San Baw

San Baw (Burmese: စံဘော်, pronounced [sàɰ̃ bɔ̀]; 29 June 1922 – 7 December 1984) was a Burmese orthopaedic surgeon. He is best known for pioneering "the use of ivory hip prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the neck of the femur," and developing "a new technique for treating infantile pseudoarthrosis of the tibia." As the chief orthopaedic surgeon at Mandalay General Hospital (1957–1975) and at Rangoon General Hospital (1975–1980), he performed over 300 ivory hip prosthesis surgeries over his career. He also taught orthopaedics at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay and at the Institute of Medicine 1, Rangoon throughout his career.

After his death from complications from lung cancer in 1984, his wife Prof. Myint Myint Khin through the Burma Medical Association established the Dr. San Baw Prize for Research. In 2019, their son Myint Zan and the Myanmar Orthopaedic Society established the Dr. San Baw Research Fund to support orthopedic research and training activities.