India Surgeon Named Honorary Fellow Of American Surgical Association

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – Hyderabad-based breast surgeon Dr Raghu Ram Pillarisetti was conferred with the Honorary Fellowship of the American Surgical Association (ASA) here, on April 12.

Dr Raghu Ram, the founding director of KIMS-Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases here, is the third surgeon from South Asia to be conferred with the honor, which is the highest recognition that ASA can bestow upon a surgical colleague from a foreign country.

Prof Steven Stain, President of ASA, who read out Dr. Raghu Ram’s citation to the delegates gathered from all around the US and the world, said Ram

was “an individual of exceptional integrity & professional ethics involved in the restructuring and meritocracy-based direction of surgical leadership in India.”

Founded in 1880, the prestigious ASA is the US’ oldest surgical organization.

Ram said the honor went to his “motherland – Bharat, my family without whom I am a nobody, my patients who have given me the unique privilege to be involved in their care and to my colleagues for their relentless contribution towards improving the art & science of surgery.”–