MB BS Rangoon 1952; FFA RCS Eng 1958; DA Eng 1956.
Chari was professor of anaesthetics at the University of Rangoon from 1964 to 1968. In 1972 he was appointed tutor in anaesthetics at the University of Manchester, and in 1969 became consultant anaesthetist at the Burnley Group of Hospitals, a position he still held in 1993. Chari was a fellow of the Association of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Pain Relief Society and the Royal Society of Medicine.