LEO J. DE SOUZA was an orthopaedic surgeon at Hennepin County Medical Center and associate professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Born in Tanga, Tanganyika and educated in India (Goa and Bombay), he trained in surgery in Britain and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Returning to East Africa, Leo accepted a position as specialist surgeon in northern Uganda, eventually transferring to Kampala, where he taught at Makerere University, helped run the polio clinic and was promoted to a senior orthopaedic consultant at Mulago Hospital.
Following Idi Amin’s coup in 1971, Leo and his family fled to Minnesota, where Leo was admitted to the American Academy of Surgeons. On his retirement, Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota Departments of Surgery presented him with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment to resident education.
Leo decided, in his seventies, to pursue...