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'''Ramesh Kumar''' is an Indian physician who specialises in [[Kidney disease]]s and a pioneer of [[nephrology]] in India and [[South Asia]]. He was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] in 1992 and the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2003 by the president of India for his pioneering, notable and continued contributions to Nephrology.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.batrahospitaldelhi.org/doctorDetails.php?d_id=160 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-03-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323230250/http://www.batrahospitaldelhi.org/doctorDetails.php?d_id=160 |archive-date=23 March 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kumar|first=Ramesh|title=Padma Bhushan|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf|work=Medicine|access-date=23 March 2014|archive-date=15 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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A senior consultant with Batra Hospital, Kumar has been former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's doctor since 1973 and continues to be his personal physician.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 May 2000 |title=Is this man ill? Rumours abound over Atal Bihari Vajpayee's health, but doctors give clean bill of health |author=Harinder Baweja |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/20000515-rumours-abound-over-atal-bihari-vajpayees-health-but-doctors-give-clean-bill-of-health-777543-2000-05-14 |newspaper=India Today |access-date=23 March 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Kumar started an artificial kidney program, including kidney transplantation at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]], New Delhi and in [[Northern India]]. As the pioneer of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD), he made available an alternate mode of dialysis treatment. Dr. Kumar has authored 118 scientific publications; chapters in books and monographs published in scholarly journals, internationally. He obtained worldwide recognition for identification of [[cytotoxic]] drug—[[Cyclophosphamide]]-induced [[Infertility|sterility]].<br />
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Kumar identified patterns of kidney diseases in India and established training programs for medical, technical and nursing in nephrology, countrywide.<br />
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An alumnus of Agra Medical College, Kumar as MRCP [[Renal Disease]]s (1971) from the Royal College of Physicians, was rated the "Best Overseas Young Physician" in the United Kingdom. Within a decade, he was conferred FRCP for his pioneering effort in nephrology and kidney transplantation in India. He is currently working as chief nephrologist and head of the Department of Nephrology & Transplantation at Moolchand Hospital, New Delhi. His department had been designated as Centre of Excellence by the Government of India.<br />
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Medicine}}<br />
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