Meet...Anand
Name: Anandakumar Shunmugavel.Department: Cardiology.
How
long at MUSC: 3 years.Family: Wife, Megala; son, Shiva, and daughter, Aishwarya.
City in which you were born: Bodi, Tamil Nadu, India.
First job: Assistant professor in India.
Special place in the world to you as a child: My mom's lap.
Fondest childhood memory: Searching for glow-in-the-dark bugs for my collection.
Most rewarding thing about your job: Self-satisfaction.
If you suddenly had a free day, what would you do: Play pool.
Idea of a perfect vacation: Mission outreach.
Personality trait you admire in others: Altruism.
Pet peeve: Non-secularism.
First thing I notice about people: Compassion.
Mentor: Dr. Cooper George IV, principal investigator and director at the Gazes Cardiac Research.
Hobbies: Listening to music.
Guest at a fantasy dinner: Dr. Hargovind Khorana. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968.
Friday, April 21, 2006
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