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Luzito de Souza (1959) |
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An internationally known oncologist Dr Luzito de Souza was
awarded the Padma Shri in 1992.
He is the founder of Shanti
Avedna Ashram (S.A.A), India's first hospice that provides
palliative care for terminally ill patients suffering from
cancer, AIDS etc. It also provides training in palliative care
to doctors, nurses, volunteers and social workers. Caste, creed
and community are no bar and medical/nursing care is provided
free of cost.
SAA has tended to over 5,000 patients during the last ten years.
Its training centre at Mumbai has provided those interested,
from all over the country, to benefit from its vast experience.
It also has branches in New Delhi and Goa.
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Dr
Mustansir Barma (1966) |
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Mustansir is a theoretical physicist
at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Colaba, Mumbai.
He works on
Statistical
Physics, a field which deals with collective effects like phase
transitions in systems with very many components, in or out of
equilibrium.
He did research for his Ph.D. at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, postdoctoral work
at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and spent a
sabbatical year at Oxford University.
He is a Fellow of the Indian
National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the
National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the INSA Young
Scientist medal and later the Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical
Sciences. He has served as the Chair of the Commission on
Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and
Applied Physics. Currently he is a Senior Professor and Chair of
the Department of Theoretical Physics at TIFR.
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Dr Dipankar Pramanik (1967) |
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Dipankar has spent more
than 25 years in the semiconductor industry in a career that has spanned
all aspects of Technology
Development
from Process through Design to Product. He has been responsible for
introducing 12
generations of Technology from conception to large volume
manufacturing during management tenures at VLSI Technology and
American Microsystems. He received the "Inventor Of The Year" and
"Outstanding Product Introduction" awards at these companies.
He was co-founder and VP
of Engineering of Virtual Wire, a firm focused on wireless chips. Dipu is currently Group
Director at Synopsys, a leading provider of electronic design tools.
He has 35 issued patents
and has more than 90 publications. He was an instructor at
UC Berkeley Extension for more than 15 years , teaching courses on Process
Technology and physical design. He has given lectures around the world
in Europe,Asia and Latin America. He has a Ph.D. degree in Physics
from Cornell University, USA.
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Dr Mukesh Batra (1967) |
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India's leading homeopath Dr Mukesh Batra
(founder of Dr Batras' Positive Health Clinic) has been awarded the
International Goldstar Millennium Award for Excellence. The award was
presented at the Indo-Thai Friendship Economic Co-operation conference
held in Bangkok.
Mukesh has been previously honoured with a number of awards for
excellence in the field of medicine. Some among them are the Lok Shree
Award (which he got along with the Late Mother Teresa), Outstanding
Citizen of India Award (which he received along with India's leading
industrialists Mr. S. P. Godrej and Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla), and the
Pride of India Award - New York (Other recipients of this award include
three former Prime Ministers of India). He was also presented with the
International Star of India award by His Excellency, Mr. Lalit Mansingh,
Indian High Commissioner to UK.
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Dr Ramesh Shivdasani (1976) |
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Ramesh
is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and
founder of the Shivdasani Lab.
He received his PhD in 1988 and MD in 1989 from the University of
Michigan, followed by postgraduate training in internal medicine and
adult oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's
Hospital. He completed a research fellowship with Dr. Stuart Orkin at
Children's Hospital, where he demonstrated the pivotal roles of selected
lineage-restricted transcription factors in specific aspects of blood
cell differentiation. He joined Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 1997.
Ramesh was awarded Scholar Award, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 2000
Robert Black Charitable Foundation, 2000
Scholar of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Foundation,
1998
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Dr Sanjiv Talwar (1977)
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Dr Vikram Patel (1978) |
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Vikram
is a psychiatrist who has been championing the cause of mental health in
developing countries.
After leaving school, he completed his medical training in Mumbai (where
he secured the Gold Medal in the final medical exams), and pursued
higher degrees in Oxford (MSc) and Kings College London (PhD).
He has been a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, the Beit Medical
Fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Leadership
Development and, since 2000, a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Tropical
Medicine.
Vikram has worked for two yeas in Zimbabwe and, since 1996, in Goa,
where he has been involved in setting up community mental health
services and research projects.
He is a Reader in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; he
has also held Visiting academic appointments at Universities in
Australia, the UK and India.
He has been the founder of three NGOs in Goa and has worked closely with
the WHO on a number of international programs in mental health and has
supported or advised programs in Mozambique, South Africa, Benin,
Brazil, Mongolia, Malaysia, Ethiopia and Cambodia.
He has written or edited four books, including Where There Is No
Psychiatrist, a mental health care manual for developing countries.
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