Mohan Kameswaran

Managing Director and Chief Surgeon

Mohan Kameswaran is managing director and chief surgeon of the Madras ENT Research Foundation in Chennai, which he founded in 1996, and founder of the MERF Institute of Speech and Hearing in 2006. He graduated in medicine from Madras Medical College in 1976, earned his MS in otorhinolaryngology in 1981 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is regarded as a pioneer of cochlear implant surgery in India, co-founded and presided over the Cochlear Implant Group of India in 2003, and performed South Asia's first auditory brainstem implant in 2005. He received the Padma Shri in 2006 and an honorary Doctor of Science from the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University in 2008.