P. K. R. Warrier

P. K. R. Warrier

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P. K. R. Warrier Profile

  • Name:
  • P. K. R. Warrier
  • Born:
  • August 13, 1921
  • Died:
  • March 26, 2011
  • Spouse:
  • Devaki Pallam

P. K. R. Warrier Biography

P. K. R. Warrier was a cardiothoracic surgeon, author and social activist from Kerala. He had a close association with communist party leaders of Kerala like E. M. S. Namboodiripad and sympathetic to the early communist movement of Kerala. He opposed government-employed doctors performing in private practice. He has received Lifetime achievement award of the Dr. K.P. Nair Foundation as well as Heart Care Foundation. For his contributions to medicine and surgery he was honoured with Dubai Art Lovers' Association Award also. His autobiographical work has been later translated to English and published as book titled - Experience and Perceptions.

 

P. K. R. Warrier did medicine studies from Madras Medical College during middle 1940’s. He was actively involved in freedom struggle movement while he was a medical student. During one such freedom rallies, he happened to meet Devaki Pallam whom he married later. She was an apprentice of Gandhi then. He completed his undergraduate education at Madras Medical College in June 1946. After completion, he worked as a demonstrator of anatomy for a period of one year. He took training as an unofficial house surgeon and senior house surgeon under Dr. Mohan Rao and Dr. C.P.V. Menon at the General Hospital for a period of one and half years till June 1950. Then a period of about one decade, he worked as a Civil Assistant Surgeon in various government hospitals throughout South India.

 

In 1959, he moved to London to attain his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and completed one year later. After that he received training in cardiothoracic surgery in Stoke-on-Trent and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham until 1962 and returned to India. He joined as an assistant professor to Professor Raghavachari in the Department of Surgery at Thiruvananthapuram Medical College in the year 1964. He retired in 1977 as professor and head of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Later he served in many private hospitals as well. His daughter is married to National awrd winning Malayalam director, Shaji N Karun.

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Updated: March 14, 2014

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