Kewal Krishan Maudar
Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre,India
Biography
Brigadier (Dr.) K.K. Maudar, served in the Army as a General & Paediatric Surgeon and Reader in Surgery & Prof & Head of Surgery in Armed Forces Medical College Pune from 1965 to 2000.Post retirement he served Manipal Center of Medical Sciences Pokhra Nepal as Head of Surgery for two years and Director & Chief of G I Surgery Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Center Bhopal under Indian Council of Medical Research from October 2002 to Oct 2013.Brig. Maudar is an active member of Association of Surgeons of India ; Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons ; Indian Association of Surgical Oncology ; Society of Surgery for Alimentary Tract – USA ; Europeans Society of Surgical Oncology ; European Society of Surgical Research and American Academy of Paediatrics.He is the recipient of the various prestigious academic awards and honours viz. Hariom Ashrma Parerit Rangachari Award by Association of Surgeons of India ; General Amir Chand Award and Air Marshal Ajitnath & Gurushanti Devi Award by Armed Forces Medical Research Committee. He is also the recipient of various prestigious orations viz. Colonel Pandalai Oration Association of Surgeons of India ; Radha Devi Oration – Indian Association of Surgical Oncology and Silver Jubliee Oration – Indian Association of Surgical Oncology. Brig. Maudar has published over 100 papers in National and International Journals of repute. He is the Post Graduate Examiner for various Universities in India in addition to National Board Examination and Intercollegiate Member Royal Colleges of Surgeons (IMRCS) U.K., the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, U.K. He has visited a number of Medical Centres in UK & USA as a Visiting Professor. He visited Vanderbilt Medical Centre, Nashville, USA for colorectal cancer research and MSKCC, New York for hepatobiliary and breast cancer research as a Fellow of Union Against Cancer (UICC) . In addition, he has special interest in surgical research in the field of splenic regeneration, endothelial, pancreatic acinar cell culture studies and genetics and epigenetic research in G I Oncology and Hepatology.