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Upendra Kaul

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Upendra Kaul
Born
India
OccupationCardiologist
Known forInterventional cardiology
AwardsPadma Shri
Dr. B. C. Roy Award
Medtronic Award
CSI Searle Award
ICMRShakuntala Amirchand Prize
Press India Award

Upendra Kaulis an Indian cardiologist and one of the pioneers ofinterventional cardiologyin India.[1]He is the Chairman and Dean Academics and Research at the Batra Hospital and Medical Research Center.[2]He is known for his expertise in procedures such as PercutaneousCardiopulmonary bypass,Rotational and DirectionalAtherectomy,Coronary stentingand Percutaneous LaserMyocardialRevascularization.[3]He graduated in medicine (MBBS) from theMaulana Azad Medical Collegeand continued his studies at the same institution to secure MD in 1975 and, DM in cardiology in 1978.[4]Later, he obtained advanced training ininterventional cardiologyfrom Australia during 1983 to 84. He has served theAll India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) as a professor of cardiology and has been a member of the faculty of thePost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,G. B. Pant Hospital, Batra Hospital and Fortis Health Care, NCR.[2]and Executive Director and Dean at Fortis Health Care, New Delhi.

Kaul is a former president of the Cardiological Society of India and the SAARC Cardiac Society[5]and is a Fellow of theAmerican College of Cardiologyand 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 thePadma 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 theIndian Council of Medical Researchin 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.

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  1. ^"Doctor Profile".My Doc Advisor. 2015.Retrieved13 December2015.
  2. ^abcd"Expert Profile".ND TV. 2015.Retrieved13 December2015.
  3. ^abc"Dr. Upendra Kaul Credihealth".Credihealth. 2015.Retrieved13 December2015.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^abc"Dr Upendra Kaul - Medical Tourism Corporation".Medical Tourism Corporation. 2015.Retrieved13 December2015.
  5. ^"Executive Director - Academics & Research(Cardiology)".Fortis Hospitals. 2015.Retrieved13 December2015.
  6. ^Upendra Kaul; Sripal Bangalore; Ashok Seth; Priyadarshini Arambam; Rajpal K. Abhaychand; Tejas M. Patel; Darshan Banker; Atul Abhyankar; Ajit S. Mullasari; Sanjay Shah; Rajneesh Jain; Premchand R. Kumar; C.G. Bahuleyan (2015)."Paclitaxel-Eluting versus Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stents in Diabetes".N Engl J Med.373(18): 1709–1719.doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1510188.PMID26466202.
  7. ^"Padma Awards"(PDF).Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015.Retrieved21 July2015.
  8. ^"OOPS: NIA Summons Padmashri Cardiologist after confusing his Medical Jargon to Hawala Funding".Medical Dialogues.31 August 2019.

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