T. A. Sinnathuray
Malaysian doctor (1933–1997)
Thirunavuk Arasu Sinnathuray (c. 1933- 1997) was a Malaysian obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was the first Malaysian doctor to possess both the diplomas of MRCOG (Member of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ) and the FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons).
Career
He practised as an obstetrician at Kandang Kerbau Hospital (Singapore). He was Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Medical Association (SMA) (6th council) in 1966/67. He delivered the 4th Galloway Memorial Lecture (Singapore Academy of Medicine) on Amniotomy in the Treatment of Placental Insufficiency Syndrome in 1964.
Sinnathuray was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya in 1970 and remained in office till 1986. The department gained full accreditation by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, United Kingdom in 1970, the first Malaysian unit to be so recognised. Sinnathuray headed a team of twelve specialists who successfully performed the first intrauterine transfusion in Southeast Asia in early 1970. In 1980, Sinnathuray was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, UM. He was a prolific researcher with over 60 scientific publications in indexed medical journals in an era that predated the internet or evidence-based medicine.
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