Dr. Anand Somaya finished schooling at Lawrence School, Lovedale and completed his undergraduate and post graduate medical studies at the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College in Pune. He then joined the army and spent two years in Ladakh treating multiple casualties of 1971 Indo Pak War. His operation theatre was at 17000 ft and was considered the highest in the world. The theatre was underground and extremely well equipped and all kinds of severe trauma cases from the battlefield were operated there before being sent down to the larger hospitals in Srinagar and Delhi. After serving for eight years in the Army as a General Surgeon and attaining a rank of Major, he left the armed forces and joined the Bombay Hospital in 1978 in the department of cardio vascular surgery under the then doyen of cardiac surgery in India, Dr. Nemish A. Shah. He then did a fellowship in Houston, Texas with Dr. Denton Cooley who was one of the best known cardio vascular surgeons in the world at that time. This was followed by another fellowship at the Brompton Heart Hospital and the Harley Street Clinic in London. He then returned to Mumbai and rejoined the Bombay Hospital as an Associate Consultant in cardio vascular surgery in the early 1980s. He has been working in the Bombay Hospital since then and after the retirement of Dr. Shah was made senior consultant in the same hospital. In the late 80s he did a fellowship in organ transplantation in the University Hospital, Pittsburg, USA under Dr. Starzal. Dr. Starzal was the Director of the largest transplant facility in the world at that time. Most of the great transplant surgeons of the world were trained at this institute.
- Member of Association of Surgeons of India since 1980
- Life Member of the Association of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgeons of India since 1982
- Life Member of the Cardiological Society of India since 1983
- Life Member of the American College of Chest Physicians Bombay Chapter
- Founder Member of the Vascular Society of India, October 1995
- President of the Vascular Society of India, November 1997 to November 1999
- Member of the International College of Angiology
- Member of the Society for Vascular Surgery, USA.
- Member of the American Venous Forum
"Co-author of the paper read at the 5th Asian Congress of Thoracic Surgeons, Madras - ""Experience in Coronary By-pass Surgery""
Co-author of the paper read at the Annual Conference of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, New Delhi, 10th October to 19th October - ""Aorta Coronary By-pass""
Sub Aortic Stenosis
Sequential Saphenous Vein By-pass in Reno Vascular Hypertension in Accessory Renal Artery Stenosis
Co-author of the paper read at the 5th Congress of Association of Thoracic and Cardio Vascular surgeons of Asia, held at Madras from 14th February to 18th February 1981 - ""Open Mitral Commisurotomy""
Drs. N. A. Shah, D. S. Saxsena, O.S. Chokhani, R. K. Bafna and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the 5th Congress of Association of Thoracic and Cardio Vascular Surgeons of Asia, held at Madras from 14th February to 18th February 1981 - ""Mitral Valve Reconstruction""
Drs. N. A. Shah, D. S. Saxsena, O.S. Chokhani, R. K. Bafna and C. A. Somaya
Co-author the paper read at the 5th Congress of Association of Thoracic and Cardio Vascular Surgeons of Asia, held at Madras from 14th February to 18th February 1981 - ""Reports on Calf Pericardial Valves – Clinical Results""
Drs. N. A. Shah, D. S. Saxsena, O.S. Chokhani, R. K. Bafna and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the 5th Congress of Association of Thoracic and Cardio Vascular Surgeons of India and Cardiological Society of India held at Delhi in October 1981 - ""Technique of Correction of Aortic Incompetence""
Drs. N. A. Shah, O. S. Chokhani, R. K. Bafna, D. S. Saxsena and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the International Congress on Tropical Cardiology held at Bombay on 19th October 1982 - ""Myocardial Re-Vascularisation with Valve Replacement or Ancurysmectomy""
Drs. N. A. Shah, R. K. Bafna, D. S. Saxsena, O. S. Chokhani and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the International Conference of Recent Advances in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery held at Bombay on December 1-3, 1984 - ""A study of changes in operating techniques and follow-up of 137 consecutive cases of total correction for Fallots Tetralogy""
Drs. N. A. Shah, B. Lath, M. D. Dixit, O. S. Chokhani and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the 42nd Bombay Medical Congress held in Bombay on 11th and 12th January 1986 - ""An early experience in use of the Internal Mammary Artery graft in Coronary Artery By-pass Surgery""
Drs. N. A. Shah, B. Lath, M. D. Dixit, O. S. Chokhani and C. A. Somaya.
Co-author of the paper read at the Silver Jubilee Scientific Session of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune - ""Changing Techniques in Coronary Artery By-pass Grafting""
Drs. N. A. Shah, B. Lath, M. Somanna, O. S. Chokhani and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the 8th Annual Conference – Maharashtra State Chapter of Association of Surgeons of India at Association of Surgeons of India at Akola, August 1986 - ""Early Experience in the use of Internal Mammary Artery in Coronary By-pass Surgery""
Drs. O. S. Chokhani, N. A. Shah, B. Lath and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the Annual Conference – Rajasthan State Chapter of Surgeons of India, Udaipur, 1986 - ""Open Heart Surgery in Rajasthan Early Experience""
Drs. O. S. Chokhani, N. A. Shah, Ashok Jain, Subhash Kala, Chincholkar and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the Annual meeting of Association of Surgeons of India (South Indian Chapter) MGR Medical College Gulbarga in February 1988 - ""Cardiac Surgery in Infants""
Drs. O. S. Chokhani, N. A. Shah, B. Lath, M. Sommana and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the annual meeting of the Association of Surgeons of India (South Indian Chapter) MGR Medical College, Gulbarga, February 1988 - ""Techniques in Coronary Artery Surgery""
Drs. N. A. Shah, O. S. Chokhani, B. Lath, M. Sommana and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the Third Annual Conference of the Association Thoracic and Cardio Vascular Surgeons of India A.F.M.C, Pune, February 1990 - ""A Surgical Study of 300 Consecutive Cases of Fallots Tetralogy""
Drs. N. A. Shah, O. S. Chokhani, M. D. Dixit, A. Maslekar and C. A. Somaya
Co-author of the paper read at the Third Annual Conference of the Association of Thoracic and Cardio Vascular Surgeons of India A.F.M.C., Pune, February 1990
Drs. M. D. Dixit, N. A. Shah, O. S. Chokhani and C. A. Somaya
Author of the paper read at the 1st National Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Madras - ""Surgical Treatment of three large Aortic Ancuryoms of the Thoracic Aortic – Unusual Chemical Presentation""
Drs. C. A. Somaya & M. D. Dixit
Author of the paper read at the 2nd National Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Bombay - ""Surgical treatment of 10 cases of Ca Kidney with I – VC Extension with Cardio Pulmonary By-pass""
Dr. C. A. Somaya & Dr. Partha
Author of the guest lecture at the 3rd National Conference of the Vascular Society of India, Bombay - ""Surgical Management of Hypertension due to Renal Artery Stenosis – 10 Cases""
Author of the guest lecture at the National Conference of Cardiological Society of India, Bangalore, 1996 - ""Recent Advances in Vascular Surgery""
The Living Unrelated Kidney Transplant at the Seventh Asian Colloquim in Nephrology, at Taipei, Taiwan, November 1987
Drs. A.L. Kirpalani, C.A. Somaya, U.G. Oza, et al
The Management of Surgical Complications in Renal Transplantation, Presented at the ISOT through the Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Science, Ahmedabad, 1988
Drs. U.G. Oza, S.W. Thatte, A.L. Kirpalani, A.L. Dalal, D.M. Kooke, A.G. Phadke, C. A. Somaya
The Non Related Kidney Transplantation at the First Congress of the Asian Transplantation Society, Bali, Indonesia, November 1989
Drs. A.L. Kirpalani, C.A. Somaya, et al
The Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplantation – The Indian Experience at the Eighth Asian Colloquium in Nephrology at Djakarta, Indonesia, November 1989
Drs. A.L. Kirpalani, C.A. Somaya, et al
The Post Transplant Surgery, Presented at USI Conference through the Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad, 1989
Drs. U.G. Oza, S.W. Thatte, A.L. Kirpalani, A.G. Phadke, C.A. Somaya
The Strategies of Immune Manipulations in Renal Transplant Patients – 3 years experience, Presented at the USI Conference, Ahmedabad, 1989
Drs. U.G. Oza, A.L. Kirpalani, S.W. Thatte, A.S. Chandanwale, A.G. Phadke, C.A. Somaya
The Division of Kidney Transplantation, Presented at the USI Conference through the Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad, 1989
Drs. U.G. Oza, S.W. Thatte, A.L. Kirpalani, A.G. Phadke, C.A. Somaya
Hepatitis and Renal Transplantation at the Advanced Workshop Transplantation Bombay, India, October 1991
Drs. A.L. Kirpalani, C.A. Somaya
Hepatitis B in Renal Transplantation at the XII International Congress of Nephrology at Jerusalem, Israel, January 1993
Drs. T.J. Vachharajani, U.G. Oza, A.G. Phadke, A.L. Kirpalani, C.A. Somaya
Ketoconazole as a cost saving measure in Renal Transplantation at the Annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation at Lucknow, India, October 1993
Drs. T.J. Vachharajani, U.G. Oza, A.G. Phadke, A.L. Kirpalani, C.A. Somaya
The Colour Doppler Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Renal Transplants accepted for presentation at the forthcoming 6th Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology at Hong Kong, December 1995
Drs. J.T. Jagose, S.G. Kulkarni, T.J. Vachharajani, A.K. Dalal, U.G. Oza, A.R. Chitale, A.L. Kirpalani, C.A. Somaya Author of the guest lecture at the National Conference of Trauma and Critical case, New Delhi, October 1997 - ""An Overview and Management of Arterial Injuries""
Author of the guest lecture at the 4th National Conference of the Vascular Society of India, November 1997 - ""Vascular Conduits and their Future""
Author of the guest lecture at the 4th Conference of the Vascular Society of India, November 1997 - ""Vascular Experience with 497 cases of Renal Transplant""
Publications:
The Living Unrelated Kidney Transplant, Bombay Hospital Journal, April 1989
Drs. A.L. Kirpalani, U.G. Oza, S.W. Thatte, B.N. Taparia, A.S. Chandanwale, A.G. Phadke, C.A. Somaya The Management of U. V. Reflux in Renal Transplant Recipients by Endoscopic Teflon Injections, Transplantation Proceedings, Vol. 24, No. 5, October 1992
Drs. U.G. Oza, H.M. Punjani, S.W. Thatte, A.L. Kirpalani, A.G. Phadke, C.A. Somaya
