T. A. Sinnathuray

Thirunavuk Arasu Sinnathuray (about 1933 to 1997), known as T. A. Sinnathuray, was a Malaysian obstetrician and gynaecologist, described as the first Malaysian doctor to hold both the MRCOG and the FRCS diplomas. He studied at Raffles Institution, graduated from the University of Malaya in Singapore in 1956, and practised as an obstetrician at Kandang Kerbau Hospital in Singapore. In 1970 he became Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, a post he held until 1986, and in 1980 he was appointed Dean of the faculty. He headed a team of twelve specialists that performed the first intrauterine transfusion in Southeast Asia in early 1970, and he served as President of the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Malaysia in 1971 and 1972. He died in 1997.