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Reita Faria
Reita Faria Powell is an Indian physician, former model and the winner of Miss World 1966 pageant. She is the first Indian Miss World winner and the first to be qualified as a medical doctor.
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Born 23 August 1943 · Q2273463
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2024· 1 entry
India.com: Reita Faria Now
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil” in Science — cited 1,189 times.
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2020· 2 entries
Published “The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China” in Science — cited 2,390 times.
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Published “Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study” in The Lancet — cited 1,240 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus” in Nature Microbiology — cited 1,211 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “KBase: The United States Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 1,581 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “A non-volatile organic electrochemical device as a low-voltage artificial synapse for neuromorphic computing” in Nature Materials — cited 1,784 times.
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2014· 1 entry
India TV: Know more about Reita Faria, India's first-ever Miss World
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Stereotaxic white matter atlas based on diffusion tensor imaging in an ICBM template” in NeuroImage — cited 1,740 times.
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2007· 2 entries
Published “Mycoinsecticides and Mycoacaricides: A comprehensive list with worldwide coverage and international classification of formulation types” in Biological Control — cited 1,229 times.
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Published “Correlation of Computed Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography in Patients With Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Treated at a Single Institution With Imatinib Mesylate: Proposal of New Computed Tomography Response Criteria” in Journal of Clinical Oncology — cited 1,289 times.
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1998· 1 entry
And has come back to judge the Miss World competition on a few occasions
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1971· 2 entries
And in 1973, the couple shifted to Dublin, Ireland, where she started her medical practice
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Faria lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband, endocrinologist David Powell, whom she married in 1971.
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1966· 2 entries
Won Miss World (1966).
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(not to be confused with the Femina Miss India, won by Yasmin Daji in 1966)
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-08-23.
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