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Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. On the clinical and teaching front Rahimtoola remained an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois
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October 1931 to an illustrious family in Bombay. He obtained his initial education from St. Xavier's School and followed it up with entry to medical college in Bombay. Upon partition of the subcontinent in 1947 his family shifted to Pakistan and he continued his studies from
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Rahimtoola has been author of some prominent textbooks used in postgraduate study of Cardiovascular Medicine namely Coronary Bypass Surgery (1977), Infective Endocaritis (1978), Controversies in Coronary Heart Disease (1982) and Valvular Heart Disease (1997).
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Hospital for three years he proceeded to the United Kingdom for further education. He received the MRCP from the Royal College of Physician of Edinburgh in 1963 and he was awarded the Fellowship in 1972.
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Rahimtoola has been termed as a 'contemporary giant' in field of Muslim contribution to medical research. Rahimtoola has also been labelled as 'Cardiologist of the World' and 'Father of Research' by the European Heart Journal in 2013.
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he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1998. He was conferred the Master of the college from the American College of Cardiology in 1999. The ACC further conferred on him the Distinguished Scientist Award in 2001.
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In 2016 Shahbudin Rahimtoola was conferred the 'Distinguished Fellowship' Award at the World Congress of International Academy of Cardiology in Boston.
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