Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Asha Seth | |
Office: | Member of the Senate of Canada |
Constituency: | Ontario |
Term Start: | January 6, 2012 |
Term End: | December 15, 2014 |
Appointed: | Stephen Harper |
Birth Date: | 15 December 1939 |
Party: | Conservative |
Alma Mater: | King George Medical College |
Asha Seth, (born December 15, 1939)[1] is a Canadian politician and doctor. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada (for Ontario) by Stephen Harper on January 6, 2012, and sat as a Conservative until reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 on December 15, 2014.[2]
She was born in India and trained in medicine at the King George Medical College in Lucknow and the Royal Berkshire Hospital in the UK. She became a Canadian citizen in 1974. She worked as an obstetrician and gynecologist at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto since 1976, and is also known as a philanthropist, having founded the NIMDAC Foundation.[3] She is a National Board member of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.[4] She is part of the executive team of the Canada India Foundation.[5]
In 2010, Seth was one of the recipients of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards, presented by Canadian Immigrant Magazine.[6]