Intracranial Tumours: An Analysis of 157 Consecutive Cases

Gault, Edward W.; Chandy, Jacob; Hadley, G. P.

doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.1957.tb03779.x

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“…5 While in Philadelphia, Chandy became aware of the famous Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), and with Dr Rhoads' recommendation, he applied for a www.neurosurgery-online.com ABRAHAM ET AL FIGURE 1. Jacob Chandy, 1957. residency position in neurosurgery there. Rhoads, in 2 letters to Dr Penfield, had high praise for the young Chandy: "Dr Chandy has spent the past year taking the course in Surgery offered by the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.…”

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“…[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] He also collaborated with colleagues in other departments at CMC such as pathology, pediatrics, and psychiatry and documented works of common interest. 18,24,25 Chandy was recognized by Madras University as a teacher in neurology as well as neurosurgery and generated a number of publications that he coauthored with his neurological colleagues and trainees. 19,26,27 It is not surprising that 2 of the major clinical research projects undertaken by 2 of Chandy's neurosurgical assistants (K. V. Mathai and Jacob Abraham), were more neurological than surgical, one being multidisciplinary research on epilepsy and the other on cerebrovascular diseases.…”

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Jacob Chandy

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Jacob Chandy, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 97, was born into a deeply religious Christian family in Kerala, South India. After obtaining his medical education at the Madras Medical College, Madras, he serendipitously came to work with Dr Paul Harrison, a renowned medical missionary, in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Harrison urged Chandy to pursue training in the fledgling specialty of neurosurgery in North America. Chandy received his neurosurgical training at the Montreal Neurological Institute with Wilder Penfield and in Chicago with Theodore Rasmussen. At Harrison's urging, Chandy decided to return to India after completing his training to work at the Christian Medical College in Vellore. Thus, it was in 1949 that Chandy established the first neurosurgery department in south Asia in Vellore. He initiated the first neurosurgical training program in India at the Christian Medical College in 1957, with a distinct North American neurosurgical tradition. He went on to train nearly 20 neurosurgeons, many of whom set up new departments of neurosurgery in their home states. Chandy also had several other remarkable achievements to his credit. Despite the pressures of clinical practice, he insisted on fostering both basic and clinical neurosciences within his department, an arrangement that persists to this day in the Department of Neurological Sciences at the Christian Medical College, Vellore. As the Principal (Dean) of the Christian Medical College, Chandy displayed his skills as a medical educator and administrator. In this role, he was instrumental in starting specialty training programs in several other medical and surgical disciplines. His greatest legacies survive in the form of the department that he founded and his trainees and their students who have helped to establish neurosurgery all over the country.

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confidence: 99%