1. Balamurali Krishna "Bala" Ambati was born on July 29,1977 and is an Indian-American ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher.
14 Facts About Balamurali Ambati
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Balamurali Ambati's family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was three.
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Balamurali Ambati initially attended high school at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute before transferring to Baltimore City College, graduating in 1989 at age 11.
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Balamurali Ambati graduated from New York University at the age of 13.
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Balamurali Ambati graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine with distinction at the age of 17, scoring above 99 percent on his National Medical Boards, and becoming the world's youngest doctor in 1995.
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Balamurali Ambati expressed that he disliked being compared to Doogie Howser, the fictional teenage doctor.
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Balamurali Ambati described himself as being popular with people and, standing 6 feet tall, did not appear too young for a career in medicine; when he entered medical school at 14 years old he looked just like the other medical students.
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Balamurali Ambati received the prestigious Raja-Lakshmi Award in 1995 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai.
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In 2011, Balamurali Ambati donated a kidney to a 16-year-old boy from Idaho.
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From 2008 to 2016, Balamurali Ambati worked at the Moran Eye Center and served as professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, adjunct associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy, and director of corneal research at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
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Balamurali Ambati's father name was Balamurali Ambati Rao and was an industrial engineer, while his mother was a math teacher.
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Balamurali Ambati wrote a book on AIDS at age 11 with his brother Jayakrishna, who is a physician.
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Balamurali Ambati won the Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award from the ARVO Foundation in 2014 and the Troutman-Veronneau Prize from the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology in 2013.
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Balamurali Ambati was awarded the Fourth IRDS Awards for Medicine for his achievements, awarded by the Lucknow-based Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences.