Samiran Nundy

Samiran Nundy
Born India
Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon
Known for Gastroenterology
Social activism
Awards Padma Shri

Samiran Nundy is an Indian Gastrointestinal surgeon, medical academic, writer and the former head of the department of Gastrointestinal surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.[1] He is a former member of faculty at the Cambridge University, London University and Harvard University and is the founder editor of the National Medical Journal of India and the Tropical Gastroenterology.[1] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1985.[2]

Biography

Nundy did his undergraduate studies in medicine at Cambridge University and the Guy's Hospital, London after which he completed his residency at the Hammersmith Hospital.[3] This was followed by a series of surgical training programmes at Guy's Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.[4] During his stay abroad, he had teaching stints at Cambridge University, London University and Harvard University.[1] Returning to India in 1975, he joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi as a member of the faculty and stayed there till his superannuation in 1996.[3] During his tenure there, he helped found the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation at AIIMS of which he was the founder professor.[5] In 1996, he joined Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi where he is the Emeritus Consultant of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation.[6] He has led the team which is credited with 241 liver sections during the period 1996-2005, the details of which have been published in a medical paper, Two hundred and forty-one consecutive liver resections: an experience from India.[7]

Nundy is the founder editor of the National Medical Journal of India[1] and Tropical Gastroenterology[4] and the incumbent editor in chief of the Current Medicine Research and Practice.[8][9] He is the co-chairman of the department of academics at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.[10] He is also associated with the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics as its editor and the Edpulseline.com as a member of its advisory board.[11] He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.[4] His research findings have been documented by way of several articles and medical papers of which ResearchGate has listed 190[12] while Google Scholar, another online knowledge repository, has listed 320.[13]

Nandy serves as a member of the advisory board of Medicounsel, a medical advisory organization composed of noted medical specialists, engaged in providing guidance to patients inflicted with rare and complicated diseases.[3] He is also a part of the team of 290 specialists of DoctorNDTV.Com,[14] an online consultation forum, functioning under the aegis of NDTV network and the website is reported to have a monthly average of 400 million views and 3600 queries.[3] His contributions are also reported behind the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994, which made human organ trading illegal and recognised brain death as a form of death in India.[10] The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1985.[2]

Social activism

In May 2014, Nundy wrote an editorial in the Journal of Current Medicine Research and Practice where he exposed the corrupt practices in the Indian health sector.[15] He mentioned about the practice of unnecessary investigations and referrals made by the doctors and their practice of accepting a commission for the referrals.[9] He suggested computerisation of medical records and procedure audits to combat this trend.[9] His editorial was inspired by an article, Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India, published in the British Medical Journal and written by David Berger, an Australian physician who had worked as a volunteer at a charitable hospital in India.[16] The article and the subsequent editorial made news among the medical fraternity and have drawn concurring responses from the government.[17]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Dr. Samiran Nundy". ND TV. 22 January 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Advisory Board". Medicounsel. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "S Nundy". Credihealth. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ "The Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation". AIIMS. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ "S Nundy experience". Credihealth. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ Sanjay Marwah, Mohammed Mustafizur Rahman Khan, Adarsh Chaudhary, Subash Gupta, Sanjay Singh Negi, Arvinder Soin, Dr Samiran Nundy (2007). "Two hundred and forty-one consecutive liver resections: an experience from India". HPB (Oxford). 9 (1): 29–36. doi:10.1080/13651820600985259. PMC 2020779. PMID 18333110.
  8. ↑ "Elsevier profile". 2015. Elsevier. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 "Patients have become consumers and they are the losers". Times of India. 6 July 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  10. 1 2 Manoj Ramachandran (May 2009). "My working day: Samiran Nundy". J R Soc Med 102 (5): 208–209. doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k014.
  11. ↑ "Zoom Info profile". Zoom Info. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  12. ↑ "ResearchGate profile". ResearchGate. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Google Scholar listing". Google Scholar. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  14. ↑ "DoctorNDTV.Com". NDTV. 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  15. ↑ "First, give the patient right to know". The Indian Express. 30 June 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  16. ↑ David W Berger (May 2014). "Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India". BMJ 348: g3169. doi:10.1136/bmj.g3169.
  17. ↑ "BMJ article on graft in Indian healthcare creates stir". The Indian Express. 26 June 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
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