Vettivelu Maheswaran, M.D.

              Governor Wise appointed Vettivelu Maheswaran, M.D. (Dr. Mahe) to the Board of Medicine in November, 2002.  Dr. Mahe has practiced obstetrics and gynecology for the last twenty seven years, seventeen of those years as the only OB/GYN in Jefferson County where he is currently on active staff at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Ranson.   At Jefferson Memorial Hospital he has held the position of President of the Medical Staff and Chairman of the Credential and By-Laws Committee, as well as assisting with many of the hospital's development projects.

              Dr. Mahe has been associated with Bolivar/Harpers Ferry Family Medicine and was the co-founder and first Director of the Jefferson Maternity Center, where he trained Family Medicine Residents in obstetrics.  He has delivered over four thousand babies in Jefferson County, including the last five years with the Residents' program.

              Dr. Mahe's involvement with West Virginia medicine has continued beyond the Jefferson County level.  He retired in October, 2002, from the position of Associate Professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and is now serving as a member of the West Virginia Board of Medicine.

              Dr. Mahe is voluntarily recertified (2002) by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology after his certification in 1975, and he is a fellow member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Surgeons, and a fellow member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Britain.

              Born in Sri Lanka, Dr. Mahe graduated from the University of Poona in Poona, India, and from Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore, India, in 1963.  Dr. Mahe trained in the United Kingdom and in the United States at Saint Joseph Hospital in Loraine, Ohio, and the Lewis-Gale Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia.  He now resides in Charles Town, West Virginia, with his wife Vasuki.  They have two married children.