Medicine On Call With Dr. Elaina George

Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, the inventor of email and polymath, holds four degrees from MIT, including a PhD in Biological Engineering. Moreover, he is a world-renowned systems scientist, Fulbright Scholar, Lemelson-MIT Awards Finalist, First Outstanding Scientist and Technologist of Indian Origin (STIO), Westinghouse Science Talent Honors Award recipient, and was nominated for the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation. In 1982, the US government recognized Dr.SHIVA as the inventor of email by awarding him the first Copyright for “Email” at a time when Copyright was the only way to protect software inventions. His interest in human health also began early, when as a child, he observed his grandmother, a village farmer, healer, and practitioner of Siddha, India’s oldest system of traditional medicine. This motivated his future study and research in systems biology at MIT, leading to his discovery of Systems Health®, a major breakthrough that provides an integrated framework linking eastern and western medic