S. S. Badrinath

Indian ophthalmologist (1940–2023)

S. S. Badrinath

Born|

Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath

(1940-02-24)24 February 1940[1]

Triplicane, Madras, Madras Presidency, British India

Died| 21 November 2023(2023-11-21) (aged 83)

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Education| Madras Medical College
Spouse| Vasanthi Badrinath
Scientific career
Fields| Ophthalmology, vitreo-retinal surgery

Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath (24 February 1940 – 21 November 2023) was an Indian ophthalmologist who was the founder and chairman emeritus of Sankara Nethralaya, one of India's largest charitable eye hospitals.[2] He was an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences.[3] He received the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India in 1996. He also received many other awards, including Padma Shri and the Dr. B. C. Roy Award.

## Early life

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Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath was born in Triplicane, a suburb of Chennai, India. His father, S. V. Srinivasa Rao, an engineer, was employed in the Madras Government Service. His mother, Lakshmi Devi, was the daughter of an advocate from Nerur, Tamil Nadu. Both of his parents died while he was still in his teens, and he completed his medical studies with the insurance money obtained following the death of his father. Beginning his education late at age 7 due to a childhood illness, Badrinath studied at PS High School, Mylapore, and Sri Ramakrishna Mission High School, Chennai. He completed his collegiate studies at Loyola College between 1955 and 1957.[4][5]

## Medical career

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Badrinath graduated from the Madras Medical College, Chennai, in 1963. He did his internship and a year of internal medicine residency at the Glasslands Hospital, New York. Following his studies of Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology at the New York University Medical School, he did his residency in Ophthalmology at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, and a fellowship with Charles Schepens at the Retina Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1969 and diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1970. He returned to India in 1970, and for a period of six years worked at the Voluntary Health Services in Chennai as a consultant. He set up a private practice in ophthalmology and vitreoretinal surgery at the H.M. Hospital (1970 to 1972) and Vijaya Hospital, Chennai (1973 to 1978). He had over 60 peer reviewed publications.[6]

## Sankara Nethralaya

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In 1978, Badrinath, along with a group of philanthropists, founded the Medical & Vision Research Foundations in Madras in 1978. Sankara Nethralaya, a charitable not-for-profit eye hospital is a unit of the Medical Research Foundation.[7]

On average, 1200 patients are seen and 100 surgeries are performed every day.[8] From its inception in 1978, Sankara Nethralaya has offered fellowship programmes in Vitreo-Retinal Surgery, Cornea, Oculoplasty, Glaucoma, Uvea, and General Ophthalmology to holders of postgraduate degrees and diplomas in Ophthalmology. The institute also offers training programmes for graduates in Ophthalmology.[9]

## Death

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S. S. Badrinath died on 21 November 2023, at the age of 83.[5][10]

## Awards and honours

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* 1996: Padma Bhushan[11]
* 1983: Padma Shri[3]
* 1991: Dr. B. C. Roy National Award[11]
* 1992: Paul Harris Fellow Award[12]
* 2009: V. Krishnamurthy Award for Excellence[13]
* 2009: The Madras City Ophthalmological Association Lifetime Achievement Award[11]
* 2014: Lifetime Achievement Award, Vitreo Retinal Society, India[14]

## External links

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* Sankara Nethralaya official website

## References

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1. ^ "S.S. Badrinath, founder of Chennai's Sankara Nethralaya passes away". The Hindu. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
2. ^ "Sankara Nethralaya. A Mission For Vision » 'Best Eye Hospital' in India". Omlog.org. 9 November 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
3. ^ a b "List of Fellows - NAMS" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
4. ^ "Know Our Luminaries". Squintmaster.com. 3 June 1967. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
5. ^ a b "Dr Badrinath, founder of Chennai's Sankara Nethralaya, no more". Pushpa Narayan. The Times of India. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
6. ^ Search Results for author Badrinath SS on PubMed.
7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2009.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. ^ "Sankara Nethralaya". Sankara Nethralaya. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
9. ^ "Education". Sankaranethralaya.org. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
10. ^ S.S. Badrinath, founder of Chennai’s Sankara Nethralaya passes away
11. ^ a b c "Chennai's trinity of eye specialists honoured". The New Indian Express. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
12. ^ "List of Fellows" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Science (India). p. 8.
13. ^ "Award for Shankar Netralaya founder". The New Indian Express. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
14. ^ "Life Time Achievement Award – Vitreo Retina Society". Retrieved 22 May 2021.

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Recipients of Padma Shri in Medicine

1950s|

* Bir Bhan Bhatia (1954)
* V. R. Khanolkar (1954)
* Perakath Verghese Benjamin (1955)
* Mahesh Prasad Mehray (1955)
* Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi (1956)
* Chintaman Govind Pandit (1956)
* Isaac Santra (1956)
* Khushdeva Singh (1957)

1960s|

* Hilda Mary Lazarus (1961)
* George William Gregory Bird (1963)
* Hakim Abdul Hameed (1965)
* Jerusha Jhirad (1966)
* Edith Helen Paull (1967)
* Amar Prasad Ray (1967)
* Natteri Veeraraghavan (1967)
* B. K. Anand (1969)
* Ram Kumar Caroli (1969)
* Vulimiri Ramalingaswami (1969)
* Krishna Gopal Saxena (1969)

1970s|

* Ajit Kumar Basu (1970)
* Coluthur Gopalan (1970)
* Perugu Siva Reddy (1970)
* B. N. B. Rao (1971)
* Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi (1971)
* Dorothy Chacko (1972)
* Thayil John Cherian (1972)
* Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi (1972)
* Balu Sankaran (1972)
* K. N. Udupa (1972)
* R. Marthanda Varma (1972)
* Mary Verghese (1972)
* K. T. Dholakia (1973)
* M. K. Krishna Menon (1973)
* J. M. Pahwa (1973)
* Prakash Narain Tandon (1973)
* Jamshed Vazifdar (1973)
* Govindappa Venkataswamy (1973)
* Mani Kumar Chetri (1974)
* Nagarur Gopinath (1974)
* L. S. N. Prasad (1974)
* Kadiyala Ramachandra (1974)
* Reuben David (1975)
* Stanley John (1975)
* Mary Poonen Lukose (1975)
* Kadiyala Ramachandra (1975)
* Durga Deulkar (1976)
* Lucy Oommen (1977)

1980s|

* Jasbir Singh Bajaj (1981)
* P. K. Sethi (1981)
* K. Vardachari Thiruvengadam (1981)
* C. P. Thakur (1982)
* Raj Vir Singh Yadav (1982)
* S. S. Badrinath (1983)
* Raj Baveja (1983)
* Shishupal Ram (1983)
* Purshottam Lal Wahi (1983)
* B. K. Goyal (1984)
* Vera Hingorani (1984)
* K. P. Mathur (1984)
* N. Balakrishnan Nair (1984)
* Hariharan Srinivasan (1984)
* Ramniklal K. Gandhi (1985)
* Samiran Nundy (1985)
* Usha Sharma (1985)
* M. S. Valiathan (1985)
* Gopal Krishna Vishwakarma (1985)
* Santosh Kumar Kackar (1986)
* V. Shanta (1986)
* Prabhu Dayal Nigam (1987)
* Daljit Singh (1987)
* Harbans Singh Wasir (1987)

1990s|

* N. H. Antia (1990)
* M. G. Deo (1990)
* P. K. Rajagopalan (1990)
* M. M. S. Ahuja (1991)
* Sneh Bhargava (1991)
* K. M. Cherian (doctor) (1991)
* G. N. Malviya (1991)
* Shiela Mehra (1991)
* S. C. Munshi (1991)
* M. N. Passey (1991)
* Jai Pal Singh (1991)
* Naresh Trehan (1991)
* Rathin Datta (1992)
* Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed (1992)
* Anil Kohli (1992)
* Ramesh Kumar (nephrologist) (1992)
* Usha Kehar Luthra (1992)
* J. S. Mahashabde (1992)
* P. V. A. Mohandas (1992)
* E. T. Neelakandan Mooss (1992)
* Kameshwar Prasad (1992)
* Luis Jose De Souza (1992)
* Amrit Tewari (1992)
* G. S. Venkataraman (1992)
* Ranjit Roy Chaudhury (1998)
* K. A. Abraham (1999)
* Raj Bothra (1999)
* Balendu Prakash (1999)
* Devendra Triguna (1999)
* P. K. Warrier (1999)

2000s|

* Mahendra Bhandari (2000)
* Vipin Buckshey (2000)
* Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi (2000)
* Kirpal Singh Chugh (2000)
* P. K. Dave (2000)
* Mathew Kalarickal (2000)
* Kakarla Subba Rao (2000)
* G. S. Sainani (2000)
* Immaneni Sathyamurthy (2000)
* Jyoti Bhushan Banerji (2001)
* Alaka Deshpande (2001)
* Sharad Kumar Dixit (2001)
* Chittoor Mohammed Habeebullah (2001)
* M. Krishnan Nair (2001)
* Dasari Prasada Rao (2001)
* Laishram Nabakishore Singh (2001)
* Bhupathiraju Somaraju (2001)
* Suresh H. Advani (2002)
* Pradeep Chowbey (2002)
* Vijay Kumar Dada (2002)
* Prakash Nanalal Kothari (2002)
* Harsh Mahajan (2002)
* Vikram Marwah (2002)
* Atluri Sriman Narayana (2002)
* Kamaljit Singh Paul (2002)
* Karimpat Mathangi Ramakrishnan (2002)
* Gullapalli Nageswara Rao (2002)
* D. Nageshwar Reddy (2002)
* Prahlad Kumar Sethi (2002)
* J. S. Guleria (2003)
* Narayana Panicker Kochupillai (2003)
* Rajagopalan Krishnan (2003)
* Ashok Seth (2003)
* Vijay Prakash (2003)
* Sharad Moreshwar Hardikar (2004)
* S. C. Manchanda (2004)
* Ashwin Balachand Mehta (2004)
* S. K. Sama (2004)
* Rajan Saxena (physician) (2004)
* Devi Shetty (2004)
* Gopal Prasad Sinha (2004)
* G. Bakthavathsalam (2005)
* Jitendra Mohan Hans (2005)
* P. N. V. Kurup (2005)
* Veer Singh Mehta (2005)
* Lavu Narendranath (2005)
* Cyrus S. Poonawalla (2005)
* Sanjeev Bagai (2006)
* Mohan Kameswaran (2006)
* Upendra Kaul (2006)
* Tsering Landol (2006)
* Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (2006)
* Harbhajan Singh Rissam (2006)
* Kamal Kumar Sethi (2006)
* Tehemton Erach Udwadia (2006)
* Harpinder Singh Chawla (2007)
* Narmada Prasad Gupta (2007)
* Ashok Kumar Hemal (2007)
* Atul Kumar (ophthalmologist) (2007)
* C. N. Manjunath (2007)
* Anoop Misra (2007)
* P. Namperumalsamy (2007)
* Mayilvahanan Natarajan (2007)
* K. R. Palaniswamy (2007)
* Mahipal S. Sachdev (2007)
* B. Paul Thaliath (2007)
* Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal (2007)
* Mohsin Wali (2007)
* S. N. Arya (2008)
* Dinesh K. Bhargava (2008)
* Tony Fernandez (ophthalmologist) (2008)
* Rakesh Kumar Jain (2008)
* Raman Kapur (2008)
* T. P. Lahane (2008)
* Keiki R. Mehta (2008)
* M. C. Pant (2008)
* Arjunan Rajasekaran (2008)
* Malvika Sabharwal (2008)
* Indu Bhushan Sinha (2008)
* Randhir Sud (2008)
* C. U. Velmurugendran (2008)
* Kalyan Banerjee (2009)
* Balswarup Choubey (2009)
* Saibaba Goud (2009)
* Yash Gulati (2009)
* P. R. Krishna Kumar (2009)
* Arvind Lal (2009)
* D. S. Rana (2009)
* Thanikachalam Sadagopan (2009)
* Ashok K. Vaid (2009)
* G. Vijayaraghavan (2009)

2010s|

* K. K. Aggarwal (2010)
* Philip Augustine (2010)
* Anil Kumar Bhalla (2010)
* Kodaganur S. Gopinath (2010)
* Laxmi Chand Gupta (2010)
* Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy (2010)
* Vikas Mahatme (2010)
* B. Ramana Rao (2010)
* Rabindra Narain Singh (2010)
* Arvinder Singh Soin (2010)
* Madanur Ahmed Ali (2011)
* Pukhraj Bafna (2011)
* Mansoor Hasan (2011)
* Indira Hinduja (2011)
* Shyama Prasad Mandal (2011)
* Jose Chacko Periappuram (2011)
* A. Marthanda Pillai (2011)
* Sivapatham Vittal (2011)
* Nitya Anand (2012)
* Mukesh Batra (2012)
* Mahdi Hasan (2012)
* Jugal Kishore (2012)
* V. Mohan (2012)
* J. Hareendran Nair (2012)
* Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan (2012)
* Jitendra Kumar Singh (2012)
* Shrinivas S. Vaishya (2012)
* Sudarshan K. Aggarwal (2013)
* Rajendra Achyut Badwe (2013)
* Krishna Chandra Chunekar (2013)
* Taraprasad Das (2013)
* T. V. Devarajan (2013)
* Saroj Chooramani Gopal (2013)
* Vishwa Kumar Gupta (2013)
* Pramod Kumar Julka (2013)
* Gulshan Rai Khatri (2013)
* Ganesh Kumar Mani (2013)
* Amit Prabhakar Maydeo (2013)
* Sundaram Natarajan (2013)
* C. Venkata S. Ram (2013)
* Kiritkumar Mansukhlal Acharya (2014)
* Subrat Kumar Acharya (2014)
* Balram Bhargava (2014)
* Indira Chakravarty (2014)
* Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande (2014)
* Pawan Raj Goyal (2014)
* Rajesh Kumar Grover (2014)
* Amod Gupta (2014)
* Daya Kishore Hazra (2014)
* Thenumgal Poulose Jacob (2014)
* Shashank R. Joshi (2014)
* Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah (2014)
* Milind Vasant Kirtane (2014)
* Lalit Kumar (2014)
* Mohan Mishra (2014)
* Vamsi Mootha (2014)
* Siddhartha Mukherjee (2014)
* Nitish Naik (2014)
* M. Subhadra Nair (2014)
* Ashok Panagariya (2014)
* Narendra Kumar Pandey (2014)
* Sunil Pradhan (2014)
* Ashok Rajgopal (2014)
* Kamini A. Rao (2014)
* Sarbeswar Sahariah (2014)
* J. S. Titiyal (2014)
* Om Prakash Upadhyaya (2014)
* Mahesh Verma (2014)
* Manjula Anagani (2015)
* Yogesh Kumar Chawla (2015)
* Bimola Kumari (2015)
* Randeep Guleria (2015)
* K. P. Haridas (2015)
* Rajesh Kotecha (2015)
* Alka Kriplani (2015)
* Harsh Kumar (2015)
* Dattatreyudu Nori (2015)
* Tejas Patel (2015)
* Raghu Ram Pillarisetti (2015)
* Narendra Prasad (2015)
* Saumitra Rawat (2015)
* Yog Raj Sharma (2015)
* Nikhil Tandon (2015)
* Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi (2015)
* Gopi Chand Mannam (2016)
* Praveen Chandra (2016)
* John Ebnezar (2016)
* Daljeet Singh Gambhir (2016)
* A. G. K. Gokhale (2016)
* Murli Manohar Joshi (2016)
* Ravi Kant (2016)
* Shiv Narain Kureel (2016)
* T. K. Lahiri (2016)
* Anil Kumari Malhotra (2016)
* Yarlagadda Nayudamma (2016)
* Sudhir V. Shah (2016)
* Ram Harsh Singh (2016)
* M. V. Padma Srivastava (2016)
* T. S. Chandrasekar (2016)
* Harkishan Singh (2017)
* Suniti Solomon (2017)
* Bhakti Yadav (2017)
* Abhay and Rani Bang (2018)
* Yeshi Dhonden (2018)
* Lakshmikutty (2018)
* M. R. Rajagopal (2018)
* Sanduk Ruit (2018)
* Ilias Ali (2019)
* Omesh Kumar Bharti (2019)
* Mammen Chandy (2019)
* Sudam Kate (2019)
* Ravindra and Smita Kolhe (2019)
* Jagat Ram (2019)
* Ramaswami Venkataswami (2019)

2020s|

* Yogi Aereon (2020)
* Padma Bandopadhyay (2020)
* Sushovan Banerjee (2020)
* Digambar Behera (2020)
* Leela Joshi (2020)
* Arunoday Mondal (2020)
* Shanti Roy (2020)
* Gurdip Singh (2020)
* Sandra Desa Souza (2020)
* Kushal Konwar Sarma (2020)
* Ravi Kannan R (2020)
* Krishna Mohan Pathi (2021)
* Jitendra Nath Pande (2021)
* Himmatrao Bawaskar (2022)
* Prokar Dasgupta (2022)
* Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao (2022)
* Lata Desai (2022)
* Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre (2022)
* Dr Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) (2022)
* Veeraswamy Seshiah (2022)
* Bhimsen Singhal (2022)
* Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) (2022)
* Kamlakar Tripathi (2022)
* Munishwar Chandar Dawar (2023)
* Ratan Chandra Kar (2023)
* Nalini Parthasarathi (2023)
* Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti (2023)
* Manoranjan Sahu (2023)
* Gopalsamy Veluchamy (2023)
* Ishwar Chander Verma (2023)

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Padma Bhushan award recipients (1990–1999)

1990|

* Rajanikant Arole
* Bimal Kumar Bachhawat
* Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
* L. K. Doraiswamy
* Nikhil Ghosh
* B. K. Goyal
* Jasraj
* R. N. Malhotra
* Bimal Krishna Matilal
* Sumant Moolgaokar
* Hirendranath Mukherjee
* C. D. Narasimhaiah
* M. S. Narasimhan
* Kunwar Singh Negi
* Trilochan Pradhan
* N. Ram
* Sukumar Sen
* Arun Shourie
* Julius Silverman
* M. R. Srinivasan
* M. S. Valiathan

1991|

* Ebrahim Alkazi
* Lala Amarnath
* N. S. Bendre
* Shyam Benegal
* D. B. Deodhar
* Amjad Ali Khan
* Dilip Kumar
* Narayan Singh Manaklao
* Muthu Krishna Mani
* Ram Narayan
* Fali Sam Nariman
* Kapil Dev
* Manubhai Pancholi
* Shakuntala Paranjpye
* Bindeshwar Pathak
* Samta Prasad
* Basavaraj Rajguru
* Prathap C. Reddy
* Amala Shankar
* Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)
* Kuthur Ramakrishnan Srinivasan
* Ale Ahmad Suroor
* Leslie Swindale
* Jiwan Singh Umranangal

1992|

* Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati
* Debu Chaudhuri
* Hariprasad Chaurasia
* Thayil John Cherian
* Ranjan Roy Daniel
* Virendra Dayal
* B. Saroja Devi
* Khem Singh Gill
* Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya
* Anna Hazare
* Hakim Abdul Hameed
* Jaggayya
* Girish Karnad
* Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
* Triloki Nath Khoshoo
* T. N. Krishnan
* Ramachandra Datatraya Lele
* Talat Mahmood
* Syed Abdul Malik
* Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania
* Sonal Mansingh
* M. Sarada Menon
* Naushad
* Setumadhavarao Pagadi
* Hasmukhbhai Parekh
* C. Narayana Reddy
* Mrinalini Sarabhai
* Gursaran Talwar
* Brihaspati Dev Triguna
* K. Venkatalakshamma
* C. R. Vyas

1998|

* U. R. Ananthamurthy
* Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
* Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
* Satyapal Dang
* Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon
* H. K. Dua
* Hemlata Gupta
* K. M. Mathew
* G. Madhavan Nair
* Rajendra Singh Paroda
* G. B. Parulkar
* Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman
* Bhisham Sahni
* Vempati Chinna Satyam
* Laxmi Mall Singhvi
* V. M. Tarkunde
* Panangipalli Venugopal

1999|

* S. S. Badrinath
* Jacob Cherian
* Pushpalata Das
* Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej
* George Joseph
* Anil Kakodkar
* D. C. Kizhakemuri
* Ashok Kumar
* Vidya Niwas Mishra
* H. D. Shourie
* Shivmangal Singh Suman
* Ram Kinkar Upadhyay

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