Chandrakanta Patel
Doctor Chandrakanta Patel | |
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চন্দ্রকান্ত প্যাটেল | |
 Official Portrait of Chandrakanta Patel for the Westfield Municipal Hospital | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 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 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
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.