Ayub K. Ommaya

Ayub Khan Ommaya ( born April 14, 1930 in Rawalpindi, † July 10, 2008 in Islamabad ) was a Pakistani neurosurgeon. He invented the Ommaya reservoir named after him.

Career

Ommaya studied until 1953 medicine at King Edward Medical College in Pakistan, where he received his MD. He then studied with a Rhodes Scholarship to 1956 physiology, psychology and biochemistry at Balliol College, Oxford University. The study, he finished with a master's degree. From 1960 to 1980 he was a staff member at the National Institutes of Health, where he was from 1974 to 1979 head of neurosurgery. From 1980 to 1985 he was also the Chief Medical Advisor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. At the George Washington University from 1980 to 2001 he was professor. Its main invention, the Ommaya reservoir, an inserted, inter alia, for the chemotherapy of brain tumors catheter system, which is implanted into the ventricular system of the brain, he made 1963.

Ommaya was known as the " singing neurosurgeon ". The trained opera tenor sang to the delight of his patients before and after operations frequently.

2001 Ommaya put to rest. He died in 2008 from the effects of Alzheimer's disease.