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Dr. Usha Krishna was born in Mumbai in a family of
educationists. Her father was a pioneer in education,
educated in London in 1920’s. He setup the first
co-educational school with tremendous importance to art,
music and extra curricular activities. Her mother was one of
the first few ladies to go abroad in 1930s to learn child
psychology and Montessori education. Dr. Usha Krishna
therefore had an ideal environment to study as well as have
all round growth in various facets. She paid great deal of
attention to music and dancing along with her medical
studies and even today she is very much interested in
performing arts and paintings. She was a trustee of New Era
School trust which has been now been passed on to a very
capable resourceful group.
She has married to Mr. G Ramakrishna to an Industrial
Engineer and Management Consultant. He has been a source of
great strength and helped and inspired her to work. Her son
Anand Krishna an Industrial Engineer and MBA married to Sonali who is MBA and CFA. They work in USA and have two
daughters. Her daughter Dr. Amala Mahadevan and her husband
Dr. L Mahadevan are in academic fields after their PhDs in
Stanford University are now professors in Boston University
and Harvard University respectively. They have a daughter
and a son doing very well in USA, but regularly come to
India to learn a lot. The family has been a great source of
joy.
After her post graduation, she was trained in High Risk
Pregnancy problems abroad and joined KEM hospital as Asst.
Hon. and later she was Hon. Prof. in KEM hospital and GS
Medical College. She was extremely interested in teaching
and was in-charge of Dr. N A Purandare Ob/Gyn. research
centre. She is a post graduate teacher and examiner for MD,
DGO, DNB, PhD. She has conducted many teaching programmes
for the Universities, ICMR, College of Surgeons and
Physicians, ICOG. She is reviewer of several journals. She
is very grateful to her mentors such as Dr. B N Purandare,
Dr. V N Purandare, Dr. Banoo Coyaji, Prof. U K Sheth, Prof.
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Dr. Mrs. Fernandes, Father Fuster and
many other well wishers and colleagues who inspired her to
do the medical, operative, research work, as well as
community welfare. There is much more to be done in every
field yet.
She had WHO grants, especially on projects related to
fertility control. She was on the Prostaglandin task force
and was closely associated with work of WHO Fertility
control projects and as well as projects of Indian Council
of Medical Research. She was the Chairperson of the FOGSI
Committee of Adolescent Problems and Clinical Research and
later the President of FOGSI and Mumbai Ob/Gyn. Society.
She was a member of expert committee for clinical research
and Family Welfare at Ministry of Health, Government of
India. She is a chairperson of scientific advisory committee
– Reproductive Health; ICMR She is also a member of advisory
council, Population Foundation of India and on scientific
advisory committee of National Institute for Research in
Reproduction, ICMR, Sir H. N. Hospital, Breach Candy
Hospital and KEM Hospital, Pune. She was on FIGO expert
advisory panel on Maternal & Perinatal Healthcare. She was
the Chairperson on Ethics committee of National Institute of
Research in Reproductive Health and now chairs ethics
committee of Tata Memorial Hospital.
She is greatly interested in setting up medical clinics of
excellent quality. As a medical & welfare advisor of Larsen
& Toubro, she has set up number of centers which have
received recognition from BMC & BCC, Mother Teresa award
etc. She is a trustee of L & T Charitable trust.
Dr. Usha Krishna is closely associated with FPAI for more
than a decade. She is the President of FPAI, Mumbai branch
and now also the President of FPA India. She is the Vice
Chairperson of the medical advisory committee. She has
organized conferences and seminars on the subjects related
to ob/gyn, family welfare and community health. Her
professional work is related to clinical work, academics and
research as well as publication of scientific material. She
actively works for India Sponsorship Committee which runs by
Balgram – Children’s Village for orphan children. The
institution has a school upto 10th standard and
vocational training institute.
She has edited of books on Pregnancy at Risk, Safe
Motherhood, The Adolescent Girl and Maternal Mortality and
High Risk Pregnancy. She has 152 publications in
professional journals, 20 chapters in books and has started
FOGSI Focus, an educational publication of FOGSI and
contributed 10 to 11 of them. She is the series editor of
“Obstetrics and Gynecology in Perspective” of Orient
Longman. She has been invited to speak at several
conferences and universities.
She is keen to reach knowledge and she is highly motivated
to spread the message to achieve the excellence and high
performance through team work. She is involved in many
activities from patient care, teaching as well as social
welfare and cultural activities.
Her sincere
work is been appreciated and has received awards such as-
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FIGO (International Federation) award for Out Standing
Contribution to Women’s Health,
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FOGSI award for Life Achievement Award
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MOGS award for Dr B N Purandare Award
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AOFOG Fellowship Award
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Dr V V Puri Award
She hopes to
continue her mission to spread happiness through health. |
