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| birth_date = 8 February 1922
| birth_place = [[Hubli]], [[Karnataka]], India
| death_date = 26 June 2007
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| othername = Noshir Hormasji Antia
| occupation = Plastic surgeon<br>social worker
| yearsactive = 1945–2007
| known for = [[Plastic surgery]]
| spouse = Arnie Noshir Batliwala
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| children = One son and one daughter
| parents = Hormasji Merwanji<br>Soonamai
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>G. D. Birla International Award<br>Karma Yogi Puraskar
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'''Noshir Hormasji Antia''' (1922–2007) was an Indian [[plastic surgeon]] and social worker, known for his pioneering contributions to the treatment and rehabilitation of people afflicted with [[leprosy]].<ref name="Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery">{{cite journal | title=Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery | author=Shirish S. Daddi | journal=Indian J Plast Surg |date=September 2010 | volume=43 | issue=Supplement | pages=4–5 | doi=10.4103/0970-0358.70714 | pmid=21321656 | pmc=3038396}}</ref> He was the founder of three notable [[non governmental organizations]], ''Foundation for Research in Community Health'' (FRCH),<ref name="The Story Since 1975">{{cite web | url=http://www.frchindia.org/The_Story.html | title=The Story Since 1975 | publisher=FRCH | date=2015 | access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> ''Foundation for Medical Research'' (FMR) and the ''National Society for Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped'' (NASEOH), all working in the field of rehabilitation of patients, cured or otherwise.<ref name="An eventful life - Book Review">{{cite journal | url=http://ijme.in/index.php/ijme/article/view/375/673 | title=An eventful life - Book Review | author=George Thomas | journal=[[Indian Journal of Medical Ethics]] | year=2009 | volume=6 | issue=4 | issn=0974-8466}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1990.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

==Biography==
N. H. Antia was born on 8 February 1922 at [[Hubli]], in northern [[Karnataka]] in India in a middle class [[Parsi]] family to Hormasji Merwanji and Soonamai and did hs schooling at his native place and the nearby [[Belgaum]].<ref name="Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery" /> When his family moved to Mumbai, he continued his education there and completed the pre-graduate course from the [[Fergusson College]], [[Pune]].<ref name="Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery" /> He graduated in medicine from [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals]], Mumbai in 1945 to start his career by joining the [[British Indian Army]], as a medical officer, where he worked for two years.<ref name="Obituary">{{cite journal | url=http://www.ijps.org/article.asp?issn=0970-0358;year=2007;volume=40;issue=2;spage=241;epage=242;aulast=Daver | title=Obituary | author=Behman M Daver | journal=Indian J Plast Surg | year=2007 | volume=40 | issue=2 | pages=241–242}}</ref> He retired from the Army in 1947, the year when India became independent, to move to UK for higher studies and studied under [[Harold Gillies]], considered by many as the Father of Plastic Surgery,<ref name="Walter Ernest O'Neil Yeo - One of the first people to undergo Plastic Surgery">{{cite web | url=http://www.yeosociety.com/biographies/Walteryeo-plasticsurgery.htm | title=Walter Ernest O'Neil Yeo - One of the first people to undergo Plastic Surgery | publisher=Yeo Society | date=2015 | access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> He worked under the New Zealand born surgeon for nine years as well as under A. B. Wallace, who pioneered the treatment of burns,<ref name="Obituary Lepr Rev">{{cite journal | url=https://www.lepra.org.uk/platforms/lepra/files/lr/June08/Lep199-203.pdf | title=Obituary Lepr Rev | author=K. V. Desikan | journal=Lepr Rev. | year=2008 | volume=79 | issue=2 | pages=199–203| pmid=18711943 }}</ref> during which period, he obtained a fellowship of the [[Royal College of Surgeons]],<ref name="Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery" /> the degree (FRCS) conferred on him in 1952.<ref name="Alternative Strategies and India's Development">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7xXOeYX26cC&q=Noshir+Hormasji+Antia&pg=PA192 | title=Alternative Strategies and India's Development | publisher=Popular Prakashan | author=Ramdas Bhatkal | year=1999 | pages=194 | isbn=9788171546558}}</ref>

His initial posting, after return from UK in 1956, was at [[Jehangir Hospital]], Pune as a general surgeon but he also practised plastic surgery there.<ref name="Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery" /> This gave him the opportunity to get associated with ''Dr Bandorawalla Government Leprosy Hospital'', Kondhwa where he practised [[reconstructive surgery]] among the leprosy patients which received attention from the State government who invited him to establish a department of plastic surgery at [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals]].<ref name="Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery" /> The unit, first such unit in Western India,<ref name="A life of change: The autobiography of a doctor">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARYgAQAAMAAJ | title=A life of change: The autobiography of a doctor | publisher=Penguin India | author=Noshir H. Antia | year=2009 | pages=189 | isbn=9780143104261}}</ref> was inaugurated in 1958,<ref name="Obituary Lepr Rev" /> by his mentor, [[Harold Gillies]]<ref name="Association of Plastic Surgeons of India profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.apsi.org.in/Heritage/NH.html | title=Association of Plastic Surgeons of India profile | publisher=Association of Plastic Surgeons of India | date=2015 | access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> and became known as ''Tata Department of Plastic Surgery''.<ref name="Testimonial">{{cite web | url=http://lineacosmeticsurgery.in/pdfs/Dr_Atul_Shah.pdf | title=Testimonial | publisher=Grant medical College & Sir JJ Group of Hospitals | date=2015 | access-date=6 September 2015}}</ref> The department grew to accommodate burns, hand surgery and leprosy surgery under separate sections and it was here, Antia performed the first microvascular [[free flap]] surgery.<ref name="Padmashri Noshir Antia: Lotus of Indian plastic surgery" />

Antia married Arnie Noshir Batliwala on 6 October 1957, a year after his return from the UK, and the couple had two children, son, Rustom and daughter, Avan.<ref name="Obituary Lepr Rev" /> He died on 26 June 2007 at the age of 85.<ref name="An eventful life - Book Review" /> His life story has been published as an autobiography, ''A Life of Change: The Autobiography of a Doctor'', brought out by [[Penguin India]] in 2009.<ref name="A life of change: The autobiography of a doctor" />

==Positions and legacy==
Antia headed the Tata Department of Plastic Surgery for 22 years till 1980{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} and is credited with transforming the centre into a recognised training school for the plastic surgeons in India.<ref name="Bioline article">{{cite web | url=http://www.bioline.org.br/request?pl07068 | title=Bioline article | publisher=Bioline | date=2007 | access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> Here he pioneered the leprosy surgery and continued his researches.<ref name="Obituary Lepr Rev" /> He also had a two-year stint in London, doing his researches in [[Immunology]].<ref name="Highbeam profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1411367281.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202933/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1411367281.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2015-09-24 | title=Highbeam profile | publisher=Highbeam Research | date=2015 | access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> While heading the Tata Department, he served the parent hospital, J. J. Hospital, as a professor of plastic surgery at their medical college.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} He was one of the founders of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India (1957)<ref name="Association of Plastic Surgeons of India - History">{{cite web | url=http://www.apsi.org.in/History/HISTORY%20OF%20APSI.html | title=Association of Plastic Surgeons of India - History | publisher=Association of Plastic Surgeons of India | date=2015 | access-date=6 September 2015}}</ref> and the National Societies for Burns and Hand Surgery.<ref name="Icon of this Issue">{{cite web | url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/60214/1/pl10039.html | title=Icon of this Issue | publisher=TSpace Library | date=2015 | access-date=6 September 2015}}</ref> He published 5 books and over 350 articles<ref name="Obituary Lepr Rev" /> and contributed content to several other books, where his medical researches have been documented.<ref name="Alternative Strategies and India's Development" />

In 1975, Antia gathered a few colleagues and founded the ''Foundation for Research in Community Health'' (FRCH), and started training local women of [[Mandwa, Maharashtra|Mandwa]] and neighbouring villages of the [[Raigad district]] of [[Maharashtra]],<ref name="A life of change: The autobiography of a doctor" /> preparing them to fight against water borne diseases, leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria and respiratory tract infections and taught them the values of [[family planning]].<ref name="The Story Since 1975" /> He expanded his activities later, by founding another organization, ''Foundation for Medical Research'' (FMR), to supplement the efforts of FRCH,<ref name="An eventful life - Book Review" /> and served as the director of both the organizations since their inception in 1975.<ref name="Dissecting Room">{{cite web | url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)61869-7/fulltext?version=printerFriendly | title=Dissecting Room | publisher=Lancet | date=2015 | access-date=6 September 2015}}</ref> His contributions were also reported in the establishment of another [[non governmental organization]], ''National Society for Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped'' (NASEOH), started in 1968.<ref name="An eventful life - Book Review" />

==Awards and recognitions==
Antia was a fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of London]] and the [[American College of Surgeons]].{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} His professional work earned him the Huntarian professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Maliniac Lecturership of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.<ref name="Obituary" /> He served as the Clayton Memorial lecturer of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Gilles and Sushruta orator of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India and Pandalai Orator of Association of Surgeons of India.<ref name="Obituary" /> He delivered the Dr. B. B. Joshi Oration at the Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand, Bangalore on 8 December 2003, besides several other keynote addresses.<ref name="Curriculum Vitae of Dr. N. H. Antia">{{cite web | url=http://www.fmrindia.org/cv_anita3.html | title=Curriculum Vitae of Dr. N. H. Antia | publisher=FMR India | date=2015 | access-date=6 September 2015}}</ref>

Antia served as the honorary surgeon to the [[President of India]] and the Governor of Maharashtra on different occasions.<ref name="Curriculum Vitae of Dr. N. H. Antia" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1990<ref name="Padma Awards" /> and he received the G. D. Birla International Award for Humanism in 1994.<ref name="Obituary Lepr Rev" /> He was also a recipient of the ''Karma Yogi Puraskar'' in 2006.<ref name="Association of Plastic Surgeons of India profile" />

==See also==
* [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals]]
* [[Harold Gillies]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title=A life of change: The autobiography of a doctor | publisher=Penguin India | author=Noshir H. Antia | year=2009 | pages=189 | isbn=9780143104261}}

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