Dr. P.K.Sethi had an outstanding undergraduate career in All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Due to the exigency of emergency in the country as a result of conflict with China, he volunteered for services in the Army Medical Corps (AMC). He saw active service in the Indo-Pak war and showed highest order of valor and thus was awarded VISHIST SEVA MEDAL. In 1966 he was assigned to work with Dr. Baldev Singh, Professor of Neurology A.I.I.M.S as a medical research pool officer. He worked very diligently, under tiring circumstances at high altitude and produced an excellent thesis on “ The effect of high altitude on nerve conduction velocity, H-reflex and simple reaction times in human beings”. This is the first study of its kind in literature. His interest in high altitude led him to study the pulmonary diffusion capacity, myocardial blood flow and metabolism at high altitude.
Dr. Bernard H Smith, professor of Neurology at State University of New York at Buffalo was very impressed with his work as a Neurologist and research worker. While in States he helped in delineating a new familial syndrome like “Alstroms syndrome”. His paper of Facial Myokymia was important because it localized for the first time the site of the lesion responsible for facial myokymia. He was again first in describing the pathophysiology of crying epilepsy and coining the word “Quiritarian- Epilepsy” to describe it which is now internationally accepted. Both of these papers were subsequently reviewed in editorials of the British Medical Journal. His work on the neuromuscular problem in snake bites, was very fascinating and he was awarded Gen Amir Chand’s award for the same. He has been the first to draw attention to the entity of seizures with disappearing CT Scan lesions, which later drew attention of several other neurologists to this problem. He has over 80 national and international publications to his name. He helped in establishing good Neurology Centers at Lucknow, Calcutta and Delhi while in army. He took premature retirement from the army in 1986. Since then he is with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital a 500 beded multi-speciality hospital. There he built the Department of Neurology from its infancy to its present state. He helped to develop one of the finest clinico-electrophysiology laboratory in this country. He helped to get the Neurology Department recognized at the national level and got its training program approved for post graduate training in Neurology. The department is running one of the largest successful Carotid Endarterectomy Programmes in the country. For his contributions in the field of Neurology he was awarded Padma Shri by the President of India in 2002

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** These papers have been reviewed in the editorials of the British Medical Journal.