DR. MALTI GUPTA
Vice President (President Elect)-2003
Dr.
Malti Gupta obtained M.Ch. degree in Plastic Surgery from PGIMER,
Chandigarh in the year 1973.She started, developed and nourished
the Department of Plastic Surgery at SMS Medical College, Jaipur.
She has organised numerous academic activities (conferences,
workshops, training programmes etc.). She has also participated
in similar activities, in various capacities, in India and abroad
over 25 years. She is known as the “Honey Girl”
for the innovative techniques she developed in the seventies
for the preservation of skin grafts in honey. She was the first
woman surgeon of Rajasthan and the first person from the State
to have practiced in a super speciality. She holds the distinction
of being the first woman President of the International College
of Surgeons- Indian Section in 1997. She has done a great deal
to popularize the concept of Microsurgery. Apart from this Dr.
Malti has a passion for languages and has been a student of
advanced diploma courses, topping her class in German, French
and Russian.
Dr. Bimal Mody
Treasurer (2003-2005)
Dr. Bimal Mody is working as Hon. Plastic Surgeon and Chief
of Plastic Surgery at P.D. Hinduja National Hospital. Mumbai.
Dr. Mody has had his entire medical education at KEM Hospital
and Seth G.S. Medical College, Mumbai. He passed his M.Ch in
plastic surgery in 1984. In 1986 Dr. Mody went to Japan for
Micro Vascular Surgery Training. Dr. Mody has lectured in several
CME programmes. Dr. Mody was also the Organising Secretary of
the 34th Annual Conference of APSI held at Goa in 1999. This
is his second term as the Treasurer.
Dr. Mukund Thatte
Editor ( 2003-2005)
Dr.
Mukund Thatte obtained his MCh degree in 1986 from Lokmanya
Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai. He later trained in
Edinburgh and at University College London, UK. He was a visiting
Hand Fellow with Dr Strickland in Indianapolis, USA, at Hamburg,
Germany with Prof. Buck-Gramcko, and with Prof. Goran Lundborg
at Malmo, Sweden.He received the Junior Best Paper Award of
APSI in 1986 and the Best Paper Award of British Association
of Plastic Surgeons in 1989. He has published more than 25 papers
and 10 book chapters, Nationally and Internationally. His current
interests are Hand and Brachial Plexus Surgery, Cleft Surgery
and Reconstructive Micro Surgery. He is currently working as
a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Bombay Hospital, Shushrusha
Citizens Co op Hosp. and Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children,
at Mumbai.
DR. ANIL KUMAR BEHL
Executive Member ( 2003-2005)
Dr.
Anil Kumar Behl obtained M.Ch in Plastic Surgery from Poona
in the year 1992. He is currently working as Head of the Department
of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Command Hospital (AF),
Bangalore. He is also a Senior Advisor in Surgery & Reconstructive
Surgery to the Armed Forces and Professor of Surgery at Rajiv
Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. He obtained
additional training of SHO/visiting Registrar Plastic Surgery
at Chepstow and Wordsley, UK in 1993-94. He was a Fellow in
Cranio-facial Surgery at Southfield, USA in 1994-95 and again
in 2000-2001.
DR. NIRANJAN KUMAR
Executive Member ( 2003-2005)
Dr. Niranjan Kumar is presently working as Chief of Plastic
Surgery in the Department of Plastic, Microvascular and Craniofacial
Surgery at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. He passed MS ( General
Surgery) in 1977 from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore. He
passed his MCh in 1981 from Madras Medical College. He was the
Organising Secretary for APSICON 2002 at Bangalore.
