Gopi Chand Mannam is an Indian cardiothoracic surgeon and the chief cardothoracic surgeon at Star Hospitals, Hyderabad, known for the performance of over 3,000 pediatric heart surgeries. After graduating from Guntur Medical College in 1981, he worked in Jamaica for two years at Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Kingston and Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital, Westmoreland, before moving to UK where he secured Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1986, followed by another Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow in 1987. He worked in the UK for five years at the end of which he secured the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of London before returning to India 1994 to join the Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad as a senior consultant in cardiothoracic s