Prof Vijay Kumar Kak: Neurosurgeon with Legacy in British Neurosurgery

Vijay Kumar Kak, who passed away last year, was a great Indian Neurosurgeon trained in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the 1960s. He served as a Faculty and later as the Head of Department at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMER), Chandigarh. The authors, with close links to Northern Ireland, revisit the historical journey of this remarkable Neurosurgeon in the nineteenth sixties highlighting aspects of his training and academic achievements that subsequently benefitted generations of Neurosurgeons trained under his guidance at PGIMER.