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E009077 - Chatterjee, Anil Chandra (1929 - 2015)
Title:
Chatterjee, Anil Chandra (1929 - 2015)
Author:
Tina Craig
Identifier:
RCS: E009077
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-03-24

2019-04-10
Description:
Obituary for Chatterjee, Anil Chandra (1929 - 2015), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Chatterjee, Anil Chandra
Date of Birth:
1 June 1929
Place of Birth:
Burdwan, West Bengal, India
Date of Death:
12 November 2015
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
BSc

MB BS Calcutta 1953

DPhil 1958

MS 1960

FRCS Edin 1968

MRCS LRCP 1952

FRCS 1969
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Anil Chandra Chatterjee was a general surgeon who also specialised in surgical oncology and urology. Born in Burdwan, West Bengal on 1 June 1929, he was the son of Atul Chatterjee, a dispenser for the Eastern Railway of India, and his wife Achala Devi née Mukerjee. He studied chemistry at the Presidency College in Calcutta and then attended the medical college attached to Calcutta Hospital where he was a house surgeon and won the Sutherland medal in medical jurisprudence. From 1961 to 1963 he studied at the University of Liverpool where he was awarded the Thelwell Thomas fellowship in surgical pathology. Moving to Devon he was house surgeon to Cyril Shaldon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and then became house surgeon to G C W James at Clare Hall Hospital, South Mimms. He passed the fellowship of the Edinburgh college in 1968 and the college fellowship in 1969. He initially practiced as a consultant surgeon in Cambridge before moving to the USA to take up a fellowship in the department of surgery at Baylor University Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas. On returning to India he was professor of surgery at Goa Medical College and senior consultant surgeon at the Assembly of God Hospital in Kolkata. Said to have invented over a dozen innovative surgical procedures, he was the author of numerous research articles published in the international medical press. Described as an ‘elegant gentleman of sharp intelligence’ he was an orator and a keen debater – winning a debating championship when still a student – he was extremely well read in English and Bengali literature and poetry, world history and philosophy. Other interests were table tennis and driving. He married Miss Mukerjee in 1955. Continuing to practise into his eighties and he had visited patients in hospital on the morning of the day that he succumbed to a stroke. He died on 12 November 2015, aged 86.
Sources:
Unifav’s space RIP Dr Anil Chandra Chatterjee 14 November 2015 https://unifav.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/r-i-p-dr-anil-chandra-chatterjee - accessed 13 March 2019
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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