Phulchand Prithvi Raj, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Phulchand Prithvi Raj

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1931

Date of Death: 27-Feb-2016

Profession: physician

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Phulchand Prithvi Raj (September 13, 1931 – February 27, 2016) was an Indian American physician and anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management.
His name is synonymous with regional anesthesia and interventional pain management.
Raj was an international leader in developing interventional pain management including development of multiple training programs, training of thousands of individual physicians, numerous publications, and organization of interventional pain management as a distinct specialty.
Some felt his passing created a void in interventional pain management across the globe.
Some of his major contributions during his career involved the development and implementation of regional anesthesia and interventional pain management.