Historical Timeline

HISTORY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS OF INDIA, ODISHA CHAPTER

Dr. Biswa N.Mohanty

Past-President, Odisha Chapter

In early 70’s , few surgeons of Odisha decided to form an association in order to promote professional relationship between the practicing surgeons of the state of Odisha. . In fact in the year 1973 it was Prof. M. S. Khadanga , who first moved the proposal and the proposal was accepted by many surgeons of the state. Thus the Odisha State Surgeons Association was formed in 1973 and Prof. Sukumar Das organized the first annual conference of the Orissa State Surgeons Association on request of Prof. Khadanga in the year 1973 at Berhampur. Prof. Sukumar Das was the organizing Chairman and Dr. M. C. Dandapat was the Organizing Secretary . The conference was held on 15th April 1973 at MKCG Medical College, Berhampur. The first Annual Conference of Odisha State Surgeons Association was a historic event. Prof. K. N. Mishra Retired Prof. of Surgery and Principal-cum-Superintendent of S. C. B Medical College, Cuttack was the Chief Guest. Prof. R. N. Mishra, Retired Principal-cum- Superintendent of V. S. S Medical College, Burla and Prof. G. S. Dasmahapatra , Director of Health Services, Orissa were the patrons of the said conference. All attending surgeons considered the conference to be a grand success.

The national annual conference of The Association of Surgeons of India was organized in the month of December 1974(ASICON 1974) at Cuttack. Prof Sukumar Das was the organizing secretary of ASICON 1974. Subsequently the annual meetings of the Odisha Surgeons Association were held every year in different places of Odisha till 1985.

In the year 1986, with initiatives from Dr.M.C.Dandapat, The Association of Surgeons of India(ASI), Odisha Chapter was created and from that year the Odisha Surgeons Association ceased to exist. The first Annual Conference of The ASI, Odisha Chapter was held at Rourkela on 8th and 9th November 1986. Dr. S. K. Ghosh was the Organizing Secretary of that conference. It was found that although there were about 300 surgeons in the state at that time, less than fifty surgeons were the members of The Association of Surgeons of India. During the conference held at Rourkela, Prof M. C. Dandapat was elected as the first President of newly formed Odisha Chapter. He took all the steps for increasing the membership strength and to promote academic activities of our state chapter .

To represent the state chapters in the parent body, Governing Council members were elected from each state chapter. The bylaws of the parent body permitted one GC member from a state chapter for 150 ASI members. All senior members of the chapter worked hard to raise the membership strength of Odisha Chapter to 162. Thus Odisha chapter became eligible to send one member now to the Governing Council of The ASI. Dr.M C Dandapat was elected as the 1st G. C. member from Odisha Chapter to the parent body in the year 1992.

The then Hony. Secretary of The ASI requested the surgeons of Odisha Chapter to draft a separate constitution in parity with the constitution of the parent body.Dr.SN Panda was entrusted upon the responsibility and he drafted the constitution. The general body of the Odisha Chapter approved the newly drafted constitution on 9th April 1988 in the 3rd annual conference of state chapter (OSASICON) held at Berhampur. In the same year it was printed and print copies were distributed among all members of Odisha Chapter. A copy was sent to the central office of The ASI located at Chennai(Madras). Copies were also sent to all state chapters of India.

The Odisha Chapter of The ASI at present offers the following Awards, Prizes and Fellowships..

Dr.G. S. Dasmohapatra Oration Award.
Brahmapur Oration Award
Bhubaneswar Oration Award
Dr.M S Khadanga Oration Award
Sushruta Trust of Odisha Oration Award
Rourkela Fellowship Prize.
Nayana Devi Memorial Surgi-quiz Prize
Urology Trust of Odisha prize for the best short paper
3 Prizes for Post Graduate Paper Competition
3 prizes for case presentation in Master Class session(for PG students)
Certificate of Merit to undergraduate students of all Medical Colleges securing highest mark in surgery in final MBBS Examination.

CME AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Continuing Surgical Education programs, Rural Surgery Camps, Operative video sessions, Mid term conferences and Public awareness programs are being organized by the Chapter every year.

ELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS :

Election is being held for the post of president once every year and for all other posts once in two years, through postal ballot as per the rules and regulations laid down in the constitution. President -elect for the year is the election officer to look after all election matters. Continuing Surgical Education programs, Rural Surgery Camps, Operative video sessions, Mid term conferences and Public awareness programs are being organized by the Chapter every year.

The GB on 14.11.2020 held on virtual platform approved that henceforth the term of President would be for 1 year and for all other office bearer posts for 3 years as is the practice in the parent body. In stead of postal ballot, the chapter may hold the election through online voting.

MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH AND G.C. MEMBER

At present the total membership strength of our state chapter( eligible voters) has exceeded 650. 23 life members were enrolled in single day by Prof. R. N. Mangual in the year 2008. Our state chapter is sending now two G. C. Members to the governing council of The Association of Surgeons of India. For the forthcoming term 2022-2024 , Odisha State Chapter is eligible to send 3 members to the Executive Committee of The ASI.

List of GC Members

Term	Name
1992-1994	Prof.MCDandapat
1995-1997	Prof.MCDandapat
1998-2000	Prof.BCMishra
2001-2003	Prof.BCMishra
2004-2006	Dr.A.K.Mishra

Term	Name
2007-2009	Dr.A.K.Mishra & Prof.BNMohanty
2010-2012	Prof.B.N.Mohanty & Prof.P.K.Mallick
2013-2015	Dr.C R Das & Dr.M R Sahoo
2016-2018	Dr.C R Das & Dr.Sreejay Patnaik
2019-2021	Dr.Sreejay Patnaik & Dr.B B Mishra

CITY BRANCHES

In the year 2006 two city branches were formed in Odisha-one at Bhubaneswar and the other at Berhampur. The ASI President Dr. K. S. Gopinath attended the inaugural ceremony at both the locations. The names of the city branches are “ Bhubaneswar City Branch-cum-Bhubaneswar Surgeons Club” and “Berhampur City Branch-cum-Silk city surgeons Club, Berhampur” respectively.

Subsequently Cuttack City branch and Sambalpur city branches were formed. Cuttack city branch was inaugurated by Dr.N K Pandey, President of ASI in 2011.In the same year the Sambalpur city branch was also inaugurated.

Surgeons of Baripada and Balasore have jointly formed a city branch as both cities are close to each other(North Odisha City branch). Similarly a city branch has also been formed at Rourkela. However none of these city branches have been formally inaugurated till the year 2020.

LIST OF ASICONS ORGANIZED IN ODISHA

Year	Organizing Secretary	Venue
1974	Dr.Sukumar Das	Cuttack
1994	Dr.Bishnu Ch.Mishra	Cuttack

Year	Organizing Secretary	Venue
2007	Dr.Promod K. Mallick	Bhubaneswar
2019	Dr.Sreejay Patnaik	Bhubaneswar

Year	Organizing Secretary
1989	Ethicon visiting Professorship awarded to Prof. M.C. Dandapat
1990	Best Chapter Award
1991	a) Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr.S.Rangachari Research Award to Prof. B. P. Mishra b) Dr. Arthur De Sa Travelling Fellowship to Dr. S. K. Sen
1993	Best Chapter Award
1994	a) Best Chapter Award b) Host for ASICON -1994
1995	Best Chapter Award
1996	Das Mohapatra Oration award instituted at National Level
1997	Ethicon Travelling Fellowship in Rural Surgery – Dr. M. K. Panigrahi
1998	Kini Memorial Oration Prof. K. M. Pathi
1999	a) Ethicon visiting Professorship – Dr. L. M. Mukherjee b) Ethicon Travelling Fellowship in Rural Surgery – Dr. Jayanta Ku Sahoo
2002	Hari OM ashram Prerit Dr.S.Rangachari Research Award award to Prof. K. M. Pathi
2005	Ethicon visiting Professorship -Prof. B. N. Mohanty
2006	a) Institution of two governing Council Members b) Formation of city branches at Bhubaneswar & Berhampur

Year	Organizing Secretary
2007	a) Host for ASICON-2007 at Bhubaneswar b) Best City Branch award to Berhampur City Branch c) Ethicon Travelling Fellowship in General Surgery- Saroj Ku. Mishra d) Dr.Arthur De Sa Travelling Felloship of The A.SI. – Dr. Amiya K Jenamani
2008	a) Prof.Krishnamoorthy Golden Independence Conference Commemorative Award – Prof. R.N Mangual b) Permanent State chapter HQrs.Office started functioning in a room at IMA House, Ranihat Medical Road, Cuttack-753007
2009	a) Bhubaneswar Oration Award instituted at state-level b) Prof.P.K.Mallick elected as member of Orissa Legislative Assembly c) Hosted Joint East Zone CME-cum-Workshop of The ASI & The AMASI
2010	a) Silver Jubilee Celebration of The ASI, Odisha Chapter
2011	a) Institution of Dr.M S Khadanga Oration b) Formation of Cuttack city branch and Sambalpur city branch
2012	a)Institution of Sushruta Trust of Odisha Oration
2013	a)Dr.G S Dasmohapatra Oration award- Dr.M R Sahoo
2016	a) Dr.Jaipal Singh Memorial Oration: Prof. B N Mohanty
2019	a) Dr.Ramesh Nigam Memorial Oration- Prof.B N Mohanty,br>b) Hosting of ASICON 2019 at Bhubaneswar
2020	a)Hosting of OSASICON for the 1st time on a virtual platform successfully

Felicitations, Awards, Orations and Prizes Offered by The ASI, Orissa Chapter

FELICITATION OF SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS OF INDIA, ODISHA CHAPTER

Year of Conference	Name of Surgeons	Place
1987	Prof. Radhanath Mishra Prof. K. N. Mishra Prof. G. S. Dasmohapatra	Cuttack
1988	Prof. M. S. Khadanga Prof. D. N. Tripathy Prof. Raja Rasool	Berhampur
1989	Prof. Sukumar Das Prof. R.N. Mishra Prof. P.B. Chakraborty Prof. Bhaskar Rath	Bhubaneswar
1990	Dr. S. K. Ghosh Prof. Bansidhar Senapati Prof. R. K. Das, No – II	Burla
1991	Prof. L. Pati	Berhampur
1992	Prof. Prafulla K. Bhanja Prof. Guru P. Mohanty Prof. Dinger Meher	Cuttack
1993	None	Rourkela
1994	Prof. P.Tejeswar Rao Prof. Narayan C. Nanda Prof. B.P. Mishra	Berhampur
1995	Prof. Radha Charan Mohanty Prof. Bijay Kishore Rath Prof. B. N. Mishra	Cuttack & Charbatia
1996	Prof. Nrusingha . C. Padhi Prof. K.C. Mohanty Prof. N. C. Mishra	Keonjhar
1997	Dr. Ajay. K. Mishra Prof. P.V.N. Rao	Angul
1998	Prof. Bhabani Sankar Das Dr. Shyam Sunder Das	Bhubaneswar
1999	Prof. Anadi Krishna Patra Prof. Nilamber Acharya	Rourkela
2000	Prof. K. T. Subudhi Dr. Bamadev Mohanty	Puri
2001	Prof. K. T. Subudhi Dr. Bamadev Mohanty	Puri
2001	Prof. K.M. Pathi	Cuttack
2002	Prof. M. C. Dandapat Dr. S.M Ali	Nalco Nagar,Angul
2003	Dr. P. C. Mishra Dr. Sayed Saifullah Prof.Maheswar Sahu	Bhubaneswar
2004	Prof. Satyendra N.Panda Prof. Bishnu C. Mishra Dr. Gokulananda Patnaik Dr. Braja Kishore Mishra	Berhampur

Year of Conference	Name of Surgeons	Place
2005	Dr. Chitta ranjan Kar Dr. Basanta K. Patra Dr. Durga Charan Mohanty Dr. Saroj Kumar Mohanty	Bhadrak
2006	Dr. Sarat Chandra Mishra Dr. Raj Kishore Sarangi Dr. Ashok K Das	Paradeep
2007	Dr. Arjun Ch. Das Dr. Harish Ch. Jena	Balasore
2008	Dr. Amulya Ch. Dash Dr. K. C. Behera Dr. Gopabandhu Bal	Burla
2009	Prof. Prafulla Ku. Mahapatra	Rourkela
2010	Dr.Ajambar Sutar Prof.KRRM Rao	Vyasanagar
2011	Dr.G C Pothal	Bhubaneswar
2012	Dr.Bijoy Kishore Panda Dr.Sashi Bhusan Mishra Dr.Jagdish Acharya	Puri
2013	Dr.Falguni Ray Dr.Kashinath Bisoi	Baripada
2014	Dr.Lalit M Mukherjee Dr.Laxmikanta Sahu Dr.Ram Kumar Mohapatra Dr.Sarbeswar Sahoo Dr.Rabindranath Rath	Burla
2015	Dr.Krupasindhu Panda Dr.Direndra K Ray Dr.Biswanath Patnaik, Dr.Dhuna Ch.Jena	Cuttack
2016	Dr.Uma Ch.Patnaik Dr.S Malakar Dr.Ananta P Panda Dr.Jagan Mohan Das	Bhubaneswar
2017	Dr.R N Samanta Dr.Niranjan Parida Dr.Bhagaban Mohanty Dr.Manoranjan Padhi	Bhubaneswar
2018	Dr.Satyabrata Mohapatra Dr.Debendranath Panda Dr.Pramod Ch. Naik Dr.Duryodhan Sahoo	Burla
2019	Dr.R S Agarwal Dr.Souri Samantaray Dr.Y Tejkumar	Balasore
2020	None were awarded through a virtual platform	Cuttack

RECIPIENTS OF Dr. GIRIJASHANKAR DASMAHAPATRA ORATION AWARD

Year	Name
1989	1989 Dr. Manohar J. Joshi
1990	Prof. B. P. Mishra
1991	Prof. M.C. Dandapata
1992	Prof. P.B. Chakraborty
1993	Not Awarded
1994	Prof. P.T. Rao
1995	Prof. S.C. Patnaik
1996	Prof. G. P. Mohanty
1997	Prof. N. C. Padhi
1998	Prof. S. N. Panda
1999	Prof. K. M. Pathi
2000	Prof. C. L. N. Subudhi
2001	Prof. L. K. Sahoo
2002	Prof. Falguni Ray
2003	Not Awarded
2004	Prof. Sanatan Rath/td>

Year	Name
2005	Dr. K. S. Panda
2006	Prof. K. C. Mohapatra
2007	Prof. Bhabani Sankar Das
2008	Prof. L. M. Mukherjee
2009	Prof. B. N. Mohanty
2010	Dr.Subrat K. Jena
2011	Dr.Maheswar Sahoo
2012	Dr.Ramesh Ch. Das
2013	Prof.Sribatsa K Mohapatra
2014	Dr.Md.Ibrarullah
2015	Prof.B B Mishra
2016	Dr.K K Panigrahi
2017	Dr.C R Das
2018	Prof..Braja M Mishra
2019	Prof..Siba Prasad Patnaik
2020	Dr.Sreejay Patnaik

BRAMHAPUR ORATION AWARD

The corpus money of Rs. 50,000 was received from Dr. B. C. Mishra, Organising Secretary of ASICON’ 94 for institution of this oration.. The amount was kept as Fixed Deposit in the SBI, Medical College Campus branch, Berhampur. It was resolved in the general body meeting held on 14th May 1995 at Charbatia .that no amount from the FD would be withdrawn at anytime and under any circumstance.

It was decided that the annual interest to be accrued would be utilized towards the local hospitality and purchase of memento for the orator. It was further decided that additional donations can be added to this corpus fund by organizers of subsequent conferences.

Accordingly this amount was kept as Fixed Deposit in the name and style of “ASI, ORISSA STATE CHAPTER, BRAHAMPUR ORATION”

RULES AND REGULATIONS

The nomination should be sponsored by at least two Full Life Members of A. S. I.
Nominee should be a renowned, eminent surgeon of India and must have done some original research work.
The subject of Lecture should relate to surgery in any clinical discipline of basic medical science and the lecture be based on original work done by him.
Two copies of curriculum vitae and scientific publications highlighting the scientific contribution of the nominee in advancing the knowledge of Surgery in India should be sent to Hony. Secretary at least one month before the conference date every year.
The following information is to be submitted by the nominee.

CV with particulars of outstanding work and list of publications.
Whether the work is original, if so whether it was undertaken in collaboration with others.
Nominee’s contribution to the growth of Indian Surgery.

The selection will be made by the Executive Committee of Odisha Chapter of ASI and the decision of the committee would be final

LIST OF RECIPIENTS

Year	Name
1995	Prof. S. Vital, Madras
1996	Prof. H.S. Ashopa, Agra
1997	Prof. S. K. Shukla, Indore
1998	Prof.H. S. Bhanusali, Thane
1999	Prof. V. Sagdeo, Kanpur
2000	Prof. R. S. Sinha,Patna
2001	Prof. K. S. Gopinath,Bangalore
2002	Prof. Ashok Meheta,Mumbai
2003	Dr. C. Palanivelu,Coimbatore
2004	Dr. R. Jothiramalingam,Madurai
2005	Dr. Saroj K. Mishra, Lucknow
2006	Dr. R. A. Shastri, Hyderabad
2007	Dr. G. R. Verma, Chandigarh

Year	Name
2008	Prof. S. Sadasivam, Coimbatore
2009	Dr. Rathindra Sarangi,New Delhi
2010	Dr.Lalatendu Sarangi, Varanasi.
2011	Dr.Bharatendu Swain, Hyderabad
2012	Dr.Peush Sahni, New Delhi
2013	Dr.V K Kappor, Lucknow
2014	Dr.Suresh Ch.Hari, Hyderabad
2015	Dr.Om Tantia, Kolkata
2016	Dr.Santosh J Abraham, Cochi
2017	Dr.Shiva Kanta Mishra,Kanpur
2018	2018 Dr.S M Bose,Chandigarh
2019	Dr.Arurag Srivastava,New Delhi
2020	2020 Dr.Raghu Ram, Hyderabad

Bhubaneswar Oration Award

Bhubaneswar Oration Award was instituted during OSASICON 2009 held at Rourkela in place of the Bhubaneswar Fellowship prize. The corpus fund of Rs.50,000/- donated by Dr.A.K.Mishra ( out for the savings of OSASICON 1989 and 2003) for the Bhubaneswar Fellowship Prize was decided to be used as corpus fund of Bhubaneswar Oration Award from the year 2009.

The first Bhubaneswar Oration was delivered by Dr. Bhabani Shankar Das of Cuttack during the OSISICON 2010.

Rules and Regulations:

1.The first inaugural oration will be delivered during the silver jubilee conference of The

ASI, Odishaa Chapter in the year 2010.

The orator will be nominated by the EC of The ASI, Odisha Chapter.

3.The nominee should be a member of The Association of Surgeons of India and a person of National and International repute. Preference will be given to residents of Orissa working outside the state or outside the country.

3.The nominee should submit a summary of the topic of the oration along with bio-data after he receives proper communication from the Odisha Chapter HQrs. about his nomination. The submitted material should reach the Hony. Secretary, The ASI, Odisha Chapter, IMA House, Ranihat Medical Road,Cuttack-753007 at least one month before the conference date.

4 The subject of the oration must relate to Surgery in any Clinical discipline or basic Medical Sciences

The topic selected should be delivered by the nominee in person at the annual conference of The ASI, Odisha Chapter.
A Scroll/medallion would be presented to the Orator during the Annual Conference of The ASI, Odisha Chapter out of the interest accrued on the corpus fund during the preceding year.

Year	Name
2010	Dr. Bhabani Shankar Das, Cuttack
2011	Dr.Nalini S Kakre,Vell
2012	Dr.Ashis Ku.Chand,Bangalore
2013	Dr.G V K Rao,Hyderabad
2014	Dr.A K Pujahari, Pune
2015	Dr.Mukut Minz, Chandigarh

Year	Name
2016	Dr.Prasanna K Mishra, Kolkata
2017	Dr.(Col) Prasanna K Hota, Khammam
2018	Dr.Rathindra Sarangi, New Delhi
2019	Dr. Gangaram Verma, Chandigarh
2020	Dr.Rudra P Acharya, New Delhi

Dr.M S Khadanga Oration Award

The oration was instituted in the year 2011. The corpus money of Rs.50,000.00 was arranged by Dr.B C Mishra. He donated the amount to ASI, Odisha Chapter in 2011. The amount was kept as a fixed deposit. It was decided that the oration would be delivered by a reputed surgeon, preferably by one of his students. The ASI Odisha chapter would nominate a deserving surgeon for delivering the oration.

Year	Name
2012	Dr.Rathindra Nath Sarangi, New Delhi
2013	Dr.Nanakram Agarwal, USA
2014	Dr.Nayan Kumar Mohanty, New Delhi
2015	Dr.Mukut Minz, Chandigarh
2016	Maj Gen.Dr. P K Patnaik, New Delhi

Year	Name
2017	Dr.Lalatendu Sarangi, Cuttack
2018	Dr.Falguni Ray,Bhubaneswar
2019	Dr. Satya Narayan Mishra, Chennai
2020	Dr.Sukria Nayak,Vellore

Sushruta Trust of Odisha Oration Award

The oration was instituted in the year 2012 by joint effort of Prof.Sukumar Das and Prof. S N Panda. They were the president and secretary of Sushruta Trust of Odisha respectively.. The corpus money amounting to Rs.1,00,000.00 was donated from the trust fund

It may not be out of place to mention here that this trust was formed in 1990 from the savings of the ASICON 1974 held at Cuttack .Dr.Sukumar Das was the organizing secretary and Dr.Sanatan Rath was the treasurer of the said conference. The trust after formation started financially supporting various academic activities of the ASI Odisha Chapter, publication of Odisha Journal of Surgery and furnishing of the ASI, Odisha Chapter office located in the IMA house , Ranihat Cuttack.

The first Sushruta Trust of Odisha Oration was delivered by Prof. S N Panda of Cuttack during the OSISICON 2013.

Rules and Regulations:

1.The orator has to be a reputed surgeon of India

2.The topic of oration should relate to ethics in surgery

3.He/she will be nominated by the ASI, Odisha Chapter

4.The nominee shall deliver the oration in person during the annual conference of the ASI, Odisha Chapter.

5.A scroll/medallion will be presented to the orator during the annual conference of The ASI, Odisha Chapter

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