Narendra Kumar Pandey is an Indian surgeon, hospital administrator and the founder of the Asian Institute of Medical Sciences, known for his expertise in Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine. He was born on 1 January 1951 in Bishnupura, Saran, Bihar, India. Pandey started his career at the Danapore Block Hospital, a suburb near Patna city, and continued there for one year. While working at the block hospital, he married Padma, a student of Patna Science College, in 1975. Disillusioned with the work at the block hospital, which consisted of mainly vasectomies, Narendra Kumar Pander moved to London, in 1976, when he got an opportunity for further studies in the city. The move to London opened more opportunities to Pandey and he redid his internship at the Ashford Hospital, London, in surgery, and at the Aberystwyth District General Hospital and North Devon District Hospital, in orthopedics. He also worked at the District Hospital, in Barnstable. He did his FACS at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, in 1982, and continued in UK, working at various hospitals like Hammersmith Hospital, Kings College, Charing Cross Hospital and Middle Sex Hospital. The stay in UK also gave him opportunities to work and study under many renowned surgeons like Sir Alfred Patrick M. Forrest, Professor Mansel, Professor Blumgart and Professor Russell, and gain experience in liver and pancreatic surgery and minimal access surgery.