When Dr Hirji Adenwalla received the Joseph McCarthy Award instituted by The Smile Train at the Four Seasons Hall in New York last November, the appreciative audience included some of the top plastic surgeons in the world, notes The Hindu (November 13, 2006). Dr Joseph McCarthy, general editor of the 12-volume text, Plastic Surgery, considered the Bible of plastic surgeons, handed over the award in person, the report adds.
The most recent of many awards presented to the 76-year-old plastic surgeon who founded the Charles Pinto Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate at Trichur’s Jubilee Mission Hospital 10 years ago, it......