Manipal is a suburb and university town within Udupi,in coastal Karnataka,India. Manipal is located five kilometres away from the centre of Udupi City,in Udupi District,Karnataka (state) in south western India. It is administered by the Udupi City Municipality. The suburb is located in coastal Karnataka,62 km north of Mangalore and 8 km east of the Arabian Sea. From its location on a plateau,at an altitude of about 75 metres above sea level,it commands a panoramic view of the Arabian Sea to the west and the Western Ghats to the east.
Christian Medical College,Vellore,widely known as CMC,Vellore,is a private,Christian minority community-run medical college and hospital in Vellore,Tamil Nadu,India. This institute includes a network of primary,secondary and tertiary care hospitals.
Kasturba Medical College,Manipal and Kasturba Medical College,Mangalore,together known as KMC,are two private medical colleges in coastal Karnataka,India,established in 1953 and 1955. The colleges are constituent units of Manipal Academy of Higher Education,an Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University.
Manipal Institute of Technology is a private engineering college under Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India.
The Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is a deemed university,with the status of an Institution of Eminence located in the Udupi district of Karnataka. The school has campuses in Mangalore,Bangalore,and Jamshedpur in India,as well as global campuses in Dubai and Malaysia.
Professor Sheila Dinotshe Tlou is a Botswana nurse,specialist in HIV/AIDS and women's health,and a nursing educator. She was Minister of Health from 2004 to 2008. Professor Tlou is a distinguished advocate for human resources for health issues. She is a recognized visionary leader and champion.
The UCLA School of Nursing is a nursing school affiliated with UCLA,and is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles,California. The school is housed in the Doris and Louis Factor Health Sciences Building,known as the Factor Building,on the south end of UCLA's 400-plus-acre campus,adjacent to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
The Government Medical College,Thiruvananthapuram,also known as Trivandrum Medical College,is a public medical college in Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala,India. Founded in 1951,it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and is Kerala's first ever Medical College.
Belle Monappa Hegde is a cardiologist,professor of medicine,and author. He was the Vice Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2010 and Padma Vibhushan in 2021. He has supported homeopathy and quantum healing.
Ramdas Madhava Pai is an Indian health administrator and the incumbent Chancellor at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education,and chairman of the Manipal Education and Medical Group.
Hebri Subhaskrishna Ballal is an Indian administrator,radiologist and pro chancellor of the Manipal University and chairman of FICCI - Higher Education Committee.
Teresa Thomas "Terry" Fulmer,is the current president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. Earlier positions include distinguished professor and dean of the BouvéCollege of Health Sciences at Northeastern University and dean of the College of Nursing at New York University. She is known for her extensive research in geriatrics and elder abuse. She has received funding from the National Institute on Aging,the National Institute of Nursing Research and other foundations for her research regarding elder abuse.
Sheldon D. Fields,is a Registered Professional Nurse,Family Nurse Practitioner,educator,researcher,health policy analyst,and nurse entrepreneur who is known for his work in the field of behavioral health research specializing in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention.
Norma Glasgo Reid,Lady Birley was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand. A statistician,and health service researcher,she has also held the positions of director of an academic consultancy firm,Associate Professor of the University of Ulster,and an Honorary Professor of Sussex University. She was appointed to Witwatersrand in 2000,following a 25-year career as a researcher,teacher and senior administrator in higher education.
Suniti Solomon was an Indian physician and microbiologist who pioneered AIDS research and prevention in India after having diagnosed the first Indian AIDS cases among the Chennai sex workers in 1986 along with her student Sellappan Nirmala. She founded the Y R Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education in Chennai. The Indian government conferred the National Women Bio-scientist Award on her. On 25 January 2017,the Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri for medicine for her contributions towards diagnosis and treatment of HIV.
H. Sudarshan Ballal is an Indian kidney transplant physician,nephrologist currently director of Manipal Institute of Nephrology and Urology,the chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of Manipal Hospitals Group and Senate Member of Manipal University,now known as Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).
Ann Elizabeth Kurth,PhD,CNM,MPH,FAAN,FACNM is President of The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM),a leading nonprofit organization focused on health equity;she is the first epidemiologist to lead NYAM in its 176-year history. Previously she was the dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor at Yale School of Nursing (YSN). She is a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and was a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. She is an expert in global health and HIV with work funded by the National Institutes of Health,Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation,CDC,and others,for studies in the US and internationally. Dr. Kurth has published ~250 peer-reviewed articles,chapters,and monographs. She currently co-chairs the National Academy of Medicine Board on Global Health,which includes a focus on health issues of national and global import.
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing is a public funded institute administratively governed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,Government of India. It is a constituent college of University of Delhi. The college ranked second in India for Nursing Education (2016).
Mary Goretti Boland,MSN,RN,FAAN is a Pediatric Nurse and Doctor of Public Health,and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is nationally known for her work developing innovative healthcare programs for underserved children with HIV/AIDS and other chronic diseases. In 1978,Boland staffed an innovative mobile health screening van for the Ironbound Community Health Project in Newark,New Jersey. She became director of the AIDS program at Children's Hospital of New Jersey and served as the coordinator for the Children's AIDS program (CHAP) at United Hospitals Medical Center in Newark. She served on the AIDS Advisory Committee in New Jersey and the National AIDS Advisory Committee. The United States Department of Health and Human Services gave her an award for her work in pediatric AIDS/HIV treatment.
Safiya George is a U.S. Virgin Islands nurse practitioner and academic administrator specialized in holistic health,spirituality,and HIV. She is the president-designate of the University of the Virgin Islands. George has served as the dean of the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University since 2018.
