Indian-American cardiologist Dr Inder Anand bags 2021 HFSA Lifetime Achievement Award
New Delhi: Indian-American cardiologist, Dr Inder Anand has been conferred with the prestigious 2021 Heart Failure Society of America's (HFSA) Lifetime Achievement Award.
He received the award for pioneering work in the field, including in the field of congestive heart failure and high altitude medicine and biology.
The HFSA Lifetime Achievement Award is given by the Executive Council of the HFSA, whose purpose is to "recognize a lifetime body of work by an individual who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the field of heart failure".
He received the award along with a co-honoree at the HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting 2021 on September 11, 2021.
Dr Anand is an Indian Rhodes scholar and one of the top-rated cardiologists in America. He received the Rhodes Scholarship in 1966 and got a D Phil in cardiovascular physiology from Oxford. He then came to India and began his teaching career in 1976. Before returning to the US in the 1990s, he taught at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh. Dr. Anand's father, Dr. Santokh Singh Anand was one of the founding members of PGI, Chandigarh.
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