Dr. Sunil Shroff is an Indian urologist, transplant surgeon and social entrepreneur. Sunil is an advocate for organ donation in India and the founder and managing trustee of the MOHAN Foundation, a non-profit organization that has been promoting organ donation and transplantation in India since 1997.
Wiki/Biography
Dr. Sunil Shroff was born in Sahibganj, Bihar in 1953 (67 years old in 2020) and grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He studied at the Central Public Hospital, Girnagar, Chennai from 1965 to 1970. He then obtained his MBBS and MSc degrees from Prince of Wales Medical College (now Patna Medical College) and went to the UK for further studies in 1983. There, he was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCS) in 1986 and subsequently specialised in Urology, Andrology and Renal Transplantation at the London Institute of Urology and Nephrology. He then completed his postgraduate course in Urology at University College London (UCL) and began his medical career.
family
Brothers and sisters
Sunil Shroff has two brothers, Arun Shroff and Sanjay Shroff, who are also doctors. There is not much information about his family.
Arun Shroff, brother of Dr. Sunil Shroff
Wife and children
He married Shaila Shroff, Hindi content editor of Medindia, on February 28, 1989. The couple has two children – a son named Yash Shroff and a daughter named Ruchi Shroff.
Dr. Sunil Shroff with his wife and daughter
Dr. Sunil Shroff’s son Yash Shroff and his wife Divya Shroff
Profession
After completing his formal education in the field of medicine, he held several senior positions in the UK including Lecturer, Registrar and Senior Registrar at St. Peter’s Hospital, Middlesex Hospital and Royal London Hospital, London before returning to India in 1995. Upon his return to India, he served as the Head of the newly established Urology and Renal Transplantation Department at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (SRMC & RI), Porur, Chennai from 1995 to 2015. During his tenure there, he trained 18 Urologists and 40 Allied Health Specialists along with numerous other nurses over the years. In April 2015, he started working as a Senior Consultant Urologist and Transplant Surgeon at Madras Medical Mission Hospital.
Social Contribution
Dr. Sunil Shroff has made significant contributions to increasing awareness about organ donation and transplantation and the development of healthcare information technology. Here are some highlights of his social work:
Mohan Foundation
Sunil Shroff founded the MOHAN Foundation in 1996 and started operations in August 1997. By providing counselling and promoting organ and tissue donation, Dr. Shroff’s NGO has done a revolutionary work in India and has helped as many as 11,609 lives as of 2020. The initiative started in Chennai and has now spread across India, with offices in Jaipur, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai as of 2020.
Working in medical information technology
- He is the founder and editor-in-chief of www.medindia.net, one of India’s leading healthcare websites dedicated to providing reliable, accurate, timely and personalized health information to consumers, physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide. All services of the website are free of charge.
- He founded the Indian Organ Transplant Registry (www.transplantindia.com) to collect data related to organ transplants from various centers in the country.
- Dr. Shroff, along with a group of other physicians, founded the Indian Society for Computers in Medicine; a unique Indian society that aims to encourage the use of computers in medical sciences for better patient care and lower treatment costs.
Affiliations (past and present)
- A member of the 2004 Amsterdam Forum on Living Kidney Donor Care.
- President of the Indian Organ Transplant Society.
- Convener of Indian Transplant Registry under Indian Transplant Society.
- President of the SAARC National Society of Nephrology, Urology and Transplantation from 2013 to 2015.
- One of the founding members of the National Institute of Biomedical Ethics and Law (NOBEL), dedicated to upholding ethical standards in medical practice.
- He served as a member of the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Urology from 2006 to 2011.
- President of Madras Urological Association from 2010 to 2011.
- Editor of the quarterly Indian Transplant Newsletter, which has been connecting more than 2,000 organ and tissue transplant professionals across India and abroad every quarter since 1997.
- Member of the State Advisory Committee of the Rajasthan Transplant Committee to establish the cadaveric transplant program.
- Served as a representative of MOHAN Foundation as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Tamil Nadu Cadaveric Transplant Committee in collaboration with the Department of Health, Government of Tamil Nadu. The committee consisted of 7 members and the Chairman was the Chief Health Secretary of Tamil Nadu.
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding Social Contribution Award from MITHRA, Chennai (2000)
- Awarded for delivering a lecture in memory of a renowned surgeon at Jodhpur Medical College Hospital (2005)
- Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Rotary International, Annasagar, Chennai (2007)
- Recipient of the Body Donation Speech Award from the Vijayawada Medical Association, India (2008)
- Won the title of “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by TIECON (TIE-Indian Entrepreneur Magazine), Chennai (2010)
- Agarwal Excellence Award from the Agarwal Samaj of Tamil Nadu (2011)
- “Best Teacher Award” from MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (2012)
- Memorial Lecture by Prof. SM Nawab at the Annual Conference of the Bihar Chapter of the Indian Association of Surgeons (BASICON 2012) held in Purnia, Bihar (2012)
- ‘Rashtriya Swayam Siddh Samman’ (2016), he is known as the ‘Father of Posthumous Organ Donation in India’
- The “K.Venkatanarayana TANKER Foundation Awareness Award” is given to create awareness about deceased organ donation.
Facts/Trivia
- Sunil Shroff’s ancestors are from Rajasthan; however, he was born in Bihar and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
- To stay healthy, Sunil Shroff gave up non-vegetarian food, black coffee and carbonated drinks.
- He was the first doctor to transplant a kidney into a patient who was brain dead from a cobra bite.
- He was the first doctor in India to perform a kidney transplant on an AIDS patient.
- Thanks to the contributions of his NGO, the rate of deceased organ and tissue donation has increased exponentially in a country where there was virtually no donation in 1997 when the MOHAN Foundation was founded.
- In October 2020, Dr. Sunil Shroff appeared along with Riteish Deshmukh in the Karamveer special episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) hosted by Amitabh Bachchan.
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Source: HIS Education