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Name -Sivaramakrishna Padmavati
Position -Director of the National Heart Institute of India and president of the All India Heart Foundation
Biography -Qualified from Rangoon University, Burma, in 1945, with postgraduate education in the United Kingdom and at Johns Hopkins and Harvard University, United States. She became the first female Indian cardiologist in 1954. Awards include the Padma Vibhushan award and the Harvard International medical award. She has been involved in patient care and research, especially in rheumatic heart disease, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and cardiovascular epidemiology. She was a professor of medicine and cardiology at the University of Delhi
What attracted you to medicine?
I started when there were few female doctors in the country I was born in, what was then British Burma. I was inspired by the dedicated doctors in the small town where I grew up. My father also allowed me to choose whatever profession I liked.
Why did you decide to specialise in cardiology?
When I chose cardiology it was not such a common specialty,...