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Dr. Dnyandeo Kisan Chopade is the founder president of ‘Down’s Syndrome Care Association’, India, which is a Non-Profit organization working for improving the quality of lives of people affected with Down’s syndrome. His leadership and tireless efforts in this filed for the past 13 years made him a well-known figure around the world especially for his contribution in the overall empowerment of people affected by Down’s Syndrome. He was born in a small village in Buldhana district in the state of Maharashtra in a poor family on 16 January 1967 to the farm labour parents. He self-supported his early education from the age of 10. He did his medical graduation (MBBS) in 1990, and post-graduation in Human Anatomy in 1995 from the reputed Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur. After doing job in various capacities as lecturer and Associate Professor in various Government medical colleges in India, between 1996 to 2002, he started his medical practice as a medical geneticist at Nashik in the year 2003. During this period he got trained in various aspects of medical genetics from number of reputed institutions like Saint John’s Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore; Genetic department of Institute of Medical and Veterinary Sciences (IMVS) Adelaide, Australia and Grant Medical College, Mumbai. He has provided genetic health care services to thousands of patients suffering from the most neglected genetic diseases in India. His observation that people suffer mainly because of ignorance of the various genetic conditions made me start the ‘Down’s Syndrome Care Association’, India in the year 2006. He was touched and moved by the suffering of the children born with the multidisabilty condition of Down’s Syndrome caused by the extra genetic material on chromosome 21 (trisomy 21). This led him to create the first parents support group of individuals with Down’s syndrome in the year 2006. Since then, with the likeminded people, he has been providing support to the affected through various activities like free genetic counseling, parent empowerment programs, various therapies to the affected, health check- ups and special education at the Downs syndrome Activity Centre in Nashik. Currently, he is extending various services to the 600 families with a child having Down’s Syndrome. He is providing free genetic counseling to the parents in his clinic once a week; running a free daily activity centre with all the therapies and special education; celebrating World Down’s Days every year on 21st March since 2007; conducting free health check -up camps for Down’s Syndrome; delivering public talk at various places, on radio and television and writing articles in various newspapers for public awareness; creating self-sufficient parent support groups in various cities in Maharashtra, arranging the special exhibitions on Down’s Syndrome, “Akashi Zep Ghe Re Pakhara”. He has been associated with the Down’s Syndrome International; Asia Pacific Down’s Syndrome Federation and Down’s Syndrome Federation of India for integrating the services at national and international levels. He has also written a book for parents, named ‘Agantuk 21’, for effectively dealing with the condition in local language Marathi, which is in the process of publication. Inspired with the mission of empowering and enabling the individuals with Down’s Syndrome and their families, his future pan is to establish a national Down’s Syndrome Institute at Nashik, where all the facilities for dealing with the Down’s Syndrome issues at national level would be made available like preventing birth of the babies with Down’s Syndrome, counseling the prospective parents, health care, therapies, parent empowerment, special training for teachers, rehabilitation and research. He has also established a unique, state of the art museum, ‘Museum Kohum’ at Nashik for creating public awareness about health in general and Down’s Syndrome with other genetic disorders in particular. School and college students and general public is getting highly benefitted through this museum. He has organized one national symposium for parents’ empowerment in Nashik in January 2014 and remained faculty at mainly national and international conferences, workshops and meetings. His work has been recognized through number of local, state and national awards. Important Awards Received: He has received a ‘National Positive Health Hero Award’ in 2010; the prestigious ‘Dr. Suresh Nadkarni Award’ by Maharashtra Indian Medical Association in 2011, ‘Dr. Vasantrao Gupte Award’ by Nashik Indian Medical Association, 2012; ‘Social Service Award’ by the Rotary Club, 3030, Nashik in 2013 and ‘Purushsinh Award’ by the Lions club in 2016.