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Prof. '''Murari Mohan Mukherjee''' (M. M. Mukherjee) (30 December 1914 – 26 July 1988.) was a famous [[India]]n [[plastic surgeon]] from [[Kolkata]], West Bengal, India.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
He was born at his maternal uncle's house in [[Bhagalpur]], Bihar, though his family was native to [[Chuchura]] in [[Hooghly district]] of West Bengal. After passing his matriculation locally from Shib Chandra Som Training Academy, Chuchura in 1931, he did his intermediate from [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], followed by a MBBS degree from [[Medical College Calcutta]], in 1939 and MS (Gen Surgery), from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1949.<ref name=jour10/><ref name=apsi/><br />
He underwent Plastic surgical training in England under Sir [[Harold Gillies]] and [[Thomas Pomfret Kilner]]. He cleared his fellowship examinations from the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]] and the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] and returned to [[Kolkata]] to practice plastic surgery in November, 1951.<br />
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==Career==<br />
He started the first independent department of Plastic Surgery in India at the [[IPGMER and SSKM Hospital]] (formerly [[Presidency General Hospital]]) in Kolkata in 1956.<ref name=jour10>{{cite journal |title=Prof. M. M. Mukherjee, Profile |pmc=2938625 |date=January–June 2010 | volume=43 | issue=1|journal=[[Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery]] |pmid=20924441 |doi=10.4103/0970-0358.63939 |pages=6–7 | last1 = Chatterjee | first1 = SS|doi-broken-date=31 October 2021 }}</ref><ref name=apsi>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032402/http://www.apsi.org.in/Heritage/mmm.html Prof. M.M. Mukherjee, Biography]. Association of Plastic Surgeons of India</ref><br />
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==Contemporary departments of Plastic Surgery in India==<br />
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In 1945 (end of WW2), two Indian maxillofacial surgical units were established: No. l unit at Kirkee/Khadki in Pune District under Dr G. M. FitzGibbon (author of Commandments of Gillies BJPS 1968) and later under Tom Gibson. No. 2 unit was at Secunderabad under Eric Peet. Capt [[C. Balakrishnan]] returned from the UK in 1950 and joined [[Government Medical College, Nagpur]] as a lecturer and was instrumental in starting the second independent Department of Plastic Surgery in the country at the Medical College Hospital, Nagpur, in 1958.<br />
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