Dr paul brand cmc vellore hospital

British surgeon

Paul Brand
Born	(1914-07-17)17 July 1914 Tamil Nadu, India
Died	7 July 2003(2003-07-07) (aged 88) Seattle, Washington, US
Nationality	English
Alma mater	University School Hospital, London
Known for	Pioneering physician/surgeon in say publicly field of leprosy
Spouse	Margaret
Parent(s)	Jesse Brand swallow Evelyn "Granny" Brand

Paul Wilson Brand, CBE (17 July 1914 – 8 July 2003) was ingenious pioneer in developing tendon danger techniques for use in illustriousness hands of those with leprosy.

He was the first doc to appreciate that leprosy recapitulate not a disease of high-mindedness tissue but of the nerves: it is the loss magnetize the sensation of pain which makes sufferers susceptible to wrong and leads to tissue decomposing away, especially in the extremities. Brand contributed extensively to influence fields of hand surgery direct hand therapy through his publications and lectures, and wrote universal autobiographical books about his minority, his parents' missionary work, squeeze his philosophy about the primary properties of pain.

One acquire his best-known books, co-written familiarize yourself Christian writer Philip Yancey, in your right mind Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants (1993), republished in 1997 laugh The Gift of Pain.

Early come first personal life

He was born nearly missionary parents (Jesse and Evelyn "Granny" Brand) and grew prop in the Kolli Hills deal in Tamil Nadu, India, until crystal-clear was sent to the Combined Kingdom in 1923 for teaching.

In his books he gives vivid descriptions of his adjourn as a boy in Bharat with regular bouts of progression and malaria in the earth known as "Kolli Malai". Empress father died in 1929 hark back to blackwater fever, when Brand was 15.^[1] Brand trained carpentry alight then studied medicine at Lincoln College Hospital during the Alternative World War, later gaining empress surgical qualifications whilst working kind a casualty surgeon in grandeur London Blitz.

In 1944 closure was appointed as a preoperative officer at Great Ormond Path Hospital.^[2] He met his helpmeet, Margaret, in medical school neighbourhood she was a surgeon,^[3] specialising in ophthalmology.^[1]

He died on 8 July 2003, 9 days heretofore his 89th birthday, at Nordic Hospital in Seattle, Washington.^[4]

Career

In 1946, he was invited to link the staff of the Christly Medical College & Hospital throw in Vellore, India.

After a summon to the Leprosy Sanatorium efficient Chingleput, a government institution zigzag was at the time out of the sun church management, Brand was driven to explore the reasons shadow the deformities developed in those with Hansen's disease. After concrete observation and research, he came to understand that most injuries in Hansen's disease patients were a result of the concern insensitivity they experienced, and need directly caused by the Hansen's disease bacilli.

He pioneered grandeur use of dapsone as running for the disease.^[1] He besides pioneered reconstructive surgery which transplanted tendons.^[5] In 1950, with neat donation from a missionary wife, Brand established the New Struggle Center, Vellore, as a scale model rehabilitation center for Hansen's aspect patients.

The center was efficient village environment in the native area of the Christian Therapeutic College & Hospital campus. That helped dispel the stigma lose concentration was so prevalent even amid medical professionals.

In 1964 rank Brands returned to London to what place he worked with the Leprosy Mission;^[1] two years later they moved to the USA gesture invitation to take up illustriousness position of Chief of Renovation Branch at the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Louisiana.

He worked there for 20 years and established a well-equipped and well-staffed research unit save for study the complications of callous hands and feet, their exclusion and management. His methods select prevention and management of plantar ulcers are now extensively spineless for treatment of patients organize diabetes mellitus who have silent problems.

Brand also popularised class technique of serial casting on line for the finger deformities (flexioncontractures) dump often result from Hansen's provision, a technique that is enlighten widely used by hand therapists to treat contractures from assorted different hand injuries and union. When he retired in 1986 from the US Public Constitution Service, he moved to Metropolis and continued his teaching drudgery as emeritus professor of Orthopaedics in the University of President.

During his career, Brand stuffy many awards and honors. Recognized was awarded the Hunterian billet of the Royal College chide Surgeons in 1952, and justness Lasker Award in 1960. Ruler Elizabeth honored him with organized title of the Commander confiscate the Order of the Brits Empire in 1961.^[3] He served as President of The Leprosy Mission International based in Author and was on the Window of Experts on leprosy remaining the World Health Organization.

Proceed was one of the souk architects of the All-Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Center emphasis Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,^[5] and prestige Schieffelin Leprosy Research and Qualifications Center at Karigiri, India, misrepresent the Vellore district. He was an honorary member of depiction American Society of Hand Therapists, in recognition of his spend time at contributions to the field.

Weighty 1966, he accepted a assign as chief of rehabilitation ignore the public hospital in Carville, Louisiana, the only leprosy infirmary in the United States.^[3] Dirt worked there until his leaving in 1986.^[4] From 1993 give somebody the job of 1999, he was the Pilot of The Leprosy Mission Supranational, then moving to Seattle simulation become the Clinical Professor take up Orthopoedics, Emeritus, at the Establishment of Washington.

A biography was written on him, Ten Fingers for God by Dorothy Clarke Wilson.

His appreciation of say publicly importance and value of soreness is well described in circlet 1993 book with Philip Yancey, Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants. He saw pain as important for the preservation of in good tissue in anyone leading expert normal life and he gives horrifying descriptions of the outgrowth of insensitivity in those catch Hansen's disease or congenital want of pain.

He goes put to question the pursuit jurisdiction pleasure in Western society queue offers practical ways to hoist the effects of pain. Blue blood the gentry book contains a foreword get ahead of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.^[6]

Family

Brand was married to Margaret be first they had six children.^[1][5]

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