Who is behind this effort ?
Dr. P.R. Mhatré is a graduate in medicine and surgery, from the Grant Medical College, in Bombay, India.
Integrated
Medicine Research Association (India)
Dr.P.R.Mhatré
President-Chairman A-5
Chaitraban, Off ITI Road, Aundh, PUNE 411007 INDIA
Who is behind this effort ?
Dr. P.R. Mhatré is a
graduate in medicine and surgery, from the Grant Medical College,
in Bombay, India.
He was resident acoucher at the Wadia maternity hospital in Mumbai.
Later he was resident medical officer of the Infectious Diseases Hospital of the Bombay Municipal Corporation.
He also worked as resident medical officer at the Tuberculosis Hospital of the Corporation.
He practised general medicine for over a period of 45 years in Bombay. During this long period of practice, not only did he attend to his patients regularly, but was visiting professor, teaching physiology and hygiene to students.
He learned the principles and practice of homeopathy from the late Dr. L.D. Dhawale, one of the leading homeopaths of the country. He integrated this system of healing in his practice.
He went to England and studied acupuncture from Dr. Felix Mann, the world famous British acupuncturist in London. In France he studied the principles of auriculo--therapy with acupuncture, from the famous Dr. Paul Nogier. He also learned the principles of acupuncture from Dr. Johannes Bischko of the Ludwig Boltzmann Acupuncture Institute of Vienna. After his return from Europe he integrated both these systems in his practice.
He went to Indonesia and other Asean countries to study the methodology of acupuncture as practised in those countries.
He is the Founder President of the Indian Medical Acupuncture Association (IMAA) from 1982, and now the Founder President of the Integrated Medicine Research Association (IMRA).
He was responsible for starting a free out patient department of acupuncture in the leading Government G.T. Hospital in Mumbai. Everyday a large number of patients suffering from chronic ailments and functional diseases are treated here entirely free of cost.
He is a permanent member of the British Medical Acupuncture Society. He is also an emeritus lecturer for the diploma course in acupuncture conducted by the Indian Medical Acupuncture Association and is
Acupuncture Consultant and Honorary Visiting Acupuncturist at the G.T. Government Hospital in Mumbai.
He is acquainted with Arabic/Unani medicine that is taught and practised at the Hamdard Unani University in New Delhi, and also in the Unani section of the Aligarh University in India.
In addition he stayed in Dharamshala to learn Tibetan Medicine at the centre for Higher Learning started by His Holiness The Dalai Lama.
Finally he was born of an illustrious father; a medical person trained in preventive medicine, under Sir Ronald Ross, the discoverer of Malaria, and also under Sir Patrick Manson Bahr, pioneer in Tropical Medicine at the London school of Tropical Medicine. His original research work on this subcontinent was to identify the Aedes (Tiger) mosquito. Responsible for the spread of dangerous infectious Yellow fever and to suggest the preventive measures.
Dr.Mhatré who is 82
years old, is married with three children, all of whom have
emigrated to the US. He today lives with his wife in Pune.
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