JS Rajkumar

JS Rajkumar is the founder of Lifeline Group of Hospitals and is known to have set up the first Stem Cell Unit in Chennai, India.[1] Rajkumar graduated from Madras Medical College and after his post graduation trained in the United Kingdom under senior surgeons on advanced general surgery and hepato-biliary and pancreatic surgery.[2]

He has been conferred with the Vaidya Ratna Award from President Abdul Kalam.[3] Rajkumar’s compilation of poems and short stories has been published as a book titled Scalpel Scribbles.[4]

Rajkumar was the first Indian surgeon who performed air surgery live with the use of Google Glass.[5] The surgery performed was upper gastro-intestinal laparoscopy on a 45 year old man. The complete procedure was live streamed for doctors, surgeons, medical students and press who were sitting outside operating field 500 meters away.[6] Though this process was used abroad frequently but in India was performed for the first time in 2013.

Rajkumar, along with a few other doctors, helped save the life of a 46-year-old surgeon on board a Kolkata-Chennai flight. The surgeon fell unconscious and lost pulse and was revived using the technique of Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).[7] He removed six-kg tumour from abdomen of 55 year old man with the help of his team of doctors at Lifeline Hospital Chennai.[8][9]

He has been the Chairman of the Association of Surgeons of India, TN&P chapter for the year 2011-12.[10]

References
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  4. "Running a Scalpel Through His Memories". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 October 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  5. "This multifaceted surgeon from Chennai is more than just a medical messiah". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  6. "Chennai Chief surgeon J.S. Rajkumar becomes first in country to air surgery live via Google Glass". DNA India. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  7. "A blow at 30,000 feet saves dying doctor on flight". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  8. "Most of six-kg tumour removed". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  9. "Docs Remove 6.4 Kg Tumour". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 July 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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