Thanikachalam Sadagopan
Thanikachalam Sadagopan is an Indian cardiologist, medical academic, and former Vice-Chancellor at the
Sri Ramachandra University. He is the chairman and director of the Cardiac Care Centre at Sri Ramachandra University and an adjunct professor at the Biomedical Engineering Group of the Department of Applied Mechanics at the
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. He is known for research on preventive cardiology and has published several articles on the subject. He has been involved in several multinational multicentric drug trials including the ''PURSE-HIS Epidemiological Study'' of the
Tufts University School of Medicine and the study on ''Nuna Kadugu'', a
Siddha medicine used to treat various skin diseases. He is a recipient of
Dr. B. C. Roy Award of the
Medical Council of India, the highest Indian award in the medical category. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the
Padma Shri, in 2009, for his contributions to Medicine.
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