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The paper is dedicated to life and work of Dr Roy Selby (1930-2002) - an American neurosurgeon who founded neurosurgery in Malaysia. He stayed there from July 1963 to May 1970. He opened a first neurosurgical department at general hospital in Kuala Lumpur and established a training program under which Malaysian physicians and nurses were sent to neurosurgery centres in U.S. and Canada. Some physicians came back and headed local neurosurgical units. On his return to USA Dr Selby practiced neurosurgery until 1986 when he had to give it up due to the impact of progressive congestive heart failure. From 1986 to 1994 Dr. Selby was teaching different graduate courses at department of psychology at East Texas State University at Texarkana. He became a pioneer of spinal surgery and founded Lumbar Spine Society. Dr Selby was a world citizen neurosurgeon and advocated international standards of training in neurosurgery. In 1985 -1994 he was a chairman of Archives Committee of American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Dr Selby may serve as a model of a doctor as a humanist.