T. V. Devarajan

Born|

Thrissur, Kerala, India

Occupation| Medical Doctor
Spouse(s)| Lakshmi Devarajan
Children| Sangeetha Devarajan
Parent(s)| T. K. Viswanathan
Ranganayaki
Awards| Padma Shri
B. C. Roy Award

T. V. Devarajan, is an Indian medical doctor and general physician. The Government of India honoured him, in 2013, by awarding him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Awards and recognitions
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Biography[edit]

Devarajan was born in Thrissur, in the south Indian state of Kerala. He graduated in medicine and went on to take the degrees of MD and DSc in general medicine.[2] He was also awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow in 2007.[3][4]

He started his career by joining the faculty of the Madras Medical College, where he taught without drawing a salary[3] for 29 years.[5] Later, he moved to the Aarupadai Veedu Medical College, Kirumambakkam, as a professor, where he still teaches general medicine.[citation needed] He has also been a senior consultant physician at the Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, since 1986.[4]

He is the author of four books, Aids to Clinical Medicine,[6] Medicine in a Nutshell[7] Clinical Medicine Made Easy[8] and Medical Advice for Healthy Life.[9]

Devarajan is also credited with 28 articles[4] such as A Challenging Case of Intra-abdominal Sepsis with Multiorgan Failure: An Emerging Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Sepsis,[10] published in various journals. He also assists students in their research activities.[11] He was awarded gold medal for surgery, gynaecology and prize in medicine and ophthalmology as a medical student. He delivered student memorial oration in Madras Medical College and he served as an inspector for national board of examination.

Devarajan, an examiner for a few universities,[4] lives in Chetpet, Chennai, in Tamil Nadu.[12] His daughter, Sangeetha Devarajan, has followed her father's footsteps and is a UK-based gynaecologist and a member of the Royal College of Gynaecologists.[3]

Devarajan is also a member of professional bodies such as the Cardiological Society of India[13] and the Chennai chapter of the Association of Physicians of India.[14] He is also the editor in chief in preparation of a textbook of medicine. He is a jury member for selection of Oscar awards in medicine by BMJ. He is an examiner for MBBS, MD and PhD for many universities.

## Awards and recognitions[edit]

Devarajan was honoured with Dr. B. C. Roy Award, recognizing him as an eminent teacher, in 2003.[3][4][5][13] In 2013, the Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri.[1][5]

## See also[edit]

* India portal

* Apollo Hospitals

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b PTI (26 January 2013). "List of Padma awardees". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
2. ^ "Sehat". Sehat. 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
3. ^ a b c d "FRCP, The Thindu". The Thindu. 29 July 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
4. ^ a b c d e T. V. Devarajan, L. Vijayasundaram (2008). Medicine in Nutshell. Jaypee Brothers. p. 358\. ISBN 9788184481716. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
5. ^ a b c "The Hindu". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
6. ^ Devarajan, Vijayasundaram (2008). Aids to Clinical Medicine (PDF). Jaypee Brothers. ISBN 978-81-8448-171-6. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
7. ^ Medicine in Nutshell, book reference. Jaypee Brothers. 2008. p. 358\. ISBN 9788184481716. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
8. ^ T. V. Devarajan, L. Vijayasundaram (2008). Clinical Medicine Made Easy. Jaypee Brothers. p. 358\. ISBN 9788184481716. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
9. ^ "Medical Advice for Healthy Life". Indian Express. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
10. ^ "A Challenging Case of Intra-abdominal Sepsis with Multiorgan Failure: An Emerging Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Sepsis". Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. January 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
11. ^ "CTRI". CTRI. 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
12. ^ "Doctor vista". Doctor vista. 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
13. ^ a b "CSI". CSI. 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
14. ^ "API". API. 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.

## External links[edit]

* "Padma Awards List". Indian Panorama. 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
* "Reference on PurpleHealth". 2014. PurpleHealth. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
* "Reference on Sehat". Sehat. 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Medicine

1950s|

* Bir Bhan Bhatia (1954)
* V. R. Khanolkar (1954)
* Perakath Verghese Benjamin (1955)
* Mahesh Prasad Mehray (1955)
* Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi (1956)
* Chintaman Govind Pandit (1956)
* Isaac Santra (1956)
* Khushdeva Singh (1957)

1960s|

* Hilda Mary Lazarus (1961)
* George William Gregory Bird (1963)
* Hakim Abdul Hameed (1965)
* Jerusha Jhirad (1966)
* Edith Helen Paull (1967)
* Amar Prasad Ray (1967)
* Natteri Veeraraghavan (1967)
* B. K. Anand (1969)
* Ram Kumar Caroli (1969)
* Vulimiri Ramalingaswami (1969)
* Krishna Gopal Saxena (1969)

1970s|

* Ajit Kumar Basu (1970)
* Coluthur Gopalan (1970)
* Perugu Siva Reddy (1970)
* B. N. B. Rao (1971)
* Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi (1971)
* Dorothy Chacko (1972)
* Thayil John Cherian (1972)
* Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi (1972)
* Balu Sankaran (1972)
* K. N. Udupa (1972)
* R. Marthanda Varma (1972)
* Mary Verghese (1972)
* K. T. Dholakia (1973)
* M. K. Krishna Menon (1973)
* J. M. Pahwa (1973)
* Prakash Narain Tandon (1973)
* Jamshed Vazifdar (1973)
* Govindappa Venkataswamy (1973)
* Mani Kumar Chetri (1974)
* Nagarur Gopinath (1974)
* L. S. N. Prasad (1974)
* Kadiyala Ramachandra (1974)
* Reuben David (1975)
* Stanley John (1975)
* Mary Poonen Lukose (1975)
* Kadiyala Ramachandra (1975)
* Durga Deulkar (1976)
* Lucy Oommen (1977)

1980s|

* Jasbir Singh Bajaj (1981)
* P. K. Sethi (1981)
* K. Vardachari Thiruvengadam (1981)
* C. P. Thakur (1982)
* Raj Vir Singh Yadav (1982)
* S. S. Badrinath (1983)
* Raj Baveja (1983)
* Shishupal Ram (1983)
* Purshottam Lal Wahi (1983)
* B. K. Goyal (1984)
* Vera Hingorani (1984)
* K. P. Mathur (1984)
* N. Balakrishnan Nair (1984)
* Hariharan Srinivasan (1984)
* Ramniklal K. Gandhi (1985)
* Samiran Nundy (1985)
* Usha Sharma (1985)
* M. S. Valiathan (1985)
* Gopal Krishna Vishwakarma (1985)
* Santosh Kumar Kackar (1986)
* V. Shanta (1986)
* Prabhu Dayal Nigam (1987)
* Daljit Singh (1987)
* Harbans Singh Wasir (1987)

1990s|

* N. H. Antia (1990)
* M. G. Deo (1990)
* P. K. Rajagopalan (1990)
* M. M. S. Ahuja (1991)
* Sneh Bhargava (1991)
* K. M. Cherian (doctor) (1991)
* G. N. Malviya (1991)
* Shiela Mehra (1991)
* S. C. Munshi (1991)
* M. N. Passey (1991)
* Jai Pal Singh (1991)
* Naresh Trehan (1991)
* Rathin Datta (1992)
* Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed (1992)
* Anil Kohli (1992)
* Ramesh Kumar (nephrologist) (1992)
* Usha Kehar Luthra (1992)
* J. S. Mahashabde (1992)
* P. V. A. Mohandas (1992)
* E. T. Neelakandan Mooss (1992)
* Kameshwar Prasad (1992)
* Luis Jose De Souza (1992)
* Amrit Tewari (1992)
* G. S. Venkataraman (1992)
* Ranjit Roy Chaudhury (1998)
* K. A. Abraham (1999)
* Raj Bothra (1999)
* Balendu Prakash (1999)
* Devendra Triguna (1999)
* P. K. Warrier (1999)

2000s|

* Mahendra Bhandari (2000)
* Vipin Buckshey (2000)
* Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi (2000)
* Kirpal Singh Chugh (2000)
* P. K. Dave (2000)
* Mathew Kalarickal (2000)
* Kakarla Subba Rao (2000)
* G. S. Sainani (2000)
* Immaneni Sathyamurthy (2000)
* Jyoti Bhushan Banerji (2001)
* Alaka Deshpande (2001)
* Sharad Kumar Dixit (2001)
* Chittoor Mohammed Habeebullah (2001)
* M. Krishnan Nair (2001)
* Dasari Prasada Rao (2001)
* Laishram Nabakishore Singh (2001)
* Bhupathiraju Somaraju (2001)
* Suresh H. Advani (2002)
* Pradeep Chowbey (2002)
* Vijay Kumar Dada (2002)
* Prakash Nanalal Kothari (2002)
* Harsh Mahajan (2002)
* Vikram Marwah (2002)
* Atluri Sriman Narayana (2002)
* Kamaljit Singh Paul (2002)
* Karimpat Mathangi Ramakrishnan (2002)
* Gullapalli Nageswara Rao (2002)
* D. Nageshwar Reddy (2002)
* Prahlad Kumar Sethi (2002)
* J. S. Guleria (2003)
* Narayana Panicker Kochupillai (2003)
* Rajagopalan Krishnan (2003)
* Ashok Seth (2003)
* Vijay Prakash (2003)
* Sharad Moreshwar Hardikar (2004)
* S. C. Manchanda (2004)
* Ashwin Balachand Mehta (2004)
* S. K. Sama (2004)
* Rajan Saxena (physician) (2004)
* Devi Shetty (2004)
* Gopal Prasad Sinha (2004)
* G. Bakthavathsalam (2005)
* Jitendra Mohan Hans (2005)
* P. N. V. Kurup (2005)
* Veer Singh Mehta (2005)
* Lavu Narendranath (2005)
* Cyrus S. Poonawalla (2005)
* Sanjeev Bagai (2006)
* Mohan Kameswaran (2006)
* Upendra Kaul (2006)
* Tsering Landol (2006)
* Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (2006)
* Harbhajan Singh Rissam (2006)
* Kamal Kumar Sethi (2006)
* Tehemton Erach Udwadia (2006)
* Harpinder Singh Chawla (2007)
* Narmada Prasad Gupta (2007)
* Ashok Kumar Hemal (2007)
* Atul Kumar (ophthalmologist) (2007)
* C. N. Manjunath (2007)
* Anoop Misra (2007)
* P. Namperumalsamy (2007)
* Mayilvahanan Natarajan (2007)
* K. R. Palaniswamy (2007)
* Mahipal S. Sachdev (2007)
* B. Paul Thaliath (2007)
* Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal (2007)
* Mohsin Wali (2007)
* S. N. Arya (2008)
* Dinesh K. Bhargava (2008)
* Tony Fernandez (ophthalmologist) (2008)
* Rakesh Kumar Jain (2008)
* Raman Kapur (2008)
* T. P. Lahane (2008)
* Keiki R. Mehta (2008)
* M. C. Pant (2008)
* Arjunan Rajasekaran (2008)
* Malvika Sabharwal (2008)
* Indu Bhushan Sinha (2008)
* Randhir Sud (2008)
* C. U. Velmurugendran (2008)
* Kalyan Banerjee (2009)
* Balswarup Choubey (2009)
* Saibaba Goud (2009)
* Yash Gulati (2009)
* P. R. Krishna Kumar (2009)
* Arvind Lal (2009)
* D. S. Rana (2009)
* Thanikachalam Sadagopan (2009)
* Ashok K. Vaid (2009)
* G. Vijayaraghavan (2009)

2010s|

* K. K. Aggarwal (2010)
* Philip Augustine (2010)
* Anil Kumar Bhalla (2010)
* Kodaganur S. Gopinath (2010)
* Laxmi Chand Gupta (2010)
* Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy (2010)
* Vikas Mahatme (2010)
* B. Ramana Rao (2010)
* Rabindra Narain Singh (2010)
* Arvinder Singh Soin (2010)
* Madanur Ahmed Ali (2011)
* Pukhraj Bafna (2011)
* Mansoor Hasan (2011)
* Indira Hinduja (2011)
* Shyama Prasad Mandal (2011)
* Jose Chacko Periappuram (2011)
* A. Marthanda Pillai (2011)
* Sivapatham Vittal (2011)
* Nitya Anand (2012)
* Mukesh Batra (2012)
* Mahdi Hasan (2012)
* Jugal Kishore (2012)
* V. Mohan (2012)
* J. Hareendran Nair (2012)
* Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan (2012)
* Jitendra Kumar Singh (2012)
* Shrinivas S. Vaishya (2012)
* Sudarshan K. Aggarwal (2013)
* Rajendra Achyut Badwe (2013)
* Krishna Chandra Chunekar (2013)
* Taraprasad Das (2013)
* T. V. Devarajan (2013)
* Saroj Chooramani Gopal (2013)
* Vishwa Kumar Gupta (2013)
* Pramod Kumar Julka (2013)
* Gulshan Rai Khatri (2013)
* Ganesh Kumar Mani (2013)
* Amit Prabhakar Maydeo (2013)
* Sundaram Natarajan (2013)
* C. Venkata S. Ram (2013)
* Kiritkumar Mansukhlal Acharya (2014)
* Subrat Kumar Acharya (2014)
* Balram Bhargava (2014)
* Indira Chakravarty (2014)
* Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande (2014)
* Pawan Raj Goyal (2014)
* Rajesh Kumar Grover (2014)
* Amod Gupta (2014)
* Daya Kishore Hazra (2014)
* Thenumgal Poulose Jacob (2014)
* Shashank R. Joshi (2014)
* Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah (2014)
* Milind Vasant Kirtane (2014)
* Lalit Kumar (2014)
* Mohan Mishra (2014)
* Vamsi Mootha (2014)
* Siddhartha Mukherjee (2014)
* Nitish Naik (2014)
* M. Subhadra Nair (2014)
* Ashok Panagariya (2014)
* Narendra Kumar Pandey (2014)
* Sunil Pradhan (2014)
* Ashok Rajgopal (2014)
* Kamini A. Rao (2014)
* Sarbeswar Sahariah (2014)
* J. S. Titiyal (2014)
* Om Prakash Upadhyaya (2014)
* Mahesh Verma (2014)
* Manjula Anagani (2015)
* Yogesh Kumar Chawla (2015)
* Bimola Kumari (2015)
* Randeep Guleria (2015)
* K. P. Haridas (2015)
* Rajesh Kotecha (2015)
* Alka Kriplani (2015)
* Harsh Kumar (2015)
* Dattatreyudu Nori (2015)
* Tejas Patel (2015)
* Raghu Ram Pillarisetti (2015)
* Narendra Prasad (2015)
* Saumitra Rawat (2015)
* Yog Raj Sharma (2015)
* Nikhil Tandon (2015)
* Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi (2015)
* Gopi Chand Mannam (2016)
* Praveen Chandra (2016)
* John Ebnezar (2016)
* Daljeet Singh Gambhir (2016)
* A. G. K. Gokhale (2016)
* Murli Manohar Joshi (2016)
* Ravi Kant (2016)
* Shiv Narain Kureel (2016)
* T. K. Lahiri (2016)
* Anil Kumari Malhotra (2016)
* Yarlagadda Nayudamma (2016)
* Sudhir V. Shah (2016)
* Ram Harsh Singh (2016)
* M. V. Padma Srivastava (2016)
* T. S. Chandrasekar (2016)
* Harkishan Singh (2017)
* Suniti Solomon (2017)
* Bhakti Yadav (2017)
* Abhay and Rani Bang (2018)
* Yeshi Dhonden (2018)
* Lakshmikutty (2018)
* M. R. Rajagopal (2018)
* Sanduk Ruit (2018)
* Ilias Ali (2019)
* Omesh Kumar Bharti (2019)
* Mammen Chandy (2019)
* Sudam Kate (2019)
* Ravindra and Smita Kolhe (2019)
* Jagat Ram (2019)
* Ramaswami Venkataswami (2019)

2020s|

* Yogi Aereon (2020)
* Padma Bandopadhyay (2020)
* Sushovan Banerjee (2020)
* Digambar Behera (2020)
* Leela Joshi (2020)
* Arunoday Mondal (2020)
* Shanti Roy (2020)
* Gurdip Singh (2020)
* Sandra Desa Souza (2020)
* Kushal Konwar Sarma (2020)
* Ravi Kannan R (2020)
* Krishna Mohan Pathi (2021)
* Jitendra Nath Pande (2021)
* Dr Himmatrao Bawaskar (2022)
* Dr Prokar Dasgupta (2022)
* Dr Lata Desai (2022)
* Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre (2022)
* Dr Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) (2022)
* Dr Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao (2022)
* Dr Veeraswamy Seshiah (2022)
* Dr Bhimsen Singhal (2022)
* Dr Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) (2022)
* Kamlakar Tripathi (2022)

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