Rengachary was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1973 and was licensed to practice medicine in five states in the U.S.: Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Virginia. After finishing his neurosurgical residency, he worked at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri as Chief of Neurosurgery from 1971 to 1989 and was also a member of the academic division of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He also graduated with a degree in anatomy from the University of Kansas in 1969 and was a member of the Cajal Club and American Association of Anatomists, a testimony to his unflinching interest in neuroanatomy. He then completed a straight surgical internship at the State University of New York in Syracuse, New York and followed this with a fellowship at Harvard Medical School and a residency in neurosurgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He emerged as the top student of the graduating class of 1960. He subsequently went to Madurai College and Medical College for his MBBS. Mary's High School in Madurai, where he was regarded as a bright and humble student. However, with dedicated hard work and discipline, he improved in school eventually reaching the head of the class he also tutored students younger and older than himself! He studied at St. He often remembered the academic struggle he had as a sixth-grade student when he had serious difficulty learning certain subjects. Rengachary was the only one of his siblings who chose medicine as a career and it was an uphill struggle for him to reach his goal especially after his father's business failed. After spending the first four years of his life in Palam Cottah, he moved when his father started a saree business in Madurai. Setti Rengachary was born on Octoto Setti Subiyer and Lakshmi Ammal.
He specialized in spinal reconstruction and the treatment of spinal trauma he also practiced general neurosurgery and always found time to read and publish scientific articles, a passion he nurtured over the years.ĭr.
He is remembered particularly for his neurosurgical textbooks, Neurosurgery and Principles of Neurosurgery, which are used for reference throughout the world. who reached significant milestones as an academic neurosurgeon and as an expert in complex adult spine neurosurgery. The fraternity of Indian-American neurosurgeons is deeply grieved by the death of Dr.
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