Mythri Shankar
Co-Founder, The Green Foundation India
India
Dr. Shankar is a nuclear medicine specialist in Bangalore with over 25 years of clinical experience and expertise in her niche field across USA and India. She works in her highly specialized niche of nuclear medicine, spanning nuclear cardiology, nuclear oncology, theranostics, radioisotope therapies and osteoporosis.
As a physician, she has always emphasized continued education and the constant pursuit of excellence. What sets her apart is her patient-friendly focus on healthcare delivery, with the belief that every human has a chance at disease reversal or mitigation through a multi-pronged approach that involves, among other things, the right food as medicine.
Dr. Shankar received her postgraduate residency graduate training at DVAMC-UCLA (Division of Veteran Affairs, University of California Los Angeles, USA), where she also served as a Chief Resident in her final year of training. She has had extensive training in her specialty from various prestigious institutions, such as UCLA, Cedars Sinai, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, King-Drew University, University of Texas and Harvard Medical School.
Her experience has enabled the integration of the most appropriate protocol selection while performing sophisticated radioactive injection procedures. She is reputed for her high standards of technical skills and for her professional style of working as a team member with physicians throughout the community. She was the first person to get a private license to use a rubidium generator in the entire state of California, USA. She is currently the lead consultant in Nuclear Medicine at Aster CMI Hospital in Bangalore. She is also actively involved in academic activities and several research projects across many points of interest.
Behind the professional front lies a soft-hearted woman who believes in traditional family values and wisdom and has successfully managed to strike a peaceful balance between professional and personal facets of life, accommodating modern-day demands.