Kohli, Sheroo (1926 - 2007)
by
 
Sarah Gillam

Asset Name
E009051 - Kohli, Sheroo (1926 - 2007)

Title
Kohli, Sheroo (1926 - 2007)

Author
Sarah Gillam

Identifier
RCS: E009051

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2016-02-19
 
2016-05-27

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Kohli, Sheroo (1926 - 2007), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Kohli, Sheroo

Date of Birth
2 May 1926

Place of Birth
Bombay, India

Date of Death
5 September 2007

Occupation
Orthopaedic surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
MB BS Bombay 1946
 
FRCS Edin 1950
 
MCh Liverpool 1955
 
FRCS 1955

Details
Sheroo Kohli née Bharucha was an orthopaedic surgeon who lived in Maine, USA. She was born in Bombay, India, on 2 May 1926, the first child of Darabsha Bharucha, an architect, and Aria Bharucha née Dhun, the daughter of a professor of Persian. She was educated in Bombay, at St Teresa's High School, Girgaun, and St Xavier's College, and then went on to study medicine at the Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas (GS) Medical College and King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, also in Bombay. She held a Awanbai Rattanshaw scholarship in gynaecology and midwifery. She was a house surgeon and registrar at King Edward Memorial Hospital and the Wadia Children's Hospital, Bombay. She subsequently went to the UK, where she held posts at Oldham Royal Infirmary, the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and Sefton General Hospital. She gained her FRCS from the Edinburgh College in 1950 and her FRCS from the English College in 1955. Also in 1955 she gained an MCh from Liverpool University. On her return to India, she became an honorary orthopaedic surgeon at the Grant Medical College and GS Medical College, Bombay. She was later an associate professor of orthopaedics at Maulana Azad Medical (MAM) College, New Delhi. Outside medicine she enjoyed mountaineering. In 1962 she married B S Kohli, who was also a doctor, and emigrated to the USA. She died in Jackman, Maine, on 5 September 2007. She was 81.

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

URL for File
381234

Media Type
Unknown