Navin C. Nanda, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the echocardiography laboratories at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named “Father of Echocardiography” by the Indian College of Cardiology in Bangalore, India. Nanda, a nationally and internationally renowned cardiologist, was lauded for representing the “global face in the field of echocardiography and grand ambassador for India from USA.” Nanda has also been named chairman of the Cardiology/Lipid Initiative Committee of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI). Nanda was president of AAPI for the 1989-1990 term.