N. H. Wadia
N. H. Wadia | |
---|---|
Born | (1925-01-10)10 January 1925 |
Died | 10 April 2016(2016-04-10) (aged 91) |
Awards | Padma Bhushan |
Noshir Hormusjee "N. H." Wadia (10 January 1925 – 10 April 2016) was an Indian physician. He was a prominent figure in the field of neurology.[1] Wadia was given the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India.[2][3] He was also given the Certificate of Appreciation for Services to Neurology by the World Federation of Neurology in 1993.[4] He pioneered the practice of neurology in India.
Career
Noshir Hormusjee Wadia entered Grant Medical College, Bombay in 1943 and finished his MD Medicine from there in 1948, and did his MRCP from London. He joined as a Registrar, Neurology to Lord Brain, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases (1952–56), and then to the London Hospital as a Registrar and Tutor at the Medical School. He came back to India in 1957 and became Honorary Assistant Neurologist to his beloved alma mater. He served as a Lecturer in Neurology (1961–68) and Honorary Professor (1968–82), Grant Medical College.[5] He headed the Neurology department at Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals for 25 years till 1982, when he stepped down and had his position taken by Bhimsen Singhal, one of his students. On retirement, he joined as a Consultant for Life at the Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, and he was the Director, Neurology Department at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre (1973 to-date). He was felicitated DSc (hc) by Banaras Hindu University (1999).[6]
Books
N H Wadia is an author of book in Neurology 'Neurological Practice :An Indian Perspective.[7]' He is one of the contributors of the book Tropical Neurology.[8]
Notable works
Wadia has explored neurological manifestations of Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis due to enterovirus E 70.[9]
- He described a new form of heredofamilial spinocerebellar degeneration with slow eye movements a completely new to the world. This later went on to be designated SCA 2.[10]
- Myelopathy Complicating Congenital Atlanto Axial Dislocation.
- Atypical Features in acoustic neuroma.
- Venous signs in Cerebral Angioma.[11]
Awards and recognition
Indian Academy of Neurology has set up an oration in annual conference in the name of Wadia.[12]
- The Certificate of Appreciation for Services to Neurology by World Federation of Neurology (1993)
- First Rameshwardas Birla National Award for an Outstanding Practising Clinician in Modern Medicine (1999)
- Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Excellence by Harvard Medical International and Wockhardt Ltd for Pioneering and Immense Contributions in Speciality of Neurology,
- SS Bhatnagar Medal for Excellence in General Science by INSA (2003)
- Dhanvantari Award by Dhanvantari Medical Foundation for Outstanding Contribution in Medicine (2003)
- Shree Dhanwantari Prize by INSA (2006). He was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (1972)[13]
- Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1983)
- Royal College of Physicians, London (1970)[6]
- Padma Bhushan, New Delhi, (2013)[14]
References
- ^ "IN MEMORIAM: Noshir H. Wadia, MD". World Neurology Online. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- ^ Padma awards announced – Full list (Accessed on 26 June 2013)
- ^ "Padma Awards Announced" (Press release). Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- ^ Indian National Science Academy website (Accessed on 26 June 2013)
- ^ DNA -Academy Sunday, 20 September 2009, Kareena Gianani Alumni to restore Grant Medical College (Accessed on 28 June 2013)
- ^ a b "INSA, India".
- ^ Neurological practice - An Indian perspective (Accessed on 26 June 2013)
- ^ Spillane, John David (1973). Tropical Neurology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-264154-0.
- ^ Wadia, NH; Wadia, PN; Katrak, SM; Misra, VP (1983). "A study of the neurological disorder associated with acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis due to enterovirus 70". J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 46 (7): 599–610. doi:10.1136/jnnp.46.7.599. PMC 1027477. PMID 6886696.
- ^ Wadia, N. H.; Swami, R. K. (1971). "A New Form of Heredo-Familial Spinocerebellar Degeneration with Slow Eye Movements (Nine Families)". Brain. 94 (2): 359–374. doi:10.1093/brain/94.2.359. PMID 5571047.
- ^ "Advanced Search | Brain". brain.oxfordjournals.org. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Indian Academy of Neurology - Exploring new frontiers in neurology (Accessed on 26 June 2013)
- ^ "List of Fellows — NAMS" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs of India. 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- v
- t
- e
- Satya Paul Agarwal
- Mohammad Amin
- Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay
- M. S. Banga
- Anil Bordia
- Bipan Chandra
- B. K. Chaturvedi
- Sant Singh Chatwal
- G. P. Chopra
- Tan Chung
- Madhusudan Dhaky
- P. R. Dubhashi
- Puttaraj Gawai
- Belle Monappa Hegde
- Ilaiyaraaja
- Jagdish Chandra Kapur
- Shrinivas Khale
- Aamir Khan
- Sultan Khan
- Ram Kumar
- Kumudini Lakhia
- Kuzhur Narayana Marar
- Chhannulal Mishra
- Eledath Thaikkattu Narayanan Mooss
- C. P. Krishnan Nair
- S. P. Oswal
- Akbar Padamsee
- Ramakanta Panda
- Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
- Arogyaswami Paulraj
- A. R. Rahman
- Moosa Raza
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
- Abhijit Sen
- Satya Vrat Shastri
- Noshir M. Shroff
- Kushal Pal Singh
- Bikash Sinha
- Balagangadharanatha Swamiji
- Narayanan Vaghul
- P. K. Warrier
- Fareed Zakaria
- S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
- Rajashree Birla
- M. N. Buch
- C. V. Chandrasekhar
- Ajai Chowdhry
- Yogesh Chander Deveshwar
- Satyadev Dubey
- T. J. S. George
- Shankha Ghosh
- Kris Gopalakrishnan
- Keki Byramjee Grant
- Shashi Kapoor
- Krishen Khanna
- Khayyam
- Chanda Kochhar
- Dwijen Mukhopadhyay
- Madavoor Vasudevan Nair
- Ramdas Pai
- Dashrath Patel
- Rajendra Singh Pawar
- Suryanarayanan Ramachandran
- Shobhana Ranade
- Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy
- Kallam Anji Reddy
- Waheeda Rehman
- Shyam Saran
- Analjit Singh
- Arpita Singh
- Surendra Singh
- R. K. Srikantan
- Raghavan Thirumulpad
- Suresh H. Advani
- Shabana Azmi
- Homi K. Bhabha
- Shashikumar Chitre
- Khaled Choudhury
- Jatin Das
- Vidya Dehejia
- Dharmendra
- S. N. Goenka
- M. S. Gopalakrishnan
- T. V. Gopalakrishnan
- Buddhadev Das Gupta
- Sunil Janah
- Anish Kapoor
- S. B. Mujumdar
- B. Muthuraman
- Mira Nair
- Arvind Panagariya
- José Pereira
- Mata Prasad
- M. S. Raghunathan
- P. Chandrasekhara Rao
- Ronen Sen
- Devi Shetty
- M. V. Subbiah
- N. Vittal
- N. H. Wadia
- George Yeo
- Satya N. Atluri
- Maharaj Kishan Bhan
- Jaspal Bhatti
- Rahul Dravid
- Adi Godrej
- Abdul Rashid Khan
- Rajesh Khanna
- Mary Kom
- Nandkishore Shamrao Laud
- Mangesh Padgaonkar
- Hemendra Singh Panwar
- Jogesh Pati
- Shivajirao Girdhar Patil
- A. Sivathanu Pillai
- D. Ramanaidu
- Kanak Rele
- V. K. Saraswat
- Ashoke Sen
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- B. N. Suresh
- Sharmila Tagore
- Ramamurthy Thyagarajan
- Saroja Vaidyanathan
- Anisuzzaman
- Mrityunjay Athreya
- Padmanabhan Balaram
- Dalveer Bhandari
- Ruskin Bond
- Anita Desai
- Pullela Gopichand
- Kamal Haasan
- Jyeshtharaj Joshi
- V. N. Kaul
- Neelam Kler
- M. Mahadevappa
- Leander Paes
- K. Radhakrishnan
- Anumolu Ramakrishna
- Thirumalachari Ramasami
- Lloyd Rudolph
- Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
- Vinod Prakash Sharma
- Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
- Parveen Sultana
- Dhirubhai Thaker
- Vairamuthu
- J. S. Verma
- T. H. Vinayakram
- Jahnu Barua
- Manjul Bhargava
- Vijay P. Bhatkar
- Swapan Dasgupta
- David Frawley
- Bill Gates
- Melinda French Gates
- Swami Satyamitranand
- N. Gopalaswami
- Subhash C. Kashyap
- Gokulotsavji Maharaj
- Saichiro Misumi
- Ambrish Mithal
- Sudha Ragunathan
- Harish Salve
- Ashok Seth
- Rajat Sharma
- Satpal Singh
- Shivakumara Swami
- Khadg Singh Valdiya
- Ravindra Chandra Bhargava
- Robert D. Blackwill
- Hafeez Contractor
- Indu Jain
- Heisnam Kanhailal
- Anupam Kher
- Sania Mirza
- Pallonji Mistry
- Udit Narayan
- Saina Nehwal
- Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad
- Vinod Rai
- N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
- A. V. Rama Rao
- D. Nageshwara Reddy
- Dayananda Saraswati
- Barjinder Singh Hamdard
- Ram V. Sutar
- Tejomayananda
- 1954–1959
- 1960–1969
- 1970–1979
- 1980–1989
- 1990–1999
- 2000–2009
- 2010–2019
- 2020–2029