Saroj Chooramani Gopal

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1944|07|25}}
| birth_place = [[Mathura]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| education = [[Sarojini Naidu Medical College]], [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi]]
| occupation = Paediatric surgeon and academic
| yearsactive = Since 1973
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]] Commonwealth Medical Scholarship [[INSA]] Senior Fellowship Indo German Fellowship Indo Finnish Fellowship University Grants Commission Fellowship President's Medal Shushila Nair Shield Dr. Mridula Rohtagi Oration Award Col. Sangam Lal Oration Award
}}'''Saroj Chooramani Gopal''', is an Indian medical doctor, medical educationist and considered as the first woman M.ch paediatric surgeon from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in the country. She is currently the President, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India). She was honoured by the [[Government of India]], in 2013, by bestowing on her the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the fields of medicine and medical education.<ref name="Padma 2013">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/list-of-padma-awardees/article4345496.ece | title=Padma 2013 | newspaper=The Hindu | date=26 January 2013 | access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

==Biography==
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Saroj Chooramani Gopal was born on 25 July 1944, in the pilgrim city of Mathura, [[Uttar Pradesh]], India.<ref name="Vidwan">{{cite web | url=http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/searchr.php?id=17683 | title=Vidwan | publisher=Vidwan | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Bharat Top 10">{{cite web |website=National Academy of Medical Sciences, India |date=2014 |title=Bharat Top 10 |url=https://www.nams-india.in/about.php?n=officebearers |access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> After schooling, she chose a career in medicine, graduated from the [[Sarojini Naidu Medical College]], Agra in 1966 and did MS at the same college, in 1969.<ref name="BHU" /> This was followed by securing MCh in paediatric surgery from the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi]], in 1973,<ref name="BHU" /> the first woman to obtain a degree in paediatric surgery in India.<ref name="Bharat Top 10" />

Saroj Gopal's career started by joining the faculty of the [[Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University]] in 1973 where she worked till her retirement in 2008 as the Medical Superintendent of the medical college hospital and as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> That year, she was selected as the Vice Chancellor of the [[King George's Medical University]] (KGMU), Lucknow, becoming the first woman to head the university<ref name="Bharat Top 10" />{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} which for a while during the reign of [[Mayawati]], was under the name, the ''Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University''.<ref name="Press Information Bureau">{{cite web | url=http://information.up.nic.in/View_engnews.aspx?id=54 | title=Press Information Bureau | publisher=Information & Public Relations Department, U.P. | date=23 July 2012 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> She retired from the university in 2011.<ref name="KGMU">{{cite web | url=http://kgmu.org/vc.php | title=KGMU | publisher=KGMU | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

==Legacy==
Saroj Chooramani Gopal is reported to have pioneered several techniques in paediatric surgery and is known for the developmental efforts put in by her during her tenure with KGMU, besides the many research articles she has published.<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /><ref name="BHU IMS" />

===Scientific and administrative contributions===
Gopal is credited with many low cost innovations intended to benefit the financially compromised people. The [[National Research Development Corporation]], (NRDC) New Delhi have issued patents for six of those innovations to Saroj Gopal.<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> She has also been reported to have invented new surgical techniques and she has published the details of three of such techniques.<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> She helped establish a well equipped ''Department of Child and New Born Surgery'' at the [[Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University|Institute of Medical Sciences]] during her tenure at the institute.<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> She has also organized many international symposia in paediatric surgery, has delivered key note addresses at a few of them<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> and has participated in many social campaigns.<ref name="Social campaign">{{cite web | url=http://www.banderasnews.com/0906/hbip-smokefree.htm | title=Social campaign | publisher=Banderas News | date=June 2009 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

===Publications===
Gopal has published several articles, counted at 120,<ref name="BHU" /><ref name="BHU IMS">{{cite web | url=http://www.bhu.ac.in/entranceresult/ims/paedsurg/flist.htm | title=BHU IMS | publisher=BHU IMS | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> in peer reviewed national and international journals.<ref name="Microsoft Academic Search">{{cite web | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="List of co authored articles">{{cite web | url=http://65.54.113.26/PublicationList?srcType=2&desType=2&srcID=23105808&desID=11237544 | title=List of co authored articles on Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> Some of her articles on [[hemangioma]] and [[teratoma]] have provided valuable insights on the treatment of the disease.<ref name="Twenty years' experience of steroids in infantile hemangioma—a developing country's perspective">{{cite journal | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=Twenty years' experience of steroids in infantile hemangioma—a developing country's perspective |author1=Anand Pandey |author2=Ajay Narayan Gangopadhyay |author3=Saroj Chooramani Gopal |author4=Vijayendra Kumar |author5=Shiv Prasad Sharma |author6=Dinesh Kumar Gupta |author7=Chandrasen Kumar Sinha | journal=Journal of Pediatric Surgery | year=2009 | volume=44 | issue=4 | pages=688–694|doi=10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.10.038 }}</ref><ref name="Conservative management of ulcerated haemangioma - twenty years experience">{{cite journal | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=Conservative management of ulcerated haemangioma - twenty years experience |author1=Anand Pandey |author2=Ajay Narayan Gangopadhyay |author3=Shiv Prasad Sharma |author4=Vijayendra Kumar |author5=Saroj Chooramani Gopal |author6=Dinesh Kumar Gupta | journal=International Wound Journal | year=2009 | volume=6 | issue=1 | pages=59–62 | doi=10.1111/j.1742-481x.2008.00562.x| pmc=7951731 }}</ref><ref name="Immature extragastric teratoma of infancy: a rare tumour with review of the literature">{{cite journal | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=Immature extragastric teratoma of infancy: a rare tumour with review of the literature |author1=Sunita Singh |author2=Jiledar Rawat |author3=Intezar Ahmed | journal=Case Reports | year=2011 | volume=2011}}</ref><ref name="PUB Facts">{{cite web | url=http://www.pubfacts.com/author/Saroj+Chooramani+Gopal | title=Articles on PUB Facts | publisher=PUB Facts | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>

* {{cite journal | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=Twenty years' experience of steroids in infantile hemangioma—a developing country's perspective |author1=Anand Pandey |author2=Ajay Narayan Gangopadhyay |author3=Saroj Chooramani Gopal |author4=Vijayendra Kumar |author5=Shiv Prasad Sharma |author6=Dinesh Kumar Gupta |author7=Chandrasen Kumar Sinha | journal=Journal of Pediatric Surgery | year=2009 | volume=44 | issue=4 | pages=688–694|doi=10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.10.038 }}
* {{cite journal | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=Conservative management of ulcerated haemangioma - twenty years experience |author1=Anand Pandey |author2=Ajay Narayan Gangopadhyay |author3=Shiv Prasad Sharma |author4=Vijayendra Kumar |author5=Saroj Chooramani Gopal |author6=Dinesh Kumar Gupta | journal=International Wound Journal | year=2009 | volume=6 | issue=1 | pages=59–62 | doi=10.1111/j.1742-481x.2008.00562.x| pmc=7951731 }}
* {{cite journal | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=Immature extragastric teratoma of infancy: a rare tumour with review of the literature |author1=Sunita Singh |author2=Jiledar Rawat |author3=Intezar Ahmed | journal=Case Reports | year=2011 | volume=2011}}

==Positions==
Saroj Gopal holds the position of the honorary Professor of the Centre of Biomedical Research.<ref name="CBMR">{{cite web | url=http://cbmr.res.in/hprofessor.php | title=CBMR | publisher=CBMR | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> She was the President of the ''Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons'', in 1998,<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> of which she is currently a member.<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="BHU IMS" /> She has been a member of the Expert Panel of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]], New Delhi, an examiner with many universities and an inspector of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]].<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> Currently she is the President of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]], New Delhi<ref name="Bharat Top 10" />

She is also a member of professional bodies like the Association of Surgeons of India, the [[Indian Medical Association]] and the Indian Academy of Medical Sciences.<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="BHU IMS" />

==Awards and recognitions==
Saroj Gopal is a recipient of many honours such as:
* Commonwealth Medical Scholarship, 1984<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Bharat Top 10" /><ref name="BHU">{{cite web | url=http://www.bhu.ac.in/ims/paedsurg/flist.htm | title=BHU | publisher=BHU | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>
* Senior Commonwealth Medical Scholarship, 1994<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /><ref name="BHU" />
* INSA Senior Fellowship - [[Indian National Science Academy]] - 1994<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Bharat Top 10" /><ref name="BHU" />
* Indo German Fellowship - 1997<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Bharat Top 10" />
* Indo Finnish Fellowship - 1994<ref name="Vidwan" /><ref name="Bharat Top 10" />
* [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] Fellowship<ref name="Vidwan" />
* [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] Fellowship<ref name="List of Fellows - NAMS">{{cite web | url=http://www.nams-india.in/downloads/fellowsmembers/ZZ.pdf | title=List of Fellows - NAMS | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref>
The Government of India conferred the [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]] on Gopal in 2002,<ref name="Bharat Top 10" /> and followed it up with the civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2013.<ref name="Padma 2013" /> She has also received the President's Medal in 1966, Shushila Nair Shield for excellence in studies, Dr Mridula Rohtagi Oration Award of the Association of Pediatric Surgeons of India in 2005, Col. Sangam Lal Oration Award of Indian National Medical Academy in 2007.<ref name="Bharat Top 10" />

==See also==
* [[King George's Medical University]]
* [[Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University|Institute of Medical Sciences]]
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.theindianpanorama.com/2013/04/08/president-confers-padma-awards/ | title=Padma Awards List | publisher=Indian Panorama | date=2014 | access-date=12 October 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23105808/saroj-chooramani-gopal | title=List of articles on Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=http://65.54.113.26/PublicationList?srcType=2&desType=2&srcID=23105808&desID=11237544 | title=List of co authored articles on Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.pubfacts.com/author/Saroj+Chooramani+Gopal | title=Articles on PUB Facts | publisher=PUB Facts | date=2014 | access-date=24 October 2014}}

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