Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey (7 August 1912 – 22 April 1983) was a pioneer of Indian

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. He was a director of the department of cardiology at

KEM Hospital King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College is a public medical college and hospital, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in 1926; it is affiliated with Maharashtra University of Health Science ...

, Mumbai. He was also a founder director of the All India Heart Foundation, and a Fellow of the

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Biography

Datey was born in Jabalpur to Krishnaji Hari Datey, an engineer, and Annapurna bai. He did his schooling from Model High School, Jabalpur, and later joined

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at Allahabad. Thereafter, he studied medicine at the Seth G.S.Medical College (1936), then affiliated with University of Bombay. He received his first MRCP from

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in 1947 and MRCP from

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in 1949. He was awarded the

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, third highest civilian honour of India by the President of India, in 1969.

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Indian cardiologists People from Jabalpur Marathi people Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Medical doctors from Mumbai University of Allahabad alumni 20th-century Indian medical doctors 1912 births 1983 deaths {{india-med-bio-stub