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Biodata of Dr. Vissa Ramachandra Rao
Dr. Vissa Ramachandra Rao is an Eminent Educationist in the Medical Field and also a Yoga Follower. He was born on 21st March 1917 at Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. He is the Eldest Son of Professor Vissa Appa Rao (1884-1966), an Eminent Educationist, Physicist, Musicologist and Promoter of Music and Fine Arts in South India.
Dr. Ramachandra Rao, after his high school and Intermediate education at Chennai, qualified for M.B.B.S. from Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, in 1940. He started his Medical Career at the Stanley Hospital, Chennai as an Assistant Surgeon and on ICMR Fellowship, during 1940-1948 worked on Infections of Foot, for his M.Sc. in Anatomy, under the Guidance of Dr. M.G.Kini, an Eminent Orthopedic Surgeon and Prof. A. Ananthnarayana Ayyar, Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, Madras Medical College. He started his Career as Assistant Lecturer in the Subject of Anatomy at the Guntur Medical College in 1948. As a Professor of Anatomy he worked during the Years 1951-1973 at the Government Medical Colleges of Guntur, Visakhapatnam, and Tirupati and the then Private Medical College- Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada. He also worked as Principal of the Government Medical Colleges at Guntur (1962), Principal and Secretary of the Governing Body of Rangaraya Medical College at Kakinada (1963-1966) and as Principal of the S.V.Medical College at Tirupati (1966-1972). After Retirement from the Andhra Pradesh Medical Services he served as Additional Professor of Anatomy at M.G.Medical College, Warangal during 1972-1973 and as Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at the M.R.Medical College, Gulbarga (Karnataka) during 1973-1985. During the years 1986-1989 he worked as Emeritus Professor of Anatomy at the R.M.Medical College, Annamalai University, Chidambaram (Tamilnadu).
While working at Guntur Medical College Dr. Ramachandra Rao along with his junior colleague Dr.G.R.K.Hari Rao (1919-2006) identified a New Artery in the Human Heart System and Published the Discovery as `Rao and Rao Artery’, which received the attention of International Medical Community. Dr. Rao also published Papers and Lectured on his Favorite Subjects `History of Medicine’ and `Human Evolution’. After the Demise of the well known International Geneticist Dr.J.B.S.Haldane (1892-1964), at the request of his wife Mrs. Haldane, Dr.Ramachandra Rao arranged for the Preservation of the Brain and Human Body Skeletal Structure of Dr.Haldane at the Anatomy Museum of Kakinada Medical College.
Sponsored by the Government of India Dr. Ramachandra Rao received training in the Teaching of Anatomy and Histology at the School of Anatomy, Cambridge University, U.K. during 1958-1959. Dr. Ramachandra Rao is a Life Member of Anatomical Society of India, Member, Association of Medical Sciences and Fellow of the International Medical Sciences Association and Life Member of the Indian Society of Health Administrators. He also worked on the Expert Committees of the Indian Medical Council visiting many Medical Colleges of India. In his Four Decades Career in the field of Medical Education, Prof. Ramachandra Rao promoted fervently the Sports, Arts and Culture among the Students and the Public. As an active Rotarian holding important portfolios, his role in Community Service, Club service and International Service of the Rotary Clubs was acclaimed by the Public at Tirupati, Warangal and Gulbarga. Many of his Students Served and Occupied High Positions in the various Medical Colleges and Several Government and Corporate Hospitals in India, U.S.A. and U.K. Several of his students are running their own Hospitals and Community Service Institutions in various parts of South India.
At the initiative of Dr. Vissa Ramachandra Rao In 1984, the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Prof. Vissa Appa Rao were organized in befitting manner by prominent students, contemporary scholars and leaders from different sections of the society and a souvenir ‘Archana’ containing these contributions was also published (http://books.google.com/books/about/Archana.html)
Dr. Ramachandra Rao is the eldest son-in-law of Gurudev Sri Veturi Prabhakara Sastri (1888-1950), an Eminent Telugu Literary Critic, Epigraphist and Orientalist of South India. As an Organizing Committee Member of Veturi Prabhakara Sastri Memorial Trust, he also served on the Editorial Committee of Manimanjari Periodical of the Trust (http://www.archive.org/stream/manimanjari). As an ardent Follower and Practitioner of Bhrikta Rahita Taraka Raja Yoga of Master CVV (1868-1922), Kumbakonam, he recorded Several Case Histories of People Suffering from Chronic and Terminal Diseases being Treated and Cured by Sri Veturi Prabhakara Sastri through the Practice of Master C.V.V. Yoga (www.mastercvv.com) at Chennai and Tirupati.
After his Long and Illustrious Public Service Dr. Ramachandra Rao settled down in 1990 at Salem, Tamilnadu where several Educational Institutions and Hospitals are flourishing.
In a Public Function held on 1st April 2012 at Salem, Dr. Ramachandra Rao was honored by Sri Veturi Prabhakara Sastri Vangmaya Peetham of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, Tirupati. Many of the Former Students of Dr. Rao, the Elite and Educationists of Salem and many Relatives and Family Members attended the Function.
5th June 2013