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|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report-chennai-chief-surgeon-js-rajkumar-becomes-first-in-country-to-air-surgery-live-via-google-glass-1891495|publisher=DNA India|accessdate=20 September 2013}}</ref> Though this process was used abroad frequently but in India was performed for the first time in 2013.
|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/health/report-chennai-chief-surgeon-js-rajkumar-becomes-first-in-country-to-air-surgery-live-via-google-glass-1891495|publisher=DNA India|accessdate=20 September 2013}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{cite news|title= A blow at 30,000 feet saves dying doctor on flight|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/A-blow-at-30000-feet-saves-dying-doctor-on-flight/articleshow/17838724.cms|publisher=The Times of India|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref>
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).<ref>{{cite news|title= A blow at 30,000 feet saves dying doctor on flight|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/A-blow-at-30000-feet-saves-dying-doctor-on-flight/articleshow/17838724.cms|publisher=The Times of India|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref>He removed six-kg tumour from abdomen of 55 year old man with the help of his team of doctors at Lifeline Hospital Chennai.<ref>{{cite news|title= Most of six-kg tumour removed|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/most-of-sixkg-tumour-removed/article7559510.ece|publisher=The Hindu|accessdate=20 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Docs Remove 6.4 Kg Tumour|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Docs-Remove-6.4-Kg-Tumour/2015/08/20/article2983285.ece|publisher=The New Indian Express|accessdate=20 August 2015}}</ref>


He has been the Chairman of the Association of Surgeons of India, TN&P chapter for the year 2011-12.<ref>{{cite news|title= Prof J S Rajkumar|url=http://ijcpgroup.com/?editorial=prof-j-s-rajkumar|publisher=IJCP Group|accessdate=2014}}</ref>
He has been the Chairman of the Association of Surgeons of India, TN&P chapter for the year 2011-12.<ref>{{cite news|title= Prof J S Rajkumar|url=http://ijcpgroup.com/?editorial=prof-j-s-rajkumar|publisher=IJCP Group|accessdate=2014}}</ref>

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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 of Chennai is the first Indian surgeon who performed air surgery live with the use of Google Glass. 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.[5] 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).[6]He removed six-kg tumour from abdomen of 55 year old man with the help of his team of doctors at Lifeline Hospital Chennai.[7][8]

He has been the Chairman of the Association of Surgeons of India, TN&P chapter for the year 2011-12.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Prof J S Rajkumar". IJCP Group. Retrieved 2014. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ "Prof J S Rajkumar". IJCP Group. Retrieved 2014. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ^ "Chennai's Lifeline". Financial Express. Retrieved 2009. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ "Running a Scalpel Through His Memories". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Chennai Chief surgeon J.S. Rajkumar becomes first in country to air surgery live via Google Glass". DNA India. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  6. ^ "A blow at 30,000 feet saves dying doctor on flight". The Times of India. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Most of six-kg tumour removed". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Docs Remove 6.4 Kg Tumour". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Prof J S Rajkumar". IJCP Group. Retrieved 2014. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)