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E009045 - Antia, Nohir Hormasji (1922 - 2007)
Title:
Antia, Nohir Hormasji (1922 - 2007)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E009045
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-02-19

2016-05-27
Description:
Obituary for Antia, Nohir Hormasji (1922 - 2007), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Antia, Nohir Hormasji
Date of Birth:
8 February 1922
Place of Birth:
Bombay, India
Date of Death:
26 June 2007
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BS Bombay 1945

FRCS 1952

Hon FACS 1979
Details:
Noshir Hormasji Antia was a pioneering plastic surgeon in India, particularly known for his work treating patients with leprosy. He was born in Bombay, India, on 8 February 1922, into a Parsi family, the son of Hormasji Antia, a shopkeeper, and Soonamai. He was educated at Esplanade High School, Bombay, and then completed the pre-graduate course at Fergusson College, Poona. He went on to study medicine at Grant Medical College and the Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy group of hospitals, qualifying MB BS in 1945. He began his career by joining the British Indian Army as a medical officer, where he worked for two years. In 1947 he went to the UK for postgraduate studies. He held posts at the plastic surgery unit, Basingstoke, where he worked with Sir Harold Gillies, at the burns and trauma unit at Birmingham Accident Hospital, and with A B Wallace in Edinburgh, where he was a senior house officer in plastic surgery. His final post in the UK was with Rainsford Mowlem at Mount Vernon Hospital. Antia gained his FRCS in 1952. He returned to India in 1956 and was initially posted to the Jehangir Nursing Home, Poona, where he was a general surgeon but also practised plastic surgery there, as well as at the Dr Bandorawalla Government Leprosy Hospital. He was later invited to establish a department of plastic surgery at Grant Medical College and the Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy group of hospitals, the first such unit in western India. The unit became known as the Tata department of plastic surgery, and grew to accommodate burns, hand and leprosy surgery. Antia headed the Tata department for 22 years until 1980, helping to establish it as a leading training centre for plastic surgeons in India. Antia wrote five books, contributed to other publications and published almost 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His autobiography *A life of change: the autobiography of a doctor* (Penguin Books India) was published in 2009. He established three charitable organisations - the Foundation for Research in Community Health, the Foundation for Medical Research and the National Society for Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped. He was president of the International Confederation of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India and the Indian Association of Leprologists. He was one of the founder members of the Burns Association of India and the Society for Reconstructive Surgery, Rehabilitation and Research, Bombay. In India he gave the Pandalai oration of the Association of Surgeons of India in 1969 and Gillies memorial oration of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India in 1972. He was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1962 and gave the Clayton memorial lecture there in 1980. He was an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was the Kiskadden memorial orator at the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons in 1973 and the Maliniac memorial lecturer for the same organisation in 1984. He was an honorary surgeon to the president of India and the governor of the state of Maharashtra. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1990. In 1957 Antia married Arnie Noshir Batliwala, a kindergarten teacher. They had two children, a son, Rustom, and a daughter, Avan. N H Antia died on 26 June 2007. He was 85.
Sources:
*Indian J Plast Surg*. 2010 Sep 43 (Suppl): S4-S5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038396/ - accessed14 April 2016

Association of Plastic Surgeons of India profile www.apsi.org.in/Heritage/NH.html - accessed14 April 2016

*Lepr Rev*. 79: 199-203 www.lepra.org.uk/platforms/lepra/files/lr/June08/Lep199-203.pdf - accessed 14 April 2016

Wikipedia N H Antia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._H._Antia - accessed 14 April 2016
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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