As the former president of Pradeep S. Ghia, MD, PC, Pradeep Ghia led a group of four cardiologists who provided consulting, patient care, pacemaker implants, and coronary angioplasties. Outside of his professional life, Pradeep Ghia considers the Beatles to be one of his favorite bands. In mid-May, satellite radio giant SiriusXM launched The Beatles Channel, an “all-things-Beatles” channel that aims to delve into the band's long and storied history with both regular and special programming. Aside from the band, the station will also showcase the solo work of each member. With its May 18th debut, The Beatles Channel promises to not only play the band’s hits, but also deep cuts, rare recordings, and live performances from the Fab Four. The station will also showcase a number of musicians who inspired the Beatles, as well as selections from those they have inspired, themselves. Shows on the station include A Day in the Life, Breakfast with the Beatles, The Fab Fourum, Beatles Bites, and Get Back: The Beatles in Britain. The Beatles Channel is available on channel 18 for SiriusXM subscribers.
A cardiologist with more than three decades of medical experience, Dr. Pradeep Ghia formerly served as the president of his own practice in Easton, Pennsylvania. Dr. Pradeep Ghia also supports a number of community and nonprofit organizations outside his professional pursuits, including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF contributes to the conservation and protection of sea turtles by working with fisheries to reduce bycatch. The WWF encourages fisheries to switch to the use of more turtle-friendly fishing gear due to the significant threat it poses to the wellbeing of sea turtles. Fishing gear represents the single greatest threat to sea turtles through the use of gillnets, longline hooks, and shrimp trawl nets, as they accidentally catch hundreds of thousands of turtles every year. Efforts to reduce turtle bycatch include switching to the more turtle-friendly circle hook and the use of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) that allow turtles to escape from nets unharmed. In addition, the WWF holds an annual competition known as Smart Gear to promote the creation of new solutions to bycatch problems. The competition has resulted in the development of devices that minimize turtle bycatch on tuna longlines and help turtles avoid gillnets. Recent competitions also prompted research into the use of LED and chemical lightsticks on nets in order to warn sea turtles of the net's presence.
For more than 30 years, Pradeep Ghia, MD, presided over a cardiologist group comprised of four physicians in Easton, Pennsylvania. An active philanthropist, Pradeep Ghia now engages with a number of not-for-profit organizations, including the World Wildlife Fund.The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is the global leader in wildlife conservation and advocacy for endangered species. The WWF raises awareness and coordinates conservation efforts on behalf of a diverse array of wildlife, from marine animals to primates. Some of the organization’s best work can be seen in the decline and subsequent rise of wild tiger populations around the world.The tiger is the largest member of the wild feline family in Asia. Despite maintaining a range that spans dozens of Asiatic countries, virtually every tiger population is threatened by human activities such as poaching and loss of habitat. More importantly, the animal’s current range represents just 7 percent of its historic range. Organizations such as the WWF have committed themselves to saving as many tigers as possible in hopes of both rehabilitating the wild tiger population and extending the animal’s habitable range.With the help of WWF, 13 countries with wild tiger populations have signed on to the TX2 program, an initiative that would see these countries double their tiger populations by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger. After a century of declining numbers, tiger populations around the world have begun to recover. However, with less than 4,000 tigers living in the wild worldwide, there is still a long way to go. For more information, or to support the organization in its efforts to save the tiger, please visit www.worldwildlife.org.
