Professor Shanmugam Kameswaran was born in 1923 and did his MBBS and MS at Madras Medical College, India, under Prof. PV Cherian who later became the Governor of Maharashtra, India. He worked as his assistant and left for the UK in the 1950s along with his wife, Dr Lalitha Kameswaran, who went on to do her PhD at the University of London. He had a very close association with his colleagues in the UK and was trained at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray’s Inn Road, under Prof Maxwell Ellis in the 1950s. He was a friend and compatriot of eminent ENT surgeons in the UK, such as Sir DFN Harrison and John Ballantyne before returning to India serving as Prof of ENT at Madurai medical college and later as Director of the upgraded Institute of Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (ORL-HNS) at Madras Medical College.  Read more