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Dr.Amalorpavanathan
Dr.Amalorpavanathan (born on 4th Oct, 1958) is an Indian Vascular Surgeon, Professor and a Health Service Administrator. He was the convener of Cadaver Transplant Program (CTP) of Tamilnadu which was started in 2008 and later renamed as Transplantation Authority of Tamilnadu of which he was the Member – Secretary (https://transtan.tn.gov.in). He retired as the Director, Professor and Head, Vascular Surgery at the Madras Medical College on 31/10/2016. Tamilnadu is a leading state in the Organ Transplantation in India and he has been part of creation of the Transplantation Oragnisation, its procedures and the helping the government in creating the legal framework to formalize the organ transplantation process.

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1.	Education 2.	Career 3.	Publications 4.	References 5.     External Links

1.Education: He Studied MBBS at the Kilpauk Medical College (1979-82). He completed his MS (General Surgery) at the Stanley Medical College (1986-88). He has also cleared Dip NBE at the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi (1983-85). He completes M ch (Vascular Surgery) at the Madras Medical College (1998-00).

2. . Career:

Started his career as an Assistant Surgeon in Primary Health Centres of Melpennathur and Reddiapalayam. After completing his MS in General Surgery, he joined as a Tutor in Madras Medical College. After 29 years of distinguished service at Madras Medical College, he retired as Director, Professor of Vascular Surgery in 2016.

Along side, he played a crucial role in the Tamilnadu government’s program on Organ transplantation as the convener of the Cadaver Transplantation Program (CTP) from 2008. In 2014, it was created as a separate organization called Transplant Authority of Tamilnadu by the Tamilnadu Government (G.O.396, dated 12.12.2014) and he remained as its Member –Secretary, till his retirement in 31/10/1996

This programme is hailed as a model programme for third world countries by World Health Organization hails State’s performance in cadaver transplantation 10/08/2010, From http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article561438.ece. It was also widely appreciated by leading journals like British Medical Journal. [British Medical Journal 2013 - BMJ 2013;346:f2155 doi: 10.1136/bmj.f2155 (Published 12 April 2013)]. Leading newspapers of the country like The Hindu has written editorials about this programme [dated 24/06/2013].

He was also involved with Government of India, Health and Family Welfare Department in framing Rules for the Amended Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994.

He was a consultant to several states like Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Rajasthan and Goa in starting similar Cadaver Transplant Programmes.

He was also in charge of ROTTO(Regional Organs and Tissue Transplant Organisation), formed by Government of India, in helping the Southern States in starting and nurturing Cadaver Transplantation Programme

Tamilnadu remains till date (2018) as leading state due to the focussed efforts, transparent process and people centric policies of the transplantation organisation (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadu-tops-in-organ-donation-again/article21012367.ece,

Publications:

1. Dunkel Draft- A prescription for disaster National Journal of India: Vol. 5 (4); 1992 (http://archive.nmji.in/approval/archive/Volume-5/issue-4/editorials-1.pdf)

2. Health is a fundamental right National Medical Journal of India: Vol 8 (1); 1995

3.Renal Transplantation, A fundamental right? National Medical Journal of India: Vol 8 (3); 1995

4.Renal Transplantation National Medical Journal of India: Vol 8 (5); 1995

5.On Organ Transplantation National Medical Journal of India: Vol 6 (5); 1993

6.Medical Colleges in India National Medical Journal of India: Vol 9(5); 1996 7.Deceased organ donation in India: where do we go from here? Indian Journal of Medical Ethics : Vol 11, No 3 (2014) (http://ijme.in/articles/deceased-organ-donation-in-india-where-do-we-go-from-here/?galley=html)

8. State of deceased donor transplantation in India: A model for developing countries around the world - World J Transplant 2016 June 24; 6(2): 331-335 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919737/)

9.How Deceased Donor Transplantation Is Impacting a Decline in Commercial transplantation—the Tamil Nadu Experience Transplantation 27 April 2012 - Volume 93 - Issue 8 - p 757–760 (https://journals.lww.com/transplantjournal/Fulltext/2012/04270/How_Deceased_Donor_Transplantation_Is_Impacting_a.2.aspx)

10 Evolution of deceased-donor transplantation in India with decline of commercial transplantation: a lesson for developing countries http://www.kidney-international.org/

11.Current state of renal transplantation in India Journal of Indian Medical Association 2013; 111:518-523.

12. Lessons from Chennai Floods 2015, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, Issue No. 8, 20 Feb, 2016 (https://www.epw.in/journal/2016/8/commentary/preparedness-disaster-situations.html)

13. Transplantation of Human Organs Bill-Curate’s Egg, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30, Issue No. 12, 25 Mar, 1995 (https://www.epw.in/journal/1995/12/commentary/transplantation-human-organs-bill-curate-s-egg.html)

14.Tamil Nadu Deceased Donor Transplantation A Road Map for Developing Countries South Asian Journal of Nephrology, Urology and Transplantation

5 External Links:

a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75K-novSIso