A READING doctor has won two national awards for outstanding achievement as an individual learner.
Dr Deepak Ravindran scooped the Chartered Management Institute’s outstanding apprentice of the year award and the Federation of Awarding Bodies learner of the year award. The ceremony took place in London on Sunday, November 14.
The consultant in anaesthesia, pain and musculoskeletal medicine is currently completing his honour’s degree in Applied Management at Henley Business School, which is part of the University of Reading.
He has been studying alongside his work with the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
After the ceremony Dr Ravindran thanked the business school and trust for their support.
He said: “I am extremely honoured and delighted to have won both the CMI and FAB2021 awards. These three years of study have been transformational in my personal and professional development.”
He was nominated for the awards for applying skills learned on the course to the workplace.
Dr Ravindran’s final work-based project focused on the impact on long covid. It included co-authoring a paper with an Oxford professor and was reviewed by the House of Lords.
As a result, Public Health England released £10 million of funding nationally to support long covid sufferers.
He is due to complete the course early next year.
