Biography:

Dr Vinod Chandran who was timid, brilliant and a gentle man, as I was not keen on doing any subspecialty at that point of time, passively gave me an opportunity to look into rheumatology and clinical immunology. I worked under Dr Vinod for three months and subsequently he left for a fellowship in psoriatic arthritis at Toronto University, Canada.  Advanced training in rheumatology was available only in Madras Medical College then and it was reserved for students from Tamil nadu. So, i had to wait till Dr Dharmanand started one year fellowship program in rheumatology at Manipal Hospital Bangalore.