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Dr Ankit Bharat, 39, is surgical director of the lung transplant program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and successfully performed robot-assisted lung volume reduction surgery in December 2018. MEERUT: A surgeon born and brought up in Meerut has achieved the feat of becoming the first in the US to perform a robot-assisted lung surgical procedure. He completed his residency in general surgery and fellowship in thoracic surgery from Washington University. He then studied medicine from Christian Medical College, Vellore, and went for further studies to the US in 2003. While his father Dr Bharat Kumar Gupta is a chest physician and head of the department of biochemistry) at Subharti Medical College, his mother Dr Vinay Bharat is a consulting pathologist and professor of pathology at Subharti..