Dr Hariharan Srinivasan was an Indian orthopedic surgeon who worked primarily with leprosy.
14 Facts About Hariharan Srinivasan
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Hariharan Srinivasan wrote under the pen name Charvakan in Tamil.
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Dr Srinivasan spent most of his working life in correcting the deformed hands and feet of leprosy-affected persons.
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Dr Hariharan Srinivasan attended elementary and middle school at Vellore, and high school in the District Board High School in Arni.
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Hariharan Srinivasan studied at Madras Christian College in Tambaram, later joining the Madras Medical College and receiving his MBBS degree in 1952.
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Hariharan Srinivasan got his FRCS in 1957 and FRCS in 1958.
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Hariharan Srinivasan was in UK from 1954 to 1958 and worked in Hospitals in Birmingham, North Wales and London in different capacities such as House Surgeon, Senior House Surgeon, Registrar and Locum Consultant.
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Dr Hariharan Srinivasan was interested in Tamil literature from an early age.
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Hariharan Srinivasan himself is a writer in Tamil Stories and one of which was selected as "best short story of the year" by a Tamil Literary Forum in 1971.
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Hariharan Srinivasan worked in Vellore in 1953, and travelled to England in 1954.
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Hariharan Srinivasan became a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel for leprosy in 1985.
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Hariharan Srinivasan joined Central JALMA Institute for Leprosy in Agra, India from 1987 to 1990.
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Hariharan Srinivasan became editor of the Indian Journal of Leprosy in 1990 to 2001, and joined a panel for leprosy in the World Health Organization in 1985.
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Hariharan Srinivasan has published approximately 90 papers in medical journals, authored three books, and contributed chapters in ten textbooks on Leprosy, dermatology and surgery.