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Gurukumar Bhalachandra Parulkar is an Indian cardiothoracic surgeon and a professor emeritus at King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College. He also served as the president of the Association of Surgeons of India in 1984. 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.