G. Vijayaraghavan

Dr.
G. Vijayaraghavan
MD, DM, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Lon), FACC, FACP
Born 18 September 1942
Perumpuzha, Kollam, Kerala, India
Nationality Indian
Education Cardiologist, teacher, writer
Alma mater Calicut Medical College
Delhi University
Years active 1982–present
Home town Kalpakancheri, Kerala
Board member of
 KIMS (Vice-Chairman)
Aswini Specialty Hospital (Chairman)
Awards Padma Shri
Website
gvr.co.in

Dr. Govindan Vijayaraghavan is a cardiologist from India, credited with establishing the first 2D Echocardiography laboratory in India. He is the vice-chairman & Founder Director of the Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences and the President of the Society for Continuing Medical Education and Research, Trivandrum, Kerala. He was honoured by Government of India in 2009 for his services in the field of medical sciences by awarding him Padmashri. (please see here).

Life Sketch

Dr Vijayaraghavan was born at Perumpuzha, Kollam, Kerala on 18 September 1942 as the son of Sahithya Siromany M. K. Govindan, a Sanskrit scholar. He did his early schooling in Trivandrum Model School and graduated in Medicine from Trivandrum Medical College in 1964 and passed MD in General Medicine in 1969. He continued his studies and Christian Medical College, Vellore, obtained his Doctorate in Cardiology (DM) in 1973 and started his career there as associate professor.[1]

He moved back to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College in 1976 and continued his research on Endomyocardial Fibrosis, a variety of heart disease found common in Kerala, in association with Post-graduate Medical School and Brompton Hospital, London.

Vijayaraghavan is proficient in many languages[2] and now resides in Thiruvanathapuram with his family.

Career

Dr Vijayaraghavan's research findings on Endomyocardial Fibrosis is widely considered to be path breaking. His research on Cerebra Odollum poisoning (a suicidal plant poison used by poor people of South lndia) helped to introduce innovative treatment modalities, which is reported to be still in use. In 1983 he was invited to work at the University of California, Los Angeles, and became one of the pioneer research workers in Doppler echocardiography and co-authored the first book on this subject from USA (1985).

Dr Vijayaraghavan is well known teacher in cardiology in India and abroad. His effort in the 1980s in conducting continuing medical education programme all over India resulted in establishment of 2-D echocardiography as the most popular cardiology investigation in this country. As Professor and Head of Cardiology, Dr Vijayaraghavan established one of the most modern cardiology departments in this country at the Trivandrum Medical College. With help from the World Health Organization and Government of India he demonstrated that heart attacks and its risk factors are very highly prevalent among the poor people of Kerala.

He received honorary fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP London), from the American College of Cardiology, the Premier Golden Heart Fellowship the American Heart Association, the Indian College of Cardiology, Indian Academy of Echocardiography, International Medical Sciences Academy and the Cardiological Society of India.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Indian Edition of the American Heart Association journals, Circulation & Hypertension and is the Chairman of the Echocardiology Council of the Cardiological Society of India. He is also a University Guide for PhD in Cardiology, Kerala University from 1984.[3]

Awards

Padma Shri
Awarded by Government of India
Ribbon

Lifetime achievement awards were given to him by Indian Academy of Echocardiography, lndian College of cardiology and the Cardiological Society of India.

Works

English publications

Title Publisher Year
Doppler Echocardiography; A Practical Manual John Wiley & Sons 1985
Doppler Echocardiography; A Practical Manual (Chinese) Suan J. P. 1987
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Medical College, Trivandrum 1996
Intensive Coronary Care, the Trivandrum Protocol Medical College, Trivandrum 1997

Malayalam Publications

Title Publisher Year
Hridayam Hridrogam (The Heart and Heart Diseases) Language Institute of Kerala 1987
Hridrogam Keraleeyaril (Heart Diseases in Keralites) Sankeerthanam Paublications, Kerala 2003

Dr Vijayaraghavan has published several papers, articles and journals, both in India and abroad and has also several review articles and abstracts to his credit.[4] He has also participated in many conferences around the world.

References

  1. ↑ "Dr.G. Vijayaraghavan, Cardiologist in Thiruvananthapuram | Dr.G. Vijayaraghavan Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) | sehat". sehat.com. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dr. G Vijayaraghavan – Trivandrum – Kerala – DOCTORS|Cardiologists". doctorscabin.com. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Govindan Vijayaraghavan". gvr.co.in. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Govindan Vijayaraghavan". gvr.co.in. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

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