dr kv thiruvengadam frcpe is an indian physician and medical teacherhe graduated from the stanley medical college in chennai madras in 1950 he was the recipient of the padma shri award 1981 for his contributions in the medical field during his academic career thiruvengadam was declared the best outgoing medical student of the stanley medical college and the university of madras in 1950 he was awarded a number of prizes and medals including the government gold medal of the stanley medical college and the raja of panagal medal for the best outgoing medical student of the university of madras dr thiruvengadam served for 31 years in the madras medical service as a medical teacher he has undergone training in chest diseases under the colombo plan in brompton hospital london and the mrc unit at cardiff from 1958 to 1959 he has been recognized as a medical teacher by the medical council of india with the dr b c roy award for eminent medical teacher and he has been regent for the international college of chest physicians for india his services as a medical teacher have been recognized with distinguished service awards by the ramachandra medical college and by the diabetic association of india the national board of examination honoured him for his services as a medical teacher in 2000 the indian chest society awarded dr thiruvengadam the distinguished chest physician award he has been on the scientific advisory committee of the indian council of medical research the indian pharmacopoeia committee the board of studies of the dr mgr medical university and other institutions as the chief of the medicinal chemistry research unit of the madras medical college he and his colleagues have conducted studies on indigenous medicines especially ayurvedic preparations he has given a number of endowment orations and has a large number of publications to his credit particularly in chest diseases he has been chairman of a session on antibiotics at geneva in 1970 under the auspices of the international college of chest physicians dr thiruvengadam has been a physician in consultation practice in internal medicine chest diseases asthma and allergies for nearly 45 years he is the recipient of the for the sake of honour award of the rotary club of madras the vocational excellence award of the rotary club of madras marina and the cathedral excellence award of the lions club for his academic work he was elected fellow of the royal college of physicians of edinburgh in 1982 and fellow of the academy of medical sciences in 1972 he received the star of stanley award as a distinguished alumnus and teacher of stanley medical college in 2001 the mgr medical university awarded him the honorary doctorate of sciences in 1996 dr kv thiruvengadam was also a student of the late dr ks sanjivi founder of the voluntary health services vhshis late elder brother was also a renown physician dr k v krishnaswami who was the professor of tuberculosis and chest diseases at madras medical college for decades both brothers were awarded the b c roy national award for medical excellence his sister in law late dr mrs k krishnaswami was also a professor of physiology at the madras medical college for decades thus three in the same family were professors at the madras medical college two of his brothersinlaw late dr t s srinivasan also an mrcp and late dr vijayaraghavan were also doctorsdr k v thirvengadam was born october 12 his father was late mr k varadachari a renowned attorney at chennai his mother was mrs pattammalhe had 3 sisters late mrs susila vijayaraghavan late mrs sarojini parthasarathy and mrs lalitha srinivasan