Sudi Devanesen

Sudarshan (Sudi) Devanesen is a Canadian family medicine physician and educator, a public health activist and a member of the Order of Canada. He is known for his role in preventing heart disease among Canadians of South Asian origin. He was founding president, from 1994 to 1997, of a South Asian Community Council of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, and he has both studied and taught about the risks of cardiovascular disease in the South Asian community in Canada. This entry draws on the opening paragraphs of one encyclopedia article and records no birth or death date because that lead gives none; further detail on his training and publications is left for later research.