Shoumo Bhattacharya
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Shoumo Bhattacharya is an Indian medical doctor and academic, and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the BHF Centre of Research Excellence, University of Oxford.[1]
Bhattacharya studied medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, qualifying as MBBS 1983, and MD in 1985.[2]
He trained in cardiology at Northwick Park and Hammersmith Hospitals in London, where he was also a Medical Research Council (MRC) Training Fellow. He then held BHF and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellowships at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Bhattacharya was a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at Oxford from 1998 to 2008. He was awarded a BHF Professorship in 2009 and was elected to a statutory Professorship at the University of Oxford in 2010.[3]
Bhattacharya is also a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College and member of the College Council.[4]