Trini doctor becomes new chair of medicine at Maimonides

Trinidadian-born Dr. Anthony Kalloo has become the new chair of the Department of Medicine at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center, effective April 1.
Born and raised in Woodbrook, Trinidad, Kalloo attended Woodbrook Presbyterian before moving on to Fatima College. He then entered the teaching service and taught science, physics, and chemistry for one year at St. Joseph’s Convent, Port-of-Spain.
However, his heart was in medicine and he went on to graduate from UWI with a medical degree and later completed his residency in internal medicine at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC.
Today, Kalloo, 68, is a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He has also directed of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at Johns Hopkins Hospital for the past nine years. In his career which spans near 35 years, Kalloo has also been the recipient of many awards and accolades for his contribution to medicine. Among them were the distinguished educator of the year award from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Caribbean American Heritage Award (CARAH), which he received in 2009 for excellence in medicine.
He has multiple patents and ideas that are now in practice in gastroenterology and endoscopy, but to date he records his proudest accomplishment as his breakthrough discovery called Notes (Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery).
Dr. Kalloo is the Department of Medicine’s 39th chair since the founding of Maimonides Medical Center in 1911. Source:  The New York Carivibes, April 13, 2021

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