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{{Short description|Indian pathologist and medical administrator}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Brig. Dr. Arvind Lal
| image = Dr-arvind-Lal.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|08|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Pune district|Pune]], [[Maharashtra]], India
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| occupation = Pathologist, Medical administrator
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| known for = Medical diagnostics
| spouse = Dr. Vandana Lal
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| parents = Dr. S. K. Lal
| website = {{URL|https://www.lalpathlabs.com|Website of Dr Lal Pathlabs}}
| awards = [[Padma Shri]] Healthcare Lifetime Achievement Award Indira Gandhi Solidarity Award Eminent Medical Person award Delhi Ratan Award International Business Council Award
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'''Brigadier Arvind Lal''' is an Indian billionaire, [[pathologist]], medical administrator and the chairman and managing director of [[Dr Lal PathLabs]], a medical diagnostic centre in [[Delhi]].<ref name="Executive Profile Arvind Lal">{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=29510697&privcapId=22560945 | title=Executive Profile Arvind Lal | publisher=Bloomberg | date=2016 | access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref> A medical graduate and a medical academic, he is reported to have modernized Indian medical diagnostics and initiated the first [[Public Private Partnership]] (PPP) in the field of laboratory testing in [[India]].<ref name="Arvind Lal on FICCI">{{cite web | url=http://www.ficci-heal.com/programme/pdf/24-new/ArvindLal.pdf | title=Arvind Lal on FICCI | publisher=FICCI | date=2016 | access-date=21 February 2016 | archive-date=26 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626232328/http://www.ficci-heal.com/programme/pdf/24-new/ArvindLal.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> He holds the rank of a [[Brigadier]] in the [[Indian Armed Forces]], an honorary rank conferred by the Army.<ref name="Army confers Honorary Brigadier Rank on Dr ArvInd Lal Read">{{cite web | url=http://www.oneindia.com/2009/09/04/armyconfers-honorary-brigadier-rank-on-dr-arvindlal.html | title=Army confers Honorary Brigadier Rank on Dr ArvInd Lal Read | publisher=One India | date=4 September 2009 | access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2009, for his contributions to Medicine.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Arvind Lal, born on 22 August 1949,{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} graduated in medicine from the [[Armed Forces Medical College, Pune]], secured his post graduate degree from the same institution and started his career there as a lecturer at the Department of Pathology.<ref name="Arvind Lal on India Conference at Harvard">{{cite web | url=http://indiaconferenceatharvard.com/2016/speakers/dr-arvind-lal/ | title=Arvind Lal on India Conference at Harvard | publisher=India Conference at Harvard | date=2016 | access-date=21 February 2016 | archive-date=11 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011201802/http://indiaconferenceatharvard.com/2016/speakers/dr-arvind-lal/ | url-status=usurped }}</ref> In 1977, he went back to his family business by taking charge of [[Dr Lal PathLabs]], a laboratory services providing institution founded by his father, S. K. Lal, in 1949.<ref name="A hit with investors, Dr Lal PathLabs opts to go the IPO way">{{cite web | url=http://forbesindia.com/article/big-bet/a-hit-with-investors-dr-lal-pathlabs-opts-to-go-the-ipo-way/38907/0 | title=A hit with investors, Dr Lal PathLabs opts to go the IPO way | work=Forbes India | date=30 October 2014 | access-date=21 February 2016 | archive-date=24 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624214849/https://www.forbesindia.com/article/big-bet/a-hit-with-investors-dr-lal-pathlabs-opts-to-go-the-ipo-way/38907/0 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Under his leadership, the institution modernized its diagnostic services by incorporating [[Information and communications technology]] (ICT) systems and branched out to many parts of the country, presently having over 150 laboratories.<ref name="Dr ArvInd Lal Conferred Honorary Brigadier Rank">{{cite web | url=http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=52401 | title=Dr ArvInd Lal Conferred Honorary Brigadier Rank | publisher=Ministry of Defence, India | date=2009 | access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref> Affiliated to the [[College of American Pathologists]] (CAP), the institution is known to cater to 9000 patients a day, reported to be highest number of tests conducted by a pathology laboratory in India.<ref name="Arvind Lal on Comnet Conferences">{{cite web | url=http://www.comnetconferences.com/DR.%20ARVIND%20LAL.html | title=Arvind Lal on Comnet Conferences | publisher=Comnet Conferences | date=2016 | access-date=21 February 2016 | archive-date=2 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302201238/http://www.comnetconferences.com/DR.%20ARVIND%20LAL.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> The annual turn over stood at {{INR}} 5.5 billion as of March 2014 and the company floated its first IPO in 2014.<ref name="A hit with investors, Dr Lal PathLabs opts to go the IPO way" /> The honorary physician to the [[President of India]] in 2001, he was one of the founders of the Indian chapter of the ''Association of Clinical Research Organizations'' (ACRO) where he served as the first vice president.<ref name="Arvind Lal on FICCI" /> He is known to have initiated the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the country in laboratory testing in 2004 when Dr Lal PathLabs took up a project in association with the [[Government of Tripura]], an effort which was repeated with the [[Government of Gujarat]] during 2011–2013 for testing over 30,000 new born babies in the state.<ref name="Arvind Lal on India Conference at Harvard" />

Arvind Lal is the Secretary of the ''Healthcare Federation of India'' (NATHEALTH)<ref name="Governing Council">{{cite web | url=http://www.nathealthindia.org/governing-members.html | title=Governing Council | publisher=Healthcare Federation of India | date=2016 | access-date=21 February 2016 | archive-date=14 May 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514060707/https://nathealthindia.org/governing-members.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> and a non-executive Director at the ''Centre For Sight'', New Delhi.<ref name="Executive Profile Arvind Lal" /> He sits in the Board of Directors of APL Institute of Clinical Laboratory and Research, Archana Pharmaceuticals, Doon MRI, Kalmatia Sangam Travels, Paliwal Diagnostics and Paliwal Medicare.<ref name="Business Leaders">{{cite web | url=http://www.4-traders.com/business-leaders/Arvind-Lal-075CGS-E/biography/ | title=Business Leaders | publisher=4Traders | date=2016 | access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref> A recipient of special honour from the [[World Health Organization]], he received the International Business Council Award in 1994 and the Indira Gandhi Solidarity Award in 1995.<ref name="‘Delhi Ratan’ awarded">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051107/delhi.htm#13 | title='Delhi Ratan' awarded | newspaper=The Tribune | date=7 November 2005 | access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref> This was followed by Healthcare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and the ''Delhi Rattan Award'' from the Government of Delhi in 2005. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2009.<ref name="Padma Awards" /> The same year, The Armed Forces of India honoured him with the honorary rank of a [[Brigadier]],<ref name="Army confers Honorary Brigadier Rank on Dr ArvInd Lal Read" /> making him the first civilian doctor to receive the honour.<ref name="Arvind Lal on India Conference at Harvard" /> He is also a recipient of the Eminent Medical Person Award.<ref name="Arvind Lal on India Conference at Harvard" />

== See also ==
* [[Dr Lal PathLabs]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sz6_kKEHww | title=Dr Arvind Lal, Chairman MD, Dr.Lal PathLabs at NDIM | publisher=New Delhi Institute of Management | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=15 March 2013 | access-date=21 February 2016}}
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