Tatsanavivat, PyatatSritara, Piyamitr2011-10-192011-10-192011-10Asian Biomedicine (Research Reviews and News); Vol. 5 No. 5 October 2011; 721-723.http://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/135056Professor Tada Yipintsoi was born to a wealthy family in Thailand, the fourth of five children. Most of his early years were spent in education abroad. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the Welsh National School of Medicine at Cardiff and obtained his MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians of London. After spending two years at Royal Hammersmith and Brompton Hospitals at London as house officer in Cardiology, he returned for two years to work as a teaching cardiologist at Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok. He then moved to the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine at Rochester, Minnesota as fellow in Cardiology where he was awarded his PhD from the University of Minnesota. Subsequently, he was appointed a faculty member at the Montefiore Hospital in New York. He became Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Director of the Basic Cardiovascular Research Laboratory at the Medical Center and at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He later became associated with Yeshiva University of New York, where he was also appointed as the Associate Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program.enAsian Biomedicine (Research Reviews and News)Article