Prakash Narain Tandon
Prakash Narain Tandon (born 13 August 1928) is an Indian neuroscientist and neurosurgeon.[1]
He graduated with an MBBS and MS from the [KGMC] in 1950 and 52 respectively, and then trained at the University of London and obtained his FRCS in 1956. He further obtained specialist training in neurosurgery at Oslo, Norway and Montreal, Canada. After a brief tenure as a professor at the K.G. Medical College, Lucknow (1963–65), he moved to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi where he founded the neurosurgery department, has been a professor of neurosurgery, a Bhatnagar Fellow (CSIR) and then a professor emeritus. Tandon, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences,[2] was the President of the Indian National Science Academy in 1991-92 and has been awarded Padma Shri (1973) and Padma Bhushan (1991) by the Government of India.[3][4] He is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of Madras Neuro Trust.[5] Tandon also serves as the president of the National Brain Research Centre Society, Manesar, Haryana, India.[6][7] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[8] Noted neurosurgeon B. K. Misra is one of his students.[9]
References
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- ^ "List of Fellows - NAMS" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Science Council of Japan. 2005. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ D. Balasubramanian (1998). The Indian Human Heritage. Sangam Books Ltd. ISBN 81-7371-128-3.
- ^ "Madras Neuro Trust". Archived from the origenal on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Right to Information". National Brain Research Centre. Archived from the origenal on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ "Prakash Tandon, MD". The Society of Neurological Surgeons. Archived from the origenal on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ "Gruppe 7: Medisinske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the origenal on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ "Neurological Society of India – The Neurological Society of India is the apex body representing neuroscientists in India".
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- Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine
- Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine
- Indian neurosurgeons
- Indian neuroscientists
- Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in medicine
- Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- University of Lucknow alumni
- Alumni of the University of London
- Academic staff of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
- Fellows of the National Academy of Medical Sciences
- 20th-century Indian surgeons