Prof M.S. Ramakrishnan, M.S., F.A.C.S, Former Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Madras Medical College, Pediatric Surgeon, Institute of Child Health, Chennai, India, was the first surgeon to hold a professorial chair in South India in Pediatric Surgery. Having started his career as a General Surgeon and Professor of Operative Surgery, Madras Medical College, he trained in Pediatric Surgery at Montreal, Canada. A very popular teacher, he became the President of the Association of Surgeons of India and Association of Pediatric Surgeons of India. His passion was to treat congenital malformations, particularly cleft lip and palate in which he excelled. He also created a registry on congenital malformations in 1000 live births, which is still being quoted at the Institute of Child health, Chennai. A very endearing teacher and his final struggle were to establish a state of the art children’s Hospital to cater for the lower income group in Chennai. This edifice – Child’s Trust Hospital is a standing monument of his dream with all sub specialties of pediatrics and teaching program.
We are privileged to have the Congress’ prestigious Prof. M.S. Ramakrishnan Memorial Lecture to be given by Prof. S. Anthony Wolfe, M.D
Prof. S. Anthony Wolfe, M.D. is Director of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital. Prof. Wolfe graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed a General Surgery Residency at The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under Francis 0. Moore. He then went through a Plastic Surgery Residency at the University of Miami under D. Ralph Millard, Jr., M.D. Following this, he spent a year as Assistant to Paul Tessier, in Paris, and then returned to Miami to go into practice with Dr. Millard.
Prof.Wolfe is the author of numerous books (Plastic Surgery of the Facial Skeleton, with orthodontist Sam Berkowitz; a book on Facial Fractures, and a two volume biography of Paul Tessier entitled A Man from Héric) and translator of many other. He sits on The Medical Advisory Board of Smile Train. He is a Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Florida and Florida International Universities, and a Professor of the Voluntary Faculty at The University of Miami. He is a Founding Member of The International Society of Craniofacial Surgeons. Prof. Wolfe feels that Plastic Surgery is composed of two often overlapping areas— reconstructive surgery, and aesthetic surgery, and it has been one of his particular interests to apply techniques and principles from one area to the other, presiding thereby in the marriage of reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
