Vikram Marwah

Vikram Marwah (4 June 1925 – 6 November 2013) was an Indian orthopedic surgeon, social worker and the founder of Handicapped Children's Rehabilitation Centre and Children's Orthopedic Hospital of the Matru Sewa Sangh, Sitabuldi and Matrubhu Antargat Sanskar, a children's magazine. A winner of Dr. B. C. Roy Award, he was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.

Biography Vikram Marwah was born on 4 June 1925 in Shivni village of Nagpur district in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra. and a co-founder of the Vidarbha Orthopaedic Society, he was a fellow of Johnson and Johnson and Smith and Nephew. He is a recipient of A. A. Mehta Gold Medal and Sir Arthur Eyre Brook award. In 1979, he received the Dr. B. C. Roy Award - Medical Teacher, the highest Indian award in the medical category. The Government of India honoured him with the civilian award of Padma Shri in 2002.

Vikram Marwah died at the age of 88 on 6 November 2013 succumbing to old age illnesses, leaving behind his wife and two children, a son and a daughter.