplant and the artificial heart. He came back to India to serve the country and with his idea to make cardiac surgery affordable and subsidized he went to Prince Aly Khan Hospital and set up a center, where he continued for 10 years.
In the year 2013, he was appointed as the Chief Cardiac Surgeon in Wockhardt Hospital and continued there till 2016. Currently, he is the director of cardiothoracic vascular surgery at Global Hospital Parel, Mumbai.