Kylasa Somasundaram

bmj;385/jun14_4/q1302/FAF1faKylasa Somasundaram was born on 27 October 1933. He graduated from the University of Ceylon in 1958 with a distinction in medicine. He worked as a houseman, medical officer, and senior surgical officer at the General Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was surgical registrar at Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital, Colombo, and was mentored by Noel Bartholomeusz.Kylasa passed his primary Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1960. Together with his wife and their infant daughter he travelled to the UK in early 1963. He received both his FRCS (Edinburgh) and FRCS (England) in 1963.Kylasa worked in England from June 1963 till September 1967, firstly as a house surgeon at West Middlesex Hospital under consultant John F Scholefield and then as surgical registrar at Wanstead Hospital. He was registrar in paediatric surgery at Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, Carshalton, under consultant Herbert B Eckstein. He then worked as senior…
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