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  In 1957, Yacoub graduated in medicine from Cairo University and completed two years of   residencies   in surgery. [ 4 ]   In 1961 [ 8 ]   or 1962 [ 6 ]   he moved to Britain to study for his fellowship while working under   Sir Russell Brock , consultant surgeon at   Guy's Hospital . [ 6 ] Heart valve surgery Ross Procedure In 1964, he was appointed rotating surgical senior registrar to the  National Heart and Chest Hospitals , [ 9 ]  where he worked with cardiothoracic surgeon  Donald Ross . Here, they worked on repairing heart valves in people with severe  valvular heart disease  and  heart failure . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ]  Four of their cases, operated on between December 1965 and October 1967, were reported on in the  British Medical Journal  (1968) in an article titled "Too ill for cardiac surgery?". Three had severe aortic valve disease and one had  rheumatic heart disease  with multiple...

  The Goan Pioneers By J. Christie D'Souza, Editor of the 1955 Goan Institute Golden Jubilee Brochure Goa, to many a westerner, is a land of mystery. Its situation is rather assumed than known. To some it only exists because they meet Goans wherever they go, be it England or Portugal, America or Japan, Australia or Africa, Oxford or Rome. Goa is a picturesque little country on the west coast of India, situated midway between Karachi and Cape Comorin, about 150 miles south of Bombay. Its greatest length is 60 miles, with a breadth of 40 miles. Its total area is 1,300 square miles and has a population of about 625,000 souls. Goa is a land of natural beauty-bounded by stretches of sea, alternating with a vista of swaying palms, hills and valleys, green fields and bleak by-paths. It is a land where churches and chapels, priests and crosses flourish. The religious fervor of the Goans has made more than one observer echo that Goa is “the Rome of the East” where lie incorrupt th...