Professor Chandra M Kumar
Professor Chandra Mohan Kumar graduated from Patna Medical College, Patna,
India in 1973. After completing basic training in Patna Medical College
Hospital, Patna, Bihar, he joined Government of Bihar as a Civil Assistant
Surgeon in Bihar Military Police Hospital.
He is an internationally recognised expert and author in several aspects
of anaesthesia, from broad areas such as postgraduate medical education
to specialised areas such as anaesthesia for ophthalmic and major abdominal
surgery.
He has an international reputation in ophthalmic anaesthesia and has been
an invited speaker, chairman and leader of master classes at many international
meetings. He was responsible for developing a national training workshop
on local anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery, and this has been recognised
as the premier course in the UK.
He is an examiner for the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland, which is
one of the highest appointments that can be made within anaesthesia without
direct election, and is made in direct competition with other academic
leaders within anaesthesia.
He founded and is honorary secretary of two of the specialist societies
within anaesthesia – one in education (SEAUK) and one for ophthalmic
anaesthesia (BOAS). The creation and development of the two specialist
societies has won him international acclaim, and he is still regarded
as the reason they survived infancy. They have provided a platform for
the international recognition he deserves and his links with American
and European Societies have proved equally valuable to the UK.
Recently he has also been elected as a council member of the Age Anaesthesia
Association and European Society of Regional Anaesthesia ( Great Britain
and Ireland).
He plays an active part in the MSc in Evidence–Based-Anaesthesia,
not surprisingly since he was one of the two instigators of this course.
He successfully runs courses on presentation skills in the University
of Teesside.
He is the lead for overseas doctors in the northern deanery for anaesthesia
as well as being one of the members of the regional appraisal system for
senior anaesthetic trainees. He is one of only a handful who are also
on the assessment panel of these anaesthetists.
