THANJAVUR: Dr. Sinnamohideen Jamal, retired professor of plastic surgery, Thanjavur Medical College Hospital, has been awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the International Society of Lymphology. The award was presented to him at the 21st International Congress of Lymphology at Shanghai in China on September 26. He is the first recipient of the award.
A pioneer in lymphology in India, Dr. Jamal has vast experience in filarial lymph edema and is one of the top surgeons in the field. Committed to treating filarial patients, he has attended to more than 50,000 patients. He developed Nodo-Venous shunt operation for the treatment of filarial elephantiasis in 1970 and has performed thousands of surgeries till date with 90 per cent success rate.
He graduated from the Madurai Medical College in 1960 with a gold medal for surgery. He passed the FRCS Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1964 and passed the plastic surgery board examination at American College of Plastic Surgeons in 1967.
After returning to India in 1967, he started the plastic surgery unit at Thanjavur Medical College Hospital and elevated it to train M.Ch plastic surgery.
The World Health Organisation held its 12th scientific working group meeting on filariasis at Thanjavur Medical College Hospital in 1985. He was instrumental in bringing together lymphologists and WHO filariasis scientists together.
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