Krishna Mantravadi

Who: Krishna Mantravadi, Associate Consultant and Lab Manager
What: Master of Clinical Embryology
When: Graduated 2008
Career/Industry: Infertility Medicine

A Monash University degree has changed the life of Dr Krishna Mantravadi and those of his patients.

At the age of just 27 Dr Mantravadi is an associate consultant and lab manager for an andrology and infertility clinic at Bangalore, India, using skills and techniques gained from Masters study at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

The Masters in Clinicial Embryology is one of the few courses of it's type in the world, and draws on the 20 years In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) experience at Monash University. IVF techniques were pioneered at the university in the 1970's and have now been adopted across the world, giving hope to couples seeking to start a family.

"I really feel so proud and I am thankful for Monash University which has given me a very strong foundation," he says.

Monash University has campuses in Australia, Asia and South Africa, 56,000 students, 7000 staff and an enviable reputation for teaching and research excellence forged in just fifty years. It is rated among the top 50 universities in the world by The Times Higher Education Supplement and is a member of the prestigious research intensive Group of Eight universities.

The Monash advantage
Dr Mantravadi says his Monash degree has definitely fasted tracked his career, and thinks the strong reputation of Monash University, which is known across the world, helped get him jobs interviews and ultimately secure a coveted job.

"It is the international recognition that Monash has got, wherever you go, and you say that you are a student of Monash, definitely people do recognise this name," he says.

Why choose Monash?
"If you take the best Universites in Australia, Monash is one of them. Similarly if we say Oxford or Harvard, Monash - particularly if you take the medical faculty - really does also have a very good reputation."

He has very fond memories of his two years of study at Monash University, which he describes as the best time of his life. Lectures were often given by international guests who are experts in their field. Equipment was state of the art and staff ensured he was encouraged and supported to learn as much as he could.

"The university has given so sound a foundation in this particular field. It has given me qualities that wherever I go, I can survive. I was at the right place, where the foundation was given, now it is up to me how I build up on this foundation. Monash has really given me all round development."