JS Rajkumar

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JS Rajkumar is the founder of Lifeline Group of Hospitals and is known to have set up the first Stem Cell Unit in Chennai, India. [1] Rajkumar graduated from Madras Medical College and after his post graduation trained in the United Kingdom under senior surgeons on advanced general surgery and hepato-biliary and pancreatic surgery. [2]

He has been conferred with the Vaidya Ratna Award from President Abdul Kalam. [3] Rajkumar’s compilation of poems and short stories has been published as a book titled Scalpel Scribbles. [4]

Rajkumar was the first Indian surgeon who performed air surgery live with the use of Google Glass. [5] The surgery performed was upper gastro-intestinal laparoscopy on a 45 year old man. The complete procedure was live streamed for doctors, surgeons, medical students and press who were sitting outside operating field 500 meters away. [6] Though this process was used abroad frequently but in India was performed for the first time in 2013.

Rajkumar, along with a few other doctors, helped save the life of a 46-year-old surgeon on board a Kolkata-Chennai flight. The surgeon fell unconscious and lost pulse and was revived using the technique of Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). [7] He removed six-kg tumour from abdomen of 55 year old man with the help of his team of doctors at Lifeline Hospital Chennai. [8] [9]

He has been the Chairman of the Association of Surgeons of India, TN&P chapter for the year 2011-12. [10]

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