Thoguluva Shesadri Chandrasekar (born 1956)[citation needed] is an Indian gastroenterologist and the founder chairman of Medindia Hospitals, a healthcare facility based in Chennai.
[1] He is credited with the performance of over 23,000 endoscopy procedures[2] and is known for the Braille chart on personal hygiene he prepared in 2015 for the visually impaired people.
[3] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to medicine.
[8] Later, he founded Medindia Hospitals at Nungambakkam which has since grown to become a super-specialty healthcare centre for gastro-intestinal diseases.
[9] Chandrasekar is the founder of Medindia Charitable Trust, which is involved in healthcare services to the poor people through free medical camps, health awareness programs, and concessional treatment.