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Dr. Shona Velamakanni is a noninvasive cardiologist in Naples, Florida, medical director of echocardiography at the NCH Rooney Heart Institute, and the founder of the NCH Women’s Physician Society.
Why the society exists
Training at Georgetown / Washington Hospital Center was a unicorn - about half the cardiology fellows were women, and she had “big sisters” ahead of her, including one who had triplets in fellowship. That gave her courage to have her first child before she finished. In Naples she was the only female specialist hired by the…
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