Vasanthi Ramesh
• Dr. Vasanthi Ramesh, the best outgoing student of Stanley Medical College, Chennai having bagged a dozen gold medals and prizes, a Surgeon in the Central Health Service is presently donning the seat of Director, National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization(NOTTO).
• She is a recipient of the “Women in Transplant - Unsung Hero Award 2020” of The Transplantation Society received on 13th September 2020
• In her capacity as Director NOTTO, she has taken painstaking efforts to collect the organ donation & transplantation data from across India and submitted after compiling to the Global Observatory on Donation & Transplantation for the last seven years from 2013 to 2019.
• This has put India on the Global Map with the third position among all the countries in terms of the absolute number of transplants.
