Dr. Sumit Mrig — Director & Unit Head in Delhi NCR

Dr. Sumit Mrig is Director and Unit Head of ENT at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Saket, Delhi NCR, with more than 24 years of experience.

Cochlear implantation is the defining part of the record. His profile puts the number at more than 700 implants in pediatric and adult patients, notes him as one of the youngest cochlear implant surgeons in India and Asia, and records India's first binaural cochlear implant surgery in 2011. He was the first Indian surgeon to start an independent cochlear implant programme in Africa, and mentors implant programmes at more than 14 centres across India.

The rest of the clinical list sits around that core: bone-anchored hearing aid surgery, hearing loss and chronic middle ear disease on the ear side, with vertigo, sleep apnea surgery, salivary gland surgery and head and neck tumour surgery completing it.

His degrees were all taken in Delhi. He read MBBS at UCMS and GTB Hospital under Delhi University in 2002, took his MS in ENT at Maulana Azad Medical College in 2007, and added a DNB in ENT from the National Board of Examinations in 2008.

His awards come mostly from within Max Healthcare: the VALYOU Award at URJA in 2017, the MAX CEO's Award of the Year in 2018 and the Susruta Award for clinician excellence in ENT in 2019. Outside the group, IMA Dwarka gave him the Vishisht Chikitsa Ratan Award in 2025.