Dr. Krishna Kumar

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Every day you have to learn something. It is up to you, if you want to be ahead in the pack, the middle of the pack or behind in the race. You hold the key to your success. I want to be ahead in the race and I don’t care how far the next guy is behind me.

- Dr. Krishna Kumar
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He always treated people with respect — no matter what — whether or not it was the person who was his patient, his colleague, the nurse or the cleaning person in the hospital.

- Rajeev Kumar
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He was a father, a grandfather and a great-grandfather. And that’s the number one achievement he had in his life, by far. He touched everyone that he met.

– Ashok Kumar
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Kumar is a very accomplished neurosurgeon. He has been a pioneer in the management of pain with neurosurgical procedures and the bulk of his international reputation is based upon such procedures as spinal stimulation and deep brain implants.

- Dr. Milo Fink, President of the Saskatchewan Medical Association
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Biography

Krishna Kumar was born in Indore, India on January 12, 1931. He did medical studies in India, including general surgery, then studied neurosurgery in Canada, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (neurosurgery) in 1961. He was one of two neurosurgeons in Canada who first performed complex neurosurgical procedures for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and CHRONIC PAIN, and he became an internationally-known expert and speaker in pain management. His neurosurgical procedures were televised on national networks. As a clinical professor at the UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN, Dr. Kumar published scientific papers and encouraged students and residents to enter the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Kumar was responsible for bringing the first magnetic imaging resonance unit to the REGINA Health District and acquired a Stealth Navigational System for computer-directed surgery, the most sophisticated of its kind in Canada. He served as chair of the medical board of the WORKERS’ COMPENSATION Board of Saskatchewan for 20 years. He received a Quality Improvement Award from the SASKATCHEWAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION and the Saskatchewan College of Physicians & Surgeons, a Community Appreciation Award in 1996, and an Excellence in Teaching Award in 1997. He received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2000.

Source: Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan