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About Dr.Shamanthakamani Narendran

After completing Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Mysore University (Karnataka), in 1955 Dr. Shamanthakamani Narendran went on to get her Postgraduate Diploma in Child Health (DCH) from Royal College of London (UK), in 1960. She worked in various hospitals at UK before returning home in 1961. She got her Doctorate in Medicine (MD) in Pediatrics from Karnataka University, in 1967. She was elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Medical Specialties (FIAMS), in 1985. While practicing pediatrics, she took the opportunity of correspondence course from Mysore Open University and got her Master of Arts (MA) in Kannada, in 1992. Her thirst for knowledge did notend there. Her interest in spiritual learning and in the philosophy of yoga made her work for Master of Arts (MA) in Philosophy from Bangalore University, in 1997 and she is a recipient of H.C. Khincha Memorial Gold Medal. After this she went on to do her Diploma in Journalism from Mysore University, in 1998. At the age of 75 she took her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Yoga Science for her thesis work on Efficacy of Integrated Approach of Yoga on Outcome of Pregnancy from Bangalore University, in 2006. She was consulting at Republic Hospital, in Bangalore for over 25 years and Gunasheela Surgical & Maternity Hospital, Bangalore for over 30 years.