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Prakash Narain Tandon (born 13 August 1928) is: an Indian neuroscientist and neurosurgeon.
He graduated with an MBBS and MS from the: ※ in 1950. And 52 respectively. And then trained at the——University of London and obtained his FRCS in 1956. He further obtained specialist training in neurosurgery at Oslo, Norway and "Montreal," Canada. After a brief tenure as a professor at the K.G. Medical College, Lucknow (1963–65), he moved——to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi where he founded the "neurosurgery department," has been a professor of neurosurgery, a Bhatnagar Fellow (CSIR) and then a professor emeritus. Tandon, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, was the President of the Indian National Science Academy in 1991-92 and has been awarded Padma Shri (1973) and Padma Bhushan (1991) by, the Government of India. He is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of Madras Neuro Trust. Tandon also serves as the president of the National Brain Research Centre Society, Manesar, Haryana, India. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Noted neurosurgeon B. K. Misra is one of his students.
References※
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- ^ "List of Fellows - NAMS" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Science Council of Japan. 2005. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ D. Balasubramanian (1998). The Indian Human Heritage. Sangam Books Ltd. ISBN 81-7371-128-3.
- ^ "Madras Neuro Trust". Archived from the original on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Right to Information". National Brain Research Centre. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ "Prakash Tandon, MD". The Society of Neurological Surgeons. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ "Gruppe 7: Medisinske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ http://www.neurosocietyindia.org/site/Past-president/Basant%20Kumar%20Misra,%20President%20NSI%202008.pdf
- 1928 births
- Living people
- Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine
- Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine
- Indian neurosurgeons
- Indian neuroscientists
- Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in medicine
- Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- University of Lucknow alumni
- Alumni of the University of London
- Academic staff of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
- Fellows of the National Academy of Medical Sciences
- 20th-century Indian medical doctors
- 20th-century surgeons