Born on 1 December 1931 at
Mumbai in the Indian state of
Maharashtra, Parulkar served as an associate of
Prafulla Kumar Sen, a pioneer of cardiac surgery in India. A graduate of the
University of Mumbai, he did advanced training at
Baylor College of Medicine and on his return to India, he introduced the technique of
hypothermic circulatory arrest technique of resection of aortic aneurysms in India. He was one of the doctors who attended to the victim in the
Aruna Shanbaug case. Parulkar received the
Dr. B. C. Roy Award from the Medical Council of India in 1997. The
Government of India awarded him the
Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 1998. He is also a recipient of the 2009
The Marathon Teacher Award of the
Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and a number of other honors. ==See also==