Dr Mammen Chandy Conferred with prestigious DR BC Roy Award

Dr Mammen Chandy, Director, Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata has been conferred with the prestigious Dr BC Roy Award in the field of Eminent Medical Person by the Medical Council of India (MCI). 

In 1967, Dr Mammen Chandy joined the Christian Medical College Vellore for MBBS and is reported to have graduated as the 'Best Outgoing Student' of his batch. He then joined the Department of Medicine at CMC for postgraduate studies. For further training in Hematology, he went to the Westmead Center, Sydney, Australia and obtained the FRACP in medicine and the FRCPA in haematology from the Australian College of Medicine and Pathology.

Dr Chandy performed his first bone marrow transplant at CMC, Vellore  along with his team in 1986, and since then the bone marrow transplantation programme in CMC, Vellore has progressed to become the leading programme in the country – more than half the bone marrow transplants in India are reported to be done at CMC, Vellore.

Under his leadership, a formal training program in the field of Hematology was initiated in the form of the first MCI approved DM programme in Haematology in 1999.