Name : Dr. Ghanashyam Madhavrao Vaidya
Qualification : M.B.B.S., M.S.(General Surgery)
Positions held: Chief Surgeon at Karnatak Health Institute, Ghataprabha, a 400-bedded Rural charitable hospital, sice 1984. Also Joint Chief Medical Officer, and Governig Council Member.
Special Interests: Endoscopic surgeries, Educational Audio-visual presentations.
Achievements:
~ Life dedicated to a charitable organisation.
~ Rural surgery, including basic surgeries of all surgical branches. over 25,000 surgeries in past 25 years. Also, expertise in handling medical cases.
~Pioneer of "Cassette-Clinics" the Audio and Video Educational cassettes, CDs and DVDs for Medical students and Practitioners - for the first time in India.
~ Writer of the Best seller book, "General Practice- A practical manual" - now in third edition, with over 25,000 copies incirculation.
~Conducted video quiz - First of its kind in the world - 0n Doordarshan (DD-2) - in the programme Medivision, for 2 years (100 episodes)
~ Honarary editor for first Medical journal inIndia on CD - "Multimedia journal of Continuing Medical Education" from Pune.
~Regular feature and quiz inthe journal - Pharmacology for General Practitioneres, Mumbai.
~Medical Cartoonist during college days.
~Produced Documentary Films - 1. "Karnatak Health Institute" (15 min) 2. "Priy Aais" or "Dear Mother" (45 min) 3. "Gokak Falls" (15 min)