Padmakar Pratap Lele

Background

Lele, Padmakar Pratap was born on November 9, 1927 in Chanda, India. Son of Pratap Vasudev and Indira (Prabhudesai) Lele. came to the United States, 1958.

Education

Doctor of Medicine Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1955.

Career

Intern, K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay, India, 1950-1951; resident, K.E.M. Hospital, 1951-1952; lecturer, University of Oxford, 1952-1957; visiting scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1958-1959; technical director medical acoustics research group and assistant neurophysiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1959-1969; associate in neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School associate professor experimental medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1969-1971; professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972-1994; professor emeritus, senior lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1994; professor, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division Health Sciences and Tech also professor experimental medicine and director Hyperthermia Center, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division Health Sciences and Tech. Consultant National Institutes of Health.

Achievements

• Padmakar Pratap Lele has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Acoustical Society American, American Institute Ultrasound in Medicine (governing board 1973-1976, Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer award 1988). Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Society Clinical Hyperthermic Oncology, European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North America Hyperthermia Group, American Association Physicists in Medicine, Bioelectromagnetics Society (charter).

Connections

Married Carla Maria Tophoff, January 23, 1959. Children: Martin, Malcolm.

Father:

Pratap Vasudev Lele

Mother:

Indira (Prabhudesai) Lele

Spouse:

Carla Maria Tophoff

child:

Malcolm Lele

child:

Martin Lele