Pai, Ballambetu Yogish (1931 - 2018)
Asset Name:
E009584 - Pai, Ballambetu Yogish (1931 - 2018)
Title:
Pai, Ballambetu Yogish (1931 - 2018)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E009584
Publisher:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2019-03-04
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Pai, Ballambetu Yogish (1931 - 2018), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
IsPartOf Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Date of Birth:
20 October 1931
Place of Birth:
Kumbla Kerala India
Date of Death:
27 December 2018
Place of Death:
Middlesborough
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
FRCS 1960
MB BS Vellore 1954
MS Madras 1958
FRCS Edinburgh 1960
Details:
Ballambetu Yogish Pai was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon for the South and North Tees Health Authority and a former professor of surgery at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore. He was born on 20 October 1931 in Kumbla in the Kasaragod district of Kerala, India. He studied medicine at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, where he won a gold medal and qualified in 1954
He gained a masters’ degree in surgery in Madras in 1958 and then went to the UK to train in surgery. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh in 1960.
He returned to India in the same year and joined the Kasturba Medical College and Wenlock Hospital. Here he set up the first ever postgraduate surgery course.
In the early 1970s he went once again to the UK, where he was an orthopaedic consultant. He died on 27 December 2018 in Middlesborough. He was 87.
Sources:
*Deccan Herald* 28 December 2018 www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/dr-yogish-pai-passes-away-710388.html – accessed 12 December 2023
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/E009500-E009599
