Chandrakanta Patel

Doctor Chandrakanta Patel
চন্দ্রকান্ত প্যাটেল
Official Portrait of Chandrakanta Patel for the Westfield Municipal Hospital
Personal details
Born	(1973-05-18)May 18, 1973 Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Citizenship	India, United States of America
Nationality	Indian
Height	5 ft 1.2 in (155 cm)
Spouse	Anik Patel (m. 1997)
Children	1
Alma mater	University of New Dehli (B.A.) Princeton University (M.D.)
Profession	Surgical Oncology

Dr. Chandrakanta Patel, M.D. (born (1973-05-18) May 18, 1973, Chandrakanta Bhageerathi Patel (né Tamhanakar)) is an Indian-American surgical oncologist at the Westfield Municipal Hospital, a branch of Broad River University Health.

Early life

Born on 18 May 1973, Chandrakanta was born to Dwijendranath and Ayanna Tamhanakar in the Indian city of Kharagpur, West Bengal. She would live in this city until reaching the age of three when her and her family moved to the capital of West Bengal, Kolkata.

Once she moved to Kolkata, Chandrakanta would attend G.Singh Memorial School in Kolkata, and would graduate there early at the age of seventeen. Chandrakanta would soon apply to various universities in India and Bangladesh before committing to the University of New Delhi where she would major in human resources. She would graduate at the age of twenty-one in 1994.

Chandrakanta, with a bachelor degree in human resources, would soon find a job in the Bangladeshi Embassy to India in New Delhi, acting as a translator due to her fluency in English, Bengali, and Hindi. She would keep this job for nine years five years before moving to the United States of America and beginning her time at the Ivy League institution, Princeton. She would graduate from Princeton in 2005 with a medical degree in Oncology, the medical practice of cancer.

Career

In 2006, after graduating from the same institution, Chandrakanta would first gain a job at Princeton University in their university health services department. During her time working there, she would also become a teaching assistant to various medical professors at the university. In 2015, Chandrakanta would leave Princeton University.

In the later part of 2015, Chandrakanta would move with her family to Raleigh, North Carolina, gaining employment at the University of North Carolina-Raleigh, working in their surgical department. She would end up resigning four years later in early 2019 due to various factors.

In 2019, Chandrakanta would move once more to the small town of Brynnta, just outside of Westfield, North Carolina, and would gain employment as a practicing surgeon at Westfield Municipal Hospital, a branch of Broad River University Health.

In 2022, Chandrakanta would be promoted to supervising surgeon and lead surgical specialist for oncology at the hospital.

Personal life

Born in Khangapur, West Bengal in India, Chandrakanta is fluent in her native language of Bengali and is also fluent in English, a language she learned once she moved to the states to attend Princeton University.

During her time at Princeton University, she would meet Anik Patel. The two would end up marrying a year later. They have one daughter, Shruti (b. 2001), who was born during her final year at Princeton. Shruti currently attends Broad River University where she is the first student in history of the institution to major and minor in 'high-level' honors sciences (Biomedical Engineering and Neurology).