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Dr
David Elliot rendering the oration in Gangtok
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ISSH Orations
The
two named orations in the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand are
named after the doyens
Prof
R. Venkataswami & Prof B B Joshi
In
the 1998 Annual meeting of the ISSH held at Goa, Dr. S. Raja Sabapathy, Organising
secretary of the 1997 meet at Coimbatore proposed the setting up of an oration
in the name of Prof. R. Venkataswami, a pioneer in hand surgery
in India. This
was supported by Prof. G. Balakrishnan. After
discussion in the floor it was decided that the minimum amount
for setting up of the oration should be Rs. 1 Lakh.
It was agreed upon and Prof. R. Venkataswami oration
was instituted to enable the first oration to be delivered
in 1999. In the year 2000 Prof BB Joshi
oration was formed with a similar corpus fund of Rs 1 Lakh.
Dr Ram Praboo and Dr Pankaj Jindal
were the coordinators. Each year a surgoen of repute in the
field of Hand Surgery is invited to deliver the oration.
|
| Year |
Prof
R Venkataswami Oration |
Prof
B B Joshi Oration |
Place |
| 2003 |
Padmashri H Srinivasan, Chennai
|
Prof
N H Antia, Pune |
Bangalore
|
| 2004 |
Dr
David Elliot, UK
Title :
Secondary Flexor Tendon Surgery |
Dr
Amit Gupta, USA
Title :
Use of Vascularised Free Fibula for Complex Reconstruction of
Upper Extremity |
Gangtok,
Sikkim. |
| 2005 |
Dr
Joseph Dias, Leicester, UK
Title :
Scaphoid : The challenges of a very tiny bone |
Dr
W Bruce Conolly
Sydney, Australia
Title :
Healing Hands Around the World |
Kochi,
Kerala. |
| 2006 |
Dr Robert J Medoff,
Hawaii, USA
Title:
“Thinking Outside of the Box, Changing Concepts in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures
|
Dr
Edward T Mah, Australia
Title:
“The Development of Microsurgery in Relation to Hand & Upper Limb Surgery - Historical Perspective and Current Status"
|
Chandigarh |
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