Rashiduddin Ahmad

Rashiduddin Ahmad (27 August 1937 – 19 March 2016)[2] was a Bangladeshi neurosurgeon. He received Independence Day Award in 1999 from the Government of Bangladesh.[3] He was a sportsperson in his early days and was the recipient of 2007 Bangladesh National Sports Award in the basketball category.[4]

Rashiduddin Ahmad
রশিদ উদ্দিন আহমদ
Born(1937-08-27)27 August 1937
Cox's Bazar, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died19 March 2016(2016-03-19) (aged 78)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Resting placeBelabo, Narsingdi District[1]
NationalityBangladeshi
OccupationNeurosurgeon
Known forbeing the first Bangladeshi neurosurgeon

Education

Ahmad was born in 1937 in Cox's Bazar. His father was a magistrate in the then Bengal Civil Service. The family moved to Dhaka in 1946. Ahmad studied in St Gregory's High School and Notre Dame College. He then admitted to Dhaka Medical College in the then East Pakistan in 1955.[2] He earned his MBBS in 1960, and following his surgical residency under Professor Asiruddin, went to Scotland in 1963 to pursue surgical specialty at the Department of Surgical Neurology of University of Edinburgh, under neurosurgeon Francis Gillingham.[2]

Career

Ahmad returned to Dhaka in April 1970 and, first as an assistant surgeon then as an associate professor at the neurosurgical unit of Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research (IPGMR).[2] During the 1971 war, he moved to Edinburgh and worked as a senior registrar and then consultant neurosurgeon at a number of hospitals in England and Wales.[2] In 1976, he returned permanently to Dhaka and joined as the professor of neurosurgery at IPGMR in 1979, and later a consultant neurosurgeon at the Combined Military Hospital with the honorary rank of colonel.[2] He was the first chairman of the neurosurgery department when the IPGMR turned into a university, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, in 1998.[5]

In 1987, he became the founding general secretary (and later president) of the Bangladesh Society of Neurosciences.[2] Then in 1998, he became the founding president of the Bangladesh Society of Neurosurgeons and helped establishing the National Institute of Neuroscience in 2012.[2] He was a founder member of the Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS).[2] He became the second President of South Asian Association of Neurological Societies, was an Honorary President of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons.[2]

Ahmad was selected as the first captain of the East Pakistan National Basketball team.[2] In 1989, he captained the Bangladesh team for Davis Cup.[2]

Personal life

Ahmad married Quamrun Nahar in 1966.[2] Together they had a daughter, Rashida and a son, Reza.[2] Ahmad's brother, Ghiasuddin Ahmad, a professor of history at the University of Dhaka, was a victim of 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals.[2]

References
  1. "Bangladesh's first neurosurgeon Rashiduddin Ahmad dies". Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  2. "Hands that brought life and hope". The Daily Star. 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  3. "Independence Day Award" (PDF). Government of Bangladesh. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  4. "CA wants healthy future". The Daily Star. 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  5. "Bangladesh's first neurosurgeon Rashiduddin Ahmad battles for life". Retrieved 2018-09-14.
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