Mathew Samuel Kalarickal is an Indian cardiologist widely known as the father of

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/ref> He specializes in coronary angioplasty, carotid stenting, coronary stenting and rotablator atherectomy.

Early years

Kalarickal was born on 6 January 1948 in Kottayam, Kerala. He studied at

Union Christian College, Aluva Union Christian College, Aluva (known as UC College) is a college affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. It is one of the earliest colleges in India to be established and managed by Indian Christians. It was founded in 1921 by four ...

. Subsequently, he got his MBBS degree from

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in 1974, his MD from

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, Chennai in 1978 and his DM in 1981 from

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, Chennai.

Career

After starting his career in India, Kalarickal moved to Jakarta to work at Medistra Hospital, later he moved to Oman to work as a cardiologist at the Royal Hospital, Muscat. He continued his practice in the United States only to return to India in 1985 after training there under

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, who is known as the father of coronary angioplasty and joined

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at Chennai.

Positions held

Kalarickal is at present the Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories,

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. He is also a visiting Interventional Cardiologist at hospitals in different parts of India. He is the founder-convenor of the National Angioplasty Registry of India, which is a forum for interventional cardiologists of the country to learn from each other, streamline the standard of procedure and maintain international standards. Kalarickal was the President, Asian-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology, from 1995 to 1997 and Chairman of Interventional Cardiology, Asian-Pacific Society of Cardiology, from 1995 to 1999.

Awards and recognitions

* Doctor of Science Award by the Dr. M.G.R. University in 2003 *

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by the

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in 2000 * Dr. B. C. Roy Award in Interventional Cardiology in 1996 * "Rashtriya Samman" (top tax payers award) in 2000
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Early years

Career

Positions held

Awards and recognitions

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