Dr. Lalit Mohan Banerjee—The First Indian Professor of Surgery

Dr. Lalit Mohan Banerjee had the distinction of being the first Professor of Surgery in India. He was also one of the founders of the Association of Surgeons of India and served as the third President of the Association of Surgeons of India during 1941–42. He was the first medical professional awardee of MS Surgery degree from the University of Calcutta and one of the earliest surgeons to receive the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India. He was also nominated as the personal surgeon of the President of India. He had the opportunity to perform surgery on the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the famous Bengali novelist Sarat Chandra Chatterjee.