Muralidhar Laxmanrao Kulkarni is an Indian pediatrician and genetician who currently heads the Pediatric division of dharwad medical college, dharwad. India. He joined J.J.M. Medical College in 1975 as lecturer in pediatrics and was chosen to head the department in 1993. He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious
Dr. B. C. Roy Award
The Bidhan Chandra Roy Award was instituted in 1962 in memory of Dr. B. C. Roy by the Medical Council of India. It is presented by the President of India in New Delhi every year on July 1, National Doctors' Day. It is also the highest honour tha ...
of Medical Council of India as an eminent medical teacher in 1994. He was also the founder president of Karnataka hemophilia society.
Biography
Kulkarni was born in
Dharwad
Dharwad (), also known as Dharwar, is a city located in the north western part of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of the Dharwad district of Karnataka and forms a contiguous urban area with the city of Hubballi. It was merge ...
, India on September 8, 1947.
[ He did his early schooling in Dharwad, then studied at ]Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences
Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi (KIMS, Hubli) is a medical school in Hubballi, India and is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka. It is one of the oldest government tertiary heal ...
, where he got his MBBS
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...
in 1971[
]
References
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Indian paediatricians
Living people
1947 births
Dr. B. C. Roy Award winners