Prem S. Pillay, MD

1. Favorite food: Grilled chicken

2. Favorite color: Navy blue

3. Favorite animal: Elephant

4. Favorite hobbies: Collecting stamps (as a child) and traveling

5. If I could buy anything, I would buy the very first printing press

6. If I could go anywhere, I would go around the world in 80 days

7. An interesting thing about me is that I was fired from my first job in the US in less than a month. I worked as a cashier at a grocery store and was fired because I didn't know that in the US people called five cents a nickel and ten cents a dime.

8. I became a doctor to help people. Ironically I hated biology in high school, so I decided to "keep my friends close and my enemy closer" and learned all I could.

9. I chose Cardiology because I wanted to do stress tests. After my internal medicine residency, I couldn't wait to get into primary care. I worked in primary care and one of my patients needed a stress test, and the hospital told me only cardiologists could perform them. So I headed to San Francisco to do my post doctoral research and become a cardiologist.