Prakash Narain Tandon (born 13 August 1928) is an Indian

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and

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. He graduated with an

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and MS from the GMCin 1950 and 52 respectively, and then trained at the

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and obtained his

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in 1956. He further obtained specialist training in neurosurgery at

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, Norway and

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, Canada. After a brief tenure as a professor at the K.G. Medical College,

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(1963–65), he moved to the

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where he founded the neurosurgery department, has been a professor of neurosurgery, a Bhatnagar Fellow (CSIR) and then a professor emeritus. Tandon, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, was the President of the

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in 1991-92 and has been awarded the

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(1973) and

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(1991) by the

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. He is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of Madras Neuro Trust. Tandon also serves as the president of the National Brain Research Centre Society, Manesar, Haryana, India. He is a member of the

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. Noted neurosurgeon B. K. Misra is one of his students.

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