Re: Biography of the late Sayagyi U Kyee Paw

582 Kyee Paw, Professor Dr. U, ( OD;Munfayg) M.B., B.S. (Rgn); F.R.C.S. (Glas.); F.R.C.S. (Edin.); F.A.C.S.; F.I.C.S.; F.C.C.P.; F.I.A.P. (Hon); SAMA 0009; General and Chest Surgeon;

Born of U Shan and Daw Ngwe Ain; born 10 January, 1919 in Htonbo village, Wakema Township, Myaungmya District; spouse Daw Khin Swe Tint.

Education: matriculated Government AV High School, Myaungmya, 1935; Medical College, University of Rangoon, M.B., B.S. 1942; Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow, F.R.C.S., 1947; Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1948 (General Surgery with Gynaecology).

Career: Medical Officer, A.B.R.O., Base Military Hospital, Maymyo, 1942; Civil Assistant Surgeon, State Hospital, Rangoon and Maternity Hospital, Rangoon, 1942-45; Civil Assistant Surgeon (Consultant Surgeon), Rangoon General Hospital, 1948-52;

Consultant Surgeon/Lecturer in Surgery, Rangoon General Hospital and Medical College, Rangoon, 1952-59; Professor and Head of Department of Surgery, Rangoon General Hopspital and Institute of Medicine 1, Rangoon, 1959 -78; Retired from Government Service 03 June 1978 ; Since retirement, worked as Honorary Surgeon at the Jivitadana Hospital, Yangon.

Membership of Societies / Associations / Committees: Past President, Myanmar Medical Association; British Medical Association; American College of Surgeons; International College of Surgeons; College of Chest Physicians; International Academy of Proctology; Member, Burma Medical Council; Member, Burma Medical Registration Board.

Conferences / Study Tours / Training: Training in General Surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1946-47; training in General Surgery and Gynaecology at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Simpson Memorial Hospital, 1946-47; training in Thoracic Surgery and surgery of Pulmonary Tuberculosis at the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore and Madnapoli TB Sanatorium, India, 1950-51; All India Surgeons' Conference, Vellore, 1952; training in Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery at Gronigen, The Netherlands, 1953; training in Thoracic and General Surgery at Washington D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis and Mayo Clinic, 1956 on Fullbright Fellowship; training in Cardiac Surgery at Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1956 on Fullbright Fellowship; WHO sponsored tour to Moscow, Leningrad, Tiblisi and Kiev to study undergraduate medical education, 1962; 8th Surgical Congress, Beijing, China, 1963; WHO sponsored tour to London, Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Belgrade, New Delhi, Chandigarh and Calcutta to study post-graduate medical education, 1969. Areas of research interest: Peripheral vascular disease and tobacco; carcinoma of the oesophagus.

Pubblications: Kyee Paw (1955). Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Burma med. J. 3(4): 11-17; Ohn Kyi, Daw, J.R. Barua and Kyee Paw (1955). Cyst adenoma of the pancreas in an infant. Burma med. J. 3(4): 25-27; Kyee Paw, Kyaw Maung, Lt. Col. Myint Aung and Aung Nyunt (1969). Survey of gastroduodenal haemorrhage. Union of Burma J. Life Sci. 2: 115-120 Recreation: reading; golf. Address: 313(A), Pyay Road, Sanchaung P.O., Yangon (Tel. - 534272).(From Drs Mya Tu and Khin Thet Htar's "Who's Who in Medicine and Health Sciences")