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Place of Birth: Puttur, Karnataka, India
About Dinker Belle Rai
- Dinker Belle Rai is a Board Certified Indian American vascular surgeon who serves as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery and as the Chief of the Department of Vascular Surgery / Vascular Laboratory at the Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
- He is a visiting Clinical Professor at the Health & Science Center of the State University of New York in Brooklyn and a visiting Professor at the Rajiv Gandhi University in Bangalore, India.
- Rai is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Surgeons.
- He is credited with developing the first ever method for retrograde catheterization of the venous tree.
- This invention was given a United States patent in 1988.
- Based on this patent, a company called The Ideas For Medicine, Inc.
- (now part of Horizon Medical Products, Inc.) manufactured and still distributes out a series of catheters, known as Rai’s Catheters for use in performing descending phlebographic tests and for venous embolectomies.
- He is also credited with the discovery of the motion of venous valves in human beings.
- His original research on histopathological specimens of patients with saphenofemoral – incompetency resulted in a paradigm shift in management of varicose veins.
- He performed the first ever vein transplantation below the knee.
- The discovery of right atrial mechanical function is a pivotal discovery in his medical research work.
- He is an editor for the International Journal of Angiology.
- Rai has been featured in the book "Jewels of India" for his contributions in the medicine, art, sports and cultural arenas.
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