V Kanagasabai, a medical doctor and a role model for all medical professionals, retired as the Dean of Madras Medical College (MMC) after a period of 30 years of services in various medical colleges in Tamil Nadu.

In the last seven years of his service, he served as Dean to Dharmapuri Government Medical College, Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College in Salem, Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai and Madras Medical College, one of the two oldest medical colleges in Asia.

Dr Kanagasabai was the Director of Medical Education for six months before assuming charge as the Dean of MMC. During his tenure at MMC, he was also asked to assume the additional charge of DME, which continued until his retirement. He was also the deputy chairman of Nursing Board till date.

To his credit, while serving as DME, he recruited and appointed 1120 pharmacists in the three directorates of the health departments. He was instrumental in starting two new pharmacy colleges, one at Thanjavur and another one at Coimbatore.

As the Dean of MMC, he obtained permission from Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) to increase the intake of students for B Pharm course at the college of pharmacy at the medical college from 50 to 60, in 2011-12. To ensure better delivery of education and improve the overall standards of pharmacy education, a model 3600 Performance Appraisal system (PAS) was evolved and put in place for the faculty of the College of Pharmacy attached to the MMC. Complete appraisal was done for the 18 pharmacy teachers. The rating was done to motivate the staff, to improve their performance and achieve better results.