CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore. Sincere thanks to Prof. Dr. Mohan Viswanathan, Chennai for guiding us in writing about our legendary Physician.
Today’s History Feature:
Prof. Dr. M. M. S. Ahuja
(Aug 16, 1929 – Jul 12, 1998)
🇮🇳 The Pride of India 🇮🇳
💠Indian Physician & Endocrinologist
💠Founder of Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI)
His contributions…
🔸Prof. Dr. Ahuja was born in Multan, Pre-partition India in 1929.
🔸He started his medical studies in Lahore in Pakistan but due to the partition, he had to move to India and continued his medical studies at Madras Medical College, Chennai and graduated in 1952.
🔸After his studies, he sailed to the United Kingdom. There he completed his M.R.C.P. (London) in 1956, and did resident ship at Hammersmith Hospital, London.
🔸After his return from the UK, he joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 1958 as Registrar in Medicine. Then he was promoted as Associate Professor and later as Head of the Department of Medicine in 1969.
🔸He was instrumental in setting up the Department of Endocrinology at AIIMS in 1982 and became the Head of the Department. Also, he served as the Dean of the Institute from 1988-1989.
🔸Moreover, he played a key role in founding the “Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India” in 1972, thus emphasizing that the main objective of the society is “Research.”
🔸Further, he was:
🔅 Founding Editor of International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries.
🔅Chief Editor of Medical publication series on “Progress in Clinical Medicine in India.
🔸His writings are unique and he contributed hundreds of original research and especially focused on Diabetes in the Young and Ketosis Resistant Diabetes.
🔸During his career, he spotted talent in many youngsters and encouraged them in the field of Diabetology and Endocrinology. He also trained hundreds of Endocrinologists who have become world leaders today.
🔸Prof. Ahuja was undoubtedly an excellent physician, teacher, researcher, administrator and philanthropist.
🔸Over three decades, he made major contributions towards the understanding of diabetes in India. He is one of the most respected icons in the discipline of Diabetology and Endocrinology. Every year his birthday August 16th is celebrated as RSSDI Founders Day.
A Day to Commemorate…
An Astute Physician
A Stalwart in Diabetology & Endocrinology
Prof. Dr. M. M. S. Ahuja🙏🏼
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Regards to Genius Pride of India
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Excellent
I would like to attend in future also
Dr Ahuja was instrumental in editing a book on ‘Progress in Medicine’
Exceedingly excellent book writen by authors from different parts of🇮🇳 India.
The authors were specialist in different diseases in India.. like Dr R N Banerjee from Kolkata on Snake 🐍bites…Dr MS Khuroo from Sher-Azad Medical college, Kashmir, on Budd-Chiary Syndrome… Dr Bramhaprakash from Southern part of India on Brain Abscess.. to name a few
Very impressive Dr
Dr. M M S Ahuja, is not only a Diabetes Specialist Or Endocrinologist only but also an astute Clinician. He used choose diamond physicians from different parts of India.
He was the only Dr who understood me and my juvenile diabetes case so well though (not being in Delhi before) I could consult him only in thr early 70s. I had had T1D for 12 years then. Umpteen times he admitted me in his metabolic lab to prevent ketoacidosis. Was always there to encourage and guide me, whether it was my career, social issues etc. Because of him I gained confidence and from a quiet, insecure and sensitive person became a working lady and started controlling my erratic sugars.
I bow my head in reverence to the most kind and enlightened human being and the best endocrinologist who saved my life umpteen times and who was my real Godfather.🙏🏻🙏🏻
As a resident in Anesthesiology AIIMS my chance of personally knowing Professor Ahuja were close to nil. But it happened that his father was admitted to the ICU where he would come late in the evening and we would meet regularly. Later, he took care of my mother, a diabetic, at AIIMS and in the private practice he joined afterwards. He made it clear that she did not have to wait in the line and directly come to him. He would go the the cupboard find all the samples within reach that she would need. He never charged as penny. He gave his phone number to call after I moved abroad.
He was the former dean, I was a resident but when my first paper was published in Stroke, he had the pride of a father written on his face. That was the hallmark of the great AIIMS faculty we were blessed to have. These were teachers in best Indian tradition – and an example for the rest of the world.
Prof. Ahuja was a man of few words – but his action spoke volumes that were indelibly etched in the minds of those who he taught or worked with.