Rajagopalan Krishnan Vaidyan (17 November 1932 – 10 January 2015) was an Indian ayurvedic practitioner from the Indian state of Kerala and the president of the ''Association of Ayurvedic Physicians of Kerala''.

Early life and education

He was born in a family of traditional physicians to M. P. Krishnan Vaidyan and P. Kalyanikutty Amma, both practitioners of Ayurveda, and is a graduate of modern medicine (MBBS) and Ayurvedic medicine (DAM), which he passed with first rank from the Ayurveda College, Thiruvananthapuram. Krishnan, who started his career at his family clinic and later worked at the

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Clinic in

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, maintained his practice at his clinic in Kollam.

Associations

He was associated with many healthcare institutions in Kerala such as *

Amala Institute of Medical Sciences Amala Institute of Medical Sciences is a private medical college near Amalanagar, in Thrissur city, of Kerala state. It is a Christian minority institution established and administered by the Devamatha Province of the Carmelites of Mary Immacu ...

, Thrissur, Arya Vaidya Sala,

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, * Ayurveda Pharmacy, Aluva and Ayurveda Samajam Hospitals, located at

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and Shornur, either as a consultant or as an advisor. * He was an examiner of ayurvedic courses conducted by

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, Mahatma Gandhi University,

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and

Bharathiar University Bharathiar University is a public state university in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Named after Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, the university was established in February 1982 under the provision of Bharathiar University Act, 1981 (Act 1 of ...

* He also worked as the Dean of

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. He is also a member of the Central Council of Indian Medicine * He was an advisor on Indian medicine to the

Government of Kerala Government of Kerala is the Subnational administrative division, subnational government of the Indian state of Kerala. The government is led by a chief minister, who selects all the other ministers. The chief minister and their most senior mini ...

Awards

He is a recipient of ''Bhrihatrayee Ratna'' (1977) and ''Vaidya Vachaspati'' awards and has received the Fellowship from the

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. He was honored by the

, again in 2003, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

References

Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine Malayali people Indian medical academics Ayurvedacharyas from Kerala Scientists from Kollam 20th-century Indian medical doctors 1932 births 2015 deaths {{India-med-bio-stub