Gopal Bhatnagar is a Canadian cardiac surgeon based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Bhatnagar previously 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. Today he leads the Heart and Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. In his early life he lived in London, Ontario and joined the Canadian Armed Forces. He has competed in a couple of bodybuilding competitions and won his first, and placing second in his second.