1971: Joined MBBS at Madras Medical College.
1981: Qualified as a General Surgeon (MS -General Surgery) from Madras
Medical College
1981 to 1987: Worked as an Assistant Professor in General Surgery at
- Kilpauk Medical College
- Government Royapettah Hospital
- Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital,Madras.
1987: Joined the very 1st Department of Endocrine Surgery in India that
was started at Madras Medical College.
1999: Took over as Professor and Head of the Department of Endocrine
Surgery at Madras Medical College
2007: Professor M.Chandrasekaran founded the M.Ch Endocrine Surgery,
a surgical superspeciality course at The Tamilnadu Dr M.G.R.Medical
University in the year 2007.
In this history of MMC, only 7 people have the honour of accomplishing this
amazing feat of starting a new surgical superspeciality course without
possessing a degree in the same
2010: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
conferred upon him FRCS (Glasg) in the year 2010.
Having performed over 7,500 Thyroidectomies, Dr.M.Chandrasekaran has
one of the largest one man series in India.
He is the founding secretary and past President of the Indian Association
of Endocrine Surgeons.