An academic surgeon, teacher, practitioner and research scholar, Dr Yvan Silva, formerly on the faculty of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and visiting professor in surgery in over 15 universities internationally, penned a tribute to his role model, the late urologist Dr Fardoon Phiroze Soonawalla on November 14, 2012, a copy of which was forwarded to Parsiana by reader Rashid Khosravi.
Dr Fardoon Soonawalla: "opened doors for many"
Harking back to the time when he was a 20-year-old medical student in Bombay in 1956 Silva recalls that he and his dissection partner would spend time at an anatomical laboratory on......