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{{Short description|Indian cardiologist (1948–2025)}}
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| death_place = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
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| occupation = [[Interventional cardiologist]]
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| awards = [[Padmashri]]<br>[[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]]<br>Doctor of Science Award
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'''Mathew Samuel Kalarickal''' (6 January 1948 – 18 April 2025) was an Indian cardiologist widely known as the father of [[angioplasty]] in India.<ref name=autogenerated1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140531124149/http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl1424/14240820.htm Navigation News | Frontline]</ref> He specialised in coronary angioplasty, carotid stenting, coronary stenting and [[rotablator]] atherectomy.<ref>[http://www.apollohospitals.com/doctor_profile.php?doc=252# Apollo Hospitals::]</ref>

== Early life ==
Kalarickal was born on 6 January 1948 in Kottayam, Travancore (now in [[Kerala]]). He studied at [[Union Christian College, Aluva]]. Subsequently, he obtained his MBBS degree from [[Government Medical College, Kottayam]] in 1974, his MD from [[Stanley Medical College]], [[Chennai]] (then called Madras) in 1978 and his DM in 1981 from [[Madras Medical College]], Chennai.<ref>[http://www.forerunnershealthcare.com/dr-mathew-samuel-kalarickal-cardiologist-mumbai-india.html Dr. Mathew Samuel Kalarickal Cardiologist Mumbai India]</ref>

== Career ==
After starting his career in India, Kalarickal moved to [[Jakarta]] to work at Medistra Hospital. Later, he moved to [[Oman]] to work as a cardiologist at the Royal Hospital, [[Muscat]]. He continued his practice in the United States only to return to India in 1985 after training there under [[Andreas Gruentzig|Andreas Grüntzig]], who was known as the father of coronary angioplasty, and joined [[Apollo Hospitals]] in Chennai.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

== Positions held ==
Kalarickal was the Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories, [[Apollo Hospitals]], [[Chennai]]. He was also a visiting Interventional Cardiologist at hospitals in different parts of India. He was the founder-convenor of the National Angioplasty Registry of India, which is a forum for interventional cardiologists of the country to learn from each other, streamline the standard of procedure and maintain international standards.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
Kalarickal was the President, Asian-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology, from 1995 to 1997 and Chairman of Interventional Cardiology, Asian-Pacific Society of Cardiology, from 1995 to 1999.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

== Death ==
Kalarickal died at Apollo Hospital in Chennai on 18 April 2025, at the age of 77.<ref name="‘Father of Indian Angioplasty’: Matthew Samuel Kalarickal passes away at 77">{{Cite web |date=2025-04-18 |title=‘Father of Indian Angioplasty’: Matthew Samuel Kalarickal passes away at 77 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/doyen-of-indian-angioplasty-matthew-samuel-kalarickal-no-more/article69464103.ece |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=The Hindu |language=en-IN}}</ref><ref name="Dr Mathew Samuel Kalarickal, India’s 'father of angioplasty', passes away at 77">{{Cite web |title=Dr Mathew Samuel Kalarickal, India’s 'father of angioplasty', passes away at 77 |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2025/04/18/mathew-thomas-kalarickal-india-father-angioplasty-passes-away.html |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Dr Mathew Samuel Kalarickal, India’s 'father of angioplasty', passes away at 77 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/doyen-of-indian-angioplasty-matthew-samuel-kalarickal-no-more/article69464103.ece Doyen of Indian angioplasty Mathew Samuel Kalarickal no more]</ref>

== Awards and recognitions ==
* Doctor of Science Award by the Dr. M.G.R. University in 2003
* [[Padmashri]] by the [[President of India]] in 2000<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2000-04-10 |title=Padmashree for this doctor of hearts |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/padmashree-for-this-doctor-of-hearts/articleshow/1168103694.cms |access-date=2023-02-28 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>
* [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]] in Interventional Cardiology in 1996
* "Rashtriya Samman" (top tax payers award) in 2000<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/2000/05/27/stories/0627000a.htm]{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal | last = Serruys | first = Patrick W. | author2 = Michael J.B. Kutryk | author3 = Andrew T.L. Ong | date = 2 February 2006 | title = Coronary-Artery Stents | journal = [[New England Journal of Medicine]] | volume = 354 | issue = 5 | pages = 483–95 | url = http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/354/5/483 | doi = 10.1056/NEJMra051091 | pmid = 16452560 | url-access = subscription | hdl = 1765/72541 | hdl-access = free | archive-date = 25 April 2009 | access-date = 30 May 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090425062646/http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/354/5/483 | url-status = dead }}

{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Medicine}}
{{Padma Award winners of Kerala}}

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[[Category:1948 births]]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine]]
[[Category:Indian cardiologists]]
[[Category:Dr. B. C. Roy Award winners]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian medical doctors]]
[[Category:Scientists from Kottayam]]
[[Category:Medical doctors from Kerala]]

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