INSTITUTE DAY CELEBRATIONS

A 3 days All India Official Language Seminar was organized by Bhartiya Rajbhasha Vikash Sansthan, Dehradoon from 3-5th November, 2004 at Hotel Annda Inn, Pondicherry. Dr. KS.V.K. Subba Rao, Director, JIPMER & Chairman of Town Official Language Implementation Committee Pondicherry was invited as special guest on the valedictory function of this seminar.

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1. The 22nd Annual National Conference of Indian Society for Medical Statistics was organised from 21st to 23rd January 2005 at JIPMER, Pondicherry. All the faculty members and the Residents actively participated in its organisation and in academic/scientific activities. The following were the high-lights:

2. Thirty second Annual Conference of Indian Association of Preventive and Social and Preventive Medicine was held in Rural Medical College, Pravara Medical Trust, Loni Maharashtra from 17th to 19th February, 2005. A total three papers were presented orally and two by posters. The details of these papers are as follows:

1. Dr. R.P. Swaminathan, Professor, Department of Medicine, delivered a scientific talk on "Gastro esophageal Reflux Disease with special reference to Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy" for Pondicherry State I.M.A. on 20th February, 2005 at Pondicherry. A study on "Gastroesophageal Reflux in Bronchial Asthma with special reference to PPI" by Dr. Anil Mahapatra, Dr. D.K.S. Subrahmanyam and Dr. R.P. Swaminathan conducted in JIPMER was presented in the Forum. Fruitful discussion by members with Prof. Swaminathan on Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy in day-to-day practice was interesting and many of the doctors from primary Health Centres and General Hospital, Pondicherry, benefited by the talk.

2. As a part of Clinical Immunology Laboratory set up under grant from DST-FIST, a network of Computers was installed in the Department of Medicine. The formal inauguration of the seven PC network was done by the Director on 12th February, 2005 at 8.45 a.m. in the presence of Dean, Medical Superintendent, Staff and Residents of the Department of Medicine. Executive Engineer, CPWD (Elect.), Faculty of Cardiology, Dr. R. Raveendran, Officer-in-charge of CRAFT were special invitees for the occasion. In his welcome speech, Dr. K.R. Sethuraman, Head of the Medicine Department, traced the history of computers in JIPMER from 1985 and said that the present Network granted under DST-FIST project was a dream project for the Department. In his inaugural address, Dr. K.S.V.K. Subba Rao, Director, JIPMER, stressed the importance of information technology in the current training of PGs. He suggested that PG residents make the best use of the excellent facility provided by the Network. Dr. V.S. Negi, proposed vote of thanks.

3. The Department of Medicine nominated J. Amuthan, Fianl MBBS and Jibin Sam Mathew, Pre-final MBBS to take part in the All India Medical Quiz conducted at Kottayam Medical College on February 11, 2005. Twenty six teams took part from all over India competed for the prizes for the top six teams. JIPMER was awarded 4th prize consisting certificate of Merit and Silver Plate.

4. The 60th Annual Conference of Association of Physicians of India (Diamond APICON-2005) was held at Mumbai from 23rd – 25th January, 2005 preceded by a CME on 22nd January, 2005.

1. Referee for judging the quality of papers.

2. Judge for Dr. M.V. Vishwanathan poster session IV.

3. Hall Co-ordinator for 1 hall (1 day)

4. Chaired Dr. G.S. Sainani Oration ‘Management of Severe Malaria’.

5. Presented a paper: ‘Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) in pregnant women with high risk factors for GFM’. Co-authored by Sadish Kumar, Das AK, Sen SK.

6. Attented a Workshop on ‘Medical ethics’ and CME on 22th January, 2005.

1. Dr. S. Habeebullah, Director-Professor and Head and Officer-in-charge of H.R.R.C. (ICMR) attended the Expert Group Meeting on "Infertility Research in Indian System of Medicine" held at Central Council for Research in Ayurvedha and Siddha, New Delhi on 3rd February, 2005.

2. Dr. S. Soundararaghavan, Professor of Obst. and Gyn. conducted practical sessions on "Reproductive rights, ethics related of pregnancy, foetus, stem cells and childhood" during the PCP leading to P.G. Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics at Raja Muthiah Medical College and Hospital, Annamalai University from 5th - 6th February, 2005.

3. Dr. Reena, Professor, Department of Obst. & Gyn. and Dr. Latha Chaturvedula, Associate Professor of Obst. & Gyn. attended the 48th All India Obstetrics and Gynaecological Congress held at Aurangabad held from 7.1.2005 to 9.1.2005. Dr. Latha Chaturvedula presented a research paper entitled "A Retrospective analysis of eclampsia cases in a major tertiary hospital in Pondicherry – A two year review" in the above congress.

4. Dr. Latha Chaturvedula, also participated in the "National Training Programme in Preventive Oncology" organised by Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai at Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra, as nominated by Director, JIPMER.

1. Dr. S.C. Parija, Director-Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology was invited to deliver a guest lecture on Molecular Methods in diagnosis of parasitic infection in the National Symposium on Molecular Medicine held on 23rd January, 2005 at SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Orissa. The seminar was supported by University Grants commission, New Delhi.

2. Dr. S.C. Parija was invited as Chief Guest for the valedictory function on Microbiology symposium held at D.K.M. College of Science, Vellore on 27th January, 2005. He also delivered a talk on recent approach in the diagnosis of parasitic diseases and distributed the prizes to various participants of the symposium.

3. Dr. S.C. Parija also attended the National Workshop on Diagnostic method in infectious diseases held at J.B. Tropical Disease Research Centre, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram, Wardha, Maharashtra on 11th February, 2005. He was a resource person for the workshop and also delivered a talk on "Recent developments in the diagnosis of parasitic diseases".

4. Dr. S.C. Parija was invited as an expert to attend a 3 days DBT sponsored workshop on Biotechnology potential in Orissa, organized by Government of Orissa at Bhubaneswer, from 11th - 13th February, 2005.

5. Dr. S.C. Parija has been elected as Vice-President of the Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologist for the year 2005.

1. Dr. Debdatta Basu, Professor of Pathology delivered a guest lecture on "Hemolytic Anemia – Pathophysiology and diagnostic approach" at the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India – Pondicherry, meeting held on 4th February 2005 at JIPMER.

2. The Annual Conference of the Tamil Nadu – Pondicherry Chapter of Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists was held on 12th February 2005 at Raja Muthiah Medical College, Annamalai Nagar. Professor Debdatta Basu, Professor R. Krishnan, Dr. Sumit Roy, Senior Resident and Dr. Manisha Misra, Junior Resident attended the conference. Dr. Basu spoke on "Hodgkin’s disease – an enigmatic lymphoma" at the conference.

Dr. Karoon Agrawal, Professor and Head, Department of Plastic Surgery, attended the 4th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Cleft Lip and Palate & Craniofacial Anomalies from 12-16th January 2005 at Hyderabad and delivered an invited guest lecture on "Unequal length of Palatal shelves in Cleft Palate".

1. The Department of Medical Education conducted the 13th Annual Interns Orientation Programme on Quality Care for the batch of January 2005. The programme was held for three days from 27-29th January, 2005 at the NTTC Seminar Hall. Sixty one interns participated actively in the workshop covering medical ethics, oral and written communication skills, rational use of diagnostic tests, rational use of therapy, personal drugs concept, essential drugs concept and handling of medical promotion and medical representatives.                  Thirteen faculty members facilitated the proceedings. Faculty members, Mrs. Vany Adithan and Dr. Uma Chandrasekar from Law College, Pondicherry and School of Management, Pondicherry respectively, conducted two sessions.

2. The 50th National Course on Educational Science for Teachers of Health Professionals was held from 21st February – 2nd March, 2005. Twenty seven participants from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Pondicherry participated in the workshop. Dr. K.S.V.K. Subba Rao, Director, JIPMER, inaugurated the function. The 10 days programme was conducted as usual with active participation by all concerned. The workshop concluded with Valedictory function in which Dr. A.K. Das, Medical Superintendent, JIPMER, delivered the valedictory address Dr. K.S.V.K. Subba Rao, felicitated the function and gave away the certificates to the participants. Dr. K.R. Sethuraman, Director-Professor & Head, Department of Medical Education had earlier welcomed the gathering and read the course report. Dr. Latha Chaturvedula, Associate Professor Obst. & Gyn. proposed the vote of thanks. Twenty six participants became life members of Alumni Association of NTTC.

The Senior Residents Dr. B.V. Sai Chandran and Dr. Sudheer M. Bhat and the perfusionist Mr. Pakkirisamy have attended the 51st Annual conference of the Indian Association of Cardio-Vascular-Thoracic surgeons held at Cochin from 17th-20th February 2005 and presented the following papers:

Mr. K. Sivanesan, U.D.C., Department of Pharmacy participated in the Medical Record Conference (i.e.) MEDRECON-2005 held at PIMS (Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences), Pondicherry on 11th-12th February, 2005.

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The staff and students convey their gratitude for the contribution made by the retiring staff to the development of JIPMER. We wish them all the best in their future endeavours.

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