>BattyBot: /* Awards and honors */Removed/fixed incorrect author parameter(s), performed general fixes

2021-06-30T16:25:46Z

Awards and honors: Removed/fixed incorrect author parameter(s), performed general fixes

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = S. S. Badrinath
| image =
| image_size =
| caption = Dr. S.S. Badrinath, M.D.
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1940|02|24}}
| birth_place = [[Chennai]], India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| education = [[M.B.B.S.]], [[M.D.]], F.R.C.S
| spouse = Vasanthi Badrinath
|fields = [[Ophthalmology]], Vitreo-retinal surgery
| website = www.sankaranethralaya.org
}}
'''Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath''' (born 24 February 1940) is the Indian founder and Chairman Emeritus of [[Sankara Nethralaya]], Chennai, one of India's largest charitable eye hospitals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://omlog.org/2009/11/%E2%80%98best-eye-hospital%E2%80%99-in-india.html |title=Sankara Nethralaya. A Mission For Vision » ‘Best Eye Hospital’ in India |website=Omlog.org |date=9 November 2009 |access-date=2016-05-25}}</ref> He is an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]].<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> He received the [[Padma Bhushan]], third-highest [[Indian honours system|civilian award]] in the [[Republic of India]] in 1996. He also received many other awards including Padma Shri and Dr. B. C. Roy Award.

==Early life==
Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath was born in [[Triplicane]], a suburb of [[Chennai]], India. His father, S. V. Srinivasa Rao, an engineer, was employed in the Madras Government Service. His mother, Lakshmi Devi, was the daughter of an advocate from Nerur, Tamil Nadu. He lost both his parents while still in his teens and completed his medical studies from the insurance money obtained following the demise of his father. Beginning his education late at age 7 due to a childhood illness, Badrinath studied at PS High School, Mylapore, and Sri Ramakrishna Mission High School, Chennai. He completed his collegiate studies at Loyola College between 1955 and 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.squintmaster.com/Drbadrinathan.htm |title=Know Our Luminaries |website=Squintmaster.com |date=3 June 1967 |access-date=2016-05-25}}</ref>

==Medical career==
Badrinath graduated from the Madras Medical College, Madras, in 1963. He did his internship and a year of internal medicine residency at the Glasslands Hospital, New York. Following the study of Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology at the New York University medical school, he did his residency in Ophthalmology at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, and a fellowship with [[Charles Schepens]] at the Retina Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1969 and Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1970. He returned to India in 1970 and from 1970, for a period of six years, he worked at the Voluntary Health Services, Chennai as a consultant. He set up a private practice in ophthalmology and vitreoretinal surgery at the H.M.Hospital (1970 to 1972) and Vijaya Hospital, Chennai (1973 to 1978). He has over 60 peer reviewed publications.<ref>{{PubMedAuthorSearch|Badrinath|SS}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
* 1996: [[Padma Bhushan]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Chennai’s trinity of eye specialists honoured|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2009/nov/30/chennais-trinity-of-eye-specialists-honoured-108550.html|access-date=2021-05-22|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref>
* 1983: [[Padma Shri]]<ref name="List of Fellows - NAMS" />
*1991: [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award|Dr. B. C. Roy National Award]]<ref name=":0" />
*1992: Paul Harris Fellow Award<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=https://www.nams-india.in/downloads/fellowsmembers/ZZ.pdf|url-status=live|publisher=National Academy of Medical Science (India)|page=8}}</ref>
* 2009: V. Krishnamurthy Award for Excellence<ref>{{Cite web|title=Award for Shankar Netralaya founder|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2009/jul/05/award-for-shankar-netralaya-founder-65276.html|access-date=2021-05-22|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref>
*2009: The Madras City Ophthalmological Association- Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name=":0" />
*2014: Lifetime Achievement Award- Vitreo Retinal Society, India<ref>{{Cite web|title=Life Time Achievement Award – Vitreo Retina Society|url=https://vrsi.in/life-time-achievement-award/|access-date=2021-05-22|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Sankara Nethralaya==
In 1978, Badrinath, along with a group of philanthropists, founded the Medical & Vision Research Foundations in Madras in 1978. Sankara Nethralaya, a charitable not-for-profit eye hospital is a unit of the Medical Research Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eso.sankaranethralaya.org/pdf/Dr.SSB.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706190312/http://www.eso.sankaranethralaya.org/pdf/Dr.SSB.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 July 2010 |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 December 2009 }}</ref>

On average, 1200 patients walk through the hospital doors and 100 surgeries are performed every day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sankaranethralaya.org/home-details.html |title=Sankara Nethralaya |publisher=Sankara Nethralaya |access-date=2016-05-25}}</ref> Right from its inception in 1978, Sankara Nethralaya has been offering Fellowship programmes in Vitreo-Retinal Surgery, Cornea, Oculoplasty, Glaucoma, Uvea and General Ophthalmology to holders of Postgraduate Degree and Diploma in Ophthalmology. The institute also offers training programmes for graduates in Ophthalmology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sankaranethralaya.org/education.html |title=Education |website=Sankaranethralaya.org |access-date=2016-05-25}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Medicine}}
{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 1990–99}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Badrinath, S. S.}}
[[Category:1940 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Chennai]]
[[Category:Madras Medical College alumni]]
[[Category:Indian ophthalmologists]]
[[Category:Ramakrishna Mission schools alumni]]
[[Category:Fellows of the National Academy of Medical Sciences]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian medical doctors]]

S. S. Badrinath - Revision history

>BattyBot: /* Awards and honors */Removed/fixed incorrect author parameter(s), performed general fixes