JS Rajkumar

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]

References

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  3. ^ "Chennai's Lifeline". Financial Express. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Running a Scalpel Through His Memories". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 October 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  5. ^ "This multifaceted surgeon from Chennai is more than just a medical messiah". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Chennai Chief surgeon J.S. Rajkumar becomes first in country to air surgery live via Google Glass". DNA India. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  7. ^ "A blow at 30,000 feet saves dying doctor on flight". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Most of six-kg tumour removed". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Docs Remove 6.4 Kg Tumour". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 July 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  10. ^ "Prof J S Rajkumar". IJCP Group. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2015.