Lall Sawh

Lall Ramnath Sawh, born on 1 June 1951, is a Trinidadian urologist who practices in Trinidad and Tobago and is recognized as a leader in urology in the Caribbean and Latin America. Born in Couva, he studied medicine at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, trained in urology in the United Kingdom, and completed a laparoscopic and endoscopic urology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in 1985. Returning to Trinidad, where he was for a time the only urologist, he introduced several procedures at the San Fernando General Hospital, including percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn calculi. On 27 January 1988 he was the lead urologist in the first kidney transplants performed in the country, and the source calls him a pioneer of kidney transplantation in the Caribbean. His honours include the Chaconia Gold Medal of Trinidad and Tobago.