Background
Vakil, Rustom Jal was born on July 17, 1911 in Bombay, India. Son of Jal r. and Jebanoo (Sethna) V.
Vakil, Rustom Jal was born on July 17, 1911 in Bombay, India. Son of Jal r. and Jebanoo (Sethna) V.
Student Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1927, Royal Institute Science. Student, house physician Saint Thomas Hospital.
Research scholar, Bombay, 1939-1940. Honorary consultant physician, also charge cardiological department King Edward Memorial Hospital, Bombay, 1941-1958. Lecturer medicine Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, Bombay, 1941-1958, Grant Medical College.
Honorary physician Governor Bombay, 1950-1974.
Consultant physician, cardiologist, 1938-1974. Delaware, 1st World Conference Cardiology, Paris, 1950, 2d European Congress of Cardiology, Sweden, 1956.
International advisory panel World Health Organization, 1955-1974.
Fellow Academy Sciences (India), College Physicians and Surgeons (Bombay), Royal Geography Society (London), Royal Faculty Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow), Royal College Physicians (London), American College Cardiology, American College Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians, Royal Society Promotion Health, American Public Health Association, Royal Society Medicine, National Institute Science (India), Royal Society Tropical Medicine, Royal Society Arts. Member Royal College Surgeons (England). Cardiological Society India (president 1955-1956), American Heart Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member editorial board medical journals.