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{{short description|Indian neurologist}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Vimla Virmani
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| alt = An older South Asian woman, wearing glasses.
| caption = Vimla Virmani, from a 1999 obituary notice.
| other_names = Vimala Virmani
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| birth_date = 12 April 1919
| birth_place = Lyallpur (now [[Faisalabad]])
| death_date = November 1999
| death_place =
| occupation = Neurologist
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'''Vimla Virmani''' (12 April 1919 – November 1999), also seen as '''Vimala Virmani''', was an Indian neurologist. In 1978, she became the first woman to serve as president of the [[Neurological Society of India]].

== Early life ==
Virmani was born in Lyallpur (now [[Faisalabad]], Pakistan), the daughter of Hakim Rai.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Chattopadhyay|first=Anjana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8g7zuQEACAAJ|title=Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles & Achievements|date=2018|publisher=National Book Trust, India|isbn=978-81-237-8144-0|pages=444–445|language=en}}</ref> She was educated at home. She earned a master's degree in psychology by taking classes informally at the [[Forman Christian College]] in [[Lahore]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Nair|first=K. Rajasekharan|date=1999|title=Obituary: Vimla Virmani|url=http://archive.nmji.in/archives/Volume-13/issue-3/Vimla-Virmani.pdf|journal=National Medical Journal of India|volume=13|pages=155}}</ref> She attended [[Khalsa College, Amritsar|Khalsa College]] in [[Amritsar]] and earned a medical degree at [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals|Grant Medical College]]. She pursued further studies on a year's fellowship in London in 1961 and 1962.<ref name=":2">Nair, K. R. [https://neurosocietyindia.org/site/Past-president/b2/23%20Prof.%20Vimla%20Virmani..pdf "Prof. Vimla Virmani"] Neurological Society of India. </ref>

== Career ==
Virmani was a researcher with the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]],<ref name=":0" /> and practiced as a neurologist at [[Lady Hardinge Medical College|Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|date=2002|title=V. Virmani|url=http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/journal/issue/journal_32_1/16_obituaries.pdf|journal=Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|volume=32|pages=70–71}}</ref> She was a professor of neurology at [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences]] (AIIMS) from 1964, and head of the neurology department from 1975 to 1979.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tondon|first=P. N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDnvDwAAQBAJ&q=Vimla+Virmani&pg=PA148|title=Closed Doors Open Windows - My Autobiography: My Autobiography|date=2020-04-01|publisher=Wolters kluwer india Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-93-89335-32-3|pages=148, 170|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Srivastava|first1=MadakasiraVasantha Padma|last2=Dash|first2=Deepa|date=2015|title=History of neurology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences|url=http://www.neurologyindia.com/text.asp?2015/63/5/751/166553|journal=Neurology India|language=en|volume=63|issue=5|pages=751|doi=10.4103/0028-3886.166553|pmid=26448236|issn=0028-3886}}</ref> She was a visiting professor of neurology at the Neurological Institute in Montreal in 1969 and 1970,<ref name=":0" /> at [[Banaras Hindu University]] in 1973,<ref name=":0" /> and at [[Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum|Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology]] (SCTIMST) in 1979.<ref name=":2" /> Her research ranged widely in subjects, but often involved neuromuscular dysfunction<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ashok|first1=P.P.|last2=Sapru|first2=R.P.|last3=Radhakrishnan|first3=V.V.|last4=Virmani|first4=Vimla|date=April 1982|title=Skeletal muscle involvement in tropical endomyocardial fibrosis|url=https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-510X(82)90214-3|journal=Journal of the Neurological Sciences|volume=54|issue=1|pages=1–12|doi=10.1016/0022-510x(82)90214-3|s2cid=41510053|issn=0022-510X}}</ref> and [[spinal muscular atrophy]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Virmani|first1=Vimala|last2=Mohan|first2=P. K.|date=1985|title=Non-familial, spinal segmental muscular atrophy in juvenile and young subjects|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0404.1985.tb00880.x|journal=Acta Neurologica Scandinavica|language=en|volume=72|issue=3|pages=336–340|doi=10.1111/j.1600-0404.1985.tb00880.x|pmid=4061054|s2cid=35095836|issn=1600-0404}}</ref>

In 1978, Virmani became the first woman to serve as president of the Neurological Society of India.<ref name=":1" /> She was a founding member of the Delhi Neurological Group, a precursor of the Delhi Neurological Association.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Official Website of Delhi Neurological Association - DNA Delhi|url=https://www.dnadelhi.in/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=DNADELHI|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1975, she attended the Asian and Oceanian Congress of Neurology in [[Bangkok]], and was national advisor to the WHO/IAMS Seminar on Epilepsy in [[Bangalore]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=All-India Institute of Medical Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCAgAQAAMAAJ&q=Vimla+Virmani|title=Report|date=1975|pages=151|language=en}}</ref> She was named a fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] in 1976.<ref name=":3" />

== Personal life ==
Virmani died in 1999, aged 80 years.<ref name=":1" /> The Vimla Virmani Award is a bronze medal and a cash prize given annually by the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] "for outstanding work in the field of physical and/or psychosociological rehabilitation of neurologically and/or mentally afflicted subjects".<ref>NAMS (India), [https://nams-india.in/downloads/Oration_and_Award.pdf Orations and Awards, 2017-2018.]</ref> Among the recipients of the Vimla Virmani Award have been [[M. V. Padma Srivastava]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Disha Experts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5ExDwAAQBAJ&q=Vimla+Virmani&pg=PA152|title=The PADMA ACHIEVERS 2016|date=2017-08-05|publisher=Disha Publications|isbn=978-93-85846-64-9|pages=152|language=en}}</ref> and [[Manas Kumar Mandal]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Mandal|first1=Manas K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nP_HBAAAQBAJ&q=Vimla+Virmani&pg=PR11|title=Understanding Facial Expressions in Communication: Cross-cultural and Multidisciplinary Perspectives|last2=Awasthi|first2=Avinash|date=2014-10-10|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-81-322-1934-7|pages=xi|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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