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Asset Name:
E009104 - Tripathi, Shyamapada (1933 - 2016)
Title:
Tripathi, Shyamapada (1933 - 2016)
Author:
Tina Craig
Identifier:
RCS: E009104
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-03-24

2019-04-10
Description:
Obituary for Tripathi, Shyamapada (1933 - 2016), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Tripathi, Shyamapada
Date of Birth:
1 April 1933
Place of Birth:
Howrah, West Bengal, India
Date of Death:
21 February 2016
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BS Calcutta 1957

FRCS Edin 1969

FRCS 1970
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Shyamapada Tripathi was a general surgeon. Born on 1 April 1933 in Howrah, West Bengal, India, he was the second son of Radhakkrishna Tripathi who was an assistant commercial officer on the South Eastern Railway and his wife Sarala Bala née Misra who was the daughter of a doctor. Educated at the the Hamilton High School, Jamluk, Midnapore, West Bengal and the Residency College, Calcutta, he then entered Calcutta Medical College and became house surgeon to the professor of surgery. He graduated MB BS in 1957. On coming to the UK, he was appointed surgical registrar at the North Ormesby Hospital in Middlesborough where he worked with Sydney Mottershead, John Leonard Edmonson and J Otofield. He passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1969 and the fellowship in 1970. Moving to the USA he became a senior resident in surgery in Cleveland Ohio. Nothing is known about his subsequent career but the Deenunath Mangeshkar Hospital and Medical Centre in Pune has a library that bears his name. He married Judith Mary Craven in 1965 and is known to have enjoyed playing chess and bridge. He died on 21 February 2016.
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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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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009100-E009199
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