Asha Seth, (born December 15, 1939) is a Canadian politician and doctor. She was appointed to the

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(for

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) by

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on January 6, 2012, and sat as a Conservative until reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 on December 15, 2014. She was born in India and trained in medicine at the

King George Medical College King George's Medical University is a medical school, hospital, and medical university located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. The medical school was raised to a medical university by an act passed by the government of Uttar Pradesh on 16 S ...

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and the

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in the UK. She became a Canadian citizen in 1974. She worked as an

obstetrician Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...

and gynecologist at

St. Joseph's Health Centre St. Joseph's Health Centre is a large Catholic teaching hospital in western Toronto, Ontario. It is located west of downtown Toronto, along the Lake Ontario shore at the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalle ...

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since 1976, and is also known as a philanthropist, having founded the NIMDAC Foundation. She is a National Board member of the

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. She is part of the executive team of the

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. In 2010, Seth was one of the recipients of the

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, presented by

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Senate biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seth, Asha Canadian senators from Ontario Conservative Party of Canada senators Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University alumni 1939 births Politicians from Toronto Canadian obstetricians Living people Women members of the Senate of Canada 21st-century Canadian women politicians Canadian politicians of Indian descent