An Indian surgeon speaks on ayurveda.

August 3, 2006

Biodata of Prof. Dr.M.S. Valiathan A 1956 Medical Graduate of the Kerala University, Dr. Valiathan received his surgical training in London and the University of Liverpool Hospitals in U.K. and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and Master of Surgery degree from Liverpool. Subsequently he specialised in cardiac surgery at the Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities in the U.S. and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. Dr. Valiathan has served on the surgical faculties of the Georgetown Medical School, Washington DC and Post graduate Medical

Institute, Chandigarh. He was a visiting professor in biomedical engineering at the IIT, Madras before moving to the Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum where he remained Professor of Cardiac surgery and Director for 20 years. It was under his leadership that the Institute developed and commercialised a series of devices such as a prosthetic heart valve and blood bag and became an Institute of National Importance by an act of Parliament. Dr. Valiathan’s monograph and over 90 scientific papers relate to cardiac surgery, a heart muscle disease of the tropics and cardiovascular technology. Following the long tenure in Trivandrum, Dr. Valiathan served as Vice-Chancellor of the new University in Manipal. At the end of his 5 years’ tenure, he was awarded the Homi Bhabha Senior Fellowship which gave him the opportunity to Study the Charaka Samhita in the original. His book on

the Legacy of Charaka is expected to be published later this year. Dr. Valiathan is a recipient of many honours, honorary degrees and Awards from learned societies, academies, universities and professional associations in India, U.K., France and the U.S.A. He is a Padmabhushan awardee and currently the President of the Indian National Science Academy and Chief Scientific Advisor the Government of Kerala. Please go through his excellent speech at: http://www.tifac.org.in/news/speech.htm "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of

the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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