Kaul is a former president of the Cardiological Society of India and the SAARC Cardiac Society[5] and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS).[2] He has published over 450 medical papers[4][6] and has won the Medtronic Award for the Best Scientific Paper in 1983.[3] He received the highest Indian award in the medical category, Dr. B. C. Roy Award, in 1999.[2][4] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for his contributions to Indian medicine.[7] He is also a recipient of the Dr. Thapar Gold Medal in 1970, Searle Award of the Cardiological Society of India in 1986, Shakuntala Amirchand Prize of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1987, Press India Award in 1992.[3]
In 2019, he was summoned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) after the NIA sleuths misread his use of medical jargon to mean a hawala transaction.[8] , Prof Kaul started an NGO Gauri Kaul Foundation (registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), bearing DIN 09139657) in April 2021. The foundation has set up 3 centres in Jammu and Kashmir, Machil, near LOC, District Kupwara, Jagti Migrant township near Nagrota Jammu and in his place of birth Hawal, Pulwama. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Astra Zeneca have generously helped through their CSR. Currently their mission is "No Heart attack" by spreading measures to be taken by the public at large by organizing public awareness programs. Prof Kaul has written his memoirs "When The Heart Speaks" published by Konark publishing house in September 2022.
