ANDOVER, MA- Dr. Shashikala Dwarkanath, MD is the Spiritual Guide and a Sevika at the Chinmaya Mission Boston in Andover, MA. Recently, she made a pilgrimage to places where Swami Chinmayananda had spent time in India as she prepares to celebrate his 108th birth anniversary at the Boston chapter of the mission and around the globe.
In an exclusive video interview with INDIA New England News, Dr. Dwarkanath talks about how the Boston chapter is planning to celebrate the birth anniversary of the Chinmaya Mission founder, his teachings, and upcoming activities at various New England chapters of the mission.
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In 2017, Dr. Dwarkanath, MD received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Dwarkanath is a physician at Lowell General Hospital and co-founder of Chinmaya Mission Boston along with her husband, Dr. Gopala Dwarkanath, MD.
For about four decades, Dr. Dwarakanath has nurtured the physical and spiritual health of her New England community. After receiving her medical training in the United Kingdom and India, she moved to the Boston area to complete her residency at Harvard Children’s Hospital Medical Center, New England Deaconess Hospital and the Lahey Clinc. As the Chief of Pathology at Lawrence General Hospital and subsequently Lowell General Hospital, she oversaw laboratory activity focused on the diagnosis of disease through the study of patient tissue and blood. Her work has been crucial to individual patient care as well as overall public health.
Outside of the hospital, as a member of Chinmaya Mission, Dr. Dwarakanath has fostered the spiritual growth of families in the Greater Boston area and beyond. She began organizing values-based classes for children in her own home in 1989 and eventually oversaw a children’s Bala Vihar program spanning four New England locations and attended by hundreds of children.
To meet the growing demand of their local mission, Dr. Dwarakanath along with her husband Gopala created the Chinaya Maruti Center in Andover, MA in 2003.
