Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E009076 - Cabraal, Shelton Aloysius ( - 1996)
Title:
Cabraal, Shelton Aloysius ( - 1996)
Author:
Tina Craig
Identifier:
RCS: E009076
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-03-24
2019-05-16
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Cabraal, Shelton Aloysius ( - 1996), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Cabraal, Shelton Aloysius
Date of Death:
25 February 1996
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
FRCS 1951
Details:
Shelton Aloysius Cabraal was the father of neurosurgery in Sri Lanka. Having passed the fellowship in 1951, he returned to Colombo and, in 1956, founded the first neurosurgical unit in the country. State of the art for its time, it was located in the General Hospital. Initially the unit had 12 beds and it was here that most neurosurgical operations in Sri Lanka took place including pioneering skull base surgery. Three years later the unit expanded and took over the entire fourth floor of the building. A second neurosurgeon, Daivel Weinman, was appointed in 1962, having been Cabraal’s trainee.
A keen bridge player, he was a member of the General Hospital’s bridge club.
He died on 25 February 1996.
Sources:
Revolvy Neurosurgery in Sri Lanka www.revolvy.com/page/Neurosurgery-in-Sri-Lanka accessed 7 March 2019
Sunday Observer The fifty years of neurosurgery in Sri Lanka 2007
http://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2007/02/04/imp08.asp - accessed 16 March 2019
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009000-E009099
Media Type:
Unknown
