User:Drnnair

Hello, my background is in biology, more specifically, Medicine and my subspecialty is Nuclear Medicine. I have a post graduate degree in Medicine from the Bombay University and have been working in Nuclear Medicine since 1977. I headed the largest center for Nuclear Medicine in India (the Radiation Medicine Center --RMC--of the BARC) and was involved in the teaching and practice of Nuclear Medicine.

Nuclear Medicine is the use of internally administered radioisotopes for diagnosis and treatment of disease. I have done this since 1977 and later also the more recent Positron Emission Tomography (PET) using cyclotron produced isotopes like F-18. I have published several papers on various aspects of Nuclear Medicine and PET. I have been on the editorial board of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine until my retirement from the RMC in 2007 November. I find Wikipedia a great source of reliable information on most subjects and would like to contribute towards improving wherever it is possible.

I speak and write English very well. Apart from my academic pursuits, I am fond of music, mostly Indian. I read a lot and I enjoy humorous writing. I have read all of PG Wodehouse books and have enjoyed Richard Armour, Richard Gordon, and other humorists. I am fond of the short story and love the way Saki and O'Henry wrote their little stories. I like most forms of fiction including novels of espionage and Brian Garfield and Frederick Forsythe are favorites. So-calles suspense novels are also preferred reading and Roald Dahl, Daphne du Maurier and the Hitchcock series figure prominently. I love poetry but dislike the kind where there is no rhyme or meter. The nonsense verse of Lewis Carroll, the pithy, brief and crisp verses of Piet Hein (Grooks) as also the marvelous ballads and sonnets of the past like those of Goldsmith, Alexander Pope etc are all time favorites. What I intend to convey is that editing any form of literature would be a delight.

I look forward to a fruitful association with Wikipedia.