Background
Srinivasan, Hariharan was born on September 7, 1929 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. Son of Venkataraman and Janaki (Krishna) H.
consultant journal editor Surgeon
Srinivasan, Hariharan was born on September 7, 1929 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. Son of Venkataraman and Janaki (Krishna) H.
Doctor.Srinivasan attended elementary and middle school at Vellore, and high school in the District Board High School in Arni. He studied at Madras Christian College in Tambaram, later joining the Madras Medical College and receiving his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1952.He got his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 1957 and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in1958.
He retired in 2008. Srinivasan worked in Vellore in 1953, and traveled to England in 1954. From 1954 to 1958 he worked in Hospitals in Birmingham, North Wales and London. He was later married in London in 1957.
In 1959, he returned to India and joined Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, and worked in Government Wenlock Hospital, Mangalore, Karnataka.
His work with leprosy began there. In 1962, he became a full-time orthopaedic surgeon in Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute in Chenglepet.
After retiring from the Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute, He worked as a research consultant at the Portland Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation Centre in Portland, Oregon United States of America from 1984 to 1986, focusing on carpal tunnel syndrome. He joined Central JALMA Institute for Leprosy in Agra, India from 1987 to 1990.
During that time, he conducted a number of surgical workshops sponsored by the World Health Organization for medical colleges in India, training approximately 100 surgeons.
Srinivasan became editor of the Indian Journal of Leprosy in 1990 to 2001, and joined a panel for leprosy in the World Health Organization in 1985. He has published approximately 90 papers in medical journals, authored three books, and contributed chapters in ten textbooks on Leprosy, dermatology and surgery.
Fellow Royal College Surgeons (Edinburgh, Scotland), Royal College Surgeons (London). Member Indian Association Leprologists (president 1990-1994), Indian Society for Surgery of Hand (president 1979-1980), New York Academy Sciences.
Married Mysore Narasimhachar Padma, September 21, 1958. Children: Lata, Bharati.