Category: PIO’s

Indian-American V. Vijay ‘Warrior Surgeon/Pilot’ Flying High With Securing PPE Material to Fight COVID-19 in US : April 2020

Dr. V. Vijay is both a cardiologist and pilot.

Practising Surgeon at The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City and trained Pilot with assignments at Sky Lease Cargo, Greensboro, North Carolina.

V. Vijay flies Boeing-747 cargo flights to cities in China, Japan and Malaysia to bring back PPE’s and essential medical supplies to the U.S to battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

Education :

  • MBBS – Sai Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati

MD, FRCSC

  • General Surgical Training – Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City
  • Fellowship in Rheumatic Heart Valve & Pediatric Heart Surgery – Medical University of Southern Africa, MEDUNSA, Pretoria
  • Cardiothoracic Surgical Training – The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

Firsts:

  • Surgical member of the Team that performed First live-related kidney transplantation in the Caribbean
  • First Fellow – Rachel Cooper Foundation for pediatric surgery at Babies Hospital, Columbia University and Montefiore Childrens Hospital, New York
  • First Artificial Heart Transplantation in Long Island, New York- 1999
  • Founder – Cardiac Transplantation – division of Winthrop University Hospital

Patents :

Several on cardio-pulmonary by-pass machines

Publications :

Several papers on cardio-pulmonary bypass machines

Indian-American Physicist Jagadeesh Moodera and MIT Team Discover Sighting of ‘Majorana Fermion’ – April 2020

Dr. Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera and his team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discover the sighting of ‘Majorana Fermion’.

This sighting of Majorana Fermion are scalable and could be made in qubits. These qubits could be used to build the most powerful and error free quantum computers.

Married to Dr. Geetha Berera – Senior Lecturer – Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT

Currently :

  • MIT – Francis Bitter National Laboratory – Leader, ‘Thin Film Magnetism, Superconductivity and Nanospintronics Group
  • Visiting Professor – Technological University of Eindhoven – The Netherlands
  • Adjunct Professor – Suffolk Universtiy

Awards & Honours :

  • Oliver Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics -from American Physical Society (APS) – (2009)
  • Fellow – American Physical Society (2000)
  • Coorg Person of the Year (2008)

Papers:

  • More than a dozen papers published internationally

Education:

  • Ph.d – Physics – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Madras
  • M.Sc – Mysore University
  • B.Sc – Mysore University

Indian-American NGO ‘American India Foundation’ (AIF) to provide 20,000 meals for health workers in the US – April 2020

American India Foundation (AIF) a non-profit NGO will provide over 20,000 meals to frontline health workers in under-resourced hospitals and local food kitchens in New York City, Bay Area, Boston and Chicago.

The AIF has tied up with ‘World Central Kitchen’ to organise the meals.

It is the American India Foundation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

British Indian Ramesh Mehta – President of ‘British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO)

Dr. Ramesh Mehta FRCPCH, FRCP, MD, DCH – Consultant & Lead Paediatrician , Belford Hospital

President BAPIO / www.bapio.co.uk

Awards & Honours :

  • The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire – OBE – for exemplary service to the NHS spanning 30 years (2017)
  • National Clinical Excellence Awards
  • Top 50 BME Leaders in the NHS – Health Services Journal (HS) – 2013 and 2014
  • Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Notes: There are over 65,000 doctors of Indian origin in the NHS

U.S Headquartered – Google’s First India-born CEO . 2015 .

Pichai Sundararajan (aka. Sundar Pichai) American–Indian was appoined as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the U.S. headquartered global giant Google Inc. A hugely high-profile job in the US technology industry . August 10th, 2015

The restructuring of Google made Alphabet Inc., into Google’s parent company. Larry Paige is now the CEO and Sergey Brin the President of Alphabet. Subsequent to the completion of the restructuring Sundar Pichai assumed the postion of CEO on October 02nd, 2015.

Pichai joined Google in 2004 and was formerly Product Chief in Google.

Sundar Pichai earned his Bachelor’s Degree B.Tech, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT,Kharagpur) in Metallurgical Engineering. Followed by a Masters M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences. An MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He was named ‘Siebel Scholar’ and ‘Palmer Scholar’.

Sundar Pichai was born on July 12th, 1972 in Madurai,TamilNadu(India) to Regunatha Pichai and Lakshmi. His father was a Senior Electrical Engineer in British General Electric, Madras(now Chennai).

He is married to his same-year classmate Anjali Pichai, a chemical engineer of IIT,Kharagpur and has 2 children

Indian Origin Spinner plays for New Zealand National Cricket Team : 2013

Inderbir Singh Sodhi (aka. Ish Sodhi) made his debut for the New Zealand National Cricket team (nicknamed ‘BlackCaps’) against Banglasdesh during the New Zealand tour of Bangladesh . October 2013.

He was born on October 31st, 1992 in Ludhiana, Punjab(India) to Rajbir Singh Sodhi and mother Simrat Sodhi. The Sodhis migrated to Auckland in 1992 when Ish was only 4 years old.

At an early age he was enrolled in Papatoetoe Cricket Club, South Auckland . Ish Sodhi developed into a right arm leg spin bowler and began his cricketing career representing the Northern Districts.

Representing the NZ National Cricket Team:

New Zealand against Bangladesh    – Debut October 2013

T20 against West Indies           – Debut July 2014

3 Test series against Pakistan    – November 2014

One Day Cricket against Zimbabwe  – August 2015

Currently ICC World T-20          – March 2016

Indian-American appointed President & CEO of ‘Bank of the West’ USA . April 2016.

Nandita Bakshi has been appointed President and CEO of ‘Bank of the West’, Corporate Headquarters in San Francisco, California.

She joins the Bank of April 01st as CEO-in-training on April 01st and will take the helm officially on June 01st, 2016

Bank of the West is a unit of the French banking giant BNP Paribas. The California based Bank operates more than 600 retail, wealth, commercial and business banking offices in 22 states.

 

Bakshi previously held Senior positions at:

EVP Head of Consumer Banking – TD Bank (New Jersey), EVP and Head – North American Direct Channels

Executive positions at :

Washington Mutual, Seattle (Washington – now JP Morgan Chase), Fleet Boston (now Bank of America), First Data Corp, Home Savings of America and Banc One Corp.

Nandita Bakshi did her Bachelors in History, University of Calcutta and Masters in International Relations & Affairs, Jadavpur University (West Bengal)

British Mission in India, gets its First Indian-Origin Diplomat. July 2013 .

In a first Kumar Iyer, a Diplomat of Indian-origin is appointed as the British Deputy High Commissioner for Western Region. He will have responsibility of all aspects of diplomatic engagement in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Goa.

He will also simultaneously be Director General India for UK Trade & Investment (UKTI),for the whole of India – a new top-level post that has been created to reflect the increasing importance of the UK-India business ties.

He will be take up both positions based in Mumbai at the British Mission on August 05th, 2013.

Kumar Iyer has a MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University, where he was a Bank of England scholar. He was an undergraduate tutor in Microeconomics. He was also a Kennedy Scholar and Teaching Fellow in International Capital Markets at Harvard University.

He joined the British Government in 2008 as Deputy Director, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. In 2010 he moved to the Treasury, first as Deputy Director, Strategy Plannig & Budget and then as Head of Financial Sector Intervention. Prior to that he was at the Boston Consulting Group where he worked mainly in the Financial Services Practice.

Kumar Iyer was born in London to parents of Indian origin. He spent his formative years in India, including time in Mumbai. He is married to Kathryn, a barrister practicing criminal law and they have 2 children a son and a daughter. He is a keen cricketer and chess player.

First American-Indian Crowned ‘ Miss New York 2013 ‘ at Staten Island, NY . July 2013 .

Nina Davuluri, a Syracuse, NY native was crowned as ‘ Miss New York 2013 ‘ making her the first Indian to be crowned ‘ Miss New York ‘.

The 24-year old winner Nina Davuluri was crowned by Miss America Mallory Hagan and her predecessor Miss New York Shannon Oliver during a specatular production at the stately St.George Theatre in Staten Island, New York on Saturday July 13th, 2013. Nina Davuluri was attired in a floor length evening gown of light yellow.

Davuluri embraced her culture performing a bollywood dance as her talent. In overcoming her obstacles Nina lost 60 pounds in the last 2 years and did it all with the help of her sponsor and trainer Tia Falcone. ” Just to be on that stage and show everyone how hard I’ve worked to achieve this, just meant the world to me ” says Davuluri. She plans to use the $10,000 she won in scholarship money to achieve her goal of becoming a doctor.

Nina is working closely with the ‘Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ to raise funds for the local children’s hospitals.

As Miss New York she will now represent the Empire State, at the forthcoming ‘ Miss America pageant ‘ at the Atlantic City. Th final night of the Pageant competition and the crowning of ‘ Miss America ‘ is scheduled for September 15th. The event will be broadcase at 9pm ET/PT on ABC television network.

www.missny.org/missny2013/ – Miss New York Organization., Inc.