Background
Sankaran was born in Tamil Nadu on 4 September 1926.
Sankaran was born in Tamil Nadu on 4 September 1926.
He graduated with a medical degree from Stanley Medical College in Chennai in 1948.
He helped establish an artificial limbs manufacturing corporation and a rehabilitation institute. Sankaran began his career as an Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (All India Institute Of Medical Sciences) in 1956. After 7 years as an Assistant Professor, he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1963 and continued with All India Institute Of Medical Sciences till 1967.
While working in All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, he conducted basic medical research as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at University of Chicago in United States of America. After his stint at All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, he accepted a position as Professor in Maulana Azad Medical College till 1970.
He served as a Director of Central Institute of Orthopedics during 1970 till 1978. He was offered to serve as the Director of World Health Organisation in Geneva in 1981 and remained with World Health Organization till 1987.
He also served as the Chairman of the Rehabilitation Council of India between 1992 to 1994. While working as a Director of Central Institute of Orthopedics, He helped set up the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India at Kanpur in 1972 and helped establish National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research at Olatpur near Bhubaneshwar in 1975 and remained Chairman of the Corporation till 1981.
He worked as a Professor Emeritus at Street Stephens Hospital in Delhi.
He died on 20 June 2012 after a brief illness.