Dear Colleague 2013. A GOOD YEAR Every year

Dear Colleague
2013. A GOOD YEAR
Every year, the Apollo Hospitals Group makes significant advancements in clinical care, academics and
research. The annual Apollo Excellence Report is a way of expressing our gratitude to you for your
contribution in making these advancements possible.
The Apollo Excellence Report 2013 summarises the improvements in clinical outcomes, patient safety
indices, compliance to systems and processes, new initiatives in clinical excellence and patient safety,
progress in academics and new research initiatives.
This report allows us to share the achievements of our consultants and the recognition received by
the Apollo Group with experts in India and abroad. Forty one research papers by our consultants were
recognized in 2013 and 120 consultants contributed their achievements for publication in the report.
Our respected Chairman, Dr. Prathap C Reddy was honoured with the prestigious Asian Business
Leaders Forum Lifetime Achievement Award in Dubai in December 2013. Dr. Reddy was honored by
CNBC TV18 at the India Business Leaders Awards 2013. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award
by NDTV.
Apollo Hospitals were the winners of 10 awards in 9 categories at the prestigious Hospital
Management Asia awards at Bangkok in 2013. The organizers gave the Apollo Group a standing
ovation by conferring Apollo with the "Special Outstanding Achievement Award". Apollo also won
three awards at the FICCI Healthcare Excellence awards and emerged as the winner in the category 'Most Popular Paediatric Hospital Chain' in the inaugural edition of 'Child Best Awards'. Apollo
Hospitals Group won the Frost & Sullivan 5th Annual India Healthcare Excellence Award 2013 in the
category of “Healthcare Service Provider Company of the Year”.
The Week - AC Nielsen, Best Hospital Survey 2013 ranked Apollo Hospitals amongst the top hospitals
in India yet again. Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked the 2nd best and Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi was ranked the 4th best multi-speciality hospital in the private sector in India. Apollo
Hospitals, Chennai, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata and
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad were ranked the best multi-speciality hospitals in the private sector in
their respective cities.
Winston Churchill had said, "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there
will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you
will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and
glory of the climb.” We are all together in this journey, and we are confident that our every step will
make 2014 exciting.
With warm regards
Anupam Sibal
MD, FIMSA, FIAP, FRCP (Glasg), FRCP (Lon), FRCPCH, FAAP
Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals Group
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t h e apollo excellence report 2 0 1 3
A report on clinical, academic and research
excellence at Apollo hospitals
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The year that was -­2013
Clinical Excellence
The Apollo Standards of Clinical Care (TASCC)
Apollo Clinical Excellence Scorecard (ACE @ 25)
ACE @ 25 Awards
Apollo Quality Program
ACE Platform
Apollo Innovation and Quality Awards 2013
Share Your Story
Apollo International Forum on Infection Control
III International Congress on Patient Safety
Patient Safety Declaration
Handholding Workshop on Patient Safety
Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing Initiative in Clinical Nutrition Practice
Clinical Innovation Report and New in Medicine
JCI Accreditation
NABH Accreditation
Quality Improvement Projects
Academics
Postgraduate Medical Education at Apollo
Apollo ties up with Rochester University
Medvarsity
International Postgraduate Pediatric Certificate
Research
AHERF adjunct tiles
Published papers recognised
Clinical fellowships of AHERF
Apollo Medicine Journal
AHERF:
•• Translational Research
» Bio-Banking and Personalized Medicine
» Glioblastomas
•• Basic Research
» Genetic association of Coronary Artery Disease in Young Indian Adults
» Pathogen detection and discovery, using High Throughput Platforms
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•• Epidemiological research
» Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in school
children (5-10 yrs)
» Rural health camps at Gandhigram
» Prevalence of anemia and obesity at Sivagangai
» Analysis of Gender based newer risk factors for Coronary Artery
Disease
»Haematological and Biochemical Reference Levels in a healthy
Indian Population
» Abnormal Blood lipids and glucose levels among healthy Indian
population
•• Clinical Research
» Non-Drug Clinical Studies
•• Research Grants Program
•• Innovations
» Paraxel
•• UE Life Sciences
•• First Warning Systems, Inc
•• Educational Initiatives
» Advanced Certificate Course in Clinical Research at PG level
•• Collaborations
» Medtronic
» Philips
» Anna University Chennai, India
» International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
•• Analytics for Life Collaboration (AFL)
index
Index
Recognition for Apollo Hospitals
Hospital Management Asia Awards 2013
Asian Business Leaders Forum Lifetime Achievement Award 2013
India Business Leaders Awards 2013
Lifetime Achievement Award by NDTV
THE WEEK-A C Nielsen, Best Hospital Survey 2013
FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards 2013
Frost & Sullivan 5th Annual India Healthcare Excellence Awards 2013
HIMSS Asia Pacific Recognizes Apollo Hospitals
HIMSS Elsevier award for Apollo Hospitals
Child Best Awards
Asian Training and Development Awards
Porter Prize, 2013
Our consultants achieve
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Apollo
Innovation
and Quality
awards
kept the
motivation
for
innovation
alive in
the Apollo
Hospitals
teams and 183
nominations
were received
from 19
locations for
the Apollo
Innovation
and Quality
Awards 2013.
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The average scores of The Apollo
Standards of Clinical Care (TASCC),
which includes our Clinical Excellence
Scorecards Apollo Clinical Excellence
@ 25 (ACE @ 25), Rocket ACE (RACE),
the Apollo Quality Program (AQP)
dashboard, incidents, mortality review
and Apollo Critical Policies Plans and
Procedures (ACPPP) showed a steady
increase from 216 in April 2012 to
293 in December 2013 representing
increasing standardization of
processes and improving outcomes
across Group hospitals.
Continuing the ACE @ 25
improvement journey, Apollo
Hospitals, Hyderabad from Group
A hospitals, Apollo Hospitals,
Secunderabad from Group B hospitals
and Apollo Hospitals, Bhilai and
Apollo Hospitals, Noida from Group
C hospitals were declared ACE @ 25
champions for 2013 and were awarded
the trophies along with a cash prize
of 2.5 lakhs, 1.5 lakhs and 1 lakh each
respectively. An analysis of ACE @
25 and AQP parameters individually
showed an increase in compliance
levels for various parameters in 2013.
The group average ACE @ 25 and
AQP scores also increased. AQP was
presented at the International Society
for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua)
conference in Edinburgh in 2013.
Our latest quality initiative ACE
Platform (ACEP) was launched in
June 2013. It is a standardized tool to
share the best practices for clinical
excellence and quality improvement
implemented by Apollo hospitals
with other healthcare providers. The
initiative is pro-bono and intends to
contribute to enhancement of quality
of healthcare delivered across India.
ACEP is a standardized tool which can
be used by any hospital across the
country to drive quality improvement,
improvement in patient safety and
better clinical outcomes. ACEP
comprises of important indicator sets
for monitoring quality and clinical
excellence along with policies which
would deal with the core processes
in patient care. Fifteen hospitals have
adopted ACEP.
Apollo Innovation and Quality awards
kept the motivation for innovation alive
in the Apollo Hospitals teams and
183 nominations were received from
19 locations for the Apollo Innovation
and Quality Awards 2013. The winning
projects were from Apollo Hospital
Bangalore for Clinical Services, Apollo
Hospital Chennai for Operations,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Delhi for
Human Resources and Finance and
Apollo Gleneagles Hospital Kolkata
for Environmental Conservation and
Community Services.
The “Share your story” initiative,
conceptualised with the view of
sharing of best practices amongst
Apollo Group hospitals on one chosen
topic every quarter, saw best practices
being shared for Patient falls, ALOS
(Average Length of Stay) post renal
transplant, Pressure Ulcers and
Needle Stick injuries.
The 1st Apollo International Forum on
Infection Control (AIFIC) was organised
on 5th and 6th January, 2013. This
forum brought together some of the best
renowned international and regional
professionals in this field. The forum
offered a unique platform to share the
latest advances in infection control
practices and strategies.
The 3rd International Congress on
Patient Safety was held on the 6th and
7th September, 2013 at Hyderabad. The
conference was hosted by the Apollo
Hospitals Group and supported by
ISQua, Joint Commission International,
World Health Organization, Quality
Council of India and other reputed
organizations. It was attended by
an overwhelming 850 delegates
from across the globe. Eminent
personalities in the patient safety
space from across the globe spoke at
the conference. They included Dr Nata
Menabde, Regional Representative
(India), World Health Organization,
Dr Janne Lehmannn Knudsen, ISQUA
Board member, Denmark, Ms Ann
Jacobson, Executive Director, Joint
Commission International (JCI), US,
Lord Nigel Crisp, Former CEO, NHS,
UK and Vinod Khosla, Co-Founder,
Sun Micro Systems, California, U.S.A.
The Congress also saw the launch
of the Patient Safety Declaration.
The Declaration was signed by all
participating delegates and speakers
on behalf of their institutions covering
156 healthcare organizations.
A Handholding Workshop on Patient
Safety was organized at Indraprastha
Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi on the
12th and 13th April, 2013. It was
supported by National Accreditation
Board for Hospitals and Healthcare
Providers (NABH), the Department of
Hospital Administration at AIIMS, the
INCLEN trust and BD as knowledge
partners. Three to five member
teams from 25 hospitals attended
for the workshop. Hospital CEOs,
medical heads, nursing leaders,
surgeons, microbiologists, nurses
and quality representatives formed
part of the teams.
The workshop guided
the implementation
process for patient
safety initiatives in
Infection Control,
Surgical Safety,
Medication Safety and
Patient Falls through
four workshops
covering these topics.
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pollo Hospitals continued
its journey in its pursuit of
excellence into another year
with 2013 seeing many new
milestones and accomplishments,
overcoming challenges and setting of
newer goals and targets.
The 3rd
International
Congress
on Patient
Safety was
held on the
6th and 7th
September,
2013 at
Hyderabad.
The
conference
was hosted
by the Apollo
Hospitals
Group
To highlight the
clinical innovations
at Apollo and what
was new in Medicine around the
world, Apollo initiated the publication
of a quarterly report titled “Clinical
innovation report” in April 2013
covering New in Medicine, New in
Technology and News Highlights
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Apollo
Hospitals on
27th August
announced
a tie-up with
University of
Rochester
Medical
Centre,
New York,
envisaging
patient care
and academic
collaboration.
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Continuing the accreditation journey
for the group, SPS Apollo Hospitals
Ludhiana was reaccredited by JCI
in 2013. Apollo Hospitals, Bilaspur,
Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar, Apollo
Jehangir Hospital, Pune and Apollo
BGS Hospitals, Mysore became NABH
accredited.
In a tertiary healthcare institution,
clinical excellence shares a symbiotic
relationship with academic excellence
with emphasis on training and
research. During the academic year
2013, 15 hospitals of the Apollo
Hospitals groups offered the DNB and
FNB programs in 38 specialties and
subspecialties. The new post graduate
and post doctoral training programs
started in the Apollo Hospitals
group during 2013 included DNB in
Rheumatology, Paediatric Surgery,
Neonatology and Emergency Medicine
and FNB in Cardiac Anaesthesiology
and Interventional Cardiology. The
numbers of DNB / FNB seats have
increased by over 30% from 205 in
annual year 2012 to 263 during annual
year 2013 with over 700 DNB trainees
enrolled in the Apollo group of
Hospitals in the annual year 2013.
The second batch of the Apollo Institute
of Medical Sciences and Research
joined in 2013. Apollo Hospitals on
27th August announced a tie-up with
University of Rochester Medical Centre,
New York, envisaging patient care and
academic collaboration. As part of
the tie-up, the Rochester University
and Apollo Hospital’s under-graduate
medical college will have faculty and
student exchange programme.
To continue to motivate and recognize
research orientation in our consultants,
Adjunct titles of Professor and
Associate Professor of AHERF were
given to selected consultants across the
group during the year 2013. Twenty one
consultants were granted the titles. In
pursuance of our policy for recognition
of research papers published in
journals with high impact factors, 41
papers were recognized in 2013.
Postgraduate medical education was
further enhanced by starting Clinical
Fellowships by AHERF in specialities
were structured training programs
are not available. Clinical Fellowships
are offered in Stroke, Neuro-Muscular
Disorders, Clinical Nephrology,
Transplant Nephrology, Renal Dialysis,
IVF, Fetal Medicine, Diabetes, Liver
Transplantation, Hepatology, Liver
Transplant Anaesthesia, Cardiac
Anaesthesia, Endoscopy, Bariatric
Surgery, Pain Medicine and Molecular
Biology.
The “Apollo Medicine” journal saw many
changes in 2013. The editorial board
was strengthened to include eminent
International and National faculty
members. The page views of “Apollo
Medicine” website depicted a significant
growth of 118% from Jan 2013 to
Dec 2013. There was contribution of
manuscripts from the U.S, China and
Egypt as well. Apollo Medicine is now
available on Health Advance – A Mobile
application to download and read the
whole journal. New Sections were
added: Algorithms, Interesting Rare
Case Pictures, Online CME, etc. “Apollo
Medicine” was approved and included in
the Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ).
Spearheading Apollo Hospitals
research journey, Apollo Hospitals
Educational and Research Foundation
(AHERF) completed many ongoing
projects and launched several new
ones. Apollo Hospitals recently
incubated and launched Sapien
Biosciences within AHERF’s facility
in Hyderabad. Sapien shall fulfil our
vision of delivering better clinical
outcomes through bench-to-bedside
innovation by offering personalized
medicine services to Apollo Hospitals.
AHERF is in the process of developing
a circulating biomarkers (CBMs)
based diagnostic panel for detection
and screening of Glioblastomas
(GBMs) directly from the blood. A pilot
collaborative study with AHERF and
Institute of Genomics and Integrative
Biology (IGIB), a CSIR Institution
and National Institute of Biomedical
Genomics (NIBMG), a DBT Institute,
was completed to study genetic risk
factors in young Indians that may
be associated with early incidence
of coronary artery disease in young
Indians.
AHERF currently is coordinating
almost 100 clinical studies across
Apollo hospitals. In April 2013, AHERF
organized a first-of-its kind “National
Conference on Evolving roles of Ethics
Committees in Clinical Research” at
New Delhi. AHERF is in the process
of establishing a dedicated entity
to bring innovation from across the
world-distribution agreements,
validation services and incubation/
commercialization of ideas.
AHERF also signed a collaboration
MoU with Nestle in early 2013 to
associate in the areas of research,
development and validation of
disease specific nutrition projects.
AHERF spearheaded and realized
collaboration with Medtronic Inc. with
an objective to revolutionize renal care
by providing mobile dialysis at homes
and community centres.
Apollo Hospitals were recognized for
their work at various fora and won
many awards in 2013.
Dr. Prathap
C Reddy was
honoured
with the
prestigious
Asian
Business
Leaders
Forum
Lifetime
Achievement
Award at a
grand award
ceremony in
Dubai on 14
December
2013.
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and Clinical Innovations from Apollo
Hospitals. Significant among these
was the successful separation of
Pygopagus twins from Tanzania in
a marathon surgery of 18 hours
conducted by a team of 20 doctors
from neurosurgery, plastic surgery,
paediatric surgery and paediatric
urology. Apollo also celebrated
the 15th anniversary of our Liver
Transplant program with a gathering
of transplant patients and their family
members who were addressed by His
Holiness The Dalai Lama.
As is apt to his stature, our respected
Chairman, Dr. Prathap C Reddy was
honoured with the prestigious Asian
Business Leaders Forum Lifetime
Achievement Award at a grand award
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Apollo
Hospitals
were the
winners of
10 awards in
9 categories
at the
prestigious
Hospital
Management
Asia awards
at Bangkok
in 2013. The
organizers
gave the
Apollo Group
a standing
ovation by
conferring
Apollo with
the “Special
Outstanding
Achievement
Award”.
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ceremony in Dubai on 14 December
2013. Dr. Reddy was also honored
by CNBC TV18 at the India Business
Leaders Awards (IBLA) 2013. This
award felicitated his lifetime’s efforts
in transforming healthcare in India.
He was also honoured with the
Lifetime Achievement Award by NDTV.
Apollo Hospitals were the winners
of 10 awards in 9 categories at the
prestigious Hospital Management
Asia awards at Bangkok in 2013. The
organizers gave the Apollo Group
a standing ovation by conferring
Apollo with the “Special Outstanding
Achievement Award”.
Apollo Hospitals – “Billion Hearts
Beating Foundation” won in the
award in the Corporate Social
Responsibility Category, Apollo
Speciality Hospitals, Madurai won
the award for the Cost Reduction
Project – “To Control the expenses for
CAG and PTCA Procedures”, Apollo
Hospital Hyderabad won the award in
the Human Resource Development
and Service Improvement for
Internal Customers Category for
their “Apollo Simulation Laboratory”,
“Antimicrobial Stewardship
Programme” from Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai won the Patient Safety Award,
“Patient Satisfaction Tracking System
(PSTS) - A break through Innovation
in Healthcare for Voice of Customer
Process” from Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai won the Customer Service
Project, Apollo Hospitals, Delhi’s
“Pressure ulcer: zero tolerance” won
in the Clinical Service Improvement
Category, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospitals, Kolkata’s “Project Product:
Severity Index Scoring For Biomedical
Equipment” and Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai’s - “Phasing out mercury”
won in the Bio Medical Equipment /
Facilities Improvement Category and
the “Passion Led Patient Care” project
from Apollo Hospitals Dhaka won in
the Category of Innovations in Hospital
Management and Governance.
The FICCI Healthcare Excellence
awards that felicitate organizations
and individuals for their contributions
in the healthcare industry were given
on 2nd September 2013. Prof. Ranjit
Roy Chaudhury, Chairman - Task
Force for Research, Apollo Hospitals
Educational and Research Foundation,
won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi
won the FICCI Healthcare Excellence
Award in the category of Operational
Excellence (Private – Multispecialty
Hospital) for the project “Pressure
Ulcers – Zero Tolerance”. Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi won the first position
in the Poster Presentation for
“Minimizing Medication Errors”.
Apollo also emerged as
the winner in the category - ‘Most
Popular Paediatric Hospital Chain’ in
the inaugural edition of ‘Child Best
Awards’.
Apollo Hospitals Group won the
Frost & Sullivan 5th Annual India
Healthcare Excellence Award 2013 in
the category of “Healthcare Service
Provider Company of the Year” (With
Annual Revenue greater than Rs 1000
Crores).
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The Week - AC Nielsen, Best Hospital
Survey 2013 ranked Apollo Hospitals
amongst the top hospitals in India.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the 2nd best, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi was ranked the 4th
best and Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad
was ranked the 10th best multispeciality hospital in the private sector
in India. Apollo Hospitals, Chennai,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi,
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata
and Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad
were ranked the best multi-speciality
hospitals in the private sector in their
respective cities.
In the healthcare IT space, HIMSS
Analytics Asia Pacific recognized
three hospitals within Apollo
Group for achieving Stage 6 on the
Electronic Medical Record Adoption
Model (EMRAM) SM - Apollo Main
Hospitals, Chennai, Apollo Health City,
Jubilee Hills and Apollo Hospitals
Ayanambakkam, Chennai. The first
HIMSS Elsevier award for Outstanding
ICT Achievement was presented to
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. The
award was given to Apollo Hospitals
for the Patient Engagement Platform
(PEP) – Apollo Prism.
In the Human Resources space, Apollo
Group participated in Asian Training
and Development Awards in two
Categories and was announced as
winner in both the categories - Best
Training Initiative in Health Care and
Best Customer Service Program.
The journey into 2014 has begun. As
Winston Churchill had said, “Every day
you may make progress. Every step
may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch
out before you an ever-lengthening,
ever-ascending, ever-improving path.
You know you will never get to the end
of the journey. But this, so far from
discouraging, only adds to the joy and
glory of the climb.”
You know you
will never
get to the
end of the
journey.
But this, so
far from
discouraging,
only adds to
the joy and
glory of the
climb.”
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ACE @ 25 is
a clinical
balanced
scorecard
incorporating
25 clinical
quality
parameters,
benchmarked
against the
published
OUTCOMES
of the
world’s best
hospitals
Apollo Hospitals aims at establishing
standards of clinical care that ensure
that all its hospitals deliver safe and
quality clinical care to all its patients,
irrespective of the location and size
of the hospital. The Apollo Standards
of Clinical Care (TASCC) embody sets
of process requirements and sets of
outcome measures that underlie the
Apollo Hospitals approach to clinical
care.
ACE @ 25, RACE, Apollo Quality
Program (AQP), Apollo Incident
Reporting System (AIRS), Apollo
Mortality Review (AMR) and Apollo
Critical Policies Plans and Procedures
(ACPPP) together form TASCC. TASCC
was implemented in January 2012.
ACE and RACE are clinical balanced
scorecards incorporating 25 clinical
quality parameters each involving
complication rates, mortality rates,
one year survival rates and average
length of stay after major procedures
with international benchmarks.
AQP is a program for the
standardization of processes for
clinical handovers, medication safety,
surgical safety, patient identification,
verbal orders, hand washing
compliance and falls prevention
across Apollo hospitals. Compliance
is measured through a monitoring
dashboard of 20 parameters.
AMR is a standardized methodology
of identifying all deaths in a hospital
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clinical excellence
The Apollo Standards
of Clinical Care
(TASCC)
with a potential to have resulted from
an error through trigger criteria,
systematically peer reviewing them
through a checklist and categorizing
the deaths to identify the preventable
deaths using the Death Audits,
The Health Round Table criteria.
The checklist included factors like
appropriate care setting, appropriate
staff privileges, clinical practice
deficiency, delay in recognition of
clinical deterioration / escalation /
response, hospital acquired infection,
post procedure complication, medical
error, error in communication,
equipment deficiency, etc.
AIRS provides a mechanism of
tracking of all incidences that pose a
safety risk to patients.
ACPPP are 25 policies covering
clinical care, nursing care, managerial
processes and infrastructural
requirements like restraints,
consents, critical test results, disaster
policy, that are implemented by all
hospitals.
Each initiative is scored as follows:
ACE@25 (100), RACE (100), AQP (100),
AMR (50), AIRS (25), ACPPP (125),
totalling 500.The monthly scores
in each initiative for each location
is plotted as a hexagon. The outer
perfect hexagon represents the
perfect scores and the inner hexagon
represents the scores attained.
The target is to achieve the perfect
hexagon. A few examples for 2013 are
given below:
TASCC scores showed a steady increase from 216 in
April 2012 to 293 in December 2013 showing increasing
standardization of processes and improving outcomes.
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ACE @ 25,
our clinical
excellence
scorecard
saw the
second
update in 2013.
Clinical
It involved Apollo
Excellence Scorecard replacing ACE @ 25
three
parameters ACE @ 25, our clinical excellence
saw the second update
with new scorecard
in 2013. It involved replacing three
parameters, parameters with new parameters,
upgrading the upgrading the scoring scale for three
scoring scale and upgrading the benchmarks for
for three and three.
upgrading the
benchmarks
for three.
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Group average scores for ACE @ 25
showed consistency in 2013.
The numerators, denominators and
inclusions and exclusions are defined
lucidly and methodology of data
collection is standardized. Data is
uploaded online every month through
a unique login ID and password.
Action taken reports for parameters
falling in red are submitted quarterly
by all hospitals and reviewed by the
board. A quarterly, half yearly and
annual analysis of the trends is done.
The collective data for all locations
can be viewed by the Group leadership
at any point in time. Scores are linked
to appraisal of the medical head
and CEO and there is an “ACE @ 25”
Champion Award for the highest
scorer.
Example of an ACE @ 25 parameter
CABG mortality rate 0.60%
Cleveland Clinic
In 2013, 33 hospitals reported ACE
@ 25 data, eight under Group A
(Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai,
Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Dhaka
and Ludhiana), ten under Group
B (Bilaspur, Madurai, Mysore,
Ranchi, Pune, Vizag, Bhubaneshwar,
Karimnagar, Secunderabad and
Hyderguda) and 15 under Group C
(Aragonda, AFMH, ASH, Tondiarpet,
Sowcarpet, Bhilai, Kakinada, NMDC
Bacheli, Noida, Ranipet, Apollo
Children’s Hospital, Ambavadi, DRDO,
Karur and Karaikudi).
The data is validated by the Apollo
Clinical Audit Team (ACAT), a 20
member team trained in a rigorous
audit methodology outlined in the ACE
@ 25 Audit Guide. The team audits the
data at all locations every six months
for methodology of data collection and
accuracy of data reported.
The improvement journey continued
with many hospitals showing
improvement in parameters over the
year 2013.
≤0.80
4
0.81-1.20
3
1.21-1.60
2
1.61-2.00
1
>2.00
0
clinical excellence
ACE @ 25 is a clinical balanced
scorecard incorporating 25 clinical
quality parameters involving
complication rates, mortality rates, one
year survival rates and average length
of stay after major procedures like
liver and renal transplant, CABG, TKR,
THR, TURP, PTCA, endoscopy, large
bowel resection and MRM covering all
major specialities. Also included are
hospital acquired infection rates, pain
satisfaction and medication errors.
Parameters have been benchmarked
against the published bench marks of
the world’s best hospitals including
Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic,
National Healthcare Safety Network,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
AHRQ US, Columbia University Medical
Center and US Census Bureau. There
are weighted scores for outcomes
color coded green, orange and red. The
cumulative score achievable is capped
at 100.
The
collective
data for all
locations can
be viewed by
the Group
leadership at
any point in
time. Scores
are linked to
appraisal of
the medical
head and CEO
and there
is an “ACE @
25” Champion
Award for
the highest
scorer.
Few examples:
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ACE @ 25 clinical excellence
scorecard data has been reported for
four years now. The Group recognized
the outstanding performance of a
hospital in each of Group A, B and C
for the year 2013 as in 2010, 2011 and
2012. The median ACE @ 25 score
for each hospital was computed and
their ACAT score was added to it. The
hospital scoring the maximum was
awarded the ACE @ 25 champion
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clinical excellence
ACE @ 25 awards
award. Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad
from Group A hospitals, Apollo
Hospitals, Secunderabad from Group
B hospitals and Apollo Hospitals,
Bhilai and Apollo Hospitals, Noida
from Group C hospitals were declared
ACE @ 25 champions and were
awarded the trophies along with a
cash prize of 2.5 lakhs, 1.5 lakhs and 1
lakh each respectively.
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the locations.
clinical excellence
Safety Apollo Quality Program
during The Apollo Quality Program was
clinical started in December 2010 to
handovers, implement patient safety practices in
Surgical all our Apollo Hospitals irrespective
accreditation status. It covers four
safety, ofbroad
areas: Safety during clinical
Medication handovers, Surgical safety, Medication
safety and safety and the Six International
Safety Goals of JCI. After
the Six Patient
four months of implementing the
International processes, data collection on the
Patient Safety monitoring dashboard was started in
Goals of JCI. April 2011 with monthly feedback to
In July 2012, AQP was strengthened
with an AQP observation template that
guided the observation methodology
for each parameter.
In October 2012, an AQP audit tool was
used for the ACAT audit and the score
for AQP compliance was enhanced.
An analysis of the parameters in 2013
has shown an increase in compliance
levels for various parameters. The
group average AQP score has also
increased.
AQP was presented as a poster at the
ISQua conference in 2013.
Below are a few examples of
improvement at different Apollo
locations:
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In Apollo’s pursuit of excellence,
our latest quality initiative ACEP
was launched in June 2013. It is a
standardized tool to share the best
practices for clinical excellence and
quality improvement implemented by
Apollo hospitals with other healthcare
providers.
The initiative is pro-bono and
is intended to contribute to
enhancement of quality of healthcare
delivered across India.
ACEP is a standardized tool which can
be used by any hospital across the
country to drive quality improvement,
improvement in patient safety and
better clinical outcomes. ACEP
comprises of important indicator sets
for monitoring quality and clinical
excellence along with policies which
would deal with the core processes in
patient care.
Methodology
ACEP comprises of three levels of
expertise and runs in phases as the
hospitals become more competent
to take on higher expectations and
stringent benchmarks. A three month
trial run is conducted where each
hospital shares their data with their
assigned experts. The results are then
collated and analysed for consistency
and accuracy for three months before
ACEP is fully implemented in the
hospital.
Quarterly data is be collected, collated
and analysed by a central team for
understanding the trends achieved for
each parameter implemented by the
hospital. In case there is a downwards
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trend or the indicator features in red,
the hospital is requested to draw an
improvement plan. Implementation of
expected polices is scrutinized. Where
ever necessary, best practices and
policies followed by Apollo Hospitals
are shared to improve the scores.
clinical excellence
ACE Platform (ACEP)
Annual data is then analyzed and
presented to the hospital to show
consistency or improvements in
their outcomes. The data of each
hospital is kept absolutely confidential
to maintain the integrity of our
relationship.
After a period of three months,
an audit is conducted by us for
understanding the trends achieved for
each parameter implemented by the
hospital.
Hospital Inclusion Criteria
1.Bed strength 25 beds or more
2.Laboratory
3.Radiology
4.ICU with ventilator
5.Operation Theatre
6.CSSD
7.Duty Medical Officer (MBBS) at night
8.Registered nurses
9. Emergency department
The Implementation
The ACE Platform is rolled out in 3
phases in the hospitals.
Each phase comprises of
implementation of IPSGs, hospital
policies and hospital indicators. At
Level 1, eight systems and processes
are established in the adopted
organization. Once the proposed
structures are operational, then
four more initiatives are taken up
in Level 2 and four more over and
Annual
data is then
analyzed and
presented to
the hospital
to show
consistency or
improvements
in their
outcomes.
The data of
each hospital
is kept
absolutely
confidential
to maintain
the integrity
of our
relationship.
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The total
score
obtained by
the adopted
organisation
after Level
1 is 100
points. After
attaining
Level 2 the
total score is
150 points
Phase III: Level 3
Once the adopted organisation has
fully implemented and sustained
the components of Level 2, then it
Two IPSGs
• Improving
communication through
the use of read back
for verbal orders
• Implementing the
process for preventing
wrong patient,
wrong side, wrong
procedure surgery
moves on to the Level 3, wherein
new expectations are established
in addition to the sustenance of
components of previous two levels.
One hospital indicator
• Ventilator associated
Pneumonia
One hospital policy
• Policy on daily check
of defibrillators and
oxygen cylinders
Phase I: Level 1
The Level 1 comprises of
Three IPSGs
• Correct patient
identification
• Preventing
healthcare associated
infections
• Implementing a falls
risk assessment and
prevention program
Three hospital
indicators
• Catheter related
Urinary Tract
Infection (CR-­UTI)
• Prescription
Medication Errors
• Pressure Ulcers
Phase II: Level 2
Once the adopted organisation has
fully implemented and sustained the
components of Level 1, it seamlessly
moves on to the next level i.e. Level 2,
One IPSG
• Improving the
safety of high alert
medication
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total score is 150 points (100 points
for eight parameters established
in Level 1 + 50 points for four more
parameters incorporated in Level 2).
Once the hospital has successfully
implemented Level 3, then it is scored
on 200 points.
Two hospital policies
• Policy on consent
• Policies for patient
education for surgical
procedures
wherein, new systems are established
in addition to the continuing
sustenance of components of the
previous level.
The Level 2 comprises of:
Two hospital indicators
• Catheter Related
Blood Stream
Infections (CR-­BSI)
• Surgical site
infections
One hospital policy
• Policies for reporting
critical results for
diagnostic tests
Quality assurance in healthcare in
India is a collective responsibility
of all healthcare providers. While
each hospital does its own best, the
sharing of best practices for quality
improvement across the spectrum
shall be the driving spirit in achieving
safe and quality patient care. ACE
Platform is a stepping stone in this
direction. The plan is to embark this
important quality initiative in as many
hospitals as we can towards raising
the bar on quality healthcare in India.
This endeavour shall allow us to
serve our target community in a more
objective and evidence based manner.
15 hospitals have adopted ACEP.
clinical excellence
above previous levels in Level 3.
When the systems and processes are
in place then these parameters are
scored on a pre-defined scale. The
total score obtained by the adopted
organisation after Level 1 is 100
points. After attaining Level 2 the
Apollo Innovation and
Quality Awards 2013
Nominations for Apollo Innovation and
Quality Awards 2013 were invited from
all locations in six categories:
• Excellence in Operations
• Excellence in Community Service
• Excellence in Clinical Services
• Excellence in Environmental
Conservation
• Excellence in HR Practices
• Excellence in Financial
Management
Nominations were open from 15th
October to 15th November 2013.
183 nominations were received from
19 locations.
ACE Platform
is a stepping
stone in this
direction.
The plan is to
embark this
important
quality
initiative
in as many
hospitals
as we can
towards
raising the
bar on quality
healthcare in
India.
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Nominations for Apollo Innovation and Quality Awards
Sr. No.
Location
Number
1
Hyderabad
37
2
Chennai
33
3
Delhi
22
4
Bangalore
13
5
ASH, Teynampet
13
6
ACH
12
7
Madurai
8
Excellence in Financial Practices
Mr Krishnan Akhileshwaran
Mr Sriram MS
Excellence in Environmental
Conservation
Mr Ravichandran
Mr C Natrajan
The top five projects in each
category are:
Excellence in clinical services:
Bangalore
Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Surgery making
recovery from heart surgery faster and painless
10
Delhi
Safety Smart Isolation Rooms
ASH Vanagaram
10
Delhi
9
Kolkata
7
10
Bhubaneswar
4
Apollo Accreditation Program (AAP): A web based
Joint Commission International Standards compliance
management tool
11
Bilaspur
4
Delhi
Pressure Ulcer - Zero tolerance
12
Ludhiana
3
Kolkata
Project CODE GREEN
13
Dhaka
5
14
Karur
2
15
Mysore
2
16
Kakinada
2
17
Ahmedabad
2
18
AFMH
1
19
Hyderguda
1
Award winner: Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Surgery Making recovery
from heart surgery faster and painless, Bangalore
Excellence in operations:
Chennai
Voice of customer process to capture patient
engagement
Chennai
The number of nominations in each category was as follows:
Moving the axis of care: redesigning space for
international standards multidisciplinary
critical care unit to deliver patient-centric and efficient
services
Chennai
Technology as an enabler for operational excellence
Excellence in operations
Excellence in clinical services
Excellence in financial practices
Excellence in HR practices
Excellence in community service
Excellence in environmental conservation
Chennai
Decentralization of report dispatch
ASH
Medication error reduction program
Chennai
Digitalization of X Ray films: an EMR initiative
70
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25
16
14
10
The nominations were judged by our esteemed panel of jury
members:
Excellence in Clinical Services
Dr Ranjit Roy Chaudhury
Dr Sita Naik
Excellence in Operations
Mr Prem Kumar
Mr Seemant Jauhri
Excellence in Community Service
Mr Sudhir Diggikar
Mr Vikram Thaploo
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Excellence in HR Practices
Mr Jacob Jacob
Mr K Prabhakar
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Number of nominations location wise was as below:
Award winner: Voice of customer process to capture patient engagement,
Chennai
Excellence in HR practices:
Delhi
People connect program
Bangalore
Creating a consultant pipeline at Apollo Hospitals,
Bangalore
Chennai
SET (service excellence training modules)
Hyderabad
Nurse recognition program
Delhi
Demystifying the Da Vinci Code of Performance
Management
Award winner: People connect program, Delhi
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Kolkata
Apollo Youwecan Cancer Screening Initiative – The Largest
Cancer Screening Drive Of The World
Hyderabad
To increase the follow-ups of stroke patients and conduct
stroke clubs regularly
Karur
Anbudan Apollo
Hyderabad
Increasing cancer awareness by follow ups through clubs
ASH
Defeat Breast Cancer, Join the fight – One step at a time
Bilaspur
Awareness against female foeticide
clinical excellence
Excellence in community services:
Award winner: Apollo Youwecan Cancer Screening Initiative – The Largest
Cancer Screening Drive Of The World, Kolkata
Excellence in environmental conservation:
Kolkata
A Commitment to Go Green
Bhubaneswar A Step Forward – Efficient Energy Conservation @AHB 12 -13
Delhi
Initiatives for Environment- Energy Conservation and Waste
Water Reuse
Hyderguda
Reduction of Water and Electricity Consumption
Chennai
Plastic waste management
Award winner: A Commitment to Go Green, Kolkata
Excellence in financial practices:
Delhi
Act Smart: Health pockets Healthy Heart
Chennai
Re-use of Single use devices – Boon or Bane
Chennai
Pattern analysis: reflection of changing customer needs
(service excellence leading to financial excellence)
Bangalore
Comparative Study Between New Packing System And
Conventional Cloth Packing
Hyderabad
Double the assurance campaign
Award winner: Act Smart: Health pockets Healthy Heart, Delhi
Share your story
All Apollo hospitals in their journey
towards excellence have made
innovations to overcome hurdles they
face in various processes. As a group,
it is important that we share these
best practices and innovations so that
other hospitals can learn from what
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another has achieved. The “Share your
story” initiative was conceptualised
with this view of sharing of best
practices amongst Apollo Group
hospitals on one chosen topic every
quarter. The initiative started in
October 2012. The “Share
your story”
initiative was
conceptualised
with this view
of sharing of
best practices
amongst
Apollo Group
hospitals on
one chosen
topic every
quarter.
The initiative
started in
October 2012.
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Jan - Mar 2013:
Patient falls
The winner: Apollo Hospitals, Delhi
and Bhubaneswar
April - June 2013:
ALOS post renal transplant
The winner: Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore
July – Sept 2013:
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July - September 2013:
Pressure Ulcers
The winner: Apollo Hospitals, Delhi
Oct – Dec 2013:
Needle Stick injuries
The winner: Apollo Hospitals, Dhaka
The Best Apollo Clinic Awards
clinical excellence
The topics for the quarters in 2013 were:
Apollo Clinic, Sarjapur, Karnataka
Region and Chandanagar Clinic,
Andhra Region, received the best
Apollo Clinic Awards for 2013.
Awards were given to the best story in
each quarter on Founder’s day.
Leadership Awards
Young Leadership Awards
The Outstanding Leader Award from
Apollo Hospitals for 2013 was given
to Dr. Anupam Sibal, Group Medical
Director, Apollo Hospitals and Dr.
Udhaya Balasubramanian, Group
Director, Preventive Medicine.
The Young Leader Award from Apollo
Hospitals was given to Mr.V. Jagadesh
and Mr. A. Samuel.
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Category A : Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals - Kolkata
Category B : Apollo Speciality Hospitals - Chennai
Best Patient Engagement Award
and Employee Wellness Award
Apollo Main Hospital, Chennai
received the award for the highest
Patient engagement scores for
In Patient and Out Patient (as per
Gallup external survey) and Apollo
Glenegales Hospitals, Kolkata
received the Employee Wellness
Award for the best adherence to all
wellness initiatives from April 2013 Jan 2014.
clinical excellence
5S Awards
Special Achievement Awards
Group Nursing Director, Capt. Usha
Banerjee and the Nursing Team for
standardization of nursing protocols
across the Group.
Dr Harinder Singh Sidhu and Africa
Team for their excellent results in
engagement with Africa.
Mr. Srinivasulu Reddy and Team
for undertaking new projects in the
Hyderabad region.
Apollo International
Forum on Infection
Control, January 5-6,
2013
The core of the Apollo story is the
Group’s unique prowess in clinical
excellence, revolutionary expertise
and the warm culture of Tender Loving
Care. This defines the philosophy
that makes Apollo Hospitals a
trusted healthcare provider. It is this
philosophy that has propelled our
mission to touch lives, to heal and to
improve healthcare delivery in India
continuously. The Apollo Hospitals Group has
consistently envisioned patients’
needs and introduced game changing
innovations. Its path breaking
developments in clinical excellence
and nurturing expertise stems from
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a simple goal to make the patient
experience safer and better, it is this
passion that led to the 1st Apollo
International Forum on Infection
Control (AIFIC) on January 5-6, 2013.
Infection Control being a rapidly
evolving field within the Health
Care sector, this forum brought
together some of the best renowned
international and regional professionals
in this field. The forum offered a
unique platform to share the latest
advances in infection control practices
and strategies. Series of scientific
sessions were organized which focused
on best practices, existing concerns,
practical implementation tools and
The core of
the Apollo
story is
the Group’s
unique
prowess
in clinical
excellence,
revolutionary
expertise
and the warm
culture of
Tender Loving
Care.
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Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Chairman,
Apollo Hospitals Group said, “Infection
Control is one of the top most
priorities in hospitals to help improve
patient outcomes and reduce length of
stay. With advent of newer antibiotics,
there has been a progressive rise in
the incidence of antibiotic resistance.
While it is a worldwide phenomenon,
the nature of antibiotic resistance
varies widely from country to country.
This is an undesirable and inevitable
trend, it is a challenge.”
latest advances in the field of Infection
Control and Prevention while promoting
reflective discussions among speakers
and delegates from various disciplines. Through AIFIC we witnessed huge
enthusiasm and participation from
not only speakers but also delegates
and sponsors. The event saw more
than 20 speakers, above 600 delegates
and support from sponsors like J &
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J, 3M, BD, Raman & Weill, Johnson
Diversey, Lysoform and many others.
The feedback and appreciation
letters from speakers, delegates and
sponsors showed that our efforts
to achieve the aim of spreading the
message of prevention and control of
infection were successful.
Diverse as we may be in our locations,
the zeal to excel is the common
thread that binds all our hospitals. We
continuously strive towards improving
the processes to achieve the best
outcomes for our patients.
The 3rd International
Congress on Patient
Safety
The 3rd International Congress on
Patient Safety was held on the 6th and
7th September, 2013 at Hyderabad.
The conference was hosted by the
Apollo Hospitals Group and supported
by ISQua, Joint Commission
International, World Health
Organization, Quality Council of India
and other reputed organizations.
It was attended by an overwhelming
850 delegates from across the globe.
The multidisciplinary sessions
saw participation from healthcare
professionals across the spectrum
ranging from doctors, nurses,
paramedics, policy makers, CEO’s,
administrators, patient safety experts,
quality managers and members of
professional societies.
Eminent personalities in the patient
safety space from across the globe
spoke at the conference. They
included Dr Nata Menabde, Regional
Representative (India), World Health
Organization, Dr Janne Lehmannn
Knudsen, ISQUA Board member,
Denmark, Ms Ann Jacobson,
Executive Director, Joint Commission
International, US, Lord Nigel Crisp,
Former CEO, NHS, UK and Vinod
Khosla, Co-Founder, Sun Micro
Systems, California, U.S.A.
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Some of the Conference highlights
were:
•• Information technology in Infection
Control- Gearing up for 2020
•• Employees health in Indian
hospitals
•• Designing your facility for Infection
Control
•• Infection Control in limited
resources: the Eternal Struggle
•• SUD: Safe or Sorry?
•• Nightmare of outbreak
investigations
•• Tackling MDROs
•• Perspectives on Antimicrobial
Stewardship
•• Natural Ventilation: Rethinking
respiratory
•• UTI, VAP, BSI, SSI Bundles
•• Disinfecting scopes the right way
•• Surveillance of HAI: Coming Age
Dr. Prathap
C. Reddy,
Chairman,
Apollo
Hospitals
Group said,
Infection
Control is
one of the
top most
priorities in
hospitals to
help improve
patient
outcomes
and reduce
length of
stay.
A well-knit program covered
presentations, panel discussions,
poster presentations, patient safety
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To recognize the best examples of the
work done on patient safety and to
disseminate them more widely within
the healthcare community so that
they could be replicated elsewhere, Dr
Prathap C Reddy’s Safe Care Awards
were also given away by Mr Kiran
Kumar Reddy, Chief Minister Andhra
Pradesh.
The Patient Safety
Declaration
The third International Congress on
Patient Safety held in Hyderabad
on the 6th and 7th September, 2013
saw the launch of the Patient Safety
Declaration.
The Declaration was signed by all
participating delegates and speakers
on behalf of their institutions covering
156 healthcare organizations.
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The declaration is as follows:
1.Every hospital shall have a person
designated for patient safety.
2.Every hospital shall have a
patient safety committee with
representatives from medical
services, nursing, engineering,
housekeeping, pharmacy and
infection control that shall meet
every quarter.
3.Every hospital shall train all its
employees on patient safety issues.
4.Every hospital shall educate its
patients on patient safety issues.
5.Every hospital shall have a policy and
implemented system on reporting of
adverse events within the organization.
6.Every hospital shall collect rates for
the following patient safety indices:
• Hospital acquired infections
• Patient falls
• Pressure ulcers
• Needle stick injuries
• Medication errors
7.All hospitals shall join hands to
form a National Patient Safety
Network for sharing of best
practices in patient safety. Every
hospital shall endeavor to prevent
never events listed by the National
Quality Forum.
clinical excellence
awards and display of the most widely
accepted patient safety tools. Best
practices and posters covering all
the aspects of patient care were also
presented at this platform.
Every hospital
shall have a
patient safety
committee with
representatives
from medical
services,
nursing,
engineering,
housekeeping,
pharmacy
and infection
control that
shall meet
every quarter.
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Surgical events
Surgery or other invasive procedure performed on the wrong body part
Surgery or other invasive procedure performed on the wrong patient
Wrong surgical or other invasive procedure performed on a patient
Unintended retention of a foreign object in a patient after surgery or other
procedure
Intraoperative or immediately postoperative/postprocedure death in an
American Society of Anesthesiologists Class I patient
Product or device events
Patient death or serious injury associated with the use of contaminated drugs,
devices, or biologics provided by the health care setting
Patient death or serious injury associated with the use or function of a
device in patient care, in which the device is used for functions other than as
intended
Patient death or serious injury associated with intravascular air embolism
that occurs while being cared for in a health care setting
Any incident in which a line designated for oxygen or other gas to be delivered
to a patient contains no gas, the wrong gas, or is contaminated by toxic
substances
Patient or staff death or serious injury associated with a burn incurred from
any source in the course of a patient care process in a health care setting
Patient death or serious injury associated with the use of restraints or
bedrails while being cared for in a health care setting
Radiologic events
Death or serious injury of a patient or staff associated with introduction of a
metallic object into the MRI area
Criminal events
Any instance of care ordered by or provided by someone impersonating a
physician, nurse, pharmacist, or other licensed health care provider
Abduction of a patient/resident of any age
Sexual abuse/assault on a patient within or on the grounds of a health care
setting
Death or significant injury of a patient or staff member resulting from a
physical assault (i.e., battery) that occurs within or on the grounds of a health
care setting
Patient protection events
Discharge or release of a patient/resident of any age, who is unable to make
decisions, to other than an authorized person
Patient death or serious disability associated with patient elopement
(disappearance)
Patient suicide, attempted suicide, or self-harm resulting in serious disability,
while being cared for in a health care facility
Care management events
Patient death or serious injury associated with a medication error (e.g., errors
involving the wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong patient, wrong time, wrong rate,
wrong preparation, or wrong route of administration)
Patient death or serious injury associated with unsafe administration of blood
products
Maternal death or serious injury associated with labor or delivery in a low-risk
pregnancy while being cared for in a health care setting
Death or serious injury of a neonate associated with labor or delivery in a
low-risk pregnancy
Artificial insemination with the wrong donor sperm or wrong egg
Patient death or serious injury associated with a fall while being cared for in a
health care setting
Any stage 3, stage 4, or unstageable pressure ulcers acquired after admission/
presentation to a health care facility
Patient death or serious disability resulting from the irretrievable loss of an
irreplaceable biological specimen
Patient death or serious injury resulting from failure to follow up or
communicate laboratory, pathology, or radiology test results
Environmental events
Patient or staff death or serious disability associated with an electric shock in
the course of a patient care process in a health care setting
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The National Quality Forum’s Health Care “Never Events”
(2011 Revision)
Handholding Workshop
on Patient Safety
Patient safety is now recognized as
a serious global public health issue
with estimates showing that as many
as one in 10 patients in developed
countries is harmed while receiving
hospital care, in developing countries,
the probability is higher.
Apollo Hospitals, in their quest of
excellence, have made numerous
initiatives in patient safety. To develop
a culture of “something to teach,
something to learn”, Apollo Hospitals
have embarked on an initiative to
share its best practices in patient
safety with other hospitals who wish
to start / improve patient safety
initiatives in their hospitals.
With this end, the Handholding
Workshop on Patient Safety was
organized at Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi on 12th and
13th April, 2013. It was supported by
NABH, the Department of Hospital
Administration at AIIMS, the INCLEN
trust and BD as knowledge partners.
Three to five member teams from
25 hospitals attended the workshop.
Hospital CEOs, medical heads, nursing
leaders, surgeons, microbiologists,
nurses and quality representatives
formed part of the teams.
The workshop guided the
implementation process through four
workshops:
•• Infection Control
•• Surgical Safety
•• Medication Safety
•• Patient Falls
Apollo
Hospitals, in
their quest of
excellence,
have made
numerous
initiatives in
patient safety.
To develop a
culture of
“something
to teach,
something to
learn”
The workshops were conducted
by the quality heads of various
Apollo Hospitals. The highlight of
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The workshop received excellent
feedback from the delegates with 90%
of the delegates rating it as Excellent /
Very good.
A few glimpses:
Building a brighter
tomorrow; mentoring
and knowledge sharing
initiative in clinical
nutrition practice
Department of Dietetics, Apollo
Hospitals Group
Knowledge Sharing is an activity
through which knowledge
(information, skills or expertise) is
exchanged among professionals,
communities, organizations etc.
Organizations have recognized that
knowledge constitutes a valuable
intangible asset for creating and
sustaining competitive advantages.
Knowledge sharing activities are
generally supported by knowledge
management system which enables
healthcare organizations to achieve
many strategic goals such as
providing opportunity for improving
clinical services, operational
efficiency, and achieve growth through
innovation and implementation.
Technological developments,
globalization and competition
significantly accelerate the process
of creating new knowledge to sustain
leadership.
Sharing Clinical Nutrition Knowledge
vertical is a vital action point in our
road map to success. The philosophy
of the Department of Dietetics in our
Group is to establish and encourage
good nutritional practices and
standards as an integral part of the
health care provided. Being patientcentric is not a goal, it is the core of
our existence, in providing the highest
quality nutrition care and dietetic
services, to advancing practice of
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clinical excellence
the workshop were case studies,
group activities, discussions and
demonstrations through videos.
The delegates got an opportunity
to witness the processes in actual
implementation through visits to the
wards and ICUs.
clinical nutrition including developing
specialist dietetic teams within the
department, using evidence-based
practice to develop effective therapies
and new treatments, and to educate
future Dieticians and other healthcare
providers.
We believe in combining Evidencebased care with our signature Tender
Loving Care. Our Clinical Nutrition
team translated this into their practice
and works closely with Clinical
teams in developing patient specific
nutrition. We always strive to update
and upgrade in the field of clinical
nutrition which has helped us adopt
an approach for quality improvement
to benchmark our nutrition practices.
The Clinical Nutrition Update is
an annual event, which addresses
aspects of patient care at hospitals
and also that of hospital-based
nutritional intervention. There is
ample evidence that a team approach
to nutritional intervention in the
hospitalized patient has a beneficial
Knowledge
Sharing is
an activity
through which
knowledge
(information,
skills or
expertise) is
exchanged
among
professionals,
communities,
organizations
etc.
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In an advancing medical landscape,
dieticians play a greater role than
ever before and therefore it is critical
that they continuously stay abreast
of global trends and development in
the field. The main objective of the
updates was to have an impact on
the knowledge base of the practicing
dieticians to meet the ever-increasing
and changing demands on their
expertise which is an important factor
influencing their professional growth.
Some of the interesting topics so
far covered during these updates
include Nutrition planning during
Solid organ transplants, Inborn errors
of metabolism, Critically ill patients,
kidney diseases, Chemo and radio
therapy, Bariatric procedures.
clinical excellence
Malnutrition
is a major
contributor
to an
increased
morbidity and
mortality,
decreased
function
and quality
of life,
increased
frequency
and length of
hospital stay
and higher
healthcare
cost.
effect on patient outcome. Hence,
in the Scientific Programme of the
Updates, Doctors and Dieticians
together as a team address medical
and nutritional requirements of
different clinical conditions. The
event faculty includes distinguished
National and International
Physicians, Surgeons, Paediatricians,
Intensivists, and Clinical Dieticians,
who are wellknown nationally or
internationally for their contribution to
Clinical Nutrition.
The first CNU was initiated in the
year 2009, held at Chennai only for
the Apollo Group dieticians and
subsequently conducted in different
metros for the benefit of the dieticians
at various regions.
CNU 2009 – Chennai
CNU 2010 – Chennai
International CNU 2011 – New Delhi.
International CNU 2012 – Kolkata.
International CNU 2013 – Hyderabad
International CNU 2014 – Planned to
be held at Bangalore.
These events are a platform for the
Apollo Group Dieticians to gather and
discuss the points to be implemented
in all the hospitals towards
standardization processes and roll out
the group initiatives.
Hyderabad Nutrition
Declaration:
Malnutrition is a major contributor to
an increased morbidity and mortality,
decreased function and quality of life,
increased frequency and length of
hospital stay and higher healthcare
cost. Hence, Nutrition screening
accomplished within 24 hours of
admission and nutrition assessment
by a dietician helps to find out the
degree of malnutrition and decide
on the nutrition care plan. In view
of the above, during the 5th Apollo
International Clinical nutrition update
at Hyderabad, there was a “Hyderabad
Nutrition Declaration” made with the
following points. It was acknowledged
by all participants.
•• Every Hospital should have a
Dietitian
•• Every In-patient of the hospital
should have a nutrition assessment
•• Dietician should be part of
multidisciplinary team.
Reference Books released
during the Clinical Nutrition
Updates:
The Department of Dietetics has been
releasing valuable reference books
and Dietitian’s pocket guides every
year, during the Clinical Nutrition
Updates.
2009- Apollo Clinical Nutrition Manual
2010- Apollo Pediatric Clinical
Nutrition Manual
2011– Best of Basics in Clinical
Nutrition – Dietitians Pocket Book
2012 – Dietetics Pocket guide to
Pediatric Clinical Nutrition
2013 – Beyond the Basics: Transplant
Nutrition, Dietitian’s Pocket Guide
These books are practical and
comprehensive for use by all the
practicing Clinical Dieticians.
Department of Dietetics of Apollo
Hospitals will continue the mission
of knowledge sharing in clinical
nutrition.
The
Department
of Dietetics
has been
releasing
valuable
reference
books and
Dietitian’s
pocket Guides
every year,
during the
Clinical
Nutrition
Updates.
New in Medicine
“New in Medicine” is compiled under
four heads after studying leading
medical journals, major medical news
sites and numerous web resources:
A.Drugs
B.Clinical Research
C.Devices
D.Treatment guidelines
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The report is also now published as
a quarterly report to be sent to all
community physicians and Apollo
Clinic doctors. It is also sent to Apollo
Munich. New in Medicine is now part
of the Apollo Knowledge Repository
CD being sent to all General
Physicians.
Clinical Innovation
Report
Maximum
cadaveric
liver
transplant
in India and
3 cadaver
liver and 1
live related
(total 4)
transplants
were done
within a span
of 24 hrs.
Medicine is evolving at a
tremendous pace. It is imperative
that all healthcare providers
including clinicians and healthcare
administrators keep themselves up
to date with the latest research in
treatment techniques, new drugs
and technology to be able to provide
the best clinical care to the patients.
Clinical innovations are rapidly
changing the way clinical care is
delivered around the world today.
In April 2013, Apollo initiated the
publication of a quarterly report titled
“Clinical innovation report” which
covered the following:
Section 1: New in Medicine
A.Drugs
B.Clinical Research
C.Devices
D.Treatment guidelines
Section 2: New in Technology
Section 3: News Highlights and
Clinical Innovations from Apollo
Hospitals
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These include:
•• A new procedure, done for the
first time in India / the region and
which is considered by a reasonable
body of medical opinion to be
significantly different from existing
clinical practice
•• A rare procedure e.g. a TKR in a 94
year old patient or liver transplant
in a 4 kg baby
•• Variation in an operating procedure
or intervention or diagnostic
procedure
•• A new medical treatment
•• Large volumes of a complex / rare
procedure
Few clinical innovations from Apollo
Hospitals during 2013 are given below:
a) Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
Many robotic cardiac and pediatric
urologic surgeries were performed.
Robotic donor nephrectomies were
also performed.
Maximum cadaveric liver transplant
in India and 3 cadaver liver and 1 live
related (total 4) transplants were done
within a span of 24 hrs.
“I SEE U” facility for virtual intensive
visit by family and consultant from
anywhere in the world was introduced.
Molecular diagnostic laboratory and
cytogenetics were introduced.
BRTO – Retrograde balloon occlusion
test for varices was performed by
interventional radiologists.
Vascular closure device for puncture
site with PERCLOSE was done by
interventional radiologists.
Cutting balloon angioplasty for carotid
in-stent stenosis was performed by
interventional radiologists.
Intrarterial chemotherapy for
retinoblastoma was performed
in liaison with Sankranethralaya
Hospital.
Joint replacement of left knee and
right hip in a patient with ochronotic
arthritis was performed, a rare case
of combined surgery.
Successful angioplasty was performed
on a man, aged 29, with a 100 per cent
blocked artery, and another, aged 50,
with three blocks, at Apollo Hospitals,
Ayanambakkam.
Apollo Speciality Hospital became
the first to help with safe collection
of stem cells from a volunteer donor
from DATRI. The DATRI donor drive
kick started at Apollo Speciality
Hospital for donors who wish to
register. Anybody in the age group
of 18 -50, who is medically fit, can
volunteer to register himself / herself
by donating a sample of his / her
cheek cells, which is then screened
and registered. When a patient in need
of transplant approaches, the match
donor is called to donate stem cells
which are usually done as a peripheral
blood donation. Apollo Speciality
Hospital, Chennai is one of the few
centers in India with facilities to
search for a potential unrelated donor
and offer transplantation. Also, In fact,
the hospital has been instrumental in
performing 50 such procedures over
the past few years thus offering a
unique opportunity for patients to get
cured.
In what can be considered a historical
case attempted by an Indian Private
Hospital, Apollo Specialty Hospitals in
Vanagaram declared the successful
separation of Pygopagus twins
from Tanzania-Ericana&Eluidi.
A marathon surgery of 18 hours
conducted by a chosen team of
20 doctors from the specialties
of neurosurgery, plastic surgery,
paediatric surgery and paediatric
urology was led by Dr.VenkataSripathi,
Senior Consultant Paediatric
Urologist and Dr.RoshiniGopinathan,
Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon,
Apollo Children’s Hospitals. The
Surgery, which began at 7:00 AM on
December 16, 2013 concluded with
the successful separation of the twin
nine month old boys at 1:00 AM on
December 17, 2013.
b) Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore
First Y shaped stent was put for
tracheoesophageal fistula in the
region.
Four autologous chondrocyte
implantations were done, a rare
procedure.
Other rare procedures performed
were Spinal angiolipoma excision
and Tibial tuberosity shift with MPSL
reconstruction.
clinical excellence
New in Medicine is published monthly
to be sent to all Apollo consultants.
XXVI issues have been published till
December 2013.
Apollo
Speciality
Hospital
became the
first to help
with safe
collection
of stem
cells from
a volunteer
donor from
DATRI. The
DATRI donor
drive kick
started
at Apollo
Speciality
Hospital
for donors
who wish to
register.
Variation in an operating procedure or
intervention or diagnostic procedure
was seen in Left coronary cusp VT
ablation and percutaneous renal
denervation for resistant HTN in post
transplant patient of the native renal
artery.
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Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore has the
distinction of performing largest
series of airway stents in the country.
A 97 year old
female with
Kyphosis and
obstructive
lung
disease was
successfully
operated
for Empyema
Gall Bladder
and Acute
Calculus
Cholecystitis
by
Laparoscopic
Cholecystectomy.
Apollo Bangalore treated a patient
with difficulty in walking due to a hip
problem, through the Mini incision hip
replacement. This innovative approach
uses a cementless or cemented
implant that grows into the bone.
A 97 year old female with Kyphosis
and obstructive lung disease was
successfully operated for Empyema
Gall Bladder and Acute Calculus
Cholecystitis by Laparoscopic
Cholecystectomy.
Apollo Specialty Hospital at Jayanagar,
Bengaluru performed a complicated
rare complete elbow replacement
surgery. The patient, a native of
Udupi district in Karnataka, had
swelling in multiple joints and severe
anaemia. Her haemoglobin levels
had dropped to five. She also had
almost no movement in her left elbow
joint, which was locked at ninety
degrees and was irreparable through
medication. She underwent treatment
for rheumatic arthritis which reduced
by over 80 per cent. Once the
rheumatic arthritis had stabilized, the
consulting team decided to operate on
the joint and replace it.
c) Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals,
Delhi
A 90-year old woman fully recovered
from a stroke after she was treated
with Thrombolysis at Apollo Delhi.
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She had suffered a brain stroke due
to which she had suffered complete
paralysis of left arm and left leg. She
also could not turn her eyes to the
left. She was rushed to hospital within
two hours of the stroke, where doctors
administered her with Intravenous
Thrombolysis to dissolve the blood
clot in the brain.
hip fracture and had been bedridden
for two months. The patient recovered
successfully and has started walking
again.
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
successfully treated a 64 years old
woman, who was suffering from three
kinds of cancer – Uterus, Breast and
Oesophagus.
The Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
was the medical partner of JPSI,
organizer of India’s fastest racing
event, the 2013 Indian Grand Prix.
A 68 Year old woman underwent Total
Knee Replacement for both the knees
using patient specific instrumentation
at Indraprastha Apollo hospitals.
Bilateral total hip replacement
surgery was done on a 29 year old
Nigerian lady suffering from sickle
cell disease at Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals.
Doctors at the Indraprastha Apollo
Hospital successfully treated the
eleventh member of a Pakistani family
for an orthopaedic problem.
Dr. Priyadarshini Pal Singh was
nominated as the 1st Indian Chief
Medical Officer for the event.
The Apollo Hospitals Group marked
the 15th anniversary of its Liver
Transplant program with a gathering
of transplant patients and their family
members at the hospital. The event
was graced by the presence of His
Holiness, The Dalai Lama, who spoke
on the wisdom of compassion to
patients and staff of the hospital.
clinical excellence
A new medical treatment was
performed in the form of Coronary
perforation treated with covered stent
- hand made in cath lab.
The event was
graced by the
presence of
His Holiness,
The Dalai
Lama, who
spoke on the
wisdom of
compassion
to patients
and staff of
the hospital.
A 110 year old Kashmiri patient
successfully underwent surgery for
stomach cancer.
A 16 year old Jehovah follower
suffering from scoliosis underwent
a 7 hour surgery without blood
transfusion at Apollo Hospital New
Delhi; his faith prohibited him from
accepting the blood from anyone. The
blood loss was minimized, even the
blood loss that occurred was put in
a special chamber called cell saver.
Later the same blood cells were put in
his system.
Successful hip replacement at the age
of 94 was performed at Indraprastha
Apollo Hospitals. The patient had a
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Apollo
Gleneagles
Hospitals
gave a new
lease of life
to a 55 yearold patient
infected
with Leiomyosarcoma.
They treated
the patient
through a
new type
of surgery,
a first of
its kind in
Eastern India
to cure a
cancerous
tumour.
e) Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals,
Kolkata
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals
announced a significant extension
of the Company’s central laboratory
capabilities with the opening of
a state-of-the-art Nucleic acid
Amplification Testing (NAT) laboratory.
The addition of this laboratory testing
service enables Apollo to provide
in-region, near real-time NAT testing
required by pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies to ensure
the safest donor blood screening to
reduce the risk of HIV, HCV, and HBV
transmission through blood.
Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata
conducted the first ever Reverse
Shoulder Prosthesis Replacement in
East India. The surgery was conducted
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on an elderly patient who suffered
from multiple complications. The
operation was successful and helped
to restore pain-free movement of the
shoulder and limbs.
g) Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar
97 year old patient underwent
laparoscopic cholecystectomy for
Emyema and Gangrenous cholecystitis
at Apollo Bhubaneswar.
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals
performed a successful critical
neurosurgery on a child patient
suffering from a critical cyst
similar to a second head. The
eight-month-old child was born
with a rare and unheard condition of
Encephalomeningocele. The infant
who was far from leading a normal life
like children of his age has showed
signs of speedy recovery post the
surgery and got back to his regular
activities. This surgery was the first of
its kind in the entire country.
h) Apollo Hospitals, Dhaka
Coil embolization of left Lingual
artery of a young Patient having
Haemangioma who underwent
Haemangioma removal was done.
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals gave
a new lease of life to a 55 year-old
patient infected with Leiomyosarcoma.
They treated the patient through a
new type of surgery, a first of its kind
in Eastern India to cure a cancerous
tumour.
f) Apollo Health City, Hyderabad
Apollo Health City, Hyderabad
announced the successful completion
of its 700th Cochlear Implant. This
marks a new milestone in aiding of
the hearing impaired in the state of
Andhra Pradesh. A large percentage
of patients availing this treatment
have been from marginalized
sections of society and have received
support from SAHI (Society for the
Hearing Impaired) or utilized the
State Government Health Scheme of
Arogyasree.
Thrombus in IVC extending Bilateral
Femoral Veins to the Right Atrium was
successfully removed.
Successfully performed a Redo
Double Valve replacement for the first
time in Bangladesh.
Implanted 3rd successful PDA (Patent
ductus arteriosus) device in November
2013.
Successfully done an Aortic root
replacement (Bentall Procedure) in
a young male patient with Marfan
syndrome. 10.5 cm ascending
aortic aneurysm involving the root
causing severe aortic regurgitation
was repaired using a valved conduit
with re-implantation of the coronary
arteries.
Performed 7th successful Minimal
Invasive ASD Closure.
i) Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysore
Rare orthopaedic procedures
performed were minimal invasive
spine stabilisation and fusion surgery
and correction of spinal deformity
with a 100 degrees curve in a 24 year
old patient using the technique called
direct vertebral column rotation.
Rare CTVS procedures were closure
of bilateral coronary pulmonary artery
fistula and aortic valve replacement.
clinical excellence
d) Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad
Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad in
partnership with the 6th battalion of
the National Disaster Response Force
(NRDF) held an external disaster
mega mock drill near the Narmada
Main canal. The drill was in the spirit
of preparedness at the eventuality of a
natural or man-made contingency or
disaster. Officials from Gujarat State
Disaster Management Authority were
present at the drill. A heavy – motor
vehicle accident was deliberated
near the Narmada main canal and
25-30 victims, with varying degree of
injuries including death were bought
to Apollo Hospitals where they were
triaged, treated or disposed. The
employees of Apollo Hospitals were
trained and briefed about their roles
and responsibilities and some of them
played the role of accident victims
themselves.
New chemotherapy agent aflibercept
was introduced. Ziv-aflibercept
(ZALTRAP), in combination with
5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan(FOLFIRI), is indicated for patients
with metastatic colorectal cancer
(mCRC) that is resistant to or has
progressed following an oxaliplatincontaining regimen.
Non-operative management of
grade IV liver injury was done by
interventional embolization.
First reported case of surgery for
recurrent pancreatic carcinoma with
portal vein reconstruction done.
A young man, who is a forest guard
at Nagarahole, was brought with
severely mangled face due to wild
bear attack. His face was so severely
injured that it was beyond recognition.
He had added head injury also.
Since patient was facing difficulty in
breathing, he was immediately put on
ventilator. Next day morning he was
taken up for anterior cranial fossa
repair and entire face reconstruction.
Since he had lost right eye in bear
attack, nothing could had done for
that. The surgery took nearly 15
hours to reconstruct his face. His face
was reconstructed by microsurgical
technique. Bony reconstruction was
done and soft tissue repair was done
by transferring flesh from his thighs.
Since he developed salivary leak,
unilateral parotidectomy was also
done. Patient tolerated the surgery
very well and now he is back to his
work.
A young
man, who
is a forest
guard at
Nagarahole,
was brought
with severely
mangled face
due to wild
bear attack.
His face was
so severely
injured that
it was beyond
recognition.
He had added
head injury
also.
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mucosal Fibrosis (Article Published in
Indian Journal of Oto Laryngology and
Head, Neck Surgery).
JCI Accreditation
Sl. No. Name of Hospital
Ist Survey
Last Survey
1
Apollo Hospitals Bangalore
2008
2011
2
Apollo Hospitals Chennai
2006
2012
3
Apollo Hospitals Delhi
2005
2011
4
Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad
2006
2012
5
Apollo Hospitals Kolkata
2009
2012
6
Apollo Dhaka
2008
2011
Coronary
SPS Apollo Hospitals Ludhiana 2007
2013
bypass 78
Apollo Mauritius
2012
2012
surgery or
CABG, as it
is commonly NABH Accreditation
Last Survey
referred to, Sl. No Name of Hospital
Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad
2011
is often a 1
2
Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai
2010
life saving 3
Apollo Hospitals, Secunderabad
2011
procedure 4
Apollo Hospitals, Madurai
2009
where blood 5
Apollo Hospitals, Noida
2011
supply to 6
Apollo Hospitals, Bilaspur
2013
Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar
2013
the heart 7
Apollo Jehangir Hospital, Pune
2013
is restored 8
Apollo BGS, Mysore
2013
when native 9
vessels
supplying the Quality Improvement
heart are Projects
blocked. Minimally Invasive Coronary
native vessels supplying the heart
Artery Surgery making
recovery from heart surgery
faster and painless (Apollo
Hospitals, Bangalore)
The need:
Coronary bypass surgery or CABG,
as it is commonly referred to, is often
a life saving procedure where blood
supply to the heart is restored when
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are blocked. The procedure most
often performed in the middle aged
or elderly has a recovery period that
can extend to as long as 3 months
disrupting normal life and work. In
the elderly the recovery period is even
more prolonged and leaves them
weak for several months thereafter.
Traditionally the procedure is done by
cutting the breast bone or sternum
located in the front of the chest akin
to a surgically created fracture. Like
most fractures the bone takes as long
as 3 months to unite. The goal was to
redo the same operation with equally
good outcomes but without cutting
the bone allowing for a rapid recovery,
shortened hospital stay, faster wound
healing and drastically reduced
infection.
Conceptualization and
Implementation:
The new procedure now referred
to as MICAS stands for minimally
invasive coronary artery surgery, was
conceptualized based on a technique
reported by Dr McGinn from Staten
Island, New York, USA. We had neither
seen nor heard of anyone doing this
procedure in India. We were aware
that this technique was easy to
implement in single vessel disease
affecting the uppermost vessel that
supplied the heart. However in current
practice most patients requiring
surgical revascularization or CABG
require 2 or more vessels to be
revascularized.
Traditionally in a CABG the sternum
or breast bone is cut open to have
easy access to the heart and its blood
supply. However the impact of this
disrupts life in all its aspects and
often leaves the patient scarred both
physically and mentally. If only we
could do a less invasive procedure
eliminating cutting any bone but
with equally good outcomes as the
traditional technique then this would
help innumerable patients undergoing
coronary bypass.
The new approach was through the
intercostal or rib space on the left
side about 3 finger breadths below the
left nipple. The opening was a mere 2
inches and involved no cutting of bone.
The challenges were several. First,
the internal mammary artery
required harvesting in complete
through a very small opening, which
required mastering the use of special
instruments. Second, accessing
the aorta for proximal vein graft
anastamosis required a special clamp
that was nonintrusive but did the
job well. Instruments available in
other countries were sourced over
a period of one year while the entire
technique of performing the operation
evolved and fell into place. Our initial
cases were well selected in terms of
body habitus, extent of disease and
the ease with which target vessels
could be located and revascularized.
Obviously it was a risk to be taken
both by the surgeon and his team as
well as the patient. The aorta had to
be clamped remotely with no hand
access inside the chest with a flexible
clamp. All anastamosis had to be
done with very fine sutures using long
single shafted instruments. The heart
had to be positioned using a positioner
that was newly available and not used
in the country before. The stabilizer
for the critical anastamosis was
also different and used remotely.
The early operations took anywhere
between 5 to 8 hours to perform
imposing a tremendous stress on
the surgical team. However over a
period of 3 months the operation was
streamlined, enough to be adapted to
clinical excellence
j) Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai
New medical treatment done: Use of
Skeletal Muscle relaxants in Oral Sub
Traditionally
in a CABG the
sternum or
breast bone
is cut open
to have easy
access to the
heart and its
blood supply.
However the
impact of
this disrupts
life in all its
aspects and
often leaves
the patient
scarred both
physically
and mentally.
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Faster return
to work. 70%
of patients
resume
normal work
patterns in
under 10 days,
compared to
traditional
CABG where
return to
work is on an
average 45
days.
Impacts and benefits
1.Reduced narcotic use. Pain is
managed only with paracetamol.
2.Quick in hospital recovery with ICU
stay of 12 hours post procedure.
Ambulation within 6 hours of
surgery.
3.Significantly reduced blood usage.
Average transfusion of red cells
falls to 0.5 units per case.
4.Shortened hospital stay from
average of 6 days to 3 days.
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5.Eliminates wound infection. Deep
wound infection is zero. Superficial
wound breakdown in just 3 out of
400 patients. No culture positive
infections. This is remarkable in
view of most patients being diabetic
and more prone to infection.
6.Faster return to work. 70% of
patients resume normal work
patterns in under 10 days,
compared to traditional CABG
where return to work is on an
average 45 days.
7.Enormous benefit to the elderly.
Our oldest patient is 87 years and
the recovery time frame was 14
days to normalcy.
8.Sets new standards of care in terms
of recovery, financial implications
(allows an earning member
undergoing the procedure to return
to work in under 2 weeks), blood
usage and absence of infection
(most patients are diabetic).
9.New benchmark for ALOS after
CABG.
10.We now conduct workshops
both live and on cadavers across
multiple centers around the country
demonstrating how practice can
be changed. We have contributed
substantial quantity of information
to the world body of heart surgeons
(very few) practicing this technique
on the many refinements that we
have brought about.
11.Financial Impact:
a.ALOS of CTVS Department brought down from 8.5 to 5.45
days
b.MICS ALOS is 3.9 days which
includes 1 day for pre-admission
Smart Safety for Isolation
Areas (Indraprastha Apollo
Hospital, New Delhi)
The need:
The hospital protocols require the
staff to always put on personal
protective equipment before entering
the room of any patient with airborne
infections. This process takes
significant time, causing delays for
patients and negatively affecting staff
productivity and their willingness to
visit isolated patients.
The requirement was also leading
to less-than-optimal adherence
to contact precautions, as staff
was tempted not to put on
protective equipment for routine
communications.
Each movement inside the isolation
room requires the donning of the PPE,
hence, incurs certain costs. These
costs can be reduced if the evitable
movements to the isolation room can
be avoided and at the same time the
patients’ requirements are attended
to.
Conceptualization &
Implementation
A one month study was conducted
at the isolation room to map the
movements of the staff into the
patient room (from 6am to 5.30pm).
The following parameters were
captured during the study period:
•• Number of movements by each
category of staff including
Consultants
•• Purpose of each type of movement
(to determine evitable movements)
•• PPE donned while entering the
room
•• Hand-washing compliance
clinical excellence
70% of the patients requiring CABG, in
a safe and reproducible manner. The
additional costs incurred were for the
new stabilizer and heart positioner
and amounted to approximately
100,000 for each operation. The
instrumentation was changed
completely from the traditional ones
and incurred a onetime expense of
approximately 35,00,000. The vein
required for the revascularisation
that is traditionally harvested from
the leg by cutting was now harvested
totally endoscopically and required
an additional investment of 18,00,000
which was again on reusable
equipment. This is a sustainable
operation and we have now crossed
400 operations with zero mortality. All
types of cases from the very complex
left main disease and damaged,
dilated hearts have been treated
with MICAS. The outcomes are truly
gratifying both for the surgeon and
the patients. It does not require very
expensive instrumentation like a robot
or specialized training, costing crores
of rupees, while delivering equally
good outcome that the common man
can easily afford.
Approximately 40 movements each
day (between 6.30am to 5.30pm)
occurred into the isolation room.
The various categories of staff that
interacted with the patient included
the nursing, housekeeping, dietetics,
medical services, and other support
services.
Out of the above mentioned average
40 movements observed in the day
time, around 13 movements (32%)
were evitable (did not require the staff
to enter the room).
Because the staff has to wear the
PPE, each time they enter the patient
room, each movement in the patient
room costs the hospital approximately
Rs. 197 (refer Appendix I) when the
N-95 masks are used. Moreover
donning the PPE takes over 70
seconds.
Thus in order to save the staff’s
time, reduce the costs of personal
protective equipment, increase the
frequency and quality of interactions
between staff and patients, without
increasing the risk of health care–
associated infections, the ‘Safety
Zone’ for Isolation Rooms was
implemented.
Intercom
system was
placed
outside the
Isolation
Room. The
program
was readily
accepted by
the Infection
Control
Committee.
The staff was
more than
willing to
accept the
initiative.
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The nurse
emphasizes
that the
program
allows
staff to
communicate
safely with
those in the
room without
going through
the timeconsuming
process of
donning
personal
protective
equipment.
Intercom system was placed outside
the Isolation Room. The program
was readily accepted by the Infection
Control Committee. The staff was
more than willing to accept the
initiative.
Key components of the initiative
included the following:
• Clearly marked safe zone at entry
to rooms of isolated patients:
Whenever a patient is placed on
contact precautions, a high-quality
red duct tape is used to create a
3-foot square box at the entrance
to the room. This area represents a
safe zone where the staff can stand
without donning personal protective
equipment, and also serves as
a visual cue to all who enter the
room (e.g., physicians, nurses,
and housekeeping staff) that the
patient is on contact precautions.
Housekeeping staff clean the safe
zone (both the flooring and tape) as
part of their regular duties.
• Educating patients and visitors:
The assigned nurse explains the
contact precautions and the safe
zone to the newly isolated patient
and any family members or other
visitors. The nurse emphasizes
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that the program allows staff to
communicate safely with those in
the room without going through
the time-consuming process
of donning personal protective
equipment, thus reducing barriers
to staff–patient communication and
speeding up response times for the
patient's routine needs.
• Setting up the Intercom for
communications from the safe
zone: Staff can conduct routine
communications, education of
the patient using the intercom
system placed at the entrance. This
system includes responding to calls
from patients or family members
and proactively checking on the
patient's status and needs.
• Donning of protective equipment
as needed: If the staff member
deems it necessary to get closer
to the patient or touch a surface
within the room, he or she puts
on personal protective equipment
before leaving the safe zone and
takes it off on exiting the room, as
outlined by hospital protocols.
Impacts & Benefits
Reducing HAIs
Since implementation, no change
has occurred in the frequency of
HAIs, offering further confirmation
that communicating from the safe
zone does not increase the risk of
spreading infections.
Enhancing Staff Safety
In fact, by reducing the number of
face-to-face interactions of the staff
with such patients, we are actually
reducing the risk of infections, at the
same time without compromising
on patient engagement. This
also addressed the issue of risks
associated with non- compliance to
the contact precautions by reducing
the number of movements to inside
the patient’s room.
More frequent and better
communication
It also improved the willingness of the
staff to interact more with the patient
as they could now safely communicate
with the patients placed on contact
precautions. (Refer Fig 1)
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A 3-foot square area was marked by
red duct tape, at the entrance to the
isolation rooms and rooms where
patients requiring contact precautions
are placed. The area served as a
“safe zone” where the staff could
interact with these isolated patients
without donning personal protective
equipment.
New
construction
may become
cost
effective
when an
older ICU
requires
expensive
repairs
or upkeep
to remain
viable, or
simply ceases
to function
well.
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Optimal
ICU design
can help
to reduce
medical
errors,
improve
patient
outcomes,
reduce
length of
stay, and
increase
social
support for
patients,
and can
play a role
in reducing
costs.
Hence cost savings incurred in one
month = Rs. 2561*30 days
= Rs. 76,830
Key issues with facility
stacking and adjacencies
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Moving the Axis of Care:
Redesigning space for International
standards multidisciplinary critical
care unit to deliver patient-centric
and efficient services (Apollo
Hospitals, Chennai)
The need:
Hospitals undertake ICU construction
for many reasons: to adapt to
changing patient demographics
or disease patterns; to upgrade or
add services; and to accommodate
changes in the flow of information,
materials, or patients. New
construction may become cost
effective when an older ICU requires
expensive repairs or upkeep to
remain viable, or simply ceases to
function well. Designing for infection
control – by separating patients,
adding isolation facilities, adding
hand hygiene stations, upgrading
mechanical ventilation and filtration,
revising provisions for disposal
of human waste, or introduction
of antimicrobial materials – can
lower infection rates and therefore
morbidity and mortality, cost per case,
•• Co-location of departments with
significantly different clinical and
operating requirements leading to
inefficient patient and work flows
•• Fragmentation of key assets
spreading highly skilled resources
across locations and affecting
clinical safety and efficiency
•• Facility adjacencies not in
alignment with workflow
dependencies
•• Random sequencing of high and
low footfall-density facilities
affecting infection
•• Control and crowd management
•• Lack of clarity on future programs
leading to random blocking of
spaces that could affect efficiency
of future layouts
Conceptualization &
Implementation
Concept, Discussion and Analysis:
ICU design is complex and should
include both clinically oriented and
design based multiprofessional team
members. Each team member will
bring specialized skills and knowledge
to focus on the project at hand, which
might be a remodeling, an expansion,
or a completely new ICU.
Project team members comprised of:
1) DMS and Head Operations 2) the
clinical team – a multidisciplinary
group, including physicians, nurses,
infection control specialists,
pharmacists, therapists, and ancillary
staff 3) the design team – the
architect, engineers (mechanical,
electrical, structural), and technology
planners (medical equipment,
information technology, others) and 4)
other hospital service representatives
(materials management,
environmental services, food service,
others).
Evidence shows that the physical
environment affects the physiology,
psychology, and social behaviors of
those who experience it. The goal
of the design process is to create a
healing environment – the result of
design that produces measurable
improvements in the physical or
psychological states of patients, staff,
physicians, and visitors. Elements
of a healing environment include:
materials and finishes that reduce
noise levels, minimize glare, and
support infection control; floor plans,
equipment, and other features, such
as human engineering principles, may
enhance efficiency and effectiveness
of patient care and minimize
workplace injury; stress-reducing
furnishings and decor, and thoughtful
provision for the creature comforts of
patients, families, and staff. Optimal
ICU design can help to reduce medical
errors, improve patient outcomes,
reduce length of stay, and increase
social support for patients, and
can play a role in reducing costs.
A design based on the functional
requirements of the critical care unit
and the consensus opinion of experts
should enhance patient, family, and
staff satisfaction and in doing so, help
to protect the institution’s bottom
line. Staff satisfaction with the work
environment has been shown to
correlate with patient satisfaction
and to improve retention and staff
commitment.
Principles guiding the
Renovations were
•• Facilities clustered based on
clinical functionalities and workflow
dependencies
•• Facility adjacencies planned to
minimize patient movement and
improve efficiency
•• Major assets massed for flexibility
and interoperability
•• All critical facilities adjacent to
ensure high standards of clinical
care and infection control
•• Dedicated pathways for patient
movement to ensure high standards
of clinical care and safety
•• Clear segregation of front-of-thehouse and back-of-the-house
activities for efficient material and
people flows
•• Layouts aligned with footfall density
for better foot-fall management
One new 25
-bed MDCCU
had been
designed
to improve
the patient
safety
through
researchbased designa design
that could
possibly
be used as
an example
by other
health care
organizations
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Cost savings incurred in one day by
replacing the avoidable movements
with ‘Safety Zone’ system:
= Rs. 197*13
= Rs. 2561
and length of stay. Changes in the
model of care delivery may drive ICU
design. Advances in technology have
led to miniaturization of equipment,
and have increased the amount
of equipment needed to care for
patients. Persistent shortages of
skilled staff and aging of the critical
care staff have added new criteria for
selecting technology and for making
ICU design decisions.
Cost Savings
Approximate cost of PPE incurred in
one movement: Rs 200
Approximate number of evitable
(avoidable) movements: 13
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The
evidencebased
remodeling
is emerging
to support
the business
case that
designing
for safety
and quality
can improve
patient
outcomes
and safety,
promote
healing,
increase
patient
satisfaction,
and reduce
costs.
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One new 25 -bed MDCCU had been
designed to improve the patient safety
through research-based design- a
design that could possibly be used
as an example by other health care
organizations that were building new
facilities, remodeling, or expanding
existing facilities.
The specific safety design principles,
intended to specifically address both
latent conditions and active failures,
included the following:
•• Automate where possible
•• Design to prevent adverse events
(e.g., patient falls, operative /
post-operative complications and
infections and deaths associated
with restraint use)
•• Design for scalability, adaptability,
and flexibility
•• Place accessibility of information in
close proximity to the patient
•• Improve visibility of patients to staff
•• Involve patients in their care
•• Minimize fatigue of staff
•• Minimize patient transfers/handoffs
•• Reduce noise
•• Standardize
The Multidisciplinary Critical
Care Unit
Our critical care unit consists of four
major zones, each housing a primary
function.
1)The Patient Care Zone consists of
patient rooms and adjacent areas;
its primary function is direct patient
care.
2)The Clinical Support Zone consists
of functions closely related to direct
patient care; not only inpatient
rooms but also in other areas of the
unit.
3)The Unit Support Zone refers
to areas of the unit where
administrative, materials
management, and staff support
functions occur.
4)The Family Support Zone refers to
areas designed to support families
and visitors.
Benefits
Patient - centeredness, including
•• Using variable-acuity rooms and
single-bed rooms
•• Ensuring sufficient space to
accommodate family members
•• Enabling access to health care
information
•• Having clearly marked signs to
navigate the hospital
Safety, including
• Applying the design and improving
the availability of assistive devices
to avert patient falls
• Using ventilation and filtration
systems to control and prevent the
spread of infections
• Using surfaces that can be easily
decontaminated
• Facilitating hand washing with the
availability of sinks and alcohol
hand rubs
• Preventing patient and provider
injury
• Addressing the sensitivities
associated with the
interdependencies of care,
including work spaces and work
processes
Effectiveness, including
• Use of lighting to enable visual
performance
• Controlling the effects of noise
Efficiency, including
• Standardizing room layout, location
of supplies and medical equipment
• Minimizing potential safety threats
and improving patient satisfaction
by
• Minimizing patient transfers with
variable-acuity rooms
Timeliness, by
• Ensuring rapid response to patient
needs
• Eliminating inefficiencies in the
processes of care delivery
• Facilitating the clinical work of
nurses
Equity, by
• Ensuring the size, layout, and
functions of the structure meet the
diverse care needs of patients
The evidence-based remodeling is
emerging to support the business
case that designing for safety and
quality can improve patient outcomes
and safety, promote healing, increase
patient satisfaction, and reduce costs.
It is thought that the cost of building
or remodeling projects based on
design evidence conducive to patient
safety can result in organizational
savings over time, without adversely
impacting revenues.
Apollo Accreditation Program
(AAP): A web based Joint
Commission International
standards compliance
management tool (Apollo
Hospitals Group)
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Impacts & Benefits
The need:
Creating and implementing
processes to deliver quality care is
a challenging task but even more
daunting is the sustenance of these
processes and systems. To comply,
as well as monitor and manage the
329 standards and 1196 measurable
elements as established by Joint
Commission International across all
JCI accredited hospitals within the
Apollo Group is indeed a challenge.
To develop a single measurable
dashboard to display, measure and
compare compliance levels for
established standards of care was
duly required. We required frequent
monitoring of the gap between the
expected level of care and the level
of care delivered on ground so as to
provide standardised care consistently.
No such regular monitoring was done
prior to this initiative. With an intent to
provide standardised care consistently
across the eight hospitals, the concept
of Apollo Accreditation Program
was developed. With AAP we aimed
to provide for a single measurable
dashboard to display compliance
levels for each JCI accredited hospital
within the Apollo Group with live data
current till the last working day of the
previous quarter.
AAP
comprises
of all the
standards
and
measurable
elements,
within each
chapter
of the JCI
Standards
Manual with
provision for
each location
to report
compliance
on a periodic
basis.
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Prior to this
program
weekly audits
were done by
the Quality
Team. Looking
onto 1196
measurable
elements
was a huge
task and AAP
divided the
responsibilities
among the
'Champions'
who do
regular
audits
regarding
the chapters
assigned to
them.
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Accreditation is a widely recognized
seal of approval that brings
international and national recognition
to a healthcare organization for
its commitment to excellence,
accountability, high professional
standards and continuous
improvement. Hospitals benefit from
both the status and the process
of accreditation from each step of
the review cycle, which continues
to unfold over the long-term in its
journey towards improving quality. The
review process ensures sustainability
but the frequency of assessment
is 3 years. This span of 3 years
provided adequate room to overlook
or deviate from some processes.
Apollo Accreditation Program
served as a comprehensive tool for
each hospital which can be used to
maintain the same high standard of
care throughout the years rather than
when gearing up for surveys.
AAP comprises of all the standards
and measurable elements, within each
chapter of the JCI Standards Manual
with provision for each location to
report compliance on a periodic basis.
The various standards of care were
assigned to identified champions. For
example Anaesthesia & Surgical Care
and Medication Management & Usage
were the responsibilities assigned
to the Medical Superintendent of the
hospital. The Medical Superintendent
ensured that all policies, protocols
and processes were being regularly
monitored so as to ensure compliance
and sustain them. Similarly, the
Head of Operations ensured that the
Hospital Facility and Management
systems were well in place.
The compliance to measurable
elements was verified through
multiple approaches including
regular Tracers by the Quality Team,
Clinical Audits by Medical Team,
Medication Management Audits by
the Clinical Pharmacologists and
Facility Rounds by the Operations
Team. The main objective was to
provide a comprehensive tool to each
hospital which could be used to help
maintain the same high standard of
care throughout the years rather than
when gearing up for a survey. This
initiative equipped the 'Champions'
to understand the requirement of the
standards in collaboration with the
Quality Teams. The 'Champions' were
able to interpret the standards better,
which subsequently improved the
implementation process. Moreover,
cross-sectional audits helped to
reduce the interdepartmental gaps
and loopholes thereby enhancing
efficiency or effectiveness of codepartments.
Each measurable element was
then scored on a three- point
scale of “0” which indicated NonCompliance or "Not Met"; (4 or less
out of 10 records or observations
demonstrated compliance), “0.5”
indicated Partial Compliance or
“Partially Met”(5 through 8 out
of 10 records or observations
demonstrated compliance) and
“1” which indicated Satisfactory
Compliance or “Fully Met”(9 out of 10
records or observations demonstrated
compliance). After creating the
online module, the Director Medical
Services of each hospital was given a
unique login ID for overall supervisory
control. Within each hospital the
chapters were assigned to Head of
Departments based on their role
and responsibilities. Each location
submitted their data within the
first 10 days of next quarter for the
preceding quarter, which was then
centrally assessed and scored for
each location, to eventually give us the
overall compliance level for the entire
Group, at any given date. A single
dashboard view summarized the
overall compliance at each location
and for the entire Apollo Group as a
single entity.
Prior to this program weekly audits
were done by the Quality Team.
Looking onto 1196 measurable
elements was a huge task and AAP
divided the responsibilities among
the 'Champions' who do regular
audits regarding the chapters
assigned to them. This has developed
a sense of ownership among them
thereby enhancing constant vigil and
compliance levels. The compliance
levels are submitted within stipulated
time by each location. The dashboard
is then viewed by top management
including Chairman and accordingly
further management and quality
governance strategies are formulated.
Impacts & Benefits
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Conceptualization &
Implementation
This initiative helped to enhance
'Overall satisfaction with experience
at hospital' at all locations captured
through our feedback mechanism
i.e. the Voice Of Customer which is
filled by the patient before discharge
to share their experience. e.g.:
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals,
Delhi score for this parameter had
increased from 4.64 in August 2012 to
4.77 by April 2013(Fig: 1).
In AAP module,
confidentiality
of data is to
be focused
upon. We plan
to extend the
scope of this
tool for other
accreditation
standards like
NABH, NABL for
labs, blood
banks.
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Code Green is
a mechanism
to alert the
hospital
staff through
announcements
when an
infected
patient
requiring
contact
or other
isolation is
transported
from one
unit of the
hospital to
another unit.
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The module has also helped in
developing a culture of patient safety
across the organization. Now the
systems and processes focus on
patient safety at any given time across
the Apollo Group. In AAP module,
confidentiality of data is to be focused
upon. We plan to extend the scope
of this tool for other accreditation
standards like NABH, NABL for labs,
blood banks.
Project CODE GREEN (Apollo
Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata)
The need:
Code Green is a component of
ESCALATE strategies developed by the
hospital to prevent Hospital Acquired
Infections with Multidrug resistant
organisms. The idea is to mitigate
the Infection Control – Patient Safety
related risk from Carbapenem
Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria
(CRGNB), Multidrug resistant
Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas,
MRSA and other organisms in the
Hospital Acquired Infection within
Apollo Gleneagles Hospital. The
purpose is to establish a Code Green
policy that will lay down systematic
steps of action to be taken in the
event of an infected patient being
transferred from one ward to another
ward/ diagnostic department. It is also
to ensure the safety of staff involved
in transporting the patient and to
assign responsibilities to individuals
and departments in responding to
this emergency. The Infection Control
practices are not robust during the
patient transport from one unit to
the other unit. The diagnostic units
in the hospital including radiology,
endoscopy, non interventional
cardiology and other out patient
department play a pivotal role in
infection control within a hospital
because it is a site of high patient
traffic and thus has the potential
to be a major source of infection
transmission among patients, health
care personnel, and hospital visitors.
Principal goals for infection control
in these department should be to
optimally observe infection control
precautions and adhere to standards
for environmental and equipment
cleansing.
Conceptualization &
Implementation
I. Code Green concept was derived
from SWARM INTELLIGENCE
MODEL to allow flexibility,
robustness, decentralization and
self organization of the staff and
unit performing infection control.
Central Idea - SWARM
INTELLIGENCE
• Flexibility - The nearest team of
transport staffs, housekeeping
team and the nursing takes over
the role to ensure Code Green.
• Robust - All staffs trained to
follow the steps. In absence of
one group, another takes over.
• Decentralized - The transport
and nursing staffs of the
concerned unit complete the
procedure with supervision of
Infection Control Team.
• Self Organized - Training,
Motivation and Dedication to the
job.
The Infection Control Team headed
by Dr Suresh Ramasubban and
Infection Control Nurse - Ms Junie
Xaviour spearheaded the program
through adequate brainstorming,
planning and execution. There
was a renewed vigour in attending
this patient through multiple
involvement of staff incorporating
the concept of SWARM
INTELLIGENCE - Flexibility,
Robustness, Decentralization and
Self Organization.
Staff involved were:
• For initial Calls - Ward Nurse or
Ward Secretary
• Public Address Announcement Call Center Staff
• Transport - Ward Nurse &
Transport staff
• Shifting - Ward Nurse, Transport
Boy and the Technical Staff in
Diagnostic Area
• Local Cleaning - Nearest
Housekeeping Personnel
• Supervision - Infection Control
Nurse and Housekeeping
Supervisor
• The Microbiology department did
the surveillance testing
• The Quality Department
contributed by monitoring and
statistical analysis
II.Code Green is a mechanism to
alert the hospital staff through
announcements when an infected
patient requiring contact or other
isolation is transported from one
unit of the hospital to another unit.
III.Scope includes patients who
are currently having Contact
Precautions with Carbapenem
resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Multi
drug resistant Acinetobacter and
Pseudomonas and MRSA; Enteric
precautions with Enterococcus and
Clostridium difficle; Respiratory
Precaution through Pulmonary
Tuberculosis etc.
IV.The areas include transfer of
patients to Radiology units,
Endoscopy & Bronchoscopy units,
Pulmonary Function Test unit, Non
Interventional Cardiology unit and
other areas of the hospital where
these patients are transported for
the diagnostic procedure.
V. The hand hygiene solutions were
made available in these areas
by construction of new sinks
in Radiology and in Endoscopy
areas. Hand hygiene compliance
was monitored through renewed
checklists. Hand Hygiene
pamphlets were provided to
encourage social hand wash at
these areas – for Outpatients and
Inpatient families.
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There was an overall increase of
15.5% in the compliance levels for the
eight JCI accredited hospitals within
the Apollo Group in the duration of
one year of implementation of the
Apollo Accreditation Program.
Before
entering the
receiving unit
the person
carrying
the patient
removes
the gown
and gloves,
washes
hands, and
then takes
the patient to
the receiving
unit.
VI.Focus was also laid on patient
and family to train them on the
techniques of hand hygiene.
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VII.Procedures were developed
for routine care, cleaning, and
disinfection of environmental
surfaces, especially frequently
touched surfaces in patient-care
areas of MDR patient in diagnostic
areas following their use.
This project
brings a
unique flair
of combining
concept of
Intelligence
Management
and Infection
Control
Principles
to mitigate
the risk of
Infections to
the patients in
the hospital particularly
in diagnostic
setting.
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VIII.These included –
• Focus technique to use Hand Held
spray guns only - no mop and
bucket usage;
• Tissue papers for cleaning – no
clothes and these need to be
disposed of immediately after use;
• Use of double layer disinfectant
solution – suggested – Ecoshield
followed by Vircon; Contact time –
minimum 5 minutes with rubbing
the surfaces; between disinfectants
5 minutes and Frequency –
immediately after patient use.
IX.40 environmental samples taken
and analysed in the month of
April 2012 showed a 0% growth
in CRGNB and 5% in MDR-NF
whereas previous study showed
17% CRGNB and 10% MDR -NF
contamination in March 2012.
X.346 Code Green Calls were made
from April 2012 to May 2013.
• Majority of the calls were made
for patients being shifted to the
Radiology Department (82%).
• 10% of calls were for patients
being shifted to Non Invasive
Cardiology Procedures like
Echocardiography.
• Though the code green calls
required 20% more time than
the normal in patient’s time,
bulk of this time was utilized in
environmental cleaning following
the protocol. The environmental
cleaning time was 6 times more
than normal patients – although
it did not affect the current
patient waiting times.
• Contact Precaution of Drug
Resistant Gram Negative
Organisms accounted for 65%
of patients through Code Green;
Enteric Precautions for 22%
patients. Respiratory precaution
– Suspected cases of TB were for
less than 2% patients.
XI.In this period there was Zero
incidence of In house Cross
Infection in Patient Transfers from
diagnostic units involving 231549
procedures in 3 departments.
XII.This project brings a unique flair of
combining concept of Intelligence
Management and Infection Control
Principles to mitigate the risk of
Infections to the patients in the
hospital - particularly in diagnostic
setting.
For patient transport, the following
guidelines apply
• Wear gloves only if the staff is
physically moving the patient from
the bed. Green Board to be placed
in the bed.
• Staff should wear gloves and
a gown only if the patient is
incontinent, or has diarrhea or a
draining wound.
Patient transport in Code Green Calls
followed this pattern:
• “Code Green” is announced when
an infected patient is transferred
for investigations/ non-invasive
procedures.
• Gloves and Gown worn when
physically moving the patient from
the bed in a Green trolley.
• Before entering the receiving unit
the person carrying the patient
removes the gown and gloves,
washes hands, and then takes the
patient to the receiving unit.
• After the investigation is complete
the staff again dons PPE to take the
patient back to the ward.
• After transportation is complete,
the stretcher or the wheelchair is
wiped with VIRKON.
Impact & Benefits
There were no additional costs
involved in the process. It was
done through appropriate time
management and staff education.
Strategies:
Nursing will notify Receiving
Departments of any patients on
Special Organism Precautions.
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Apollo
Hospitals
group with an
aim to develop
human
resources
with requisite
skill sets in
the medical
arena to
address
the critical
shortage of
competent
trained
specialists
in the highly
technology
oriented
current
day medical
practice.
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In an integrated academic center of
excellence model in healthcare space,
clinical excellence, which assures the
best quality of care to the patients,
shares a symbiotic relationship with
academic excellence emphasising on
training and research.
Various post graduate and post
doctoral medical education programs
are being offered at Apollo Hospitals
group with an aim to develop human
resources with requisite skill sets
in the medical arena to address the
critical shortage of competent trained
specialists in the highly technology
oriented current day medical practice.
I. Diplomate of National Board
(DNB) programs
During the academic year 2013-2014
fifteen hospitals of the Apollo Hospitals
groups located at Chennai, Hyderabad,
New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore,
Mysore, Madurai, Pune, Ludhiana,
Ranchi, Bilaspur and Bhubaneshwar
are offering the DNB and FNB
programs in 38 specialties and
subspecialties as mentioned below:
Board Specialties (DNB)
1. Anaesthesiology
2. ENT
3. Family Medicine
4. General Surgery
5. Nuclear Medicine
6. Obstetrics & Gynecology
7. Orthopaedics
8. Internal Medicine
9. Pathology
10. Paediatrics
DNB:
Rheumatology
Paediatric Surgery
Neonatology
Emergency Medicine
11. Respiratory diseases
12. Radiodiagnosis
13. Radiotherapy
14. Immunohaematology &
transfusion Medicine
15. Emergency Medicine
Super Specialties (DNB)
1. Cardiology
2. Cardiothoracic Surgery
3. Endocrinology
4. Medical Gastroenterology
5. Medical Oncology
6. Nephrology
7. Neuro Surgery
8. Neurology
9. Plastic Surgery
10. Paediatric Surgery
11. Rheumatology
12. Neonatology
13. Surgical Gastroenterology
14. Surgical Oncology
15. Urology
FNB: Fellow of National Board of
Examinations:
(Subspecialty post doctoral program
of 2 years duration)
1. Critical Care Medicine
2. Cardiac Anaesthesiology
3. Infectious Diseases
4. Minimal Access Surgery
5. Interventional Cardiology
6. Paediatric Intensive care
7. Paediatric Hematology
8. Paediatric Cardiology
FNB:
Cardiac Anaesthesiology
Interventional Cardiology
The numbers of DNB/FNB seats have
increased by over 30% from 205 in
annual year 2012-2013 to 263 during
annual year 2013-2014 with over 700
DNB trainees enrolled in the Apollo
group of Hospitals in the annual year
2013-2014.
Besides the post graduate and post
doctoral programs accredited to
National Board of Examinations, other
post graduate Diploma and Fellowship
programs are being offered in Apollo
Group of Hospitals accredited to Royal
College of General Practitioners (UK),
Royal Liverpool university (UK), Dr.
NTR university of Health Sciences,
AP, Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU), Indian College
of Pathologists, Indian Society of
Critical Care Medicine and College of
Emergency Medicine (UK).
During the current academic year
over 1,000 PG Medical trainees are
pursuing various Post Graduate and
Post Doctoral training programs in
Apollo Group of Hospitals including
DNB, FNB, MCEM, IDCCM, IFCCM,
PGDCC, DEM, DFM, PDCC courses.
II. Royal College membership
programmes:
A)Membership of College of
Emergency Medicine (UK) (MCEM):
The course is conducted by Apollo
Hospitals, Hyderabad under the
aegis of College of Emergency
Medicine (UK). It is of three years
duration and medical graduates
from Medical schools recognized
by MCI are eligible for the course.
Currently this programme is being
offered at Apollo Hyderabad,
Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore,
Ahmedabad and Kolkata.
B)MRCGP (International): Member
of Royal college of General
Practioners (International):
Conducted in collaboration with
RCGP (UK) and IMA.
academics
Post Graduate and
Post Doctoral Medical
Education at Apollo
Hospitals group
The numbers
of DNB/FNB
seats have
increased
by over 30%
from 205 in
annual year
2012-2013 to
263 during
annual year
2013-2014
with over 700
DNB trainees
enrolled in
the Apollo
group of
Hospitals in
the annual
year 2013-2014.
During the annual year 2013-2014, the
following new post graduate and post
doctoral training programs have been
started in the Apollo Hospitals group.
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PG Diploma
programme
in Clinical
Cardiology
(PGDCC) is
conducted in
collaboration
with IGNOU.
Medical
Graduates
are trained
for 2 years in
clinical non
interventional
cardiology.
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A)IDCCM & IFCCM (Indian Diploma
in Critical Care Medicine &
Indian Fellowship in Critical Care
Medicine) is being conducted
under the aegis of ISCCM at Apollo
Hospitals, Hyderabad, Chennai,
Kolkata, Pune, Bhubaneshwar and
New Delhi.
B)PG Diploma in Clinical Cardiology
(PGDCC)
PG Diploma programme in Clinical
Cardiology (PGDCC) is conducted
in collaboration with IGNOU.
Medical Graduates are trained for 2
years in clinical non interventional
cardiology. It is available at
Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata,
Ludhiana, Delhi and Bangalore.
Currently 100 trainees are pursuing
PGDCC programme in Apollo Group
of Hospitals.
(C) PDCC: (Post Doctoral Certificate
Course)
A one year fellowship programme
in Nephropathology for pathologists
with MD/DNB (Pathology)
qualification is being offered at
Apollo Health City, Hyderabad,
accredited by the Indian College of
Pathologists.
(D)Diploma in Emergency Medicine
(DEM): It’s a one year Post
Graduate Diploma programme
being offered by Medversity
online limited, accredited by
University of Liverpool (UK) with
9 months contact programme in
the Emergency Medicine services
of Apollo Hospitals group and 3
months of online training imparted
by MedVarsity.
(E)Diploma in Family Medicine (DFM):
It’s a one year Post Graduate
Diploma programme being offered
by Medversity online limited
accredited by the Royal college of
General practitioners (UK) with 3
months contact programme in the
Department of Family Medicine
along with 9 months of online
training imparted by Medvarsity.
Course
Affiliation
MCEM (Member of Royal college of Emergency Medicine) College of Emergency Medicine, UK
IDCCM (Indian Diploma in Critical Care Medicine)
ISCCM, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
IFCCM (Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine)
ISCCM
PhD in Molecular Medicine and Medical Microbiology
Dr NTR University of Health Sciences
Fellowship in Nephro pathology
Indian College of Pathology
FEM (Fellowship in Emergency Medicine)
Royal Liverpool University (UK)
DFM (Diploma in Family Medicine)
Royal College of General Practioners (UK)
IPPC (International Postgraduate Pediatric certificate)
University of Sydney
DNB (Diplomate of National Boards, New Delhi)
National Board of Examinations, New Delhi
PGDCC (Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Cardiology)
IGNOU, New Delhi
S.No Name of the programme
Location
No. of seats
No. of trainees
during 2013-14
1
DNB
15 centers
263
700
2
Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical
Cardiology course (PGDCC)
6 centers
52
100
3
MCEM
6 centers
4
IDCCM / FCCM (ISCCM)
6 centers
25
50
5
PhD in Microbiology
1 (Hyderabad)
2
4
6
FEM (LHP) University of Liverpool
9 centers
100
7
Diploma in Family Medicine (RCGP)
9 centers
100
Performance in exit exams:
The success rate of DNB/FNB
trainees in the exit exams at Apollo
group of Hospitals for the annual year
2013 -14 is 68%. While 55% 0f MCEM
trainees have cleared the Part B&C
of the exit exam during the current
academic year, 95% of PGDCC and
100% of PDCC (Nephro pathology)
trainees have come out with flying
colors in the final qualifying exam
conducted by the IGNOU and Indian
College of Pathology.
academics
III. Other PG Programmes:
100
In future, we shall endeavor
to continuously upgrade the
infrastructure and teaching resources
by training the faculty and trainees
and leveraging technology in our
hospitals to enable us to improve
the quality of structured competency
based post graduate training.
While 55%
0f MCEM
trainees have
cleared the
Part B&C
of the exit
exam during
the current
academic
year, 95% of
PGDCC and
100% of PDCC
(Nephro
pathology)
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Apollo
Hospital on
27th August
announced
a tie-up with
University of
Rochester
Medical
Centre,
New York,
envisaging
patient care
and academic
collaboration.
Apollo Hospital on 27th August
announced a tie-up with University of
Rochester Medical Centre, New York,
envisaging patient care and academic
collaboration. As part of the tie-up
the Rochester University and Apollo
Hospital’s under-graduate medical
college will have faculty and student
exchange programme. Also, the
University of Rochester will provide
its expertise in designing special
curriculum, which will be taught here
in addition to the syllabus prescribed
by the Medical Council of India.
Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman of the
Apollo Group, said the two institutions
would also share expertise, in-clinical
care and research across multiple
specialities such as gastroenterology,
emergency medicine and
neurosciences.
Medvarsity
Medvarsity is the first Medical
e-learning venture in India. As
envisioned by our Chairman Dr
Prathap C Reddy we, at Apollo
Hospitals Group, are committed to
the achievement and maintenance of
excellence in education and research
for the benefit of humanity. We firmly
subscribe to the belief that clinical
services supported by medical
education & research of the highest
quality relevant to the needs of the
country should be an integral part of
Apollo Hospitals.
There are various programs being
offered as part of post graduate
medical education initiative at
Apollo Hospitals group with the aim
of developing competent human
resources in the medical arena.
Academic Achievements of
Medvarsity
Diploma in Emergency
Medicine
1900 doctors trained and educated in
Emergency Medicine and Intensive
Care Medicine until date.
The Diploma in Emergency Medicine
is offered by Royal Liverpool Academy
(RLA), Royal Liverpool University
Hospital and Medvarsity Online
Ltd. The duration is 1 year and an
extensive 9-month contact program
at Apollo Hospitals. The quality of the
program is assured by RLA, UK.
Currently, there is a huge demand for
trained professionals in accident and
emergency care and is expected to
rise significantly. As per a BBC report,
one person dies every 6 minutes and
10 people are critically injured in road
traffic accidents in India.
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Emergency Medicine is relatively new
in India but is fast growing to be a
critical specialty. There are very few
training programs for Emergency
Medicine while the demand for
qualified emergency physicians is
massive. Those who train in this
specialty now have an exciting career
ahead of them as many institutes
across the country and abroad are
in desperate search of qualified
emergency physicians.
Medvarsity also offers a 6-month
course in Intensive Care Medicine with
a rigorous 15-day contact program
at Apollo Hospitals. This program is
designed to develop registered and
graduate medical professionals into
intensive care practitioners through a
programmed approach of knowledge
and skills acquisition coupled with a
critical thinking focus. This program
also prepares the student to take
full responsibility for the quality of
treatment and care of the critically ill
patient. The course material has been
developed by experienced specialists
from Apollo Hospitals and Medvarsity.
Diploma in Family Medicine
Trained 1022 doctors in the field of
Family Medicine
The Diploma in Family Medicine is
a one year course with a 3 month
contact program at Apollo Hospitals.
The course is quality assured by RCGP
who also act as external examiners
during the assessments.
The Family Medicine Course
gives doctors in India a chance to
upgrade their knowledge and skill
online followed by full time clinical
attachment.
The demand for family medicine
courses run by various institutions is
seeing a major increase. As against
just 50 MBBS students enrolling to
become family physicians a couple of
years ago, the numbers reached close
to 300 in 2011. This is mainly because
private hospitals have increased their
recruitment for general practitioners.
Introduction of Family Medicine as a
PG discipline has been emphasized by
the Bhore Committee, National Health
Policy 2002, National Knowledge
Commission and the taskforce on
human resource for NRHM.
Fellowship in Dialysis
Medvarsity has successfully trained
about 100 students in the field of
Dialysis.
There are about 1.5 million
people currently undergoing renal
replacement therapy in India and the
number is expected to double within
the next 10 years.
This 6 months course followed by
2-week hands on training will enable
professionals to play a crucial role in
delivering the best dialysis treatment
and discuss the value of teamwork
during dialysis.
Diploma in Hospital
Administration
Medvarsity has successfully trained
and developed 6000 graduates in the
field of Hospital Administration.
This one year course, which involves
a 15 day contact session and a
project work, prepares qualified and
efficient administrators to manage
modern hospitals and deliver better
healthcare.
academics
Apollo Group ties up
with Rochester Varsity
Introduction
of Family
Medicine as a
PG discipline
has been
emphasized
by the Bhore
Committee,
National
Health Policy
2002, National
Knowledge
Commission
and the
taskforce
on human
resource for
NRHM.
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Even nonmedical
professionals
are
increasingly
taking up
the mantle
of hospital
administration.
The
government
too is veering
around to
the view
that public
hospitals also
need to be run
professionally.
It is evident that there is a wide
gap between supply and demand
for trained healthcare managers /
administrators to work for hospitals,
pharmaceutical companies,
health insurance and third party
administrators and other healthcare
organizations. There are bright
opportunities even in the government
sector. The National Rural Health
Mission (NRHM) looks forward to
appoint healthcare administrators.
The demand for healthcare
professionals is envisaged to increase
in manifolds in the years to come with
more and more hospitals expected
to increase in semi-urban and rural
areas.
Certificate Course in the
Management of Diabetes
Successfully provided education and
training to over 1000 students in the
field of Diabetes Management.
An estimated 41 million Indians are
diabetic and this figure is expected to
reach 73 million by 2025 making India
the diabetes capital of the world.
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This 6 month course followed by a
1-week contact program will impart
knowledge, skills and confidence in
the delivery of diabetes care and to
respond appropriately in complex
practice situations with other
professionals.
Certificate Course in
Healthcare Quality
Management
Trained and certified 2500 healthcare
professionals in Quality Management
Quality improvement has to be the
core competency for every healthcare
manager and clinician at every level
of medical practice. An increasingly
educated public expects to receive
nothing less than excellent care and
services and it must be the mission
of every healthcare organization to
deliver that excellence.
The 6-month Certificate Course in
Healthcare Quality is designed to
provide participants with a solid
foundation of all the core elements
of healthcare quality improvement.
The fundamental concepts, tools and
management techniques of quality are
extensively covered in this program.
Nursing Courses
Trained and certified around 425
nurses in various specialties
Nurses and nursing assistants
form the largest group of workers
in health sector. They are required
in the hospitals and health centres
right from general ward to operation
theatre. Therefore, with the growth of
the health industry, the demand for
nurses is also increasingly making a
career in nursing very attractive.
With increasing health consciousness
in India, the quality of health services
has improved. Skilled and specialized
nurses are in high demand by the
health organizations.
Medvarsity offers nursing courses
of 3 months duration in Cancer and
Palliative Nursing, Surgical Nursing,
Nursing Administration, Critical
Care Nursing, Cardiac Nursing
and Ward Sister Course, which are
available online and offline for nursing
graduates who wish to enhance their
skills in specialized areas.
Fellowship in Neurological
Rehabilitation
More than 350 students have been
awarded successfully.
From the bench to the bedside
bringing neuroscience to the clinical
workplace, this is a flexible program
designed for health professionals
with an interest in neurological
rehabilitation wishing to enhance
their career potential in this field.
The program is transferable across
health care settings nationally and
internationally and enables students
to apply underpinning principles
to their specific areas of work; it
encourages debate, critique and selfanalysis of a health care professional’s
own clinical practice; it enables
students to promote and lead change
and be responsive in a changing
health care environment.
Fellowship in Orthopaedic
Rehabilitation
There are 448 health care
professionals that have been trained
& educated.
This unique course enables specialist
registrars to acquire a scientific and
analytical approach to orthopaedic
practice, and engenders a class of
orthopaedic rehabilitation with a depth
and breadth of skills, knowledge and
attitude based on a solid foundation of
science and clinical expertise.
This E - Learning covers a broad
spectrum of musculoskeletal topics,
including basic science and clinical
aspects. It aims to give students, in
a multidisciplinary setting, a holistic
view of musculoskeletal science
and rehabilitation, and provides
an in-depth knowledge of specific
areas appropriate to each student’s
individual interests.
Fellowship in Cardiac
Rehabilitation (FCR)
Medvarsity was able to deliver the
course on FCR to 473 health care
professionals successfully.
This course aims to provide health
professionals with an understanding
of cardiovascular rehabilitation
and prevention, to prepare health
professionals to provide an effective
cardiac rehabilitation service,
and to evaluate their practice
objectively through research. It
also aims to develop the health
professionals’ knowledge of current
prevention strategies in the area of
cardiovascular disease. The student
will gain research experience and
undertake a research dissertation.
academics
Until recently, doctors without any
professional training in management
were assigned managerial roles.
Besides being a difficult task,
doctors barely managed to devote
time to their patients. Thanks to
the rapid corporatization, a lot of
medical graduates are taking up
further specialization in hospital
administration. Even non-medical
professionals are increasingly
taking up the mantle of hospital
administration. The government too
is veering around to the view that
public hospitals also need to be run
professionally. Hence there is a strong
need for a course in Healthcare
Management.
This E Learning
covers a broad
spectrum of
musculoskeletal
topics,
including
basic science
and clinical
aspects.
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The
“Fellowship
in Diabetes”
course is
structured to
provide broad,
in-depth
and updated
knowledge
in all the
aspects of
diabetic care
and facilitate
the physicians
develop the
skills for
efficient and
integrated
diabetic care.
The FSS program started in 2005.
Since then Medvarsity has trained
271 physical therapists, sports
nutritionists and other health care
professionals.
Offers knowledge and expertise to
develop students’ evaluative, critical
thinking and problem-solving skills,
and to increase their practical and
theoretical knowledge of sports
science and injury so that they can
apply these skills in the further
advancement of their profession.
both inpatient and outpatient settings.
The Fellowship in Pain Medicine
Course is a one year online course
with 2 weeks of contact program for
MBBS graduates and 6 months online
with 1 week contact program for
specialists.
A “Fellowship in Pain Medicine” will
be awarded to those who successfully
complete the module tests, the
final exam and contact program by
Medvarsity and AHERF.
Fellowship in Diabetes
Post Graduate Diploma in
Clinical Nutrition
The students will get a joint
certification from Apollo Hospitals,
Royal Liverpool academy and
Medvarsity.
The program consists of 100 plus
instructional hours through expert
web based classes, online learning
resources plus hands on internship
for 10 days in one of the Apollo
Hospitals across India. Certification is
by Apollo and Medvarsity.
Successfully provided education and
training to over 200 students in the
field of Diabetes Management.
The “Fellowship in Diabetes” course
is structured to provide broad, indepth and updated knowledge in
all the aspects of diabetic care and
facilitate the physicians develop the
skills for efficient and integrated
diabetic care. The course offers
in-depth and updated course content,
latest advances and guidelines, 4
week period of hands on training to
enhance clinical skills at major Apollo
Hospitals across India.
Fellowship in Pain Medicine
International
Postgraduate
Paediatric Certificate
(IPPC)
International Postgraduate Paediatric
Certificate (IPPC) program is run
in collaboration with University of
Sydney as a one year online program
with contact classes at Apollo. It was
started at three Apollo centres in 2010
- Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.
We added two centres - Bangalore and
Hyderabad in 2012.
academics
Fellowship in Sports Sciences
(FSS)
Contact classes are organized at
these locations for the students on a
regular basis.
The exam for the 2012 -13 batch
was organized in August 2013 at two
centres, Delhi and Bangalore and
at two centres, Delhi and Kolkata in
December 2013.
Successfully trained around 120
students in the field of Clinical
Nutrition
The Post Graduate Diploma in
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition
(PGDDCN) is a one year e-learning
program with a combined integrative
and preventive educational approach
to health, nutrition and disease. It
is specifically designed for health
professionals who are interested in
acquiring competency in the field of
Clinical Nutrition.
The Fellowship in Pain Medicine
Course introduces the student to
best practices in Pain Management.
This course focuses on teaching
comprehensive, interdisciplinary
approach to management of pain in
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In pursuance of our policy for recognition of research papers published in journals with high impact factors,
the following papers were recognized in 2012-13:
AHERF Adjunct
Titles
Policy to grant Adjunct titles
of Professor and Associate
Professor of AHERF was
implemented across the group
during the year 2013.
List of Published Papers recognized in 2013 - Apollo Group Consultants
Twenty one consultants were
granted the adjunct title of
Professor and Associate Professor
of AHERF during the year 2013.
Consultants Granted Adjunct Titles of Professors and Associate Professors of
AHERF - 2013
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S.No Name of consultant
Speciality
Location
Title
1
Dr. Bharat J. Parikh
Oncology
Ahmedabad
Professor
2
Dr.Govindarajan M J
Radiology
Bangalore
Associate Professor
3
Dr. Sambit Das
Endocrinology
Bhubaneswar Associate Professor
4
Dr. Mohammad Ibrarullah
Gastroenterology &
laparoscopic surgery
Bhubaneswar Professor
5
Dr. Prasant Kumar Sahoo
Interventional Cardiology
Bhubaneswar Associate Professor
6
Dr. Abdul Ghafur
Infectious Diseases
ASH Chennai
Associate Professor
7
Dr. Anand Khakhar
Liver Disease & Transplantation
Chennai
Professor
8
Dr. Rajesh Chawla
Respiratory Medicine
Delhi
Professor
9
Dr. Devendra Kumar Agarwal
Nephrology
Delhi
Professor
10.
Dr. Sundeep Upadhyaya
Rheumatology
Delhi
Associate Professor
11
Dr. Umanath Nayak
Head & Neck Oncology
Hyderabad
Associate Professor
12
Dr. Sanjay Sinha
Urology & Transplant Surgery
Hyderabad
Professor
13
Dr. P. C. Rath
Interventional Cardiology
Hyderabad
Professor
14
Dr.V.Sathavahana Chowdary
ENT, Head & Neck Surgery
Hyderabad
Associate Professor
15
Dr. Pankaj Kumar
Orthopedic Surgery
Karimnagar
Associate Professor
16
Dr. Dev Shuvendu Roy
ENT, Head& Neck Surgery
Kolkata
Associate Professor
17
Dr. Gaurab Maitra
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Kolkata
Associate Professor
18
Dr Usha Goenka
Radiology
Kolkata
Associate Professor
19
Dr. Rabindra Nath Chakraborty Cardiology
Kolkata
Professor
20
Dr. Krishnan Swaminathan
Diabetes & Endocrinology
Madurai
Professor
21
Dr. Shyama Subramaniam
Biochemistry
Tondiarpet,
Chennai
Associate Professor
Publishing
Journal and
date
Recommendations
of the
Committee
Dr. Abdul Ghafur
Dr. Ramasamy
Pushparaju
Dr. Sarathy Nalini
Dr. Krishnamurthy
Rajkumar
Dr. Durairajan
Sureshkumar
Journal of
Microbiology
and Infectious
Diseases
March 2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Clinical profile of
patients treated
with cefepime/
tazobactam: A new
Beta-lactam/ Betalactamase inhibitor
combination
Dr. Abdul Ghafur
Dr. Ashwini Tayade
Dr. Priyadarshini
Kannaian
Journal of
Microbiology
and Infectious
Diseases
September
2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
ASH
Chennai
Factors influencing
quality of life in
adult primary brain
tumour
Dr. Rakesh Jalali
Neuro
Dr. Debnarayan Dutta Oncology
September
2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Orthopedics
Bhubaneswar
Osteoporosis affects
component positioning in computer
navigation - assisted
total knee arthroplasty
Dr. Dae-Hee Lee
The Knee
Dr. Debabrata Padhy 2012;
Dr. Soon-Hyuck Lee
19(3):203-7
Dr. Kyung-Wook Nha
Dr. Ji-Hun Park
Dr. Seung-Beom Han
from Korea
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Orthopedics
Bhubaneswar
Bilateral ankle
swelling in a renaltransplant recipient
- Case presentation
Dr. Prasantha padhan
Dr. Debabrata Padhy
Dr. Bikash Agrawala
Dr. Ajit Biswal
Dr. Samiran Adhikary
Indian
Journal of
Rheumatology March
2012, Vol. 7
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Dr. MohamSurgical
mad Ibrarullah Gastroen
terology
Bhubaneswar
Management of
bile duct injury
at various stages
of presentation:
Experience from a
tertiary care centre
Dr. Md. Ibrarullah
Dr. S. Sankar
Dr. K. Sreenivasah
Dr. S. R. K. Gavini
Indian J Surg
DOI 10.1007/
s12262012-0722-2
September
2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
7
Dr. Rashmi
Sharma
Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Bilaspur
Management of
Dr. Rashmi Sharma
sickle cell disease in
pregnancy
Apollo
Medicine
September
2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
8
Dr. Ashish
Jaiswal
Orthopedics
and spine
surgery
Bilaspur
Minimally invasive
spine surgeries
MISS
Dr. Ashish Jaiswal
Apollo
Medicine
December
2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
9
Dr. Ramesh
Venkataraman
Critical Care
Medicine
Chennai
Sepsis: Update in
the Management
Dr. Ramesh
Venkataraman
Dr. John A. Kellum
Advances in
Chronic Kidney Disease,
January, 2013
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
S. Name of the
No Consultant
Specialty
Hospital
Topic
Authors and
Co authors details
1
Dr. K. Abdul
Ghafur
Infectious
Diseases
ASH
Chennai
Sensitivity pattern
of Gram negative
bacteria to the
new beta-lactam/
Beta-lactamase
inhibitor combination: Cefepime/
tazobactam
2
Dr. K. Abdul
Ghafur
Infectious
Diseases
ASH
Chennai
3
Dr. Debnarayan Dutta
Radiation
Oncologist
4
Dr. Debabrata
Padhy
5
Dr. Debabrata
Padhy
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S. Name of the
No Consultant
10
11
Publishing
Journal and
date
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Specialty
Hospital
Topic
Critical Care
and sleep
Medicine
Chennai
Asian Venous
thromb oembolism
guidelines: prevention of Venous
thromb oembolism
Dr. Liew N. C-Malaysia
Dr. Chu P. H and
Dr. Chang Y. H-Taiwan
Dr. Choi G-Hongkonh
Dr. Gao X- China
Dr. Gibbs H-Australia
and 14 others
International
Angiology,
December
2012
Neuro surgery in
India: an overview
Dr. K. Ganapathy
World Neurosurgery
Histoplasmosis in
India: Truly Uncommon or Uncommonly Recognised
Dr. Ram Gopalakrishnan
Dr. P. Senthur Nambi
Dr. V. Rama subramanian
Dr. K Abdul Ghafur
Dr. Ashok
Parameswaran
Dr. Shareek P.S
Dr. D. Sureshkumar
Dr. Ramgopala
krishnan
Dr. V. Rama subramanian
Dr. K. Abdul Ghafur
Dr. M.A. Thirunarayan
Dr. Raju
Vaishya
Delhi
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Orthopedics
and joint
replace ment
surgery
Pain management in Dr. Vaishya R.
Total Knee Replace- Dr. Majeed A.
ment
Apollo
Medicine
December
2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
20
Dr. Raju
Vaishya
Delhi
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Hip Resurfacing
Arthroplasty in
Inflammatory
Arthritis
Dr. Vaishya R
Journal of
association of
Physicians of
India October
2012
Orthopedics
and joint
replace ment
surgery
The Journal
of Arthroplasty 2013
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
21
Dr. Shuvendu
Prosad Roy
Orthopedics
Delhi
Dr. Shuvendu Prosad
Roy
Dr. U. F. Tanki
Dr. A. Dutta
Dr. O. N. Nagi
Dr. S. K. Jain
Knee surg
sports
traumator
Arthorsc; 15
March 2012
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by the
Chairman
American
Journal of
Infectious
diseases 2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Efficacy of intraarticular tranexamic
acid in blood loss
reduction following
primary unilateral
total knee arthroplasty
22
Dr. Tarun
Sahni
Internal and
Hyperbaric
Medicine
Delhi
Use of Hyperbaric
Oxygen therapy in
management of
Orthopedic Disorders
Dr. Tarun Sahni
Dr. Shweta Aggarwal
Elseveir
Apollo Medicine Journal,
Orthopedics
December
2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
23
Dr. Subash
Gupta
Pediatric
Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Delhi
Post transplant biliary complications:
an analysis from
a predominantly
living donor liver
transplant center
Dr Manav Wadhawan
Dr A Kumar
Dr S Gupta
Dr R Shandil
Dr S Taneja
Dr A Sibal
Journal of
gastroenterology and
Hepatology, 22nd Feb
2013
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by the
Chairman
24
Dr. C.
Chandra
sekhar
Vascular
Surgery
Hyderabad
Cholesterol Emboli
Syndrome: Acute
Renal Insufficiency
After a Procedure
or a Thrombolytic
Therapy or Anticoagulant Therapy
Dr. C. Chandra Sekhar
Dr. Parveen Jindal
Dr. V. Guru Karna
Dr. Manoj Aggarwal
Dr. Soma Sekhar
Indian Journal of Surgery
September
2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
25
Dr. AVS Suresh
Medical
Oncology
Hyderabad
Stem-cell therapy
in medicine–how far
we came and what
we can expect?
Dr. AVS Suresh
Apollo
Medicine
March 2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
26
Dr. AVS Suresh
Medical
Oncology
Hyderabad
A randomised,
double-blind,
placebo-controlled
phase 2 study of
trebananib (AMG
386) in combination with FOLFIRI
in patients with
previously treated
metastatic colorectal carcinoma.
Dr. M Peeters
Dr. A H Strickland
Dr. M Lichinitser
Dr. AVS Suresh
Dr. G Manikhas
Dr. J Shapiro, W
Dr. Rogowski
Dr. X Huang
Dr. B Wu
Dr. D Warner
Dr. R Jain
Dr. N C Tebbutt
Br J Cancer
January 2013
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
13
Dr. Shareek,
P.S.
Infectious
Diseases
Chennai
Antibiotic sensitivity pattern of blood
isolates of acineto
bacter species in
a tertiary care
hospital
14
Dr. Dorairajan
Sureshkumar
Infectious
Diseases
Chennai
Invitro activity of
Dr. Dorairajan
tigecycline in the era Sureshkumar
of NDM-1
Dr. Ram Gopala
krishnan
Dr. M.A. Thirunarayan
American
Journal of
Microbiology
3 2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
15
Dr. Manav
Wadhawan
Gastro
enterology
Delhi
Cytomegalovirus Infection: Its Incidence
and Management in
CytomegalovirusSeropositive Living
Related Liver Transplant Recipients:
A Single-Center
Experience
Dr. Manav Wadhawan
Dr. Subash Gupta
Dr. Neerav Goyal
Dr. Karisangal
R. Vasudevan
Dr. Kausar Makki
Dr. Reetika Dawar
Dr. Raman Sardana
Dr. Nand Lal
Dr. Ajay Kumar
Liver Transplantation
December
2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Hepatitis B core
antibody testing in
Indian blood donors:
A double edged
sword!
Dr. R. N. Makroo
Dr. Mohit Bhatia
Dr. Aakanksha Bhatia
Dr. Bhavna Arora
N. L. Rosamma
Asian Journal
of Transfusions Science
January-June
2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Rapid prenatal
diagnosis through
fluorescence in situ
hybridization for
preventing aneuploidy related birth
defects
Dr. Ashish Fauzdar
Dr. Mohit Chowdhry
Dr. R. N. Makroo
Mr. Manoj Mishra
Ms. Priyanka
Shrivastava
Ms. Preeti Bhadauria
Dr. Anita Kaul
Indian Journal of Human
Genetics
Jan-March
2013
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
17
Dr. R. N.
Makroo
Transfusion
Medicine,
Molecular
Biology,
Transplant
Immunology
Delhi
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
19
Chennai
Dr. Vaishya Raju
The Journal
of Arthroplasty 2012
All-Polyethylene
Tibial Implant
in Young Active
Patients
Infectious
Diseases
Delhi
Topic
Recommendations
of the
Committee
Delhi
Dr. Ram
Gopala
krishnan
Transfusion
Medicine,
Molecular
Biology,
Transplant
Immunology
Hospital
Publishing
Journal and
date
Orthopedics
and joint
replace ment
surgery
Chennai
Dr. R. N.
Makroo
Specialty
Authors and
Co authors details
Dr. Raju
Vaishya
Neuro
surgery
16
S. Name of the
No Consultant
18
Dr. K. Ganapathy
12
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Dr. N.
Ramakrishnan
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Co authors details
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of the
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S. Name of the
No Consultant
Hospital
Topic
Authors and
Co authors details
Publishing
Journal and
date
27
Dr.V.Satha
vahana
Chowdary
ENT, Head
and Neck
surgery,
Allergy and
dizziness
Hyderabad
CD 23, Total IgE and
TH1/TH2 cytokines
in asthma patients
Dr. V. Sathavahana
Chowdary
Dr. Vijayendra chary
Dr. A. Hemalatha R
Dr. Narendra Babu K
Dr. Ramesh
Kumar R
Dr.Dinesh Kumar B
International
journal of
pharmacy
and pharmaceutical
sciences
March 2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
28
Dr. Sudipta
Sekhar Das
Transfusion
Medicine
Kolkata
Managing uncontrolled postsplenectomy reactive
thrombocytosis in
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura:
Role of thrombocytapheresis
Dr. Sudipta Sekhar Das
Dr. Soumya Bhattacharya
Dr. Subrata Sen
Transfusion
and Apheresis Science
February
2013
29
Dr. Sudipta
Sekhar Das
Transfusion
Medicine
Kolkata
Investigating weak
'A' subgroups in a
healthy lady: the
blood bank limitations
30
Dr. M. K.
Goenka
Gastroenterology
Kolkata
31
32
33
34
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of the
Committee
Dr. M. K.
Goenka
Dr. Ashish
Gupta
Dr. Ashish
Gupta
Dr. G. L.
Awasthi
Gastroenterology
Plastic
Surgery
Plastic
Surgery
Department
of Medicine
Kolkata
Ludhiana
Ludhiana
Ludhiana
S. Name of the
No Consultant
Specialty
Hospital
Topic
35
Dr. Manpreet
Singh Salooja
Cardiothoracic and
Vascular
Surgery
Ludhiana
Pulmonary Embolectomy With
Use Of Pediatric
Bronchoscope For
The Detection Of
Residual Emboli: An
Innovative Surgical
Technique
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
36
Dr. Krishnan
Swaminathan
Endocrinology
Madurai
Dr. Sudipta Sekhar Das Asian Journal
Dr. R. U. Zaman
of TransfuDr. Mohd. Safi
sion Science
February
2013
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
37
Dr. Krishnan
Swaminathan
Endocrinology
Glue for Sealing
Internal Pancreatic
Fistula in a Patient
with Liver Cirrhosis:
A Useful Technique
Dr. Mahesh Kumar
Goenka
Dr. Ashish Kumar Jha
Dr. Nisha Kapoor
Dr. Usha Goenka
JOP. J Pancreas (Online)
2012 May 10;
13(3):292-295
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
38
Dr. Anuradha
Khadilkar
Multistix 10 SG
Leukocyte Esterage
Dipstick Testing
in Rapid Bedside
Diagnosis of
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: A
Prospective Study
Dr. Ashish K. Jha
Dr. Dal C. Kumawat
Dr. Yasvant K. Bolya
Dr. Mahesh K. Goenka
Journal of
Clinical and
Experimental
Hepatology
September
2012 Vol. 2
No. 3 224–228
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
39
Dr. Vaman
Khadilkar
Demographic profile
of hand injuries in
an industrial town of
north India: A review
of 436 patients
Dr. Ashish Gupta
Dr. Ashok K Gupta
Dr. Sanjeev Uppal
Dr. Rajinder Mittal
Dr. Ramneesh Garg
Dr. Niharika Aggarwal
Indian
Journal of
Surgery June
2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Rotation advanceDr. Ashish Gupta
ment flap for
Dr. Ashok K Gupta
isolated congenital
alar rim defect: An
effortless paradigm?
International
Journal of
pediatric
otorhinolaryngology
October 2012
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
MethotrexateDr. Gurcharan Avasthi
Induced Liver CirDr. Prashant Bhatt
rhosis in a Patient of Dr. Jagdeep Singh
Psoriasis
Journal of
Association
of physicians
of India May
2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Authors and
Co authors details
Recommendations
of the
Committee
Indian
Journal of
Cardiothoracic And
Vascular
Surgery
(IJTCVS)
January 2013
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Pancreatic Diabetes: Dr. Krishnan
An Indian PerspecSwaminathan
tive
Dr. Rajesh Prabhu
The British
Journal of
Diabetes
and Vascular
Disease
November
2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Madurai
Refractory hypoglycemia in diabetes: A
quinolone link
Dr. Krishnan
Swaminathan
Dr. Keerthiga vidi
The British
Journal of
Diabetes
and Vascular
Disease
November
2012
Rs. 20,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Pediatrics
Pune
Body fat reference
percentiles on
healthy affluent
Indian children
and adolescents to
screen for adiposity
Dr. AV Khalidkar
Dr. Sanwalka NJ
Dr. Chiplookar SA
Dr. Khadilkar VV
Dr. Pandit D
International
Journal of
Obesity
(Lond). January 2013
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Pediatric
Endocrinologist
Pune
Relationship
between body mass
index, fat distribution and cardiometabolic risk factors in
Indian children and
adolescents
Dr. Khadilkar VV
Dr. Khadilkar AV
Dr. Chiplonkar SA
Pediatric
Obesity
August 2012
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
40
Dr. Smita Joshi Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Pune
Screening of
cervical neoplasia in
HIV-infected women
in India
Dr. Smita Joshia
AIDS FebruRengaswamy
ary 2013
Dr. Sankaranarayanan
Dr. Richard Muwongeb
Dr. Vinay Kulkarnic
Dr. Thara Somanath
Dr. Uma Divate
Rs. 15,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
41
Dr. Nina
Mansukhani
Pune
Are women satisfied
when using levonorgestrel-releasing
intrauterine system
for treatment of
abnormal uterine
bleeding
Dr. Nina Mansukhani
Dr. Jyothi Unni
Dr. Meenakshi Dual
Dr. Reeta Darbarf
Dr. Sonia Malikl
Dr. Sohani Verma
Dr. Sonal Bathla
Rs. 10,000/and Citation
by the
Chairman
Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Dr. Manpreet Singh
Salooja
Dr. Kishore .C. Mukherji
Dr. Anupam Shrivastava
Dr. Manender K. Singla
Dr. Sonia Saini
Dr. Sankhadip
Parmanik
Dr. Pardeep Kaur
Publishing
Journal and
date
Journal of
Midlife health
JanuaryMarch 2013
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Clinical Fellowships of
AHERF
strategic partnerships with national/
internationally renowned institutes/
universities and hospitals in India and
abroad in the interest of developing
innovative collaborative educational
and research programmes. The
unique goals of the AHERF remain
improvement of standards of medical
care and promoting and pioneering
innovative steps for further progress
of medical science.
In 2013, AHERF started to grant
Clinical fellowships of one year
duration in various disciplines to
qualified medical professionals.
These fellowships are offered in
those specialities where no or limited
training programs exist in India.
AHERF Clinical Fellowships is offered in the following specialties:
S. No. Speciality
Qualification
Fellowship
1.
Neurology
MD/DNB (SS*)
DM/ DNB (SS*)
i. Fellowship in Stroke
ii. Fellowship in Neuro-Muscular Disorders
2.
Nephrology
MD/DNB
DM/DNB (SS*)
MD/DNB
i. Fellowship in Clinical Nephrology
ii. Fellowship in Transplant Nephrology
iii. Fellowship in Renal Dialysis
3.
Obs & Gynae
MD/DNB
MD/DNB
i. Fellowship in IVF
ii. Fellowship in Fetal Medicine
4.
Endocrinology
MD/DNB
Fellowship in Diabetes
5.
GI Surgery
MCh/DNB (SS*)
Fellowship in Liver Transplantation
(duration 2 years)
6.
Hepatology
DM/DNB (SS*)
Fellowship in Hepatology
7.
Anaesthesiology
MD/DNB
MD/DNB
i. Fellowship in Liver Transplant Anaesthesia
ii. Fellowship in Cardiac Anaesthesia
8.
Gastroenterology
MD/DNB
Fellowship in Endoscopy
9.
General Surgery
MS/DNB
Fellowship in Bariatric Surgery
10.
Medicine
MD/DNB
Fellowship in Pain Medicine
MD/DNB
Fellowship in Molecular Biology
11.
Microbiology
* Super speciality DNB
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research
Apollo Hospitals Education and
Research Foundation (AHERF) is a
not-for-profit registered organisation
established in the year 1992. AHERF
aims at promoting and supporting
education, training and research
activities in the quest of quality
health care. Through its various
educational institutions across
the country, it offers an array of
Master’s, Baccalaureate, Fellowship,
Diplomas, and Certificate courses
in Medical and Health Sciences,
Hospital and Healthcare Management
disciplines. In addition to educational
and research activities, AHERF
continues to establish and strengthen
In 2013, AHERF approved Clinical Fellowships in the following specialties at
various locations of Apollo Hospitals Group:
Specialty wise approved list of Clinical Fellowships of
AHERF 2013
Specialty
Total Number Locations Name
Stroke in Neurology
4 Delhi, Bilaspur, Pune &
Kolkata
Nephrology/Clinical Nephrology
2 Secunderabad and
Bilaspur
Endoscopy in Gastroenterology
2 Bilaspur and Kolkata
Interventional Cardiology
1 Secunderabad
Interventional Pulmonology
1 Chennai
Hyperbaric Medicine
1 Delhi
Endocrinology
1 Delhi
Liver Transplant Anaesthesia
1 Delhi
Liver Transplantation**
1 Delhi
Head and Neck Oncologic surgery
1 Hyderabad
Total number of Clinical
15
Fellowships approved
** Duration of Fellowship in Liver Transplantation is 2 years
Apollo Medicine
Journal
“Apollo Medicine Journal”, the
official journal of the Apollo Group
is being published in collaboration
with Elsevier in both print and
electronic formats. Apollo Medicine
Journal (ISSN No 0976-0016) has
been conceptualized with the idea of
providing a platform for researchers
as well as clinicians ever since its
inception in September 2004.
The journal has a panel of
approximately 108 reviewers and is
published quarterly (March, June,
September and December) and is
distributed to all consultants of Apollo
Group, medical colleges and various
subscribers around the world. Current
and previous issues of the journal can
be accessed at
www.apollomedicaljournal.net
The published work in this journal
is now visible and acknowledged
globally as the journal is indexed on
Science Direct, world’s largest and
leading medical sciences portal for
educational institutions, libraries and
hospitals. All articles are now peer
reviewed and we have also applied for
Scopus. The revised editorial board
has on board eminent International
and National faculty members. The
Journal invites articles from outside
Apollo and approximately 30 outside
articles are in production for the
coming issues. The page views of
AMJ website depicted a significant
The revised
editorial
board has on
board eminent
International
and National
faculty
members.
The Journal
invites
articles
from outside
Apollo and
approximately
30 outside
articles are
in production
for the coming
issues.
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Apollo
Medicine is
now available
on Health
Advance –
A Mobile
application
to download
and read
the whole
journal.
94
Medicine is registered with COPE
(Committee on Publication Ethics)
and each manuscript is checked for
Plagiarism. New Sections have been
added: Algorithms, Interesting Rare
Case Pictures, Online CME, etc. Apollo
Medicine is now also available on
yearly subscription. Apollo Medicine
Journal has been approved and
included in the Directory of Open
Access Journals (DOAJ).
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Subject
24
No. 2
June 2010
Minimal Access Surgery
25
No. 3
September 2010
Critical care
26
No. 4
December 2010
Gastroenterology and
Gastrointestinal Surgery
27
Vol. 8 No 1
March 2011
Advances in Diagnostic
Methods
28
No 2
June 2011
Anaesthesia
29
No 3
September 2011
Cardiology
30
No 4
December 2011
Recent Advances in Paediatrics
31
Vol 9 No 1
March 2012
Advances in Organ
Transplantation
Apollo Medicine Journal Issues:
32
No 2
June 2012
Advances in Oncology
38 issues have been published so far and from Dec 2013 onwards it’s non
theme based.
33
No 3
September 2012
Advances in Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
Sl. No. Volume No. Date of issue
Subject
1
Vol. l No.1
September 2004
Cardiology and
CardiothoracicSurgery
2
No.2
December 2004
Oncology
3
Vol.2 No.1
March 2005
Neurosciences
4
No.2
June 2005
Orthopaedics
5
No.3
September 2005
Nephrology and Urology
6
No.4
December 2005
Paediatrics
7
Vol.3 No.1
March 2006
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
8
No.2
June 2006
Endocrinology
9
No.3
September 2006
Internal medicine
10
No.4
December 2006
Minimal Access Surgery
11
Vol.4 No.1
March 2007
Diagnostic Services
12
No.2
June 2007
Paediatrics
13
No.3
September 2007
Cardiology
14
No.4
December 2007
Gastroenterology
15
Vol.5 No.1
March 2008
Anaesthesia
16
No.2
June 2008
Neurosciences
17
No.3
September 2008
Oncology
18
No.4
December 2008
Organ Transplantation
19
Vol.6 No.1
March 2009
Orthopaedics
20
No.2
June 2009
Nephrology and Urology
21
No.3
September 2009
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
22
No.4
December 2009
Endocrinology
23
Vol. 7 No. 1
March 2010
Internal Medicine
34
No 4
December 2012
Advances in Orthopaedics
35
Vol 10 No 1
March 2013
Advances in Nephrology and
Urology
36
No 2
June 2012
Advances in Endocrinology
37
No 3
September 2012
Advances in Neurosciences
38
No 4
December 2012
Non theme
AHERF
Vision
Enable a Research and Innovations led
Apollo Hospitals, which consistently
rides the cutting edge in Technology,
Therapy and Delivery for improved
patient outcomes, affordability and
reach.
About AHERF
AHERF spearheads research
dedicatedly for the Apollo Hospitals
group. The Apollo Hospitals
Educational and Research Foundation
(AHERF) is an autonomous
organization recognized by the
Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research (DSIR) as a “Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization
(SIRO)”, to carry out research,
educational and training programs in
the quest of quality health care.
AHERF undertakes and promotes
scientific and medical research
programs that have a bearing on the
health, social, economic and industrial
needs of India. AHERF leverages
the strength of the Apollo Group of
Hospitals, which lies in its competent
clinicians and clinical researchers, a
large number and variety of patients,
state-of-the-art diagnostic and
therapeutic technologies and an
excellent medical records system.
research
growth of 118% from Jan 2013 to
Dec 2013. In June 2013, India has
seen the maximum page views of
471, followed by United States (197)
and Great Britain (60). There has
been contribution of manuscripts
from U.S, China and Egypt in the
last six months. Apollo Medicine is
now available on Health Advance
– A Mobile application to download
and read the whole journal. Apollo
a large
number and
variety of
patients,
state-of-theart diagnostic
and
therapeutic
technologies
and an
excellent
medical
records
system.
The foundation aims to strengthen
Apollo Hospitals in its quest for
excellence in providing healthcare
solutions to patients such that
healthcare is more effective,
affordable and accessible. AHERF is
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The company
shall
leverage
pathological
data to
develop
high-end
diagnostics
for various
diseases
and shall
also provide
genetic risk
assessment
tools.
ethically consented human tissues
and its associated data in a state-of
-the-art, proprietary database. This
shall greatly facilitate the discovery of
new treatments and the prosecution
of new and known therapeutics
for national and international
investigators.
Work Scope
AHERF works across a diverse set
of focus areas namely – Drug trials,
Device and software validation studies
and co-development, basic and
translational research, public health
studies and healthcare innovation
through creative collaborations.
Sapien shall fulfil our vision of
delivering better clinical outcomes
through bench-to-bedside innovation
by offering personalized medicine
services to Apollo Hospitals. The
company shall leverage pathological
data to develop high-end diagnostics
for various diseases and shall also
provide genetic risk assessment tools.
It also intends to bring to patients
specific gene-based diagnostic
panels for cancer, diabetes and
ophthalmology ailments to transform
the diagnosis and treatment
regimens. These developments shall
drive transformation from reactive to
preventive healthcare management
amongst patients.
Translational Research
Bio-Banking and Personalized
Medicine
Apollo Hospitals is committed to
translating research into clinical
outcomes for patient benefit. With this
aspiration, Apollo Hospitals recently
incubated and launched Sapien
Biosciences within AHERF’s facility in
Hyderabad.
Sapien Biosciences is currently in
the process of creating a world class
bio-bank comprising of high quality
Sapien has launched its first and novel
personalized medicine diagnostic test
“My Platelet” at Apollo Hyderabad.
Roll out to other Apollo centres are in
progress.
So far, Sapien has rolled out its
first personalized medicine assay
called ‘’My Platelet’’ at Apollo
Hospitals Hyderabad to determine
patient’s response to their bloodthinning medication and support
decision-making by the cardiologists
to personalize therapy for better
outcomes. This is the only test in
India that combines both genetic and
platelet function response to enable
tailored anti-platelet therapy for
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each patient. In 4 months, around 60
diagnostic tests have been undertaken
and the same test is likely to be rolled
out in other locations starting with
Bangalore and Bhubaneswar.
Further, Sapien is all set to introduce
a first clinical genomics test for the
eye at Apollo across major hospitals
in February 2014, which will allow
differential diagnosis amongst
patients. Subsequently a robust
pipeline is planned across the year to
introduce genetic tests in oncology,
cardiology and diabetes. These tests
will either fall in the category of
predictive risk assessment of disease
or under the category of clinical
genomics for differential diagnosis
and better disease management.
Sapien is engaged with the best
technology partners existing in India
and the west.
Glioblastomas
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the
most aggressive malignant primary
brain tumor in humans. Based on
the World Health Organization (WHO)
diagnosis criteria, histopathological
assessment thus far is considered
the gold standard for identification of
brain tumors. However, the diagnosis
procedure is not always precise due to
substantial inter-observer variation,
heterogeneous nature of tumors and
complications arising from invasive
cerebral biopsy, which are around 10%
of total biopsies.
AHERF is in the process of developing
a circulating biomarkers (CBMs)
based diagnostic panel for detection
and screening of glioblastomas
(GBMs) directly from the blood. This
technology is based on the principle
that CBMs levels are increased in
GBM patients, which are quantifiable
using the existing molecular
diagnostic technologies. So far, a
pilot study has been conducted with
encouraging results leveraging which
AHERF shall soon commence a larger
study to realize the path breaking
biomarker.
This minimally invasive technology
enables gaining information about the
GBM profile without the need of an
invasive biopsy. Further, this panel can
also be used for real time monitoring
of GBM post surgery for any cases of
metastasis.
The benefits that could accrue from
this project are multifaceted:
1.Development of a blood-based
diagnostic panel obviating the need
for biopsy especially in inaccessible
GBM patients where the risk of
biopsy is 10%.
2.Establishment of additional
diagnostic panels for GBM
diagnosis using tissue biopsy.
3.Exosome-enabled diagnostics are
also potentially applicable to other
diseases or medical conditions
where genetic testing is beneficial,
but access to tissue is difficult.
Examples include neurological
diseases, muscular disease,
kidney disease, diabetes, and other
metabolic diseases.
4.Publications, which will help filing a
full-scale DSIR certification to avail
customs duty exemption.
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a single point of contact (SPOC) for
the pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
medical device and innovator
organizations when it comes to
undertaking clinical studies for
outcomes, technology/ therapy
validation and co-development of
intellectual property.
Glioblastoma
multiforme
(GBM) is
the most
aggressive
malignant
primary
brain tumor
in humans.
Based on the
World Health
Organization
(WHO)
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AHERF has undertaken multiple
basic research projects that have
significant potential in the area of
diagnostics and prognostics for better
management of disease in patients.
Two of the
significant
SNPs are in
non-coding
RNA, which
has gained
importance
because their
roles in many
diseases, have
been clearly
elucidated.
Genetic association of Coronary
Artery Disease in Young Indian Adults
A pilot collaborative study with
AHERF and Institute of Genomics
and Integrative Biology (IGIB), a CSIR
Institution and National Institute of
Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), a
DBT Institute, was completed to study
genetic risk factors in young Indians
that may be associated with early
incidence of coronary artery disease in
young Indians.
A total of 109 MI patients (92 males)
and 101 healthy controls (76 males)
fulfilling inclusion and exclusion
criteria were recruited for the study
from Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad
and Ahmedabad. The statistical
quality control analysis performed at
NIBMG revealed high quality data and
included 189 individuals for analysis.
Although none of the SNPs showed
statistically significant differences
between patients and controls, highly
interesting data was generated.
Among the 10 genetic markers,
which showed the highest significant
association, some are located close to
known markers for various CVD risk
factors such as obesity. Two of the
significant SNPs are in non-coding
RNA, which has gained importance
because their roles in many diseases,
have been clearly elucidated. Many of
the associated SNPs were identified
for the first time, which needs to
be established and validated in
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consecutive replication studies. The
vast amount of data is being subjected
for the pathway analysis by Genome
Wide Association Studies (GWAS).
Once the above analysis is completed,
a full fledged study to establish a
genetic pre-disposition is likely to be
explored further.
Pathogen detection and discovery,
using High Throughput Platforms
In collaboration between International
Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology (ICGEB), AHERF,
and Kalawati Saran Children’s
Hospital, New Delhi, the RVP Fast Tag
technology was evaluated to detect
novel viral pathogens from patients
with respiratory disease. Using this
state-of-the-art technology to assess
the prevalence of various respiratory
pathogens in Indian hospitals with
different socio economic backgrounds.
Ninety three (93) paired nasal (NS)
and nasopharyngeal (NP) samples
were tested and eight respiratory
viruses were detected. The frequency
of detection was as follows:
Rhinovirus in 54, Influenza B virus in
49, Bocavirus in 38, Parainfluenza 4
in 29, Respiratory syncitial virus and
Parainfluenza 3 in 8 each, Coronavirus
in 2 and Influenza A in 1.
These results were confirmed using a
multiplex polymerase chain reaction,
thereby validating the usefulness and
reliability of X-tag assay. The newly
identified polyomaviruses associated
with acute respiratory infections WU
and KI which have not been so far
reported in India were isolated in 63
and 32 of the 200 samples.
Epidemiological research
Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty
Liver Disease (NAFLD) in school
children (5-10 years)
This ICMR funded study jointly
conducted by AHERF and INCLEN
intends to study the prevalence of
NAFLD amongst children in the
age group of 5-10 years who are
either overweight, obese or normal
weight and the association of this
prevalence with insulin resistance
and other metabolic syndrome. The
cross-sectional study screened 5055
students from 21 randomly identified
Delhi schools were initially included
for screening, of which 1108 students
were excluded based on exclusion
criteria. Of the final sample size of
3947, ultrasound was performed
in 706 children after obtaining
consent from their parents. Detailed
evaluation including blood tests could
only be performed in a subset of
these children. 15% of the children
were overweight/obese and 5% of
the children were obese while 30.1%
of children were underweight. While
9.2% of all children were found to be
hypertensive, 22.4% of children (25.6%
of boys and 18.5% of girls) had fatty
liver on ultrasound; this was found in
8.5% of normal weight and 45.6% of
overweight/obese children. Among
children with fatty liver disease, 8.1 %
had metabolic syndrome.
The study findings are being
submitted for joint publication. This
study is the first to explore the issues
on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in
Indian children and the association
with metabolic derangement. There
is no report from India on fatty
liver disease in children. This study
provides knowledge based on:
Fatty liver disease is not uncommon
in children and about 18% of children
with normal BMI have evidence
of fatty liver disease on USG. Low
HDL, hypertriglyceridemia and
hyperglycemia are commonest
metabolic derangements in
children with fatty liver. High BMI
and severe fatty liver disease have
higher association with metabolic
derangement and metabolic
syndrome. About 18% of the children
are hypertensive and a sizeable
proportion of underweight have
hypertension. There is lack of
appropriate cut off levels for metabolic
parameters for Indian children and
there is lack of consistency in results
using different metabolic syndrome
criteria. About 18% of the children are
hypertensive and a sizable proportion
of underweight have hypertension.
The manuscript is under process of
preparation.
Rural health camps at Gandhigram
In collaboration with Kasturba
Hospital, Gandhigram (KHGG)
AHERF has been providing standard
healthcare facilities to a population
of the 300 villages in and around
Gandhigram Trust, Madurai District.
As part of this effort, medical camps,
tele-medicine consultations and
awareness programs were organized
for Gandhigram staff and public from
Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Madurai.
An ultra sonogram was donated to the
hospital.
The healthcare screening camps were
conducted in the rural area covered
by Gandhigram Trust. Out of the
6714 persons screened, 6286 were
examined, in whom height and weight
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There is
lack of
appropriate
cut off levels
for metabolic
parameters
for Indian
children
and there
is lack of
consistency in
results using
different
metabolic
syndrome
criteria.
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A total
of 10,104
adolescent
girls aged
between 10-19
years were
recruited
on the basis
of inclusion
and exclusion
criteria.
Haemoglobin
was estimated
and sociodemographic
details were
collected
from all
participants.
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Prevalence of anemia and obesity at
Sivagangai
AHERF, Chennai in collaboration with
Apollo Specialty Hospital, Madurai,
Mother Theresa Education and
Charitable Trust (MTEC), an NGO
based at Sivagangai and District
Collector’s Office at Sivagangai, Tamil
Nadu, undertook a study to evaluate
incidence and prevalence of anaemia
among adolescent girls and adult
women in the Sivagangai District,
Tamil Nadu, Southern India.
A total of 10,104 adolescent girls aged
between 10-19 years were recruited
on the basis of inclusion and exclusion
criteria. Haemoglobin was estimated
and socio-demographic details
were collected from all participants.
Haemoglobin levels were classified
as normal and abnormal based on
WHO classification. Of 10,104 study
participants, 9.1% were 10-15 yrs,
11.6% were between 15-19 years of
age. It was observed that overall 61%
of adolescent girls were anaemic
(haemoglobin<10g/dL); 27.2% had
mild anaemia, 16.2% had moderate
anaemia (haemoglobin 7.0-9.0g/
dL) and 17.5% had severe anaemia
(haemoglobin<7.0 g/dL). There was
a significant association between
eating preference and abnormal
haemoglobin levels (p<0.001) were
noted. Similarly, lack of fruit intake
and intake of junk food (p=0.020)
were also associated with abnormal
haemoglobin levels (p<0.001).
We found that certain cofactors
such as eating habits, low economic
status and marital status are
significantly associated with abnormal
haemoglobin levels among women
of reproductive age. Further, we
documented changes among risk
factors associated with abnormal
haemoglobin levels. The manuscript is
being submitted for publication.
Analysis of Gender based newer risk
factors for Coronary Artery Disease
A retrospective data collection study
was done to analyze the coronary
major risk factors and other newer
risk factors in respect to gender
difference by a non invasive screening
of CAD in asymptomatic subjects in
Advanced Heart Health Check up
in about 1000 individuals at Apollo
Hospitals Chennai from 2007 – 2010.
The major and the newer gender
based risk factors will be analyzed
to correlate with the findings of ECG,
ECHO, treadmill and CT coronary
angiography. The outcome report is in
being prepared.
Haematological and Biochemical
Reference Levels in a healthy Indian
Population
Reference intervals refer to
quantitative data accompanied with
the range of the normal values
defining both the upper and lower
limits for the laboratory parameters.
They have been evaluated by AHERF
in a retrospective study across
four Apollo Hospital centres at
Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad and
New Delhi. 10,665 persons identified
as apparently “healthy” were selected
using stringent inclusion criteria from
a population of 76,000 individuals
who underwent Health Check-ups,
a preventive health check offered by
Apollo Hospitals.
The findings of this study were
formally released by Dr. V. M. Katoch,
Director-General, Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR) on March
9th, 2010 in presence of the Chairman,
Apollo Hospitals Group, Dr Prathap
C Reddy. The study outcome is
published in Indian Journal of Clinical
Biochemistry in July 2013 (Springer
Publications).
The mean values for all parameters
were statistically different between
the two genders for all analysis
except Mean Corpuscular Volume
(MCV). However, the magnitude of
the difference was small. Larger
differences were observed for the
following parameters for which
separate reference intervals for the
two genders must be considered
in clinical decision making.
Haemoglobin, Packed cell volume
(PCV), Erythrocyte Sedimentation
Rate (ESR), Serum Creatinine, Uric
acid, High Density Lipoproteins
(HDL), triglycerides and gamma
glutamyltranspeptidase (GGTP). ESR
values were almost 3-fold higher
in females than males (4-55mm/
Hr (F) Vs.2-22 (M) mm/Hr.) and the
ULN was elevated almost 2-fold as
compared to reporting ranges. The
reference interval established by
our study differed from the currently
used reference values. Gender
based partitioning is required for
haemoglobin, packed cell volume,
ESR, high density lipoprotein (HDL),
triglycerides, serum creatinine,
serum uric acid, and GGTP. Further
community based studies are required
to validate these findings and make
definite recommendations.
Abnormal Blood lipids and glucose
levels among healthy Indian
population
A retrospective multi -centric
cross-sectional study was conducted
on 9842 healthy individuals from
four Apollo Hospital centres at
Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad
and New Delhi. The study was aimed
to identify and collect the data of
the persons with abnormal lipid
profile and blood glucose levels
among healthy Indian population
who visited Apollo Hospitals for a
preventive health checkup program;
and to assess the persons at risk of
developing cardiovascular disease.
ATP III guidelines were used for
lipid and lipoprotein classification
as normal and abnormal. The study
revealed that overall 22% of the
population showed high cholesterol,
38% low HDL cholesterol, 14% with
high triglycerides. Similarly, elevated
levels of fasting glucose and 2 hr. post
glucose were also observed in 20%
of the population. The manuscript is
submitted for publication.
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were recorded. BP measurement
was recorded in 65% and blood
sugar levels were done for 59% of
participants. X-rays were done for
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Telemedicine consultation was
provided to 55 subjects. Telemedicine
consultations by relevant specialists
were provided wherever necessary
through Apollo Hospitals, Madurai.
The mean
values for all
parameters
were
statistically
different
between
the two
genders for
all analysis
except Mean
Corpuscular
Volume (MCV).
However, the
magnitude
of the
difference
was small.
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The
Institutional
Ethics
Committees
in all the
11 Apollo
Hospital
locations are
registered
with the Drug
Control
General of
India (DCGI).
Clinical Research
AHERF is India’s first and single
largest site solutions organization
(SSO) having experience of
coordinating conduct of over 750
clinical trials across 11 locations in
various therapeutic disciplines over
the last 14 years. With the current
strength of almost 80 certified and
experienced Clinical Research
Coordinators and 200 Principal
Investigators on its panel across 15
sites, AHERF ensures ethical conduct
of clinical research across the hospital
group. AHERF conducts phase II, III
and IV clinical trials, of which 80% are
global multi-centric trials.
AHERF has established a benchmark
in terms of ethics compliance and
standards across its sites. For multicentric trials, AHERF has established
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a central ethics committee which
is registered with the national
regulatory agency to comply with the
requirement and Office of Human
Resource Protection (OHRP), US
Department of Health whilst its
institutional ethics committees at
Chennai and Hyderabad are also
OHRP registered. AHERF also has
built an in-house capability in ethics
and quality assurance for clinical
trials across multiple sites.
In April 2013, AHERF organized a firstof-its kind “National Conference on
Evolving roles of Ethics Committees
in Clinical Research” at New Delhi.
The conference witnessed significant
participation by speakers, panellists
and delegates from the industry,
academia and the Government. The
conference was organized with an
objective of increasing awareness,
aligning all stakeholders on current
state, discussing and identifying key
changes required on the regulatory
and industry front, identifying
responsibility amongst stakeholders
and charting out the roadmap to
strengthen ethical conduct of clinical
research in India. Subsequently,
Dr. Ranjit Roy Chaudhary, Advisor
AHERF & Chairman Research Task
Force, Apollo Hospitals was selected
as the Chairman for the committee
drafting the recommendations
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India is currently witnessing a reform
process in clinical trials regulation
and this has slowed down the approval
of clinical (drug) trials for phase 2
and 3 trials particularly. In these
circumstances, AHERF has taken
on the role of championing Ethics in
clinical research. AHERF set out to
spearhead ethics across stakeholders
through a series of strategically
important conferences and meetings.
AHERF organized the first ever
meeting of chairs of the ethics
committee and ethicists who clear
clinical trials to discuss the current
state of affairs. The conference was
well attended with distinguished
delegates from across 20 institutes,
which included All India Institute of
Medical Sciences, NTs, Fortis, JNU
and other leading organizations. The
proceedings have been submitted to
ICMR with recommendations.
Dr. Ranjit Roy
Chaudhary,
Advisor AHERF
& Chairman
Research
Task Force,
Apollo
Hospitals was
selected as
the Chairman
for the
committee
The Institutional Ethics Committees
in all the 11 Apollo Hospital locations
are registered with the Drug Control
General of India (DCGI). AHERF
currently is coordinating the conduct
of almost 100 clinical studies across
Apollo hospitals.
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the
documents
for a study to
evaluate the
new low dose
FDC versus
the standard
FDCs as Oral
Hypoglycemic
Agents (OHA)
in Type II
diabetes
patients.
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Non-Drug Clinical Studies
AHERF is working closely with
domestic and global pharmaceutical
and biotechnology companies to bring
in observational/post-marketing
studies. This scenario will help to
reduce dependence on drug trials
and commence Investigator Initiated
research studies at Apollo Group.
• Two first-of-its-kind observational
studies on Hypertension led by
Padmashree Dr. Venkat Ram as a
principle investigator are expected
to be conducted at Apollo Hospitals
shortly. Both the studies envisage
conducting the study across 130
sites with patients numbering
between 500-1200. The magnitude
of the study envisages AHERF to
manage the studies across Apollo
hospitals and external sites as well.
The studies involve correlation of
the 24 hours ambulatory blood
pressure monitoring (ABPM) and
home blood pressure monitoring
(HBPM) versus office blood
pressure monitoring (OBPM)
for measuring and monitoring
blood pressure in clinical practice
and are being reviewed by the
Institutional Ethics Committees for
recommendation. The studies are
likely to commence from April/May
2014.
• Under the advisory expertise of Dr.
Venkataraman – Senior Consultant
Diabetology, AHERF is working
towards developing the documents
for a study to evaluate the new low
dose FDC versus the standard FDCs
as Oral Hypoglycemic Agents (OHA)
in Type II diabetes patients. The
documents will be sent for Ethics
Committee review once the protocol
is finalized.
• A Medtronic sponsored research
study to assess the prevalence of
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
in patients with cardiovascular
risk by USG screening is initiated
with Dr. Balaji – Vascular Surgeon
as the Principal Investigator.
The study will aim to enrol 500
CVD risk patients in one year.
The outcome of the study will
provide better understanding of
AAA pathophysiology and clinical
decision making.
• Antimicrobial resistance is a
growing medical concern and
has far reaching consequences
both for patient and healthcare
outcomes. Many observational
studies are being conducted in
Infectious Diseases department
of the Apollo Hospitals to assess
the drug resistance effect of newer
antibiotics as mono therapy or as
combination therapy versus the
existing standard of care practice in
patients with various gram positive
and gram negative infections. The
outcome of the studies will help
to define the clinical success,
reduced mortality/morbidity,
treatment pattern, dose, duration
and use for specific pathogens on
completion of the study. The studies
with Dr. Abdul Ghafur as Principal
Investigator sponsored by Astra
Zeneca and Glenmark are currently
underway. Further, studies with Dr.
Ramasubramanian as Principal
Investigator sponsored by MSD and
Fontil are expected to initiate by
March 2014.
Research Grants Program
To promote investigator driven
clinical research within the Apollo
Hospitals Group, AHERF has been
actively facilitating the program with
Apollo Hospitals Group. 25 research
projects developed by Apollo clinicians
across the country were approved
and awarded a sum of Rs 50,000
to facilitate proposal creation. The
activity is being continued for third
consecutive year to motivate and to
stimulate research across Apollo
Group of Hospitals.
Innovations
AHERF is in the process of
establishing a dedicated entity to
bring innovation from across the
world-distribution agreements,
validation services and incubation/
commercialization of ideas. The
proposal is awaiting the approval
of the management and the first
innovation campaign is likely to
commence by April 2014.
• Analytics for Life Collaboration
(AFL)
Apollo Hospitals has signed
an MOU with AFL, a Canadian
based innovation company to
create a disruptive innovation to
strengthen screening capability
in cardio-vascular disease. The
final agreement with AFL has been
finalized for signature by Feb 2014.
AHERF has completed conducting
first two phases of the study to
validate the software algorithm and
to assess the CVD.
AFL has innovated a technology,
capable of detecting a range of
cardiac abnormalities by a simple
non-invasive mechanism. Their
Cardio -Analysis technology has
potential to quickly detect and even
predict cardiac conditions beyond
what a standard ECG analysis can
provide. AHERF has completed
the first two phases of the study
during which the AFL algorithm
was trained on normal volunteer
subjects followed by a blinded
assessment using high resolution
Electrocardiogram (hrECG)
collected on patients and normal
subjects analyzed by AFL cardio
analysis to diagnose CAD. The final
extension phase study is anticipated
to start by end of Feb 2014, which
will be a blinded assessment using
hrECGs collected on subjects and
analyzed by AFL cardio analysis.
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for changes in the regulations
related to clinical trials. Following
the Dr. Roy Chaudhary committee
recommendations, AHERF organized
a conference in partnership with
AIIMS, India’s premiere government
institution and Harvard to discuss
the implementation challenges and
solutions at New Delhi in Jan 2014.
The recommendations from this
conference shall be submitted to the
Government of India shortly.
Their Cardio
-Analysis
technology
has potential
to quickly
detect and
even predict
cardiac
conditions
beyond what
a standard
ECG analysis
can provide.
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The fulltime one year
Advanced
Certificate
Course in
Clinical
Research at
PG level is
now extended
across
five AHERF
locations
including
new centres
at Kolkata,
Hyderabad and
Ahmedabad.
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• First Warning Systems, Inc.:
AHERF is exploring potential
collaboration opportunities with
First Warning Systems, Inc to
validate a breakthrough nonirradiative, non-compressive device
for dense breast tissue screening
with circadian pattern behavior
analysis to mammography and
physical examination for breast
cancer screening. The technology
works with the objective of dynamic
assessment of circadian cellular
relationships in breast tissue which
yields higher predictive correlation
to tissue abnormalities, leading
to reduced patient radiation and
reduction in unnecessary breast
surgeries. The proposal is being
reviewed by the Apollo clinical
team.
Educational Initiatives
The broad objective of this initiative is
to train and equip young professionals
with the critical skills needed to
develop and promote scientifically
valid and ethically appropriate clinical
research and to collaborate with the
industry leaders and give hands on
experience to acquire expertise in the
area of clinical research.
Advanced Certificate Course in
Clinical Research at PG level
In order to address the significant skill
gap of over 50,000 clinical research
professionals in India, AHERF
commenced a post-graduate program
in clinical research at its Delhi and
Chennai centres in 2008. The full-time
one year Advanced Certificate Course
in Clinical Research at PG level is now
extended across five AHERF locations
including new centres at Kolkata,
Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. The
course is affiliated to Anna University,
Chennai and the curriculum, student
selection, faculty, assessment and
certification is done uniformly across
the centres and jointly with the
guidance of the university.
A unique and unmatched feature of
this course is an exclusive 6 months
internship wherein AHERF students
undergo an experience of observing
diverse facets of coordinating a
clinical trial under the guidance of
primary clinical research coordinators
in Apollo Hospital clinical trial
centres. This ensures that the
students from AHERF minimize
their industry skill gap and are ready
for working in the industry and
government. AHERF has collaboration
with Credila (subsidiary of HDFC) for
educational assistance for financial
support. Over 450 highly qualified
clinical research professionals have
been trained in 5 years through this
course. Approximately 70 candidates
have enrolled for this program
for the academic year 2013-14.
Prospective collaborations with
leading clinical industry experts are
in process. AHERF has contributed
over 400 trained professionals to the
industry, academia and government
institutions. There has been over
90% placement of the graduates
with multinational pharmaceutical
companies, Clinical Research
Organizations (CRO), KPOs, Hospitals,
Apollo Hospital clinical trial centres,
Pharmacovigilance and Data
Management Centres.
AHERF is in the process of
commencing short term week
end executive program on
Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Data
Management shortly.
Collaborations
AHERF signed collaboration MoU with
Nestle in early 2013 to associate in
the areas of research, development
and validation of disease specific
nutrition projects. The first proposal is
being evaluated by the Apollo Clinical
team and the study is shortly about to
commence.
Medtronic:
AHERF spearheaded and realized
collaboration with Medtronic Inc. with
an objective to revolutionize renal
care by providing mobile dialysis
at homes and community centres.
Apollo Hospitals signed a MoU with
Medtronic Inc. Under the partnership,
Apollo will leverage the technology of
Medtronic to provide haemodialysis
under the affordable treatment
services for end stage renal disease
(ESRD) patients. The discussion on
terms of agreement is in progress and
the final agreement is expected to be
completed by end of May 2014.
Philips:
AHERF is in the process of
partnering with Philips to nurture
and support medical research and
clinical development activities in
the areas of clinical outcomes and
translational research, medical
education and health policy and
payment that are relevant for the
people of India. Through clinical
excellence and meaningful innovation,
the collaboration will work towards
developing and managing an evidence
-based clinical research effort to
commence medical device innovation
and validation studies that establish
the pre-eminence of Apollo Hospitals
and Philips Healthcare as a team
that can enhance the health and
well- being of the people of India. The
Master Service Agreement is expected
to be completed by Feb 2014 and
creation of Investigator idea pipeline
is in process.
Anna University Chennai, India:
‘Advanced Certificate Course in
Clinical Research at PG level’ was
jointly initiated in 2009 by AHERF
and AU-KBC (Anna University-KB
Chandrasekhar) Research centre of
Anna University to meet the shortage
of the clinical research professionals
in the pharmaceutical industry and
to bring out certified and trained
Clinical Research professionals. In
order to extend this joint program
to other AHERF / Apollo Hospitals
locations in India such as Delhi,
Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore and
Ahmedabad etc., a MOU was signed
between AHERF and AU on 19th
July 2011 and the first two batches
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• UE Life Sciences:
AHERF is in discussion with UE
Life Sciences to validate their hand
held device – Intelligent Breast
Exam (iBE) in early warning selfexam for breast cancer screening.
Applications to NIH and Welcome
Trust have been submitted by UE
Life Sciences with AHERF support
for an Apollo study to validate the
technology.
AHERF
spearheaded
and realized
collaboration
with Medtronic
Inc. with an
objective to
revolutionize
renal care
by providing
mobile dialysis
at homes and
community
centres.
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Paraxel:
AHERF is in final stages of discussion
with Paraxel – World’s second largest
Clinical Research Organization to
place clinical studies across the
Apollo Hospital locations. The Master
Service Agreement is in progress and
is expected to be completed by end
of Feb 2014. This will help Paraxel
to place over 20 India trials at Apollo
Hospital sites.
International Clinical Epidemiology
Network (INCLEN):
AHERF forged collaboration with
INCLEN to strengthen epidemiological
research at Apollo Hospitals. The
ICMR sponsored research study
on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
(NAFLD) is completed and AHERF
is now working with INCLEN
towards initiating joint projects in
hypertension, child and maternal
healthcare.
There are multiple potential
collaborations being explored to be
realized within the year 2014 across
basic & clinical research, bio-banking
and translational research and
Innovations.
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The Master
Service
Agreement is
in progress
and is
expected to
be completed
by end of Feb
2014. This will
help Paraxel
to place over
20 India trials
at Apollo
Hospital sites.
of Advanced Certificate Course in
Clinical Research (ACCCR) were
successfully completed at AHERF
Pan India centres. The third Pan India
batch classes commenced from Sept
2013 and are ongoing and the fourth
batch is anticipated to commence
from April 2014. In addition, AHERF
is planning to launch weekend
short term executive programs in
Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Data
Management shortly.
Collaborations in Pipeline:
The following are some of the key
collaborations with relevant focus
areas:
1.Cleveland Clinic - Bio-Bank & Basic
Research
2.Accenture - Clinical Research
3.George Institute for Global Health Public Health
4.Samsung - Innovations
5.Bosch - Innovations
6.Tel Aviv University - Innovations
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The Hospital
Management
Asia Awards
2013 at
Bangkok
were a very
momentous
occasion for
the Apollo
Group.
Eleven winners and 28 runners up in
10 categories won the coveted Asian
Hospital Management Awards held
on September 13, 2013 at Bangkok.
The celebration was the culmination
of the Hospital Management Asia
Conference, attended by 880
delegates from 34 countries and 398
organizations. The Asian Hospital
Management Awards recognize
and honor hospitals in Asia that
carry out best practices in hospital
management. Now in its twelfth
year, AHMA is the accepted hospital
management awards program for the
Asia Pacific region. Awards are given
to hospitals in the region that, in the
opinion of the judges and advisers,
have implemented or enhanced
outstanding and innovative projects,
programs, and best practices during
the previous year. HMA 2013 garnered
298 entries representing 78 hospitals
from 13 countries.
The Hospital Management Asia
Awards 2013 at Bangkok were a very
momentous occasion for the Apollo
Group.
Apollo Hospitals were the winners of
10 of these awards and won an award
in 9 categories!
The organizers gave the Apollo Group
a standing ovation by conferring
Apollo with the “Special Outstanding
Achievement Award”. They commended
the Apollo Group for being an
improvement oriented organization in
view of the 71 improvement projects
submitted by the Group and the
number of awards won.
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The awards won were:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Project
Apollo Hospitals – “Billion Hearts
Beating Foundation”
recognition
Hospital Management
Asia Awards 2013
Cost Reduction Project
Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai –
“To Control the expenses for CAG and
PTCA Procedures.”
Human Resource Development
Project
Apollo Hospital Hyderabad – “Apollo
Simulation Laboratory”
Service Improvement for Internal
Customers Project
Apollo Hospital Hyderabad – “Apollo
Simulation Laboratory”
Patient Safety Project
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai –
“Antimicrobial Stewardship
Programme”
Clinical Service Improvement Project
Apollo Hospitals, Delhi – “Pressure
ulcer: zero tolerance”
Customer Service Project
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai – “Patient
Satisfaction Tracking System
(PSTS) - A break through Innovation
in Healthcare for Voice of Customer
Process”
Bio Medical Equipment / Facilities
Improvement Project
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata
– “Project Product: Severity Index
Scoring For Biomedical Equipment”
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai - “Phasing
out mercury”
Innovations in Hospital Management
and Governance
Apollo Hospitals Dhaka – “Passion
Led Patient Care”
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the jury
sharing their
vision for
2014 and was
followed
by debates
that detail
the impact of
economics,
politics and
business.
On 14 December 2013, our respected
Chairman, Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy
was honoured with the prestigious
Asian Business Leaders Forum
Lifetime Achievement Award at a
grand award ceremony in Dubai.
Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman,
Apollo Hospitals Group was
honored by CNBC TV18 at the India
Business Leaders Awards (IBLA)
2013. Chairman is recognized as the
architect of modern healthcare and
the pioneer of corporate healthcare
in the country. This award felicitated
his lifetime’s efforts of transforming
healthcare in India.
IBLA has been instituted to salute
frontrunners who are ready to
champion the change agenda; strong
enough to rise and lead the nation
forward. The event opened with the
jury sharing their vision for 2014 and
was followed by debates that detail
the impact of economics, politics and
business. The criteria of selection of
winners across categories were to
shortlist men and women who have
the ability and the vision to rise above
the current volatility and see the
long term goal. They have a global
aspiration – to put India on the world
map.
recognition
“Asian Business
Leaders Forum
The event Lifetime Achievement
opened with Award”- 2013
Lifetime Achievement
Award by NDTV
Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Founder and
Chairman of the Apollo Hospitals
Group was honoured with the Lifetime
Achievement Award by NDTV.
Asia HRD Awards 2013
Apollo Hospitals was bestowed the
award for ‘Contribution by HR to
an Organization’ at the Asia HRD
Awards 2013. The Apollo group
was specifically recognized for the
contribution to the HR community
and the Health Industry. The award
was given at the Asia HRD Congress
in Jakarta. Apollo was the only
organization recognized from India in
the entire Asia Pacific Region.
THE WEEK-A C
Nielsen, Best Hospital
Survey 2013
THE WEEK-Nielsen best hospitals
survey 2013 was conducted in 15 cities
- Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal,
Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore,
Delhi and NCR, Hyderabad, Jaipur,
Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai,
Pune and Thiruvananthapuram from
September to October 2013.
Apollo
Hospitals was
bestowed the
award for
‘Contribution
by HR to an
Organization’
at the Asia HRD
Awards 2013.
Best multi-speciality hospitals in
various cities and best hospitals in
various specialities from the survey
were published in November 2013.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the 2nd best, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi was ranked the 4th
best and Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad
was ranked the 10th best multispeciality hospital in the private sector
in India.
Dr Prathap Chandra Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group was conferred with the lifetime achievement
award by CNBC TV18 at the 9th edition of India Business Leaders Awards (IBLA) 2013
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Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the best multi-speciality hospital in
Chennai.
The FICCI
Healthcare
Excellence
awards that
felicitate
organizations
and
individuals
for their
contributions
in the
healthcare
industry were
given on 2nd
September
2013.
Apollo Gleneagles hospitals was
ranked the best multi-speciality
hospital in Kolkata.
Apollo Hospitals was ranked the
best multi-speciality hospital in
Hyderabad.
Apollo Hospitals was ranked the
2nd best multi-speciality hospital in
Bangalore.
Jehangir Hospital, Pune was ranked
the best private multi-speciality
hospital in Pune.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the 2nd best and Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi was ranked the
4th best private hospital in India for
Paediatrics.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the 2nd best and Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi was ranked the
5th best private hospital in India for
Neurology.
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the 2nd best and Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi was ranked the
6th best private hospital in India for
Cardiology.
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Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the 3rd best and Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, Delhi was ranked the
8th best private hospital in India for
Diabetology.
Frost & Sullivan
5th Annual India
Healthcare Excellence
Awards 2013
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was ranked
the 4th best private hospital in India
for Oncology.
Frost & Sullivan presented its 5th
edition of the India Healthcare
Excellence Awards 2013 on
September 27, 2013 in Mumbai.
Award categories spanned across
various healthcare segments such as
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology,
Medical Technologies, Healthcare
Delivery Services and Special Awards.
Apollo Hospitals Group won the award
in the category of “Healthcare Service
Provider Company of the Year” (With
Annual Revenue greater than Rs 1000
Crores).
FICCI Healthcare
Excellence Awards
2013
The FICCI Healthcare Excellence
awards that felicitate organizations
and individuals for their contributions
in the healthcare industry were given
on 2nd September 2013.
• Prof. Ranjit Roy Chaudhury,
Chairman, Apollo Hospitals
Educational and Research
Foundation, won the Lifetime
Achievement Award.
• Apollo Hospitals Delhi won the
FICCI Healthcare Excellence
Awards 2013 in the category of
Operational Excellence (Private
– Multispecialty Hospital) for the
project “Pressure Ulcers – Zero
Tolerance”.
• Apollo Hospitals, Delhi won the first
position in the Poster Presentation
for “Minimizing Medication Errors”.
• Nominations of Apollo Hospitals
Chennai, Apollo Hospitals Delhi and
the Apollo Telemedicine Network
Foundation were shortlisted as
finalists.
HIMSS Asia Pacific
Recognizes Apollo
Hospitals
HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific
recognized three hospitals within
Apollo Group for achieving Stage 6
on the Electronic Medical Record
Adoption Model (EMRAM) SM.
The hospitals are:
• Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai
• Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills
• Apollo Hospitals Ayanambakkam,
Chennai
These Stage 6 hospitals were
recognized at the HIMSS Digital
Healthcare Week in Singapore, on
21 October 2013. The award was
presented by Stephen Lieber, CAE
President & CEO of HIMSS worldwide;
in the presence of Dr. Amy Khor,
Senior Minister of State for Health
and Manpower, Ministry of Health and
recognition
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi
was ranked the best multi-speciality
hospital in Delhi in the private sector.
Ministry of Manpower, Republic of
Singapore; Steven Yeo, Vice President
& Executive Director HIMSS Asia
Pacific and John Hoyt, Executive Vice
President, HIMSS Analytics.
HIMSS Elsevier award
for Apollo Hospitals
The first HIMSS Elsevier award
for Outstanding ICT Achievement
was presented to Apollo Hospitals
Enterprise Ltd. The award was
given to Apollo Hospitals for the
Patient Engagement Platform
(PEP) – Apollo Prism. The award is
given in recognition of the exemplary
effort, commitment and dedication
to leveraging on healthcare ICT to
transform patient care and outcome.
The award was presented at the
HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week in
Singapore, on 21 October 2013. The
award was presented by Stephen
Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS
worldwide and Gerrit Bos, Managing
Director APAC, Elsevier.
The first
HIMSS Elsevier
award for
Outstanding ICT
Achievement
was presented
to Apollo
Hospitals
Enterprise
Ltd. The award
was given
to Apollo
Hospitals for
the Patient
Engagement
Platform (PEP)
– Apollo Prism.
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Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata
won the Coffee Table Winner’s Book of
2013 – Porter Prize in the Healthcare
category.
Apollo
emerged as
the winner in
the category ‘Most Popular
Paediatric
Hospital
Chain in the
inaugural
edition of
Child Best
Awards’, from
the Child India
magazine, a
respected
and widely
circulated
publication.
Apollo emerged as the
winner in the category
- ‘Most Popular
Paediatric Hospital
Chain in the inaugural
edition of Child Best
Awards’
Apollo emerged as the winner in the
category - ‘Most Popular Paediatric
Hospital Chain in the inaugural edition
of Child Best Awards’, from the Child
India magazine, a respected and
widely circulated publication.
The magazine Child has been in
India for 5 years now and is the
Indian edition of the America’s iconic
parenting magazine - Parents.
The polling for these awards was
conducted as a reader’s poll, both
through the magazine and also online.
Thousands of discerning readers had
voted and it is indeed an honour to
be recognized as the most popular
paediatric hospital.
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recognition
Porter Prize, 2013
QIMPRO QualTech Prize
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata
was awarded the Runners Up Prize
for ‘’The Reduce ALOS - Increase
Productivity’’ Project and topped the
Healthcare category.
Asian Training &
Development Awards
Apollo Group participated in Asian
Training & Development Awards in
two Categories and were announced
as winners in both the categories.
1.Best Training Initiative in Health
Care (This encompasses all
the Training Initiatives AAPIE,
Tender Loving Care, Velvet Touch,
Transforming your Telephone
Experience, Enhancing your Shop
Floor, Measure to Improve &
Not Impress, Voice of Customer
Training Module).
2.Best Customer Service Program
(This encompasses the Service
Culture Transformation workshop
that was first kicked off in Apollo
Future Leaders Development
Program and also deployed in
Chennai Region).
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Dr Chirag J Desai
GI, HPB & Liver Transplant Surgery,
Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad
Chapters contributed to text books
Surgical Gastroenterology, 2nd
Edition, 2013, Paras Medical
Publisher, “Hepatocellular
Carcinoma”.
Advisory Board Member, Asicon,
December 2013
‘’Is it easy to diagnose a Trauma
patient with distending abdomen and
free fluid?’’, 15th Annual conference of
SEMI, EMCON 2013, Calicut, Nov-13.
Positions held
Advisory Board Member, North
Gujarat University, MBA – Hospital
Management Program, Patan,
Gujarat.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
EMSINDIA, since 2010.
Lectures
‘’Liver Surgery for General Surgeons’’,
Gujarat State Surgeon’s Association,
Annual conference, Sept 2013.
Invited Examinership
MCEM
Positions held
Executive committee member, IHPBA
- Indian Chapter, 2013 - 2015.
Neurosurgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Ahmedabad
Dr Ketan Patel
Emergency Medicine, Apollo Hospital,
Ahmedabad
Dr. Somesh Desai
Lectures
‘’Traumatic Brain Injury and its
Management’’, National Conference,
ASI.
Lectures
Newer Guidelines in Resuscitation,
AFPANATCON 2013, Ahmedabad,
Feb-13.
Dr. Tushar S. Lakhia
Triage and Emergency Management of
Trauma patient, 5th Advanced Critical
Care Conference 2013, Chennai, Aug
2013.
Chapters contributed to text books
Hospital Management – Text And
Cases, 2013, Author – K. V. Ramani,
Pearson, Dorling Kindersley (India)
Pvt. Ltd, ‘’7. Hospital Finance &
Cost Management - 7.2/208’’ and
‘’8. Hospital Human Resource
Management - 8.2/226’’.
“Overcrowding in ED, is the 4hr target
applicable to Indian scenario?’’, 15th
Annual conference of SEMI, EMCON
2013, Calicut, Nov 2013.
Presentations
‘’Is early hypodense lesion in CT
Brain, a fatality in TBI?’’, ACEM 2013,
Tokyo, Japan, Oct-13.
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‘’Unusual myocardial infarction…..!!!’’,
ACEM 2013, Tokyo, Japan, Oct-13.
Surgical Gastroenterology, Minimal
Access Surgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Ahmedabad
Lectures
Invited Faculty, Criticon Gujarat,
October 2013
Organizing Faculty, Gastrosurgcon,
December 2013
Course Faculty, Centre of Excellence
for Minimal Access Surgery Training
(CEMAST), Mumbai (Recognised
by IAGES, ASI and Maharashtra
University of Health Sciences).
Honorary Surgeon to His Excellence
Governor of Gujarat.
Apollo First Med
Hospital, Chennai
Professor. Dr. R. A. Pandya Raj
General Surgery, Apollo First Med
Hospital, Chennai
Awards
Awarded ‘’The Fellowship of Royal
College of Surgeons Glasgow’’, 2013.
Dr. Divya Seshadri
Dermatology, Apollo First Med
Hospital, Chennai
Publications
‘’Acantholysis revisited: back to
basics’’, Divya Seshadri, Sendhil
Kumaran, A J Kanwar, Indian Journal
of Dermatology, Venereology and
Leprosy, 2013 Jan-Feb;79(1):120-6.
‘’Fluid Within Striae – An Unusual
Phenomenon’’, Divya Seshadri,
Dipankar De, Manish Rathi, Jane
George, A J Kanwar, Journal of Case
Reports, 2013, 3(2):331-333.
achievements
Ahmedabad
Prof. T. V. Devarajan
Internal Medicine, Apollo First Med
Hospital, Chennai
Publications
Publications in the following journals:
API Chennai, Neurology India,
Journal of Infectious disease,
South African Journal, JIACM on
Gastric tuberculosis, TAPIJ on Intra
abdominal tuberculosis, PLEGIA on
Pulmonary embolism with quarter,
Neurology India on Cortical Venous
thrombosis, TIPIJ on Swine Flu with
pregnancy with successful outcome,
South Africal Journal on 120 cases of
Dengue fever treated, Indian journal
of Infectious disease on Scrub typhus
with multi-organ failure.
Orations
Student Mr. Suresh Memorial oration
on PUO in Madras Medical College.
Difficult fevers treated at Balaji
Medical College - Crompet.
Lectures
International conference on Acute
care, presented paper on cases of
Infection due to sepsis.
International respiratory sepsis
conference, presented a paper on
CYSTS in the lung, Chennai.
Internal Chest conference at Pune,
presented a paper on Chest Infection.
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Positions held
President, IMA, Ambattur Avadi
branch.
Chairperson, Simposium Pioglitazone,
Tanzcanth.
Invited examinership
MBBS & MD examiner Dr. MGR
University, Annamalai University,
Pondicherry University, Madurai
Kamarajar University.
Inspector for National Board of
Examination for 1 year appointed by
Ministry of Health.
Awards
Padma Shri awarded by Government
of India given by Honorable President
of India in 2013.
Life time achievement award - Kilpauk
Medical College - Chennai.
Life time achievement award - Lions
club of India.
Life time achievement award Eminent Prof of Medicine.
Life time achievement award - AVM
Pondicherry.
Special Achievement
Started Advance Fever Clinic: First
office of its kind in India for patients of
undiagnosed fever more than 2 weeks.
62 cases have already been treated
now.
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Apollo Speciality
Hospital, Chennai
Dr Srinivasan Ananth
Internal Medicine, Apollo Specialty
Hospital, Chennai
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
‘’Member of National Academy of
Medical Sciences (India)’’.
Positions Held
Consultant Physician NHS On Going,
Norfolk& Norwich University Hospital.
Dr. Abdul Ghafur
Infectious Diseases, Apollo Speciality
Hospital, Chennai
Chapters contributed to text books
A Ghafur, Management of VAP;
Monogram on VAP published by
Elsevier, 2013.
Publications
Abdul Ghafur, Perseverance,
persistence, and the Chennai
declaration, The Lancet Infectious
Diseases, Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages
1007 - 1008, December 2013.
Abdul Ghafur, P. R. Vidyalakshmi,
K. Priyadarshini, Jose M. Easow,
Revathi Raj, T. Raja, Elizabethkingia
Meningoseptica bacteremia in
immuno-compromised hosts: The
first case series from India. SAJC
2013;2(4):211-15.
A Ghafur, Superbugs and
we intensivists: A time for
introspection…
IJCCM, 2013;
17(3):125-126.
A Ghafur, India must overhaul medical
training to act on antimicrobial
resistance, BMJ 2013; 347:f4230, doi:
10.1136/bmj.f4230.
A Ghafur, PS Sharee, Nambi P
Senthur. Mucormycosis in Patients
without Cancer: A Case Series from a
Tertiary Care Hospital in South India.
JAPI2013; 61: 305-8.
Abdul Ghafur, ‘The Chennai
Declaration’: An Indian perspective
on the antimicrobial resistance
challenge, Journal of Global
Antimicrobial Resistance 1 (2013) 5–6.
Abdul Ghafur, Call for global action
to halt the superbug.MJA 2013;198
(5):251.
A Voss, A Ghafur, “The Chennai
declaration” - Indian doctors’ fight
against antimicrobial resistance,
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection
Control 2013, 2:7 doi:10.1186/20472994-2-7.
Abdul Ghafur, “The Chennai
Declaration”- A solution to the
antimicrobial resistance problem in
Indian subcontinent, Clin Infect Dis.
(2013) doi: 10.1093/cid/cis1224.
Lectures
Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi,
Priyadarshini, Thirunarayanan, An
obituary to antibiotics-Emergence of
pan drug resistance amongst Gram
negative bacteria, CIDSCON 2013.
Abdul Ghafur, Chennai declaration An achievement in creating an attitude
change, ID week San Francisco 2013.
Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi,
Priyadarshini, Thirunarayanan.
Fosfomycin - promising option in the
era of NDM - 1 - The first invitro data
from India. ICAAC 2013 Denver, No
911.
achievements
Lectures on IV antibiotic, Moscow &
Sydney.
Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi
PR, Chandra K, Successful
implementation of an infection control
programme in a tertiary care oncology
centre from a developing country,
P262, ICPIC June 2013, Geneva.
A Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi, Chandra,
Sahaya, Priyadharshini, Increasing
needle stick injuries amongst the
radiology team-needs attention! ,
P297, ICPIC June 2013, Geneva.
Abdul Ghafur, Coordinator, Chennai
Declaration, Oral presentationHigh Impact paper-“The Chennai
Declaration”-A historic document,
Abstract no.O009, ICPIC June
2013,Geneva.
Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi PR,
Ashwini, Chandra, Pushparaju, Call
for joint effort to tackle Gram negative
resistance.
Tsunami can’t be blocked with a
barricade Paper no 121 ISAAR, Kuala
Lumpur, 9th-13th March 2013.
Vidyalakshmi, Ravikant, AbdulGhafur,
Thirunarayan M A, Murugan, An
unsual case of SBP in a Cirrhotic-The
first case reported from India, Paper
No 270,ISAAR, Kuala Lumpur, 9th13th March 2013.
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Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi P R,
Priyadarshini, Thirunarayan M A.
A Ghafur, Meet the expert-setting up
infection control in resource limited
settings, ICPIC 2013, Geneva.
A Ghafur, Hyperendemic Gram
negatives, Indian scenario, ICPIC
2013, June 2013, Geneva.
Fosfomycin, a promising option in the
era of NDM1- The First In Vitro Data
From India. ICAAC September 2013.
A Ghafur, Chennai Declaration, A
historic initiative, ICPIC June 2013,
Geneva.
Abdul Ghafur, Priyadarshini Kannaian,
Aswini Tayade, ‘’Clinical Study on
Carbapenem Sensitive & Carbapenem
Resistant Bacteremia in Neutropenic
& Non-Neutropenic Patients-The First
Series from India’’, P1368, ESCMID,
April 2013.
A Ghafur, Indian perspective of
tackling resistance, June 2013, ICPIC,
Geneva.
A Ghafur, Tackling antimicrobial
resistance - Indian perspective- Royal
free hospital, London, October 201310-10.
A Ghafur, Management of NDM
producers, ECCMID Berlin, April 2013.
A Ghafur, Chennai declaration and
antibiotic resistance: Public Health
England, Colindale, London, October
2013.
A Ghafur, Overcoming barriers to
behavioral changes-Antimicrobial
resistance: Incentivizing change
towards a global solution: Chatham
house (Institute of international
affairs, London) October 2013.
A Ghafur, “Chennai Declaration”-An
Indian initiative to tackle antimicrobial
resistance, ICAAC September 2013,
Denver, USA.
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A Ghafur, Meet the professor: ICAAC
September 2013 Denver, USA along
with Dr Otto cars, Laura Piddock and
Dr Antony So.
A Ghafur, Indian perspective of
tackling resistance-June 2013, 3rd
world HAI meeting, Annecey, France.
A Ghafur, Gram negative resistance
problem in India, Australian infectious
diseases society and CDC combined
meeting, March 2013, Canberra,
Australia.
A Ghafur, Mobilising political will
to tackle antimicrobial resistance,
Australian infectious diseases society
and CDC combined meeting, March
2013, Canberra, Australia.
A Ghafur, ESBL in the community,
ISAAR Kuala Lumpur, March 2013.
A Ghafur, Management of ESBL UTIISAAR Kuala Lumpur, March 2013.
A Ghafur, Pyrexia of Unknown origin;
GAMICON 2013, December 2013,
Mumbai.
A Ghafur, Tackling antimicrobial
resistance, GERICON, December 2013,
Chennai.
A Ghafur, Antibiotic resistance:
Is there a future?, PCCON
2013,November 2013, New Delhi.
A Ghafur, Antibiotic stewardshipJPIMER Pondicherry, November 2013.
A Ghafur, Antimicrobial resistanceCME by IMA Karnataka, Bangalore,
October 2013.
A Ghafur, Invasive fungal infectionsCME by IMA Karnataka, Bangalore,
October 2013.
A Ghafur, Chennai DeclarationInternational patient safety congress,
Hyderabad, Sep 2013.
A Ghafur, Plenary lecture, Chennai
declaration, CRTICARE 2013, March,
Kolkota.
A Ghafur, Chennai declaration,
APICON 2013, COIMBATORE, Jan
2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
International Journal of Antimicrobial
Agents(IJAA)
Journal of Antimicrobial Resistance &
Infection Control(ARIC)
Indian Journal of Critical care
Medicine(IJCCM)
achievements
Abdul Ghafur, Priyadarshini,
Vidyalakshmi PR, “Clinical Profile Of
Carbapenem Resistant Bacteraemia
Among Paediatric Population - First
Clinical Study From India”, A-5340002-01455 entitled at the 31st Annual
Meeting of the European Society for
Paediatric Infectious Diseases, May
28 - June 1, 2013- Milan, Italy.
Positions held
Antimicrobial stewardship working
group member of International
Society of Chemotherapy (ISC), since
2013.
Ad Hoc executive member of
International society of Chemotherapy
(ISC), since 2013.
Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
Chairperson, Clinical Infectious
Disease Society (INDIA), since 2011.
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
Steering committee member for
the National antibiotic policy and
antibiotic guidelines by Indian Ministry
of Health.
Bangalore
Dr. Purnima Parthasarathy
Infectious Diseases, Apollo Hospitals,
Bangalore
Presentations
‘’41194 Risk Factors and Mortality in
Carbapenem Resistant Gram Negative
Bacteremias: A Retrospective Analysis
from a Tertiary Health Care Setting in
India. IDWeek, the annual conference
by the Infectious Diseases Society of
America.’’ Oct 2013, San Francisco.
Journal of Microbiology & Infectious
Disease(JMID)
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Dr. A. Chandra Shekar
Joint Replacement and Arthroscopy
Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore
Nephrology, Apollo Hospital,
Bangalore
Publications
An Isolated Displaced Fracture of
the Coracoid Process Treated with
Osteosynthesis—A Case Report and
Review of Literature, Adala Raviraj,
Ashish Anand, Srinivas Vijay, Surgical
Science, Vol.4 No.2, February 2013.
Publications
“Survival analysis of patients on
maintenance hemodialysis”, A.
Chandrashekar, S. Ramakrishnan,
D. Rangarajan, Indian Journal of
Nephrology, in press.
Distal Tibial Stress Fracture
Secondary to Severe Osteoarthritis
Knee. Raviraj Adala, Surendranath
Shetty, Ashish Anand, Rajendran
Ravidnran. Surgical Science, 247-249,
April 24, 2013.
“A Concise Review of Surgical
exposures for Revision Knee
Arthroplasty,” A. Anand, R. Adala, M.
Kumar, J. Srinivas and G. Kodikal,
Surgical Science, Vol. 3 , 2013 , 256260.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Invitee editorial member, American
Journal of Orthopaedic Research.
Dr Venkatesh TK
Cardiology, Apollo Hospital, Bangalore
‘’ECG with no prior heart or lung
disease’’, Venkatesh TK, Journal of
Clinical Biomedical Sciences, 2013,
3(1) 46,49.
Dr. Sharath Kumar G.G.
Radiology, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore
Publications
Z. Abdul Aziz, D. Jethwani, G. Ananta
Ram, G. G. Sharath Kumar, J.
Saini, ‘’N-Acetyl peak in proton MR
spectroscopy of metastatic mucinous
adenocarcinoma of brain’’, Clin
Neuroradiol, 2013 Jun, 23(2):153-6.
Zarina A. Aziz, Jitender Saini, P.
S. Bindu, G. G. Sharath Kumar,
‘’Demonstration of different
histological layers of the pachygyria/
agyria cortex using diffusion tensor
MR imaging’’, Surg Radiol Anat (2013)
35:427–33.
Jagathlal Gangadharan, G.G. Sharath
Kumar, Chandrajit Prasad, Sampath
Somanna, Bhagavatula Indira Devi,
‘’Can diffusion tensor imaging
predict outcome in acute traumatic
deterioration of degenerative cervical
spine disease’’, The Indian Journal of
Neurotrauma, pp 1-8.
Lectures
Guest lecture on “Endovascular
Intervention in Head and Neck
Pathologies” and to panel the
interactive sessions during CME
on Neck Imaging Fiesta for ENT&
Radiology Trainees to be held on
Saturday 20th April 2013, at S S
Institute of Medical Sciences &
Research Centre, Davangere.
Guest lecture on “MR Spectroscopy”May 2013, Annual CME – NIMHANS,
Bangalore.
Invited for CME IN STROKENeuroradiologists perspective, 4-102013, SNMC – Bagalkot (Karnataka).
Invited speaker for talk on
“Neurointerventions-emerging
trends” by Associations of Physicians
in India, Karnataka Chapter –
Bangalore on 17-10-2013.
Positions held
Executive committee member for
ISNR annual conference: 2013 held in
NIMHANS -Bangalore.
Dr Sunil Narayan Dutt
ENT and Head-Neck Surgery, Apollo
Hospitals, Bangalore
Lectures
Chairman, The Scientific Committee,
9th Asia Pacific Symposium on
Cochlear Implants and Allied Sciences
(APSCI) November 2013, HICC,
Hyderabad.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Otology-Neurotology (USA) Editorial
Board
128
Cochlear Implants International (UK)
Editorial Board
achievements
Dr Raviraj A
Postgraduate Journal of Medicine
(India) Peer review Board
Indian Journal of Otolaryngology Head
& Neck Surgery (India) Peer Review
Board
Positions held
Founder and Treasurer, Cochlear
Implant Group of India (CIGI).
Invited examinership
DNBE (ORL)
Awards
Dhruva Thara Award for work with
hearing impaired children.
Dr. Prashanth .S. Urs
Neonatology & Pediatrics, Apollo
Hospitals, Bangalore
Presentations
“Newborn screening”, Karnataka
State Pediatric Conference ‘’Pedicon
2013’’, Belgaum 19-21 October 2013.
“Screening for CHD in Newborns”,
NNF South Zone Neonatal
Conference, Bangalore, 15-17th
November, 2013.
Chairperson: Enteral feeding, National
Conference of Pediatric Critical Care,
Bangalore, 15/09/2013.
“Oxygen saturation screening”, NAPP:
Neonatal Pediatric pearls, Bangalore,
19 May 2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Reviewer : Apollo Medicine, since
2012.
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Organising Chairman, South Zone
Neonatal Conference: NNF, 2013.
Director, Neonatal and Pediatric
Pearls, 2013.
Member of task forces of State
Government
“Newborn screening”, Karnataka
State Government.
Member of governing board
Inspector for affiliation of “Fellowship
in Neonatology, Rajiv Gandhi
University of Health Science.
Awards
“Felicitation for contribution towards
Neonatology and Neonatal chapter”,
2012-2013, Indian Academy of
Pediatrics: Bangalore chapter (IAPBPS), Bangalore, 26/01/2013.
Presentations
‘Rapid Sequential Induction’:
Standardizing Emergency
Medicine Training in India at Apollo
Hospitals, Bangalore, a prospective
observational study, By Dr A N
Venkatesh, Dr Rodrics Durai Raj,
EMCON 2013-14- Inter-National
Emergency Medicine conference in
India, Nov-13.
Bhubaneswar
‘’Strokes presenting within the
window period: a distant reality?’’,
Dr A N Venkatesh, Dr Rahul, EMCON
2013-14- Inter-National Emergency
Medicine conference in India, Nov-13.
‘’Stroke Burden in India’’, American
Academic Neurology at USA, 16th
-22nd March 2013.
Positions held
President of Karnataka State Chapter,
Society of Emergency Medicine in
India (SEMI), 2013 - 2015.
Nephrology, Apollo Hospital,
Bhubaneswar
Invited examinership
MCEM - Membership of College of
Emergency Medicine.
Dr Bikash Kumar Mishra
Neurology, Apollo Hospital,
Bhubaneswar
Lectures
‘’Stroke Burden in India’’, Stroke
Update 2013, at Visakhapatnam, Jan
2013.
Dr Bibekananda Panda
Lectures
“European Society of Organ
Transplant Annual Conference 2013”
at Vienna, 8th till 12th Sep’13.
Dr. Dipika Mohanty
Dr A N Venkatesh
Emergency Medicine, Apollo
Hospitals, Bangalore
Publications
Accuracy of admission diagnoses
made by emergency physicians in
India, Dept of ER, Apollo Hospitals,
Bangalore, Dr A N Venkatesh, Dr
Anisha Iyer, National Jounal of
Emergency Medicine Published in
April - June 2013.
Thrombolysis of a cerebral ischemic
stroke in the second trimester of
pregnancy, Dr. A.N. Venkatesh, Dr.
Anisha Iyer, Dr. Jagan Mohan Reddy,
National Jounal of Emergency
Medicine Published in April - June
2013.
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Bhilai
Haematology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Dr A P Savant
Publications
‘’Prevalence of β-thalassemia and
other haemoglobinopathies in six
cities in India: a multicentre study’’,
Mohanty D, Colah RB, Gorakshakar
AC, Patel RZ, Master DC, Mahanta
J, Sharma SK, Chaudhari U, Ghosh
M, Das S, Britt RP, Singh S, Ross C,
Jagannathan L, Kaul R, Shukla DK,
Muthuswamy V, J Community Genet,
2013 Jan, 4(1):33-42.
Medical Director, Apollo BSR
Hospitals, Bhilai
Lectures
Chairing the two sessions in National
Conference of Indian Academy
of Paediatrics, ‘’Contraception in
adolescent and Invasive Vs Non
invasive Ventilation in newborn
babies’’, 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Awards
Doctor of the year award by Indian
Medical Association - Chhattisgarh.
Spectrum of Hemoglobinopathies
Among the Primitive Tribes: A
Multicentric Study in India, Mohanty
D, Mukherjee MB, Colah RB, Wadia M,
Ghosh K, Chottray GP, Jain D, Italia
Y, Ashokan KS, Kaul R, Shukla DK,
Muthuswamy V, Asia Pac J Public
Health, 2013 Mar 19 (IF:1.056).
achievements
Positions held
President, National Neonatology
Forum, Karnataka State, 2012- 2014.
Lectures
Key note address: X -linked disorders
in India with special reference to
bleeding disorders, Adaspur, Cuttack,
September 2013.
Dept. of Science Technology, India
- Brain Storming session “Science,
Technology & Innovation Policy”,
Orissa, Took part in Panel Discussion,
KIMS, BBSR, Sept-2013.
Chairing the session on Bone
marrow Transplant, 24th Annual
Conference of Indian Society of Organ
Transplantation, KIMS, BBSR, Oct2013.
“Flow Cytometry for Platelet
Disorders” Lecture delivered in
Annual meeting of Flow Cytometry
Society, Mumbai, Nov- 2013.
Indian Social Science Congress,
Lecture delivered in “Genetic Disease
in Orissa- What can be done”, KIMS,
BBSR, 27th – 30th Dec 2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Member of Editorial Board for Indian
Journal of Medical Research, since
2000.
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Member of National Task Force on
Hemoglobinopathies and its control.
Member of Task Force on Genetics
and Genomics of DBT (Dept. of
Biotechnology).
Chairperson, Managing Committee
of Central Red Cross Blood Bank,
Cuttack.
Member of Working committee of
Orissa State Red Cross.
Member of State Audit Advisory Board
for Social Audit, A.G. Orissa.
Chairperson of Scientific Advisory
Committee of National Plasma
Fractionation Centre, Mumbai.
Dr. Laxmi Kant
Plastic surgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Positions held
Treasurer, APRASO, 1 year.
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Dr M S Modi
GI Surgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Publications
“Single sitting” laparoscopic
cholecystectomy and endoscopic
removal of common bile duct stone for
cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis:
a feasibility study’’, Ibrarullah M,
Mishra T, Dash AP, Mohapatra D, Modi
MS, Indian Journal of Surgery, 2013
(10.1007/s12262-013-0937-x. (online
first)).
‘’Spilled gallstone: Late presentation”,
Ibrarullah Md, Modi MS, Indian
Journal of Surgery, 2013 (10.1007/
s12262-013-0901-9).
Lectures
Faculty: Chairperson- international
HPB Conference at Mumbai, 2013
Positions held
Court of Examiners, Royal College
of Surgeons of England, London,
Lifetime Tenure.
Awards
FRCS (Royal College of Surgeons of
England, London), 15th Nov 2013.
FACS (Fellow of American College of
Surgeons, USA,) 15th Nov 2013.
Dr Nachiketa Mohapatra
GI Surgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Histopathology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Chapters contributed to text book
Pearls in Surgery 2013, Paras Medical
Books, ‘’Right iliac fossa lump’’.
Lectures
‘’Acute antibody mediated
rejection presenting as nephrotic
syndrome’’, Indian Society of Organ
Transplantation, 25th-27th Oct’13.
Publications
‘’Single sitting’ laparoscopic
cholecystectomy and endoscopic
removal of common bile duct stone for
cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis:
a feasibility study’’, Ibrarullah M,
Mishra T, Dash AP, Mohapatra D, Modi
MS, Indian Journal of Surgery, 2013
(10.1007/s12262-013-0937-x. (online
first)).
‘’Gastro-intestinal stromal tumor
(GIST) of the ampulla of Vater: Report
of Two Cases’’, D. Mohapatra T.
Mishra, A.P. Dash, Ibrarullah M, P.
Devi, The Internet Journal of Surgery,
2013; 29: DOI: 10.5580/2d00.
‘’Spilled gallstone: Late presentation”,
Ibrarullah Md, Modi MS, Indian
Journal of Surgery, 2013 (10.1007/
s12262-013-0901-9).
Lectures
‘’Inflammatory Pancreatic head mass:
Panel discussion’’, Annual conference
of IASG at Kolkata, Oct’13.
Positions held
Executive member, Indian chapter of
IHPBA.
achievements
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
Member of Peer Review Committee
of ICMR, Hematology, Physiology,
Genetics and Pharmacology.
Dr Md Ibrarullah
Dr Nisith Kumar Mohanty
Nephrology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Lectures
‘’Meaningful Clinical benefits with
basiliximab induction therapy’’, Poster
presentation, ISOT-2013, 25th - 27th
Oct 2013.
Case Report-Acute Rejection
presenting as NS, ISOT-2013, 25th Oct
2013.
Dr Pitambar Prusty
Medicine & Endocrinology, Apollo
Hospitals, Bhubaneswar
Publications
‘’Clinical experience with insulin
dete mir, biphasic insulin aspart and
insulin aspart in people with type 2
diabetes: Results from the East India
cohort of the A1chieve study’’, Abhay
Kumar Sahoo, Sambit Das, Pitambar
Prusty, Anand Shankar, Shaibal Guha,
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and
Metabolism, 2013.
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Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Chapters contributed to text books
Postgraduate Medicine Advances in
Clinical Medicine including prevention:
Vol XXVII: 2013: 54-61, The Association
of Physicians of India, Indian College
of Physicians, ‘’Coronary Intervention
in Acute Myocardial InfarctionCurrent Status in India’’.
Publications
‘’Role of Thrombolysis in reperfusion
therapy for management of AMI:
Indian scenario’’, Jamshed Dalal,
Prasant Kumar Sahoo, Rakesh Kumar
Singh, Anil Dhal, Rajneesh Kapoor, A.
KrishnaMurthy, Sadananda R. shetty,
Shailendra Trivedi, Dhiman Kahali,
Bhupesh Shah, K. Chockalingam,
Jabir Abdullakutty, Pradeep K
Shetty, Arun Chopra, Raja Ray,
Devang Desai, Pachippan, Gajanan
Ratnaparkhi, Mridula Sharma. K A
Sambasivam, Indian Heart Journal,
2013(IHJ.2013.08.032).
Lectures
Coronary Interventions in AMI,
APICON - 2013 (Annual Conference
of National API- 2013), Coimbatore,
January 2013.
Sudden Cardiac Death: An Overview,
IMAOSBCON - 2013 (Annual
Conference of Odisha State IMA),
Anugul, February 2013.
Primary Angioplasty – Current Status
in India, EIICON – CSI - 2013 (Eastern
India Intervention Conclave - 2013,
Organised by Cardiological Society of
India), Patna, May, 2013.
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Meet the Masters – “Bifurcation
stenting with Bio-absorbable stents”,
SCI-2013 (Organized by – Society
of Cardiovascular Interventions),
Kolkata, August 2013.
Case presentation on Complex
Angioplasty, CSIOBCON - 2013
(Organised by – CSI Odisha State
Chapter), Cuttack, December 2013.
PTCA of Anomalous LMCA with WPW
syndrome, India Live 2013, New Delhi,
February 2013.
Awards
Fellow, American College of
Cardiology (FACC), American College
of Cardiology, USA, August, 2013.
Fellow, Indian Society of Cardiology
(FISC), Sept 2013.
Dr Samarjit Bisoyi
Cardiac Anesthesiology, Apollo
Hospitals, Bhubaneswar
Publications
‘’Free radicals and cardiac
anaesthesia’’, Samarjit Bisoyi,
Jitendu Mohanty, Indian Journal of
Anaesthesia, 2013; 57:327-9.
Anatomical landmark technique for
internal jugular vein cannulation in
patients with cyanotic congenital
heart disease: A word of caution, Dr
Samarjit Bisoyi, Annals of Cardiac
Anesthesia, 2013, 57, 327-9.
Orations
‘’Paediatric pain assessment- Do we
bother?’’, ISAJAC-2013 [Indian Society
of Anaesthesiologists, Eastern Zone],
Kolkata, 27.09.2013.
Lectures
“European Society of Organ
Transplant Annual Conference 2013”,
Vienna, 8th till 12th Sep’13.
‘’Peri-operative Management
and Midterm Outcomes of Post
Infarct-VSD Repairs: A Series of Ten
Cases’’, ASCA-2013 [Asian Society of
Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists],
Singapore, 04.10.2013.
Dr Sambit Das
Endocrinology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Chapters contributed to text books
Cognitive impairment and
Hyperglycemia, Das S. Cognitive
impairment and Hyperglycemia,
‘’Hyperglycemic and Hypoglycemic
complications of Diabetes mellitus’’,
2013, Vol-1, 27-32.
Lectures
Diabetic autonomic neuropathy,
Controversies in Obesity, diabetes and
endocrinology, August, 2013, Kolkata.
Metformin should be used in nonobese PCOS, Endocrine Society
of India conference, ESICON
Bhopal-2013, October.
Glycemic emergencies, IMA-AMS,
Orissa Chapter-2013, February.
Publications
‘’Clinical experience with insulin
detemir, biphasic insulin aspart and
insulin aspart in people with type 2
diabetes: Results from the East India
cohort of the A1chieve study’’, Abhay
Kumar Sahoo, Sambit Das, Pitambar
Prusty,Anand Shankar, Shaibal Guha,
Indian Journal of Endocrinology
and Metabolism, 2013 / Vol 17 /
Supplement 2.
achievements
Dr Prasanta Kumar Sahoo
Positions held
Secretary, Endocrine society of Orissa,
1 year (2013-2014).
Dr Samiran Adhikary
Urology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Lectures
USICON, Feb 2013
Dr Sanjeev Gupta
ENT, Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar
Lectures
Unexpected nasopharyngeal foreign
body, Apollo Medicine, Sanjeev
Gupta, Surya Kanta Pradhan, 10
(2013)310e312.
Dr Sanjeev Pattnaik
Orthopaedics, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Lectures
Paper presentation on Joint
Replacement, Asia Pacific Regional
Hip Live Surgery at Chonnam National
University Hospital, Gwangju, 4th-5th
Apr’13.
Joint Replacement Scenario in
Odisha- The present & future, IGOF
Odisha course on Trauma and Joint
Replacements, 1st-3rd Mar’13.
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Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Odisha Journal of Orthopaedics &
Trauma, since 2013.
Positions held
Associate Member, SICOT, tenure
2014.
Dr Sarala Das
Neuropathology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Orations
Presidential Oration, Annual
Conference Association of
Neuroscientist of Eastern India, held
at Ranchi, 15th - 17th Nov’13 (Oration
on 16th Nov’13).
Lectures
Immunohistopathochemistry - A new
vista in diagnosis and management of
Tumors of C.N.S, Annual Conference
Association of Neuroscientist of
Eastern India, held at Ranchi, Nov’13.
Positions held
President, Association of
Neuroscientists of Eastern India, one
year.
Dr Satyabrata Tripathy
Dermatology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
‘’Psoriatic arthritis’’, Dr Satyabrata
Tripathy, Dr Prasanta Pradhan, Indian
Journal of Rheumatology, 2nd June
2013.
Dr Subodh Kumar Das
Urology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Lectures
“European Society of Organ
Transplant Annual Conference 2013”
at Vienna, 8th till 12th Sep’13.
Dr Suneeta Sahu
Microbiology, Apollo Hospitals,
Bhubaneswar
Lectures
Clinical Immunoserological profile of
Scrub Typhus- A killer disease, IAMM
State chapter, 29th Sep 2013.
Poster presentation on -’’multi
resistant Klebsiella Pneumonia as a
cause of exuberant cutaneous ulcers
on the lower limbs’’, IAMM State
chapter, 29th Sep 2013.
Bilaspur
Chennai
Dr.Vinit Kumar Srivastava
Prof. K. Ganapathy
Neuro-Anesthesiology, Apollo
Hospitals, Bilaspur
Neurosurgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai
Publications
‘’Cardiac arrest associated with
ranitidine and ondansetron
combination in day care gynecologic
surgery’’, VK Srivastava, P Jaisawal, S
Agrawal, D Kumar, J Anaesthesiol Clin
Pharmacol, 2013; 29(4):563-4.
Publications
‘Neurosurgery in India’, Krishnan
Ganapathy, World Neurosurgery, 79
[5/6]: 621-628, May / June 2013.
‘’Anesthetic management of spinal
decompression in double vessel
coronary artery disease’’, VK
Srivastava, S Agrawal, MP Samal, S
Sharma, J Neurosci Rural Pract, 2013;
4(1):101-2.
‘’Bradycardia and hypotension
during laryngoscopy for intubation in
maxillofacial trauma’’, VK Srivastava,
S Agrawal, R Kumar, PP Misra, Saudi
J Anaesth, 2012; 6(4):436-7.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Reviewer, Journal of Clinical
and Diagnostic Research, since
08/06/2013.
Awards
Associate Professor (AHERF), 2013.
achievements
Basic Principles of fracture
management, AO Trauma course
(Table instructor), 21st-23rd Nov’13.
Peer reviewed BMJ Blogs
The rise of internet use and telehealth
in India, http://blogs.bmj.com/
bmj/2013/11/29/k-ganapathy-therise-of-internet-use-and-telehealthin-india/J Blogs, 29th November 2013.
Is your Doctor Health enough,
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/category/
guestbloggers/, http://blogs.bmj.com/
bmj/2013/02/15/krishnan-ganapathyis-your-doctor-healthy-enough/, 15th
February 2013.
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/02/18/
krishnan-ganapathy-is-surgerynot-more-than-stitching-andcutting/#disqus_thread, 18th
February 2013.
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/02/22/
krishnan-ganapathy-homo-mobilicusthe-homo-sapiens-of-tomorrow/,
22nd February 2013.
mHealth in India: a pan India survey,
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/
lec50951/index.htm.
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Lectures
Cost effective and Accessible Health
Care Technologies on “Affordable
and Sustainable Technologies”, CII
Tamil Nadu Chapter, Chennai, 20th
December 2013.
“Telehealth & technology”, Xerox
Research Centre Bangalore, July 8th
2013.
CSCs: Delivering Healthcare to Rural
India’ Invited guest lecture, New Delhi,
Nov 13, 2013.
Guest Lecture in session on innovating
for Informatics, SGPGIMS, http://www.
nrct.in/ nmcnworkshop.php, GSMA,
Dubai, 22nd October 2013.
Guest Lecture - “Telemedicine in
Neurosciences” And “Management
of cerebral AVM”, WFNS Educational
Course Tanzania (Dar-es-Salaam),
August 2013.
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Patient Empowerment – The eWay:
A Story from Rural Tamil Nadu, K.
Ganapathy, S.Rajkumar & S. Jegan,
the 4th International Conference
on Transforming Healthcare with
Information Technology, Hyderabad,
6 – 7 September 2013.
Invited faculty, mLearning: The
future is now, National Workshop
for Sensitization & Awareness on
National Medical College Network
Project Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare, Govt. of India, School
of Telemedicine & Biomedical
Informatics, SGPGIMS, http://www.
nrct.in/nmcnworkshop.php, Lucknow,
21-22 March 2013.
Health care to anyone, anytime,
anywhere, Indian Medical Association,
Alwaye Kerala, January 2013.
Dr. N.Ramakrishnan AB
Positions held
Member, Hi Power Programme
Advisory Committees in Health
Sciences under Science & Engineering
Research Board – a Statutory body
under Department of Science and
Technology, Govt. of India - only one
from a non academic institution, 2013
to 2015.
Publications
‘Epidemiology of intensive care unit
infections and impact of infectious
disease consultants in managing
resistant infections’, Ravi, K.P., Suresh
Durairajan, Sankalp Parivar, Ramesh
Venkataraman, V. Ramasubramanian
and N. Ramakrishnan, American
Journal of Infectious Diseases 9 (2):
30-33, 2013.
Panelist Health Care Summit 2013
organised by Network 18 CNN IBN,
New Delhi, May 31st 2013.
President, Indian Society for
Stereotactic and Functional
Neurosurgery, 2011-2013.
Guest Lecture Delivering Healthcare
to Rural India, New Delhi, 7th
November 2013.
Member of Board of Directors,
The Foundation for Advanced
Medical Education Global
Telementoring Network, http://www.
medicalfoundation.org/board-ofdirectors/, 2013.
Guest Speaker, Symposium on Asia US
Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO),
Atlanta USA, April 2013.
Invited Lecture on “mHealth: the
reinvention of Health care”. Indian
Technical and Economical Cooperation
Special Commonwealth Assistance for
Africa Programme (SCAAP) Course
‘Advance Course in Telemedicine and
Medical Informatics’, C-DAC, Mohali,
12th November 2013.
Forum 2013 Regional Conference
of Sundaram Medical Foundation
Chennai., Can the mind go where the
body cannot, Chennai, 20th October
2013.
Thought leadership research study on
ICT in the Healthcare sector in India
and Technology trends in Health Care
in India Interview by Ernst & Young,
October 28, 2013.
Member of Board of Directors,
Member of Advisory Board Health
Centre of Excellence South Eastern
Europe, 2013.
Chairman, Scientific Committee
International Conference on
“Transforming healthcare with IT”,
2013 Hyderabad – largest conference
organised by Apollo Hospitals.
achievements
Orations
P R Thakor Oration Healthcare
in 2025: a peep into the future’’,
Ahmedabad Medical Association,
Ahmedabad, July 28th 2013.
Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Apollo
Hospitals, Chennai
Dr. Prasanna Kumar Reddy
Gastroenterology, Laparoscopic &
Bariatric Surgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai, India
‘Laparoscopic completion
cholecystectomy: A retrospective
study of 40 cases’, Parmar AK et al.,
Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery,
Featured on MDLinx.com.
Dr. G. Anantha Subramaniam
General Medicine, Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai
Awards
Selected by Medscape India, Mumbai
for the National Award for “Excellence
in Medicine” for 2013.
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Orthopaedics, Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai
Positions
Organising Secretary, Conference
Secretariat, Indian Cartilage Society.
Programs Conducted
First ever Asian Cadaver Course on
cartilage procedures, First Asian
Cartilage Congress in November 2013.
International Cartilage Conference
with the First Asian Cartilage
Congress in November 2013.
Dr R Magesh
Geriatrics, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
Lectures
Lecture delivered at GERICON2013,
(National Geriatric meeting),
December 15th, Chennai.
Positions
Joint Secretary, Indian Academy Of
Geriatrics, Chennai chapter.
‘’Best of Basics in Clinical nutrition–
Dieticians Pocket Book’’, Dr.
Bhuvaneshwari, Ms. Daphnee. D.K,
Ms. Ramya. S, Ms. Lekha, 2013, 2nd
Edition, Department of Dietetics,
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Chapters contributed to text books
Maternal Nutrition in Practice: South
Asian Perspective, Edited by Dr.
Gita Ganguly Mukherjee, Alokendu
Chatterjee, 2013, SAFOG -NNI
Publication, Jaypee Publishers, 1st
Edition, Dr. Bhuvaneshwari, Ms.
Daphnee.D.K, 169 - 177, “Balanced
diet in Pregnancy”.
Dr K N Srinivasan
Cardiology, Apollo Hospital, Chennai
Membership
Member In Stemi India Programme.
International Associate Member in
American College of Cardiology, July
2013.
Dr R Ramnarayan
Dr. Bhuvaneshwari Shankar
Clinical Nutrition, Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai
Books published
‘’Beyond the Basics: Transplant
Nutrition, Dieticians’ Pocket Guide’’,
Dr. Bhuvaneshwari, Ms. Daphnee.
D.K, Ms. Ramya. S, Ms. Lekha, 2013,
1st Edition, Department of Dietetics,
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
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Neurosurgery, Apollo Hospital,
Chennai
Chapters contributed to text books
Venous and Capillary Malformations
of the CNS, Chapter 58, Textbook of
Contemporary Neurosurgery, Jaypee.
Vascular Malformations of the spinal
cord, Chapter 107, Textbook of
Contemporary Neurosurgery, Jaypee.
Publications
Ramnarayan R, Anilkumar T.V., Rani
Nayar, ‘’An Unusual Extra-Axial
Hypodense Lesion mimicking Chronic
Subdural Haematoma: Case Report’’,
J Neurosci Rural Pract. 2013, 4 (2):
216-219.
Orations
Invited as faculty and Auditor to
represent India for the Comprehensive
Clinical Neurosurgery Review in
Krakow (Poland), December 2 - 6,
2013.
Invited Examinership
Examiner for DNB neurosurgery, final
clinical at RML Hospital, Delhi, April
2013.
Lectures
Degenerative Aortic stenosis and
clinical case discussions, SRM
institutes for medical sciences,
Vadapalani, 15th March 2013.
Interesting case studies and
clinical case discussions, Krishna
Institute of Medical Sciences, KIMS,
Secunderabad, 17th and 18th of
August 2013.
Awards
Life Time Achievement award by
Rotary club, Jan-13.
Honorary degree of Doctor of Science
by Veltech University, 09-11-2013.
Awards
Best doctor award by Dr MGR Medical
University, Tamil Nadu.
Dr. P. G. Sundararaman
Conferred FRCS by the Royal College
of Surgeons of England July 9, 2013.
Lectures
‘’Neonatal Thyroid Dysfunction’’, I TS
Con-2013, Bangalore, 16/02/2013 to
17/02/2013.
Dr. I. Sathyamurthy
Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
Chapters contributed to text books
‘’Clinical importance of chirally
pure therapeutics’’, Post graduate
medicine, 2013, The Association of
Physician of India, volume XXVII, pp
675-681.
Memberships
Expert of the selection committee
member, Sir. C. V. Raman Birth
Centenary award for the year 20132014, The Indian Science Congress
Association.
achievements
Dr P Rajasekar
Endocrinology, Apollo Hospital,
Chennai
‘’Approach to Short Child’’,
International Symposium on Diabetes
and Metabolism, Coimbatore,
10/08/2013 to 11/08/2013.
‘’Premature Ovarian Failure’’,
Ferticon-2013, Akash Fertility Centre
Hospital Vadapalani, 22/12/2013.
Department of Infectious Diseases
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
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Ashwini Choudhary, Gopalakrishnan
R, Senthur Nambi P,
Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur
K & Thirunarayan MA. Antimicrobial
susceptibility of Salmonella enterica
serovars in a tertiary care hospital
in southern India. Indian J Med Res
2013; 137:800-802.
Dorairajan Sureshkumar,
Gopalakrishnan R, MA Thirunarayan.
In vitro activity of tigecycline in the
era of NDM-1. American Journal of
Microbiology 3 (2): 42-44, 2012
Gopalakrishnan R, Sureshkumar D,
Thirunarayan MA, Ramasubramanian
V. Melioidosis: an emerging infection
in India. J Assoc Physic India
2013;61:24-26.
Babu AK, Gopalakrishnan R,
Sundararajan L. Pulmonary
cryptococcosis: an unusual
presentation. Lung India
2013;30(4):347-350.
Vancomycin creep among
methicillin resistant Staphylococcus
aureus: a report. Sureshkumar D,
Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur
K, Ramasubramanian V. American
Medical Journal 2013; 4 (2): 197-200.
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Voss A, Ghafur A. “The Chennai
declaration” - Indian doctors’ fight
against antimicrobial resistance.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection
Control 2013, 2:7 doi:10.1186/20472994-2-7.
Ghafur A, PR Vidyalakshmi, K.
Priyadarshini, Jose M. Easow,
Revathi Raj, T. Raja. Elizabethkingia
meningoseptica bacteremia in
immunocompromised hosts: The
first case series from India. SAJC
2013;2(4):211-15.
Ravi KP, Suresh Durairajan, Sankalp
Parivar, Ramesh Venkataraman,
Ramasubramanian V and N.
Ramakrishnan. Epidemiology
of Intensive care unit infections
and impact of infectious disease
consultants in managing resistant
infections. American Journal of
Infectious Diseases 2013 9(2): 30-33.
Sureshkumar D. Tackling Antibiotic
resistance - Published in IJPP Sep Dec 2013 Issue.
Chapters contributed to text books
Scrub Typhus; The Association of
Physicians of India – Medicine Update
Ramasubramanian V, Senthur Nambi
P, Vol 23: 2013 19 – 22.
Biomarkers and Clinical Criterion
- Guided Optimum Antibiotic
Therapy in Intensive Care Unit - Dr
Ramasubramanian V, Clinical Notes ECAB Infectious Diseases. Publisher
Elsevier 2013.
International Conference
presentations
Ashwini Tayade, Ram Gopalakrishnan,
Thirunarayan MA. Endocarditis
after cutting fish. Abstract 346.
9th International Symposium on
Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance,
Kuala Lumpur, 13-15 March, 2013.
Sureshkumar D, Gopalakrishnan R,
Ramasubramanian V, Gaikwad R. A
prospective study of MRSA screening
in pediatric cardiothoracic patients.
Abstract 2308 at 53rd International
Conference on Antimicrobial Agents
and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Sep
10-13, Denver, USA.
D Sureshkumar, Abdul Ghafur,
V Ramasubramanian, Ram
Gopalakrishnan. Universal
Surveillance of ICU patients: a report
from South India. 9th International
Symposium on Antimicrobial Agents
and Resistance, Kuala Lumpur, 13-15
March, 2013.
R. Porwal, R. Gopalakrishnan, V
Ramasubramanian. Knowledge
or isolation practices among
nurses: a single center survey
from India. Oral presentation K 446
at 53rd International Conference
on Antimicrobial Agents and
Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Sep 10-13,
2013, Denver, USA.
Vidyalakshmi PR, Ravikant Porwal,
Abdul Ghafur, Thirunarayan MA,
Murugan N. An unusual cause
of SBP in a cirrhotic- the first
reported case from India. Paper 270.
9th International Symposium on
Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance,
Kuala Lumpur, 13-15 March, 2013.
Ghafur A, Vidyalakshmi PR,
Ashwini Choudhary, Chandra K,
Pushparaju R, Rajkumar K. Call
for a joint effort to tackle Gram
negative resistance: a tsunami can’t
be blocked with a barricade. Paper
121. 9th International Symposium on
Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance,
Kuala Lumpur, 13-15 March, 2013.
Abdul Ghafur, Priyadarshini,
Vidyalakshmi PR. “Clinical profile of
carbapenem resistant bacteraemia
among paediatric population - first
clinical study from India”. A-5340002-01455. 31st Annual Meeting of
the European Society for Paediatric
Infectious Diseases, Milan, Italy, May
28-June 1, 2013.
achievements
Publications
Ghafur A, Shareek PS, Nambi PS,
Vidyalakshmi PR, Ramasubramanian
V, Parameshwaran A, Thirunarayan
MA, Gopalakrishnan R. Mucormycosis
in patients without cancer: a case
series from a tertiary care hospital
in South India. J Assoc Physic India
2013;61:11.
R Porwal, P Senthur Nambi, V
Ramasubramanian. Attitude
towards adult vaccination in India:
a long way to go. Abstract P 799
at 53rd International Conference
on Antimicrobial Agents and
Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Sep 10-13,
2013, Denver, USA.
Sureshkumar D, Ram Gopalakrishnan,
V. Ramasubramanian. Survey of
Infection Control Programs In India.
Abstract 42762 at ID Week 2013, Oct
2-6, San Francisco, USA.
Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi,
Priyadarshini, Thirunarayan MA.
Fosfomycin- promising option in
the era of NDM-1-The first in vitro
data from India. ICAAC 2013 Denver.
Abstract No 911.
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A Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi, Chandra,
Sahaya, Priyadharshini. Increasing
needle stick injuries amongst the
radiology team-needs attention! P297.
ICPIC June 2013 Geneva.
Lectures at International Conferences
Ram Gopalakrishnan. Chairperson
for symposium on “Treatment options
for MDR Gram negative bacilli” at
23rd European Conference of Clinical
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
(ECCMID) at Berlin, Germany on 27th
April 2013.
Ram Gopalakrishnan. Chairperson
for symposium on “Focus on
bacteraemia” at 23rd European
Conference of Clinical Microbiology
and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) at
Berlin, Germany on 28th April 2013.
National Conference Abstracts
Dorairajan Sureshkumar,
Ram Gopalakrishnan, V.
Ramasubramanian. Infection Control
Program to rural community hospital
in Southern India - a dream or reality?
Oral paper presentation at HISICON
2013, Mumbai on 9th Feb 2013.
Porwal R. Susceptibility patterns of
two saviours in the era of multi-drug
resistance: tigecycline and colistin.
3rd Annual Conference of the Clinical
Infectious Diseases Society (CIDSCON
2013), Aug 30-Sep 1, 2013.
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Sureshkumar D, Gopalakrishnan
R, Thirunarayan MA. Are all
carbapenems same in Petri dish?
3rd Annual Conference of the Clinical
Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON
2013), Aug 30-Sep 1, Mumbai.
Sureshkumar D. Clinical &
Epidemiological profile of Typhoid;
APICON 2013 oral presentation.
Viral Infections in Pregnancy.
Chairperson at 13th International
Conference “What is new in Subfertility, Obstetrics and Gynecology’,
Chennai on 10th Aug 2013.
Dr Senthur Nambi
Clinical controversies in Infectious
Disease. Lecture at third annual
conference of the Clinical Infectious
Diseases Society (CIDSCON 2013) on
31st Aug 2013.
Post operative sepsis: Lecture at Dept
of General Surgery, Govt Rajiv Gandhi
General Hospital, Chennai on 6th
February 2013.
Invited Lectures at National Forums
Dr Ram Gopalakrishnan
TORCH infections: a case based
approach. Lecture at symposium on
“Infectious Diseases: from bench to
bedside” at Fortis Hospital, Mulund,
Mumbai on 21st April 2013.
Endocarditis: all you wanted to know.
Lecture at symposium on “Infectious
Diseases: from bench to bedside” at
Fortis Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai on
21st April 2013.
The Clinician and the Microbiology
laboratory. Lecture at Apollo
Infectious Disease Conference 2013
on 15th June 2013.
Investigating a patient with HIV and
liver disease. Lecture at Liver Clinics
2013 at Madras Medical College on
20th July 2013.
Principles of antibiotic use in septic
shock. Lecture at 5th Apollo Advanced
Crirical Conference, Chennai on 3rd
August 2013.
Approach to infections in the post
-transplant host. Lecture at Infectious
Diseases CME for Postgraduates at
CMC, Vellore on 13th Dec 2013.
Dr D Sureshkumar
Chennai declaration-What is the
status APICON 2013.
Fever of Multiple origin - IMA Tuticorin
CME, Feb 2013.
Tackling Antibiotic Resistance in
Pediatric Practice - IJPP CME June
2013.
ABC of HIV/AIDS- Nellore IMA CME
December 2013.
Lab diagnosis of Infectious Disease IAP Salem, November 2013.
Changing Scenario in Antimicrobial
resistance: Guest Speaker for the
monthly CME Prog. at KKTCH,
Chennai on 22nd February 2013.
achievements
Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi
PR, Chandra K. Successful
implementation of an infection control
programme in a tertiary care oncology
centre from a developing country.
P262. ICPIC June 2013 Geneva.
Influenza: The current approach &
Procalcitonin: Pros & Cons - Lectures
at symposium on “Infectious
Diseases: from bench to bedside” at
Fortis Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai on
21st April 2013.
Newer antibiotics in the horizon,
Lecture at CME on antimicrobial
therapy in paediatrics, 5th May 2013.
Fungal Infections in ICU, Lecture at
Railways Hosp, Chennai, 7th May2013.
Labs in diagnosing infections, IAP –
Coimbatore Chapter, IDCON, 19th May
2013.
OP antibiotics simplified, Lecture at
Apollo Infectious Disease Conference
2013 on 15th June 2013.
Managing soft tissue infections,
Lecture at 1st Chennai Advanced
wound care conference, 7th July 2013.
Antibiotics in community acquired
sepsis, Lecture at Military Hospital,
Chennai, 25th July 2013.
Infection control Basics, Seethapathy
clinic, Chennai, 2nd August 2013.
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Antibiotic choice in sepsis, Lecture at
Apollo Paed Refresher course, 17th
August 2013.
How to use labs effectively in
diagnosing infections Panelist, “38th
Annual IAP - TN State Conference Chennai Pedicon 2013, 24th August
2013.
Tropical infections in ICU, ISCCM
Chennai Chapter Meeting, 9th October
2013.
Gram positive Infections, CME at GB
Pant Hosp, Port Blair, 12th October
2013.
Choice of antibiotics in UTI, APSOGUS,
Vijayawada, 10th Nov 2013.
Dr. V. Ramasubramanian
Pooja Bagdi Agrawal
Adjunct Professor, Tamil Nadu Dr.
MGR Medical University
Anesthesiology, Apollo Day Surgery,
Alwarpet
Joint Secretary, Clinical Infectious
Disease Society (India)
Awards
First place for the paper titled Ultrasound Guided Transversus
Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block - A
Boon in Ambulatory Laparoscopic
Cholecystectomy, IInd National
Conference on Ambulatory Surgery 3rd & 4th August 2013 at Bangalore.
Dr. Ram Gopalakrishnan
Adjunct Professor, Tamil Nadu Dr
MGR Medical University
Member, Board of Super-specialities,
Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical
University
President, Clinical Infectious Diseases
Society (India)
Member, Education Subcommittee,
European Society of Clinical
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Awards
Asian Hospital Management Awards
2013, Bangkok: Excellence award
in Patient Safety category for
Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
awarded to Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
for a project on Antimicrobial
Stewardship initiated by Dept of
Infectious Diseases, Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai.
Dr Senthur Nambi
Positions held
Book Published
Textbook of Contemporary
Neurosurgery, Editor, Jaypee
Publishers, New Delhi
Faculty at “Initiative Chronic Wound”
[ICW] Program, Apollo HARTMANN
Training Project for India, August
2013, Chennai.
Dr. A. Vincent Thamburaj
Neurosurgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Chennai
Delhi
Dr. Ajay Kumar Kriplani
Laparoscopic, Bariatric & G.I. Surgery,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi
Lectures
Live demonstration of “Laparoscopic
Trans Abdominal Pre Peritoneal
Repair of Inguinal Hernia”, Asia
Pacific Hernia Society 2013 Pre
Congress Workshop, HKEC Training
Center for Healthcare Management
& Clinical Technology, Pamela
YoudeNethersole Eastern Hospital,
Hongkong, 26th November 2013.
Guest Lectures on “Complications
of Laparoscopic Hernia Repair”
and “Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia
Repair without fixation”, Asia Pacific
Hernia Society 2013, Hongkong, 26th
November 2013.
Guest lectures on “Minimal Access
Surgery for pancreatic tumors”
and “How I learnt my basics in
laparoscopic surgery”, Continuing
Medical Education Program, 73rd
Annual Conference of the Association
of Surgeons of India, 24th to 29th Dec
2013.
achievements
Approach to PUO, IMA Ponneri, 4th
August 2013.
Live demonstration of “Laparoscopic
Adrenalectomy”, SURGICON 2013,
Annual conference of the Delhi
State Chapter of the Association
of Surgeons of India, organized by
Post Graduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, Ram
Manohar Lohia Hospital, 29th Nov to
1st Dec 2013.
Live Demonstration of “Laparoscopic
repair of Incisional Hernia”, 2nd
Fellowship Certification Course in
Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
(FALS) organized by Indian Association
of Gastrointestinal Endo-Surgeons &
Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, 14th to 17th
November 2013.
Guest Lectures on “Laparoscopic
pancreatic surgery” and “Technique
of Laparoscopic fundoplication
and paraesophageal hernia”, 2nd
Fellowship Certification Course in
Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
(FALS) organized by Indian Association
of Gastrointestinal Endo-Surgeons &
Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, 14th to 17th
November 2013.
Guest lectures on “Suturing
techniques in Laparoscopic Hernia
Surgery”, National Conference of the
Indian Hernia Society, Banaras Hindu
University, 26th & 27th October 2013.
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Live demonstration of “Single Incision
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy”
& “Single Incision Laparoscopic
Appendicectomy”, New Areas
in Minimal Access Surgery II,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, 18th &
19th Oct, 2013.
Live Demonstration of “Laparoscopic
Repair of recurrent inguinal Hernia”,
7th National Congress of Hernia
Society of India, 13th to 15th Sept
2013.
Guest Speaker “in Favour of TAPP
in Debate on Trans Abdominal Pre
Peritoneal (TAPP) Hernia Repair
Versus Total Extra Peritoneal (TEP)
Hernia Repair”, 7th National Congress
of Hernia Society of India, 13th to 15th
Sept 2013.
Guest lecture on “Troubleshooting in
Laparoscopic Trans Abdominal Pre
Peritoneal (TAPP) hernia repair”,
Continuing Medical Education
Programme on Minimal Access
Surgery, organised by Deptt of
Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical
College, 29th September 2013, New
Delhi.
Guest lecture on “Laparoscopic
surgery of the liver and pancreas”,
33rd fellowship course of Indian
Association of Gastrointestinal
Endosurgeons (FIAGES 2013), Shri
Balaji Action Hospital, 6th Sep 2013.
148
Live Demonstration of “Single Incision
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy” and
“Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia
Repair”, 33rd fellowship course of
Indian Association of Gastrointestinal
Endosurgeons (FIAGES 2013), Shri
Balaji Action Hospital, 7th Sep 2013.
Guest lecture on “Laparoscopic
bowel injury: traps, tips and tricks”,
Annual Conference of the Delhi
Gynaecological Endoscopic Society,
4th August 2013.
Guest lecture on “Laparoscopic
Surgery of the Pancreas”, Meeting of
the Delhi Society of Gastroenterology,
27th July 2013.
Live Demonstration of “Laparoscopic
Sleeve Gastrectomy”, “Laparoscopic
ventral Hernia repair” and
“Laparoscopic adrenalectomy”, Newer
Advances in Minimal Access Surgery,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, 27th
April 2013.
Panelist for Panel discussion on
“Complications in Bariatric Surgery”
and “Laparoscopic Hernia Repair”,
Newer Advances in Minimal Access
Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, 27th April 2013.
Guest lecture on “Technique of Trans
Abdominal Pre Peritoneal Hernia
Repair”, Hernia Update, Organised
by Delhi Chapter of Association of
Surgeons of India, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospital, 9th March 2013.
Panelist for panel discussion on
“Controversies in Laparoscopic Hernia
Surgery”, Hernia Update, Organised
by Delhi Chapter of Association of
Surgeons of India, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospital, 9th March 2013.
Guest Lecture on “Surgical
Management of Obesity”, 34th
All India Steel Medical Officer’s
Conference organized by J.L.N.
Hospital and Research Centre, Bhilai
Steel Plant, Bhilai (C.G.), 3rd February
2013.
Live Demonstration of “Laparoscopic
Trans Abdominal Pre Peritoneal
Inguinal hernia Repair” and
“Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair”,
Agra Lapcon 2013 under the Aegis of
SELSI and Indian Hernia Society, 27th
January 2013.
Guest Lecture on “Laparoscopic
Management of Diaphragmatic
hernia”, 26th AMASI skills course,
Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, 19th
January 2013.
Guest faculty for the “Bariatric
surgery master class” (BSMC),
“Bariatric surgery master class”
(BSMC) organized by West Zone,
Indian Association of Gastrointestinal
Endosurgeons, Pune, Maharashtra,
12th-13th January 2013.
Positions held
Trustee, Indian Association of
Gastrointestinal Endo Surgeons, since
2012.
Dr. Anil Chandra Anand
Gastroenterology and Hepatology,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi
achievements
Guest lecture on “Why Single
Incision Laparoscopic Surgery”, New
Areas in Minimal Access Surgery II,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, 18th &
19th Oct, 2013.
Books published
‘’Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
(Standalone publication)’’, Dr A
Murugunathan, Dr Rajesh Upadhyay,
Dr A C Anand, Dr V G Mohan Prasad,
2013, Elsevier.
‘’Acid Peptic Disease(Standalone
publication)’’, Dr A Murugunathan, Dr
Rajesh Upadhyay, Dr A C Anand, Dr V
G Mohan Prasad, 2013, Elsevier.
‘’Gastritis and Dysypepsia(Standalone
publication)’’, Dr A Murugunathan, Dr
Rajesh Upadhyay, Dr A C Anand, Dr V
G Mohan Prasad, 2013, Elsevier.
‘’Acid Peptic Disease: Case Studies
(Standalone publication)’’, Dr A
Murugunathan, Dr Rajesh Upadhyay,
Dr A C Anand, Dr V G Mohan Prasad,
2013, Elsevier.
Chapters contributed to text books
‘’Management of Hepatic
Encephalopathy in Pregnancy’’,
Hepatic Encephalopathy 2013, Dr A C
Anand, Dr P Puri, MacMillan Medical
Communications.
‘’Abdominal Tuberculosis’’, Clinical
Gastroenterology 2013, Dr A C Anand,
Paras Medical Publishers.
‘’NAFLD’’, Liver Annual 2013, Dr A C
Anand, Dr P Puri, INASL.
Publications
‘Prisoner of War’, A C Anand, National
Medical Journal of India, Accepted for
publication 2013.
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‘Indian Guidelines on the management
of Hepatitis B’, Annual Meeting of
Association of Physicians of India, 31
Jan-02 Feb.
‘Quality of Health Care: Back to
Basics’ Key note address, Bombay
medical Congress, 9-10 March, 2013.
‘Stewardship to prevent HBV Drug
Resistance’, Annual conference of
Indian association for the study of
Liver (INASL), 22-24 March 2013.
‘HBV Management- State of Art’,
Gastroenterology CME and Endoscopy
workshop at Banaras Hindu
University, 26-28 Apr 2013.
Key note Address on ‘Patient Safety’,
Medicine Update organised by INHS
Kalyani, Vishakhapatnam, 17 May
2013.
‘’Indian Guidelines on Genotype 3 HCV
Infection’’, National CME organised by
South India Doctors Association, 22
Jun 2013.
‘’Clinical spectrum of hepatitis B
(Public Lecture at AIIMS)’’, World
Hepatitis Day Public Lecture at AIIMS,
New Delhi, 28 July 2013.
‘Applications and Limitations of
Fibroscan and ARFI’, Controversies in
Hepatology, a Conference organised
by Delhi Liver Foundation and Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital, 7-8 Sep 2013.
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‘Systemic diseases and Mesentric
vascular Thrombosis’, ‘Current
Perspectives in Liver Disease’ An
annual conference jointly organised by
AIIMS and PGIMER Chandigarh, 05-06
Oct 2013.
‘’Upper GI Bleeding- A practical
approach’’, National CME on
Gasttroenterology, Hepatology and
Liver 20 Oct 2013: transplantation, 20
Oct 2013.
PG Symposium on ‘Interesting
problems after liver transplantation’,
ISGCON 2013 at Jaipur, 29 Nov 2013.
Key note address on ‘Healthy Aging’,
Rajiv Gandhi University and Command
Hospital (AF) Bangalore CME on
Gerontology, 06 Dec 2013.
‘’NASH: What is new?’’, CME by Indian
Medical association, 27 Dec 2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical
and Experimental Hepatology,
Inception 2010.
Positions held
President (2012-2014), Indian National
Association for the Study of Liver.
President Elect (2013-2014), Indian
Society of Gastroenterology.
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
Member of National Guidelines
Committee of Ministry of Health,
Ministry of Health, Government of
India, 2011 onwards.
Convener of National Task Force on
Hepatitis C Virus Infection in India,
Indian National Association of the
study of Liver, 2011 onwards.
Invited examinership
Invited to be an Examiner for DNB
(Gastroenterology) organised at G B
Pant Hospital.
Invited to be an examiner for DM
(Hepatology) at PGIMER Chandigarh.
Awards
Fellowship of National academy of
Medical Sciences.
President’s Honorary Surgeon in 2013
(Ex-Officio).
Fellowship of American College of
Gastroenterology, Virginia (USA).
Fellowship of American College of
Physicians (USA).
Fellowship of Indian College of
Physicians, Mumbai.
Fellowship of Society of
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India.
Dr. Anupam Sibal
Pediatric Gastroenterology and
Hepatology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Wadhawan M, Kumar A, Gupta S,
Goyal N, Vasudevan KR, Shandil
R,Taneja S, Sibal A. Post Transplant
Biliary Complications – An Analysis
from a Predominantly Living Donor
Liver Transplant Centre. Journal of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
2013. Feb 22. doi: 10.1111/jgh.12169
Malhotra S, Kapoor A, Gupta S, Sibal
A. Liver Transplantation in Children.
IAP Speciality Series on Pediatric
Gastroenterology 2013, Second
edition. Jaypee Publishing 2013. 281
-29.
achievements
Lectures
‘Immunology of HCV Infection’, ‘GI
Immunology Course’ by AIIMS, New
Delhi, Jan 12-13, 2013.
Bhatia V, Sibal A. Are fathers catching
up with mothers in Liver donation?;
Indian Pediatrics 2013 Jan 8;50(1):158.
Lectures
Liver disease: Autoimmune
hepatitis, 13th scientific meeting
of the Commonwealth Association
of Paediatric Gastroenterology and
Nutrition (CAPGAN), 6-7 December
2013, Colombo, Srilanka.
New Trends & prospect of Global
Healthcare, Korean Healthcare
Congress, 2013, 13- 15 November
2013, Seoul, Korea.
Global Trend of Hospital Innovation,
Korean Healthcare Congress 2013,
13- 15 November 2013, Seoul, Korea.
Liver transplantation in metabolic
liver diseases 13th APPSPGHAN
& 40th JSPGHAN, 31 October – 3
November, 2013 Tokyo, Japan.
Apollo Accreditation Program
(AAP), The International Society for
Quality in Health Care’s (ISQUA) 30th
International Conference, 13 -17
October 2013, Edinburgh.
“How to Develop a Patient Safety
Program that is Straightforward,
Takes Little Infrastructure and Few
Resources, and Benefits Providers
as Well as Patients”, Hospital
Management Asia 2013, 11-15
September 2013, Bangkok.
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The Way Forward, Mid Year
conference, GAPIO, 5-6 July 2013, Los
Angeles, USA.
Updates in nutritional management
of children with liver disease/
liver failure, XIV Annual Scientific
Conference, Kenya Pediatric
Association 2013, 16 – 20 April,
Mombasa, Kenya.
15 years of successful liver
transplantation in SAARC, Nepal
Medical Association 2013, 2 -3
January 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Case discussions in Pediatric Liver
Diseases, IAP, 14 December 2013,
Mumbai.
Case scenarios in day to day
hepatology, GIAPCON 2013, 7
December 2013, Baroda.
Abdominal pain revisited, GIAPCON
2013, 7 December 2013, Baroda.
Liver Transplantation in Children, IAP,
16 November 2013, Jaipur.
Liver Transplantation in Children, IAP,
26 October 2013, Lucknow.
Apollo International Clinical Nutrition
Update – 2013, 4 – 5 October,
Hyderabad.
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Management of liver failure, IAP,
Chhattisgarh, 24 - 25 February 2013,
Bilaspur.
Dr Arun Prasad
Sisir Chandra Bose Oration, Institute
of Child Health (ICH), Kolkata, 23 – 24
August 2013, Kolkata.
Acute liver failure: Management
issues, XXXXX National Conference
of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics
(PEDICON 2013), 17 January 2013,
Kolkata.
Chapters contributed to text books
Text book of laparoscopic surgery,
2013, ‘’Video assisted thoracoscopic
surgery’’.
15 years of pediatric liver
transplantation in India, Indian
Medical Association (IMA), Amritsar,
21 July 2013, Amritsar.
Awards
“Vashisht Chikitsa Ratan Award” by
Delhi Medical Association June 2013.
XXIIIrd National Conference of
Paediatric Gastroenterology and
Nutrition PEDGASTROCON 2013,
Pune, 27 – 28 September 2013, Pune.
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Delhi
becomes the busiest solid organ
transplant centre in the world, Apollo
Hospitals, 23 June 2013, Ajmer.
Pediatric liver transplantation, IAP, 31
May 2013, Ahmedabad.
Pediatric liver transplantation, IAP, 26
May 2013, Panipat.
Pediatric liver transplantation, IAP, 12
May 2013, Gwalior.
15 years of pediatric liver
transplantation in India, IAP, 27 April
2013, Ludhiana.
Pediatric liver transplantation, IAP, 8
March 2013, Pune.
Beyond Accreditation - the Apollo
Experience, Aditya Birla Memorial
Hospital, QIPS 2013 conference, 9
March 2013, Pune.
Newer diagnostic modalities in
gastroenterology and hepatology,
Pediatrics 2013, 10 March, Nagpur.
Fellow, American Academy of
Pediatrics, 2013.
Memberships
Asian Pan Pacific Society of Pediatric
Gastroenterology Hepatology and
Nutrition, Executive Council 2005 –
2013.
Positions held
Member of the Regional Middle East
International Advisory Board of Joint
Commission International (JCI) since
2011.
Member of the Institute Body of
Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, Chandigarh
since October 2009.
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics,
School of Medicine, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia since
June 2009.
Group Medical Director, Apollo
Hospitals Group since September
2005.
Minimal Access Surgery, Indraprastha
Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
achievements
Debate - Managing a Hospital is much
more difficult than Managing a Hotel
or Other Service Company, Hospital
Management Asia 2013, 11-15
September 2013, Bangkok.
Text book of laparoscopic surgery,
2013, ‘’Robotic surgery in India’’.
Publications
Laparoscopic and thoracoscopic
gastric pull-up for pure
esophagealatresia in early infancy.
Journal of Indian Association of
Pediatric Surgeons, 2013; 18: 27-30.
Right or left first during bilateral
thoracoscopy? Surgical Endoscopy
2013; (DOI) Volume 27, Issue 8
(2013), Page 2868-2876 http://link.
springer.com/article/10.1007%2
Fs00464-013-2843-5, http://www.ncbi.
nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23404154.
Lectures
5th Jan 2013 – Pune, chairing session
on Bariatric surgery and presentation
on hiatus hernia with obesity, bariatric
surgery.
16th Jan 2013 – Amritsar – Bariatric
surgery, live demonstration in
workshop.
19th Jan 2013 – Association of
minimal access surgeons of India,
RML hospital conference, guest
lecture on laparoscopic colorectal
surgery.
Director Medical Services,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New
Delhi since March 2003.
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3rd February 2013 – Robotic bariatric
surgery guest lecture at South Delhi
IMA meeting.
27th, 28th February 2013 – Yangoon,
Myanmar – Guest lecture on Robotic
surgery in India.
15th March 2013 – AIIMS, New Delhi
– Chairperson at bariatric surgery
session of annual conference.
6-7 April 2013 – Bangalore, Annual
conference of Obesity surgery society
of India. Chairperson, Panelist and
Presentations on complications of
bariatric surgery, robotic bariatric
surgery.
26, 27, 28th April 2013 – New
Delhi. Apollo Hospital, Organizer,
chairperson, live laparosopic,
thoracoscopic and robotic surgery at
conference of new areas in minimal
access surgery.
29th June 2013 – Hyderabad
– Conference on obesity surgery –
Chairperson, presentations on gastric
bypass surgery, robotic bariatric
surgery.
5th July 2013 – Hyderabad,
ACMOMS international conference
– presentations on complications in
bariatric surgery and robotic bariatric
surgery.
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2-3 Aug 2013 – Delhi, Max hospital –
Guest lecture and panel discussion on
complications of bariatric surgery.
11 Aug 2013 – West Delhi IMA – guest
lecture on robotic GI surgery.
6,7 Aug 2013 – Indore – Medical
College – live bariatric surgery and
presentation on sleeve gastrectomy.
21 Aug 2013 – Bangalore – Indian
Association of Gastroendoscopic
surgeons – Guest lecture on robotic
surgery.
28 Aug 2013 – New Delhi – Maulana
Azad Medical College – Guest lecture
on single incision laparoscopic
surgery.
10th Oct 2013 – Paris – 2nd
international conference on mini
gastric bypass surgery. Video
presentation of world’s first robotic
mini gastric bypass ( RMGB ).
18, 19 Oct 2013 – New Delhi – Apollo
Hospital – Organizer of single incision
laparoscopic surgery conference. Live
surgery and lectures.
8,9 Nov 2013 – Coimbatore –
Metabolic surgery conference. Guest
lecture on Indications of metabolic
surgery, Chairperson.
14 Nov 2013 – Mumbai – Fellowship
in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery.
Faculty for Thoracoscopic surgery and
Robotic thoracic surgery.
23 Nov 2013 – Ghaziabad – Association
of surgeons of India annual
conference, guest lecture on Robotic
GI surgery.
26-30 Nov 2013 – Hong Kong – Asia
Pacific Hernia Society Conference.
Lecture on Laparoscopic Ventral
Hernia Repair.
7th Dec 2013 – Gurgaon Medanta –
European society of thoracic surgeons
meeting – Guest lecture on Robotic
thymectomy and live demonstration
of thoracoscopic surgery relayed from
Apollo Hospital operation theatre.
28thDect 2013 – API annual
conference – Guest lecture on Robotic
GI surgery.
Positions held
Vice president, IAGES (Indian
Association Of Gastroendoscopic
Surgeons), 2012-2014.
Vice president, OSSI (Obesity Surgery
Society Of India), 2012-2014.
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
FICCI Task Force on Innovation in
Healthcare.
Sector Innovation Council for the
Health sector – Ministry of Health.
Dr. Ashish Kakar
Dental Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
achievements
24th Jan 2013 – Royal College of
Obstetricians and gynaecologists
surgical skills course, New Delhi –
Invited guest faculty.
Publications
‘’A comparison of dentifrices
for clinical relief from dentin
hypersensitivity using the Jay
Sensitivity Sensor Probe’’, Hegde S,
Rao BH, Kakar RC, Kakar A, American
Journal of Dentistry, 2013 May, 26
Spec No B:29B-36B.
‘’Measurement of dentin
hypersensitivity with the Jay
Sensitivity Sensor Probe and the
Yeaple probe to compare relief from
dentin hypersensitivity by dentifrices’’,
Kakar A, Kakar K, American Journal
of Dentistry, 2013 May 26, Spec No
B:21B-28B.
‘’Clinical assessment of a new
dentifrice with 8% arginine and
calcium carbonate on dentin
hypersensitivity in an Indian
population using a new measuring
device: the Jay Sensitivity Sensor
Probe’’, Kakar A, Dibart S, Kakar K,
American Journal of Dentistry, 2013
May 26 Spec No B:13B-20B.
‘’Clinical evaluation of the Jay
Sensitivity Sensor Probe: a new
microprocessor- controlled
instrument to evaluate dentin
hypersensitivity’’, Sowinski JA,
Kakar A, Kakar K, American Journal
of Dentistry, 2013 May 26 Spec No
B:5B-12B.
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‘’Minimally Invasive Lateral Ridge
Augmentation Using a Tunnel
Technique’’, (EAO) European Academy
Of Osseointegration, Dublin, Ireland,
October 2013.
Positions held
General Secretary, Academy Of Oral
Implantology, India, 2013-2015.
Visiting Professor, Yenepoya
University, Mangalore, India, 20132015.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rutgers
School of Dental Medicine, Newark,
USA, 2013.
Patent
Apparatus And Method for Measuring
Dentin Hypersensitivity, November 12,
2013, Patent number: 8,579,630b2
Dr Ashish Malik
Anesthesiology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
‘’Right or left first during bilateral
thoracoscopy’’, Dr. Meera Kharbanda,
Dr. Arun Prasad, Dr. Ashish Malik,
Surgical Endoscopy, Vol 27, issue 8,
2013.
Awards
Transplant anaesthesia fellowship
in liver, kidney, pancreas, University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada, 2013.
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Dr. Ashu Agarwal
Ophthalmology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Lectures
‘’Local Anesthesia in Ocular
Surgery’’, Asia Pacific Academy of
Ophthalmology, Hyderabad, January
18, 2013.
‘’Topography & Scheimpflug Imaging
for Detecting Corneal Ectasia’’, Asia
Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,
Hyderabad, January 20, 2013.
‘’Keratoconus- Clinical Case
Discussion’’, Intraocular Implant &
Refractive Surgery, India, Chennai,
July 7, 2013.
‘’Anterior Segment OCT’’, Intraocular
Implant & Refractive Surgery, India,
Chennai, July 7, 2013.
‘’Keratoconus - Clinical Case
Discussion’’, Intraocular Implant
& Refractive Surgery, India, Delhi,
September 8, 2013.
‘’Choosing the Right Phaco Machine’’,
Intraocular Implant & Refractive
Surgery, India, Delhi, September 8,
2013.
‘’Anterior Segment OCT- An
Effective Diagnostic Tool’’, Delhi
Ophthalmological Society, Annual
Meeting, Delhi, April 13, 2013.
‘’Using Capsular Hooks and Segments
in Subluxated Cataract’’, Delhi
Ophthalmological Society, Annual
Meeting, Delhi, April 14, 2013.
‘’At risk Cornea for Laser Refractive
Correction’’, Delhi Ophthalmological
Society, Winter Meeting, Delhi,
December 1, 2013.
‘’Tissue Adhesive In The Management
of Corneal Perforations’’, Haryana
Ophthalmological Society, Annual
Conference, Rohtak, February 24,
2013.
Dr. IPS Kochar
Paediatric Adolescent Endocrinology
& Diabetology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
‘’Continuous Glucose Monitoring
System for Congenital
Hyperinsulinemia’’, Md. Saif, Akshay
Kapoor, IPS Kochar, and Radhika
Jindal, Indian Paediatric Journal,
Volume 50, April 16, 2013, pp 421.
‘’Glibenclamide for Neonatal
Diabetes’’, IPS Kochar and Radhika
Jindal, Indian Paediatric Journal,
Volume 50, April 16, 2013, pp 428.
Dr. Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
Endocrinology & Diabetes,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi
Publications
Radhika Jindal, Ayesha Ahmad,
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui,
Inderpal Singh Kochar, Subhash
Kumar Wangnoo, ‘’Novel mutation
c.597_598dup in exon 5 of ABCC8 gene
causing congenital hyperinsulinism,
Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome:
Clinical Research & Reviews, In Press,
Corrected Proof’’, Available online 26
March 2013.
Niti Agarwal, SK Wangnoo, Asim
Siddiqui, Mukul Gupta, ‘’Primary
Thyroid Lymphoma: A Series of Two
Cases and Review of Literature”, JAPI
2013; (61)496-498.
achievements
Presentations
‘’Clinical Evaluation of new
microprocessor based instrument
for Dentine hypersensitivity’’,
International Association for Dental
Research, Seattle, USA, March 2013.
Jindal R, Gupta N, Siddiqui MA,
Wangnoo SK, ‘’Post-Prandial
Hyperglycemia’’, JIACM. 2013; 14(34);242-246.
Presentations
Ayesha Ahmad, Radhika Jindal,
Mohammad Siddiqui & Subhash
Wangnoo, Pregestational BMI predicts
neonatal hypoglycemia in women
with gestational diabetes, Endocrine
Abstracts (2013) 31 P213, British
Endocrine Society Annual Meeting,
Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Subhash Wangnoo, Radhika
Jindal, Nitin Gupta, Mukul Gupta,
Mohammad Siddiqui, Prevalence and
Characteristics of painful diabetic
neuropathy in a community based
diabetic population attending a
tertiary care setting, AACE Annual
Meeting 2013, Abstract 235, P39,
American College of Endocrinology
Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona,
United States of America.
Radhika Jindal, Nitin Gupta, Mukul
Gupta, Mohammad Asim Siddiqui,
and Subhash Kumar Wangnoo, Study
of Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes
in Women with Gestational Diabetes
Mellitus, Endocr Rev 2013 34: SAT818, 95th Annual Endocrine Society
Meeting 2013 at San Francisco, United
States.
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Lectures
5th Asia Pacific Vascular Intervention
Course, 14th - 15th June, 2013, New
Delhi, “Management of Diabetes in
patients with Peripheral Vascular
Disease”.
Dr. Nitin P. Ghonge
Radiology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Chapters contributed to text books
FOGSI text book, ‘’CT & MRI in
Obstetrics and Gynecology’’, Jaypee
Medical Publishers, 2013.
Textbook on Pediatric Radiology,
‘’Imaging in Reproductive Tract
Anomalies’’, Jaypee Medical
Publishers, 2013.
Publications
‘’MDCT Enterography-A state-ofthe-art technique for small bowel
imaging’’, Indian J Gastroenterol
(May–June 2013) 32(3):152–162.
‘’Pleural endometriosis: Current
strategies for diagnosis and
management’’, Clinical Pulmonary
Medicine, 20(1):48-50, January 2013.
‘’Computed Tomography in the 21st
Century- Current status and future
prospects’’, Invited review for a special
issue on advances in Imaging, Journal
of International Medical Sciences
Academy (JIMSA) 2013, 26(1): 35-42.
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‘’Mutations in Extracellular Matrix
Genes NID1 and LAMC1 Cause
Autosomal Dominant Dandy–
Walker Malformation and Occipital
Cephaloceles’’, Human Mutation,
34:1075–1079, 2013.
“Imaging of Paediatric GastroIntestinal Tract”, An invited guest
lecture at the Kunwar Viren Ostwal
teaching course in Paediatric
Gastroenterology & Hepatology at
New Delhi in August 2013.
High-Frequency Ultrasound of
Shoulder Joint – Dr. Gauri Gupta, Dr.
Nitin Ghonge et al., An award-winning
study (1st prize) presented at the
Delhi Ultrasound Update (DUU-2013),
New Delhi – 15th December 2013.
‘’Intramuscular cysticercosis: Starry
Sky Appearance’’, Quarterly Journal of
Medicine, 2013 Dec 3, PubMed PMID:
24300159.
“Neonatal MRI Brain – Patterns &
Timings in Brain Injury”, An invited
guest lecture at the Neonatal
Neurocon at Gurgaon in September
2013.
High-Frequency Ultrasound of nonneoplastic conditions of the Inguinoscrotal region, Dr. Sunil Agarwal, Dr.
Nitin Ghonge et al., An award-winning
poster (2nd prize) presented at the
Delhi Ultrasound Update (DUU-2013),
New Delhi, 15th December 2013.
Orations
Dr. N. G Gadekar memorial Oration of
Indian College of Radiology & Imaging
[ICRI] at Indore, January- 2013,
‘’CT & MR angiography of Kidneys –
Maximising information in this era of
minimally-invasive Surgeries’’.
Selection for Dr. K. M Rai memorial
Oration of Indian Radiology & Imaging
Association [IRIA] at IRIA Annual
Conference at Cochin, January-2015,
‘’MDCT work-up of living renal
donors prior to Laparoscopic Donor
Nephrectomy’’.
Presentations
“Radiography and CT Imaging in
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases”, An
invited guest lecture presented at
Delhi Imaging Update [DIU-2013] at
New Delhi in April 2013.
“Image Acquisition in Clinical
Radiology – Pearls & Pitfalls”, An
invited guest lecture at Tech Aspire- A
training session for the Radiologic
Technicians & Radiographers at New
Delhi in July 2013.
“MRI applications in Gynecology”,
An invited guest lecture at UP state
IRIA conference – UPRICON Meerut;
October 2013.
“Role and relevance of MRI in
Gynecology”, An invited guest lecture
at Hamdard University CME, New
Delhi - November 2013.
“Imaging in Ovarian Malignancy”,
An invited guest lecture at Delhi
Ultrasound Update, New Delhi December 2013.
Mentored projects
HRCT evaluation of pulmonary edema
in patients with solid organ transplant
– Dr. Lakshya Mehta, Nitin Ghonge
et al., An award-winning study (2nd
prize) presented at the International
Day of Radiology (IDoR-2013), New
Delhi, 8th November 2013.
achievements
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals:
BMJ Case Reports
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Associate Editor for ‘Radiology’
[Radiological Society of North
America], 2013.
Associate Editor for ‘British Journal of
Radiology’, 2013.
Section Editor for ‘Apollo Medicine’,
2013.
Promoted to Consultant to Chief
Editor for ‘Radiology’ journal
[Radiology Society of North America]
in October 2013.
Guest Editor in 2013 for the dedicated
issue of ‘Indian Journal of Radiology &
Imaging’ (IJRI) – Transplant Imaging,
Nov-2014.
Positions held
Joint Secretary, Indian College of
Radiology & Imaging (ICRI), 2013-15.
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Received the Fellowship of Indian
College of Radiology & Imaging [FICR]
at the convocation of the College at
Indore in January-2013.
Dr. P. K. Das
Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer
Institute, New Delhi
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
Member of “Expert Advisory
Committee on Oncology” for six
new AIIMS institutes (Bhopal,
Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur
and Rishikesh).
Dr. Praveen Garg
Medical Oncology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Lectures
‘’Presentation on oropharyngeal
cancers’’, International cancer
congress, Delhi in Nov 2013.
‘’Chaired a session on Robotic
Prostatectomy’’, International cancer
congress, Delhi in Nov 2013.
Positions held
Member Advisory Board for Head and
Neck Cancer, International cancer
congress, Delhi in Nov 2013.
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Dr. Pushpendra Nath Renjen
Neurology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
‘’Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma
confirmed by brain biopsy: a case
report’’, Pushpendra Nath Renjen,
Nadeem Israr Khan, Yogesh Gujrati,
Shakti Kumar, BMJ Case Reports,
published online 18 February 2013,
doi:10.1136/bcr-2012-007990.
‘’Acquired hepatocerebral
degeneration’’, Pushpendra Nath
Renjen, Laxmi Khanna, Ruchi Rastogi,
Nadeem Israr Khan, BMJ Case
Reports, published online 18 June
2013, doi:10.1136/bcr-2013-009387.
‘’An unusual recurrence of
dysembroplastic neuroepithelial
tumors after a seizure free period of
8 years’’, Nadeem Israr Khan, Laxmi
Khanna, Pushpendra Nath Renjen,
Cecilia Succour Fernandes, BMJ Case
Reports, Published online (05th of
Sept. 2013), doi:10.1136/bcr-2013010469.
‘’Role of plasma N-terminal proB-type
natriuretic peptide (NT- proBNP)
level in acute cardioembolic stroke’’,
Pushpendra Renjen, Rajender Singla,
Apollo Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 3,
September 2013, 217-219.
‘’Stroke as the first manifestation of
Takayasu’s arteritis’’, Pushpendra
Renjen, Laxmi Khanna, Cecilia
Fernandes, Nadeem Khan, Apollo
Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 3,
September 2013, 251-253.
‘’Stroke in young’’, Pushpendra
Renjen, Apollo Medicine, Volume 10,
Issue 4, December 2013, 265-269.
Lectures
‘’Immunological modulation in
neurological disorder’’, API Agra
Chapter, 29th of January 2013.
‘’Comprehensive epilepsy
management’’, All Nepal Medical
Conference organized by Nepal
Medical Association, 02nd – 04th of
March 2013.
‘’Management of TIA’’, National
Neurosciences Meeting organized by
Apollo Hospital, 12th of May 2013.
‘’Management of Young Stroke’’,
National Neurosciences Meeting
organized by Apollo Hospital, 12th of
May 2013.
‘’Management of unconscious
patient’’, National CME of Emergency
Medicine, 21st of July 2013.
‘’Management of Headache’’, IMA
Ghaziabad, 16th of August 2013.
‘’Management of Headache’’, IMA
South Delhi Branch, 21st of August
2013.
‘’Per-surgical Evaluation in Intractable
Epilepsy’’, Annual Conference of India
Society for Stereotactic & Functional
Neurosurgery (ISSFN) Stereocon 2013,
14th & 15th of September 2013.
‘’Thrombolytic Therapy’’, IMA UP
Chapter at Agra, 18th December 2013.
‘’Thrombolysis beyond window
period’’, IMA Bhopal organized by
BHEL, 21st December 2013.
Dr. (Prof.) RN Makroo
Transfusion Medicine, Indraprastha
Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi.
achievements
Awards
“Certificate of Merit”, education
exhibit entitled “Pre-treatment CT
and MRI Evaluation of Renal Tumors:
Maximizing Information in this Era
of Minimally-invasive SurgeriesRSNA- 2013, 99th annual conference,
Chicago, USA (on- line presentation),
Study done in collaboration with Dr.
Rajesh Taneja, Urologist, Indraprastha
Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi.
Publications
‘’Red cell alloimmunization and
infectious marker status (human
immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis
B virus and hepatitis C virus) in
multiply transfused thalassemia
patients of North India’’, Raj Nath
Makroo, Jatinder Singh Arora, Mohit
Chowdhry, Aakanksha Bhatia, Uday
Kumar Thakur, Antony Minimol,
Indian Journal of Pathology and
Microbiology- 56(4), OctoberDecember 2013, pp- 378.
R.N. Makroo, Aakanksha Bhatia, Richa
Gupta and Jessy Phillip, Prevalence
of Rh, Duffy, Kell, Kidd & MNSs blood
group antigens in the Indian blood
donor population. Indian J Med Res
137, March 2013, pp 521-526.
Makroo R N, Bhatia A.and Singh
S, Donor return after a positive
feedback: How altruistic are we? Vox.
Sanguinis. (Abstract) P-89,Vol 105,
Supplement 1 June,2013.
Makroo R N, Arora B, Bhatia A,
Chowdhry M and Rosamma R:
Determination of the clinical
significance of antibody specificities
to M, N and Lewis blood group system
Vox. Sanguinis. (Abstract) P-428, Vol
105, Supplement 1 June, 2013.
Makroo R N, Walia RS, AnejaS,
Bhatia A, Chowdhry M, Arora B and
Thakur UK: Effects of No Transfusion,
Autologous transfusion, Allogenic
transfusion and age of blood on
outcome in cardiac surgeries. Vox.
Sanguinis. (Abstract) P-599, Vol 105,
Supplement 1 June, 2013.
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R.N. Makroo, Rimpreet Singh Walia,
Sanjeev Aneja, Aakanksha Bhatia,
and Mohit Chowdhry. Preoperative
predictors of blood component
transfusion in living donor liver
transplantation. Asian J Transfus Sci.
2013 Jul-Dec; 7(2): 140–146.
RN Makroo, Mohit Chowdhry, Sonika
Sharma Journal Scan. Identification
and characterization of marker
chromosome in Turner syndrome
Apollo Medicine June 2013 Volume 10,
Number 2; pp170-171.
R. N. Makroo, Aakanksha Bhatia.
Journal Scan. Therapeutic plasma
exchange in patients with neurological
diseases: Retrospective multicenter
study. Apollo Medicine vol. 10, Sep
2013, page 256-57.
R.N. Makroo, Rimpreet Singh Walia,
Mohit Chowdhry, Aakanksha Bhatia,
Vikas Hegde & N.L. Rosamma
Seroprevalence of anti-HCV antibodies
among blooddonors of north India
Indian J Med Res 138, July 2013, pp
125-128.
Bhatia A, Makroo R N, Thakur UK and
Joshi M: An insight into errors in the
transfusion chain 5 year experience
at a hospital based transfusion
centre. Vox. Sanguinis. (Abstract)
P-3 A-S 10- 0 ,Vol 105 Supplement 2
December,2013.
R N Makroo, A Bhatia, M Chowdhry,
B Arora Evaluation of ProcleixUltrio
Plus Nucleic Acid Test (NAT) Assay for
Blood Donor Screening in a Tertiary
Care Center in North India, (Abstract)
Transfusion September 2013- Vol.53,
Page 208 A Supplement.
Makroo R N, Bhatia A, Chowdhry M,
Thakur UK and Rosamma NL: Red
cell alloimmunization in patients
undergoing living donor liver
transplantation. Vox. Sanguinis.
(Abstract) P-175, Vol 105. Supplement
2, December, 2013.
Raj Makroo, Richa Gupta, Aakanksha
Bhatia, Nakamatathil L. Rosamma.
Rh phenotype, allele and haplotype
frequencies among 51,857 blood
donors in North India Blood
Transfusion. DOI 10.2450/2013.030012.
Lectures
Chairperson for scientific session on
immuno- haematology at 6th Annual
CME of Department of Transfusion
Medicine AIIMS on 22nd Feb, 2013 in
Auditorium AIIMS.
Moderator on Seminar on rational use
of blood organized by GTB Hospital
in Collaboration with Delhi State Aids
Control Society (DSACS) on 22nd
March, 2013 at Library Hall UCMS
GTB Hospital Delhi.
Guest Lecture – Importance of red cell
antibody screening & identification at
(RaktPravah- 2013) on 30-31 March,
2013 at Dehradun organized by IMA
blood Bank Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
Moderator Management of Patients
with Antibodies: Current Situation
& Future Strategies at the Seminar
the Pulse of Transfusion Medicine
organized by Lions Blood Bank
Shalimar Bagh, Delhi in collaboration
with the Indian Immuno-haematology
Initiative & SAATM on 6th April, 2013.
Guest Lecture – Impact of NAT on
blood safety at CME organized by
Triumph Blood Bank Thane on 28th
April, 2013 at Thane, Maharashtra
400601.
Donor return after a positive
feedback: How altruistic are we?
(Poster presentation) at 23rd Regional
Conference of International Society
of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) at
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2-5
June, 2013.
Effects of No Transfusion, Autologous
transfusion, Allogenic transfusion and
age of blood on outcome in cardiac
surgeries. (Poster presentation)
at 23rd Regional Conference of
International Society of Blood
Transfusion (ISBT) at Amsterdam, The
Netherlands 2-5 June, 2013.
Determination of the clinical
significance of antibody specificities
of M, N and Lewis blood group
system (Poster presentation) at 23rd
Regional Conference of International
Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) at
Amsterdam, The Netherland 2-5 June,
2013.
Models to predict blood component
transfusion in living donor liver
transplantation. (Poster presentation)
at 23rd Regional Conference of
International Society of Blood
Transfusion (ISBT) at Amsterdam, The
Netherlands 2-5 June, 2013.
achievements
Makroo R N, Hegde V, Bhatia
A, Chowdhry M and Rosamma
R: Determination of the clinical
significance of antibody specificities
to M, N and Lewis blood group system
Vox. Sanguinis. (Abstract) P-428, Vol
105, Supplement 1 June, 2013.
Guest lecture on blood safety at
Patient Safety Workshop organized by
Delhi, Medical Council at India Habitat
Centre New Delhi on 22nd June, 2013.
Guest lecture on opportunities and
challenges in Indian BTS at Annual
National Conference of Indian Society
of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM) TRANSMedicon on 14th September,
2013 at Bangalore.
Chairman scientific session XA - on
Nucleic Acid Testing at Annual
National Conference of Indian Society
of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM) –
TRANSMedicon on 14th September,
2013 at Bangalore.
Guest lecture on Stem Cell
Transplantation – Indian Scenario
at Pre-Conference CME on Celluar
Theraphy SAATM on 3rd October, 2013
at Fortis Memorial Research Center,
Gurgoan.
Chairperson scientific session 1 –
Seminar on Pathogen Reduction at IX
Annual SAATM Conference at Gurgoan
on 4-5th October, 2013.
Guest Lecture on Apheresis platelets
collection efficiency & maximizing
safety at IX Annual SAATM Conference
at Gurgoan on 4-5th October, 2013.
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Red cell alloimmunization in patients
undergoing living donor liver
transplantation. (Poster Presentation)
at 24th Regional Congress of the
International Society of Blood
Transfusion Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
December 1-4, 2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Editor in chief South Asian Association
Transfusion Medicine (SAATM) News
Bulletin.
Associate editor Apollo Medicine
Scientific Journal of the Apollo
Hospitals Group.
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
Member, Technical Advisory
Committee Blood Transfusion
Services, Govt. of India.
Member, National Accreditation
Committee on Blood Banks, Govt. of
India.
Qualified Assessor for NABH
certification for Blood Banks.
Member, Task Force on Blood & Blood
Safety, Government of India.
Member, Setting of Metro state of art
blood banks, Govt. of India.
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Member, National Haemovigilance
Programme, Govt. of India .
Invited Examinership
External Examiner for MD Blood
Transfusion & Immuno-haematology,
PGI Chandigarh, 3-4 May, 2013.
External Examiner for post graduate
diploma Blood Transfusion &
Immuno-haematology, Sheri Kashmir
Institute of Medical Sciences,
Srinagar, Kashmir, 8-9 May, 2013.
External Examiner for MD Blood
Transfusion & Immuno-haematology,
PGI Chandigarh, 9-10 December, 2013.
Awards
Felicitated by the Honourable Health
Minister of India on 1st October, 2013
(National Voluntary Blood Donation
Day) for promotion of voluntary blood
donation as Centurion blood donor.
Dr. Rajesh Chawla
Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep
Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Predictors of mortality and length
of stay in hospitalized cases of
2009 influenza A (H1N1), Chawla R,
Chauhan M, Kansal S, Jain A, Jibhkate
B.N, Indian J Crit Care Med, 2013,
Sept-Oct; 17 (5): 1-8.
Hyperammonemic coma in a postpartum patient with undiagnosed urea
cycle defect, Dash SK, Chauhan M,
Varma V, Sharma R, Kansal S, Chawla
R, Indian J Crit Care Med, 2013 Mar;
17(2):107.
Diabetic ketoacidosis induced cerebral
infarct: A missing link in pathogenesis
of neurologic manifestations of acute
pancreatitis, Dash SK, Sharma R,
Chawla R, Kansal S, Apollo Medicine,
2013; 10:155-8.
Guidelines for noninvasive ventilation
in acute respiratory failure, Chawla
R, Chaudhry D, Kansal et al., Indian
J Critical Care Medicine, Supplement
2013 March; 17(5):42-70.
“Guidelines for diagnosis and
management of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease: Joint ICS/NCCP
(I) recommendations”, A. K. Janmeja,
Honey Sawhney, Nusrat Shafiq, S. K.
Chhabra, Abhishek Goyal, Indranil
Haldar, P. Sarat, Chandigarh, Sabir
Mohammed, Ajay Handa, J. C. Suri,
Pallab Ray, Samir Malhotra, Ashish
Bhalla, J.S. Thakur, Parvaiz Koul,
Sundeep Salvi, Bharat Gopal, Jai
Kishan, Pranab Baruwa, Sanjay Jain,
D. Dadhwal, K. B. Gupta, R. S. Bedi,
Surender Kashyap, Dharmesh Patel,
Mandeep Garg, Raj Kumar, Surya
Kant, D. J. Christopher, Narayan
Mishra, Rajendra Prasad, U. P. S.
Sidhu, Dhruva Chaudhry, Navneet
Sharma, Rajesh Chawla, George
D’Souza, Nirmal K. Jain, Randeep
Guleria, Vikas Gautam, Virendra
Singh, Vishal Chopra, Lung India, 2013
Jul-Sep; 30: 228-267.
Critical care delivery in Intensive
care units in India: Defining the
functions, roles and responsibilities
of a consultant Intensivist, Divatia J,
Baronia AK, Bhagwati A, Chawla R,
Iyer S et al., Indian J Crit Care Med,
Supplement 2013 Mar; 17 (5):15-25.
Orations
‘’Why we should talk about sepsis
today’’, World Sepsis Day organized by
ISCCM, Delhi, 13-Sep-13.
achievements
Evaluation of ProcleixUltrio Plus
Nucleic Acid Test (NAT) Assay for
Blood Donor Screening in a Tertiary
Care Center in North India Poster
presentation at Annual meeting
of American Association of Blood
Banking 12-15 October, 2013 at
Denver, Colarado, USA.
Lectures
Pulmonary Embolism – ICU
management, Critical Care Board
Webinar Review Course of Indian
College of Critical Care Medicine of
ISSCM, 12th January, 2013.
COPD- critical care issues, Critical
Care Refresher Course at Auditorium,
Medanta – The Medicity, 18th – 20th
January, 2013.
‘’Approach to a hypoxemic patient’’,
CME on Critical Care, Hotel Park
Plaza, Sector 21-C Faridabad, 27
January, 2013.
‘’New Surviving Sepsis guidelines’’,
Update on Sepsis, India Habitat
Centre, 10 February, 2013.
‘’Surviving sepsis guidelines: What is
new?’’, Criticare - 2013, 17th Annual
Congress of the ISCCM, Kolkata, 3, 4
& 5 March, 2013.
‘’Moderated a panel discussion on
Managing MDR infections’’, Criticare
- 2013, 17th Annual Congress of the
ISCCM, Kolkata, 3, 4 & 5 March, 2013.
‘’Ventilation in different scenarios (30
min) 1. Ventilating ARDS, 2.Ventilating
COPD/Asthma’’, Criticare - 2013,
17th Annual Congress of the ISCCM,
Kolkata, 3, 4 & 5 March, 2013.
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‘’Respiratory Update’’, Ahmedabad,
08-Jul-13.
‘’Non Invasive Ventilation’’,
Comprehensive Critical Care Course
(Course director) - 2013, Kolkata,
08-Mar-13.
‘’Essentials of Ventilator graphics’’,
ISCCM Pune MV workshop, 12-14 July
2013.
‘’Pulmonary Thromboembolism’’,
Comprehensive Critical Care Course
(Course director) - 2013, Kolkata,
08-Mar-13.
‘’Coagulation & Anticoagulation’’, 4th
ECMO training course & Conference
2013 at Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi,
6-8 June 2013.
‘’Renal issues & Dialysis’’, 4th ECMO
training course & Conference 2013 at
Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, 6-8 June
2013.
‘’Monitoring Blood Flow, Oxygenation
& Acid-Base Status Diagnosis’’, FCCS
course held at Medanta – The Medicity
Hospital, Gurgaon, 19-20 July 2013.
‘’Management of Acute Respiratory
Failure’’, FCCS course held at
Medanta – The Medicity Hospital,
Gurgaon, 19-20 July 2013.
‘’Respiratory Emergency Handling’’,
National Emergency CME Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi, 21-Jul-13.
‘’Decannulation’’, 4th ECMO training
course & Conference 2013 at Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi, 6-8 June 2013.
‘’Venous thromboembolism and
pregnancy’’, 5th Apollo Critical Care
Conference Tamilnadu, Dr. MGR
Medical University, Chennai, 03-Aug13.
‘’Respiratory ECMO - Indian
Scenario’’, 4th ECMO training
course & Conference 2013 at Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi, 6-8 June 2013.
‘’Indications/Contraindications of
PCT Vs Surgical Tracheostomy’’, The
Scientific Committee of DCCS 2013,
17-Aug-13.
‘’Noninvasive Ventilation in the ICUHealing or Hurting’’, Ashraicon-2013
a Critical Care Conference, at
Ahmedabad, 29-30 June 2013.
‘’Therapeutic Hypothermia’’,
Ashraicon-2013 a Critical Care
Conference, at Ahmedabad, 29-30
June 2013.
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‘’Ultrasound in Emergency & Critical
Care Course (WINFOCUS USLS
BL1-P)’’, Medanta The Medicity, 16-17
July 2013.
‘’ABG’’, EDPA, Midcon 2013 Respiratory Update, 25-Aug-13.
‘’Pulmonary embolism’’, EDPA,
Midcon 2013 - Respiratory Update,
25-Aug-13.
‘’Mechanical Ventilation’’,
Comprehensive Critical Care Course
(4c) at Tata Memorial Hospital,
Mumbai, 6-8 September 2013.
‘’Pulmonary Thromboembolism’’,
Comprehensive Critical Care Course
(4c) at Tata Memorial Hospital,
Mumbai, 6-8 September 2013.
‘’Brain Death’’, Comprehensive
Critical Care Course (4c) at Tata
Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, 6-8
September 2013.
‘’Non invasive ventilation – an
overview’’, VMMC & Safdarjang
Hospital PG Pulmonary Update- 2013,
Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi, 14 –
15 September 2013.
‘’Management of Sepsis and Septic
Shock’’, NIMC- 2013, API Saharanpur,
Haridwar, 21-22 September 2013.
‘’PEEP and Recruitment Maneuvers’’,
WAD-2013, Mumbai, 25-Oct-13.
‘’Ventilator Graphics’’, WAD-2013,
Mumbai, 25-Oct-13.
‘’Ventilating the patient with severe
asthma (Interactive Case Discussions
-40 minutes)’’, WAD-2013, Mumbai,
25-Oct-13.
‘’Optimisation for surgery ....role of a
chest physician’’, WAD-2013, Mumbai,
26-Oct-13.
‘’PEEP and Recruitment’’, GSVM
Medical College, Kanpur, 27-Oct-13.
‘’Diagnosis, management and
implication of Tuberculosis in
women’’, CME-Teaching schedule for
DNB students, Dept. of Obs & Gynae
-October- 2013, Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi- 76, 31-Oct-13.
achievements
High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation
(30 mins), (1. APRV / Bilevel, 2.
Proportional assist, 3. PRVC / VC+,
4. Tube compensation, 5. Volume
support), Criticare - 2013, 17th Annual
Congress of the ISCCM, Kolkata, 3, 4
& 5 March, 2013.
‘’Management of Fungal Infections
in Critically ill patients’’, Scientific
meeting at GlaxoSmithkline (GSK),
New Delhi, 07-Nov-13.
‘’Noninvasive Ventilator’’, API-Roorki,
17-Nov-13.
‘’Poisioning’’, 0th Comprehensive
Critical Care Course, ISCCM, Medanta
The Medicity, 22-Nov-13.
‘’Acute Renal Failure’’, 1st
Comprehensive Critical Care Course,
ISCCM, Medanta The Medicity, 22Nov-13.
‘’Hyponatremia’’, 2nd Comprehensive
Critical Care Course, ISCCM, Medanta
The Medicity, 23-Nov-13.
‘’ECMO:WHO gets it, & how do you do
it?’’, 2nd Comprehensive Critical Care
Course, ISCCM, Medanta The Medicity,
24-Nov-13.
‘’Neuromascular disorders’’,
NAPCON-2013, Chennai Trade Centre,
29-Nov-13.
‘’Anticoagulation’’, The Auditorium,
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi,
13-Dec-13.
‘’Hemodynamic Monitoring-I’’, 3rd
Comprehensive Critical Care Course,
ISCCM office Pune, 21-Dec-13.
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‘’Acute Pancreatitis’’, 3rd
Comprehensive Critical Care Course,
ISCCM office Pune, 22-Dec-13.
‘’Fungal Infection in ICU’’, 3rd
Comprehensive Critical Care Course,
ISCCM office Pune, 22-Dec-13.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Indian Journal of Critical Care
Medicine
Intensive Care Medicine
Indian Journal of Chest Diseases &
Allied Sciences
Positions held
Vice-President, National College of
Chest Physicians (NCCP), 2011-2013.
Vice Chancellor, Indian College of
Critical Care Medicine, 2011-2014.
Invited examinership
National Board for FNB Critical Care
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Reviewer, Journal of Clinical
Ophthalmology & Research, since
January 2013.
Positions Held
Treasurer, Delhi Ophthalmological
Society, April 2011- April 2013.
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Dr (Prof) Raju Vaishya
Orthopaedics and Joint Replacement
Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Vaishya R, ‘’Hip Resurfacing
Arthroplasty in Inflammatory
Arthritis’’, J Arthroplasty, 28(1):199,
2013.
Vaishya R, ‘’A retrospective analysis
of medial open wedge high tibial
osteotomy for varus osteoarthritic
knee’’, Ind J Orthop., 47 (2): 215; 2013.
Vaishya R, Singh AP, Vaish A,
‘’Outcome of sub vastus approach in
elderly non obese patients undergoing
bilateral simultaneous total knee
arthroplasty’’, Ind J Orthop. 47(4):
430-431; 2013.
Vaishya R, Hasija R, ‘’Joint hyper
mobility and anterior cruciate
ligament injury’’, Journal of
Orthopaedic Surgery, 21(2):182-4;
2013.
Vaishya R, Sharma M, Chaudhary
RR, ‘’Bioball universal modular neck
adapter as salvage for failed revision
Total Hip Arthroplasty’’, Ind J Orthop.
47(5): 519-22; 2013.
Vaishya R, Zamil, Shrivastava VK,
‘’Megaprosthetic replacement of knee
in a young boy of 14’’, Apollo Medicine,
2013, 10(4): 293-96, http://dx.doi.
org/10.1016/j.apme.2013.07.001.
Vaishya R, ‘’Medial Patellofemoral
Ligament Reconstruction: The
Superficial Quad Technique’’,
Am J Sports Medicine,
2013 Oct, 41(10):NP47, doi:
10.1177/0363546513505842.
Vaishya R, Singh AP, Vaish A, ‘’Peri
prosthetic fracture in mega prosthesis
of the knee’’, Chinese Journal of
Traumatology, 2013,16(5):314-315.
Vaishya R, Vaish A, Nadeem A,
‘’Bisphosphonate induced atypical sub
trochanteric femoral fracture’’, BMJ
case reports’’, 2013 Nov 28, doi:pii:
bcr2013201931. 10.1136/bcr-2013201931.
Vaishya R, Khan SA, Kumar A, ‘’A
rare case of giant osteoid osteoma’’,
Apollo Medicine, 2013, 10 (4): 285-88,
doi:10.1016/j.apme.2012.08.006.
Vaishya R, Shrestha S, Vaish A,
‘’A Galeazzi -variant type fracture
dislocation in adults’’, Chinese
Journal of Traumatology, 2013 Dec
1;16(6):344-6.
Vaishya R, Vaish A, ‘’Use of
intravenous tranexamic acid in total
knee arthroplasty: a meta-analysis
of randomized controlled trials’’,
Chinese Journal of Traumatology (In
press)
Vaishya R, Kumar R, Maharjan
RR, ‘’Per cutaneous fixation of
Pelvic Fractures’’, Apollo Medicine,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.
apme.2013.04.001.
Vaishya R, Dhiman RS, Nyokabi
DN, Rai BK, ‘’Pseudo aneurysm of
profunda femoris artery following
dynamic hip screw fixation for inter
trochanteric femoral fracture’’,
Chinese Journal of Traumatology (In
press).
achievements
‘’Nutritional Support in ICU’’, 3rd
Comprehensive Critical Care Course,
ISCCM office Pune, 21-Dec-13.
Vaishya R, Chauhan M, Vaish A, ‘’Bone
Cement (Review Article)’’, J Clin
Orthop & Trauma, 2013 (4): 157-63,
doi:10.1016/j.jcot.2013.11.005.
Vaishya R, Mahana M, Vijay V, Vaish A,
‘’Treatment for acute anterior cruciate
ligament tear: five year outcome of
randomised trial’’, BMJ, http://www.
bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f232/
rr/679870.
Orations
‘’Periarticular multimodal drug
injection for pain management in
TKA’’, MP Orthocon 2013, Satna, M.P,
Dec 2013.
Lectures
‘’Antero lateral approach for total hip
arthroplasty’’, IOACON, Agra, Dec
2013.
‘’Cementing techniques in Total Hip
Arthroplasty’’, IOACON, Agra, Dec
2013.
‘’Modified Insall’s approach for
Primary TKA’’, DOACON, N Delhi, Nov
2013.
‘’Total Knee Arthroplasty in morbidly
obese patients’’, IAACON, Jaipur, Nov
2013.
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‘’What’s new in Joint Replacement
surgery?’’, Nepal Medical Association
Conference, Kathmandu, March 2013.
Dr. Ramji Gupta
‘’To compare the rates of joint
hypermobility in patients with and
without Anterior cruciate ligament
(ACL) injury’’, Annual Conference of
DOA, Nov 2013.
‘’Megaprosthetic replacement of the
knee in a young boy of 14 years’’,
BOSCON, March 2013.
Books published
‘’Can we cure Psoriasis?’’, Dr. Ramji
Gupta, Prayatna, 2013.
‘’Tuberculosis of the mid foot- a
review of 10 cases’’, Annual
Conference of DOA, Nov 2013.
‘’Arthrodesis for osteoarthritis of the
manubriosternal joint-case report’’,
Annual Conference of DOA, Nov 2013.
‘’Bioball universal modular neck
adapter as a salvage for failed revision
Total Hip Arthroplasty’’, SICOT,
Hyderabad, Oct 2013.
‘’Pain management in primary TKA,
using LIA: a double RCT’’, MP Chapter
of IOA conference, Satna, Oct 2013. (Dr
B Das Oration).
‘’What’s new in Knee Replacement
surgery?’’, 7th Annual Kenya
Orthopaedic Association / ASOTS
Congress 2013, Nairobi, July 2013.
‘’Autologus Chondrocyte Implantation
for femoral condylar articular
defects’’, Apollo Cartilage workshop,
May 2013.
‘’Spontaneous Osteonecrosis of the
Knee’’, Apollo Cartilage workshop,
May 2013.
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Membership/Reviewer of editorial
boards of peer reviewed journals
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Lancet
British Medical Journal
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (Br)
Indian Journal of Orthopaedics
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and
Research
JIMA
Apollo Medicine
OMICS Group- Medical Journals
Positions held
Treasurer, Indian Cartilage Society,
2011-13.
Awards
Adjunct Professor of Apollo Hospitals
for Educational and Research
Foundation (AHERF) (2012-13, 201314).
Got the honor of doing a bilateral
Total Knee Replacement in the oldest
couple in a single sitting & created a
world record (published in Limca Book
of Records and India Book of Records
2013).
Dermatology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
‘’Azathioprine Pulse Therapy in the
treatment of Psoriasis’’, Ramji Gupta,
Journal of Pakistan Association of
Dermatologists, 2013; 23(2); 120-125.
Lectures
‘’Prolong Remission of Psoriasis
by Azathioprine Pulse Therapy’’,
Hyderabad (7-8/9/2013) Pemphigus
and Pulse therapy Foundation,
Delhi (4-7/12/2013) International
Conference of IADVL .
Awards
Dr. Sardari Lal Memorial Award,
17/11/2013.
Dr. Rohini Handa
Rheumatology, Apollo Indraprastha
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Chopra A, Saluja M, Tillu G,
Sarmukkaddam S, Venugopalan A,
Narsimulu G, Handa R, Sumantran V,
Raut A, Bichile L, Joshi K, Patwardhan
B, ‘’Ayurvedic medicine offers a
good alternative to glucosamine
and celecoxib in the treatment of
symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a
randomized, double-blind, controlled
equivalence drug trial’’, Rheumatology
(Oxford) 2013 Jan 30. [Epub ahead of
print].
Handa R, ‘’Rheumatoid Arthritis: At
the cross roads of inflammation and
atherosclerosis’’, J Assoc Physic India
2013; 61:9.
achievements
‘’Management of patellar cartilage
lesion’’, 2nd ICS congress, Chennai,
Nov 2013.
Handa R, ‘’Corticosteroids in
Rheumatoid Arthritis’’, Proceedings
of the 9th Scientific Conference of
Bangladesh Rheumatology Society,
Dhaka, Bangladesh. October 5-6,
2013.
Lectures
4th Inflammation Forum, Vienna,
Austria, February 21-23, 2013, Invited
Panelist: ‘’Emerging Therapies for RA:
Efficacy of Tofacitinib’’.
Symposium of the Asia Pacific League
of Associations for Rheumatology
in conjunction with 2nd Indonesia
Japan Rheumatology Forum, Bali,
Indonesia. August 29-September 1,
2013, Plenary Session chaired: ‘’The
challenge of rheumatic diseases
treatment in developing countries’’,
Speaker-Handono Kalim, Invited
talk: ‘’Premature Atherosclerosis in
Rheumatoid Arthritis’’.
9th Scientific Conference of
Bangladesh Rheumatology Society,
Dhaka, Bangladesh. October 5-6,
2013, Invited talks: ‘’Corticosteroids in
Rheumatoid Arthritis’’
The 2nd World Congress on
Controversies, Debates & Consensus
in Bone, Muscle & Joint Diseases
(BMJD), Brussels, Belgium, November
21-24, 2013, Invited Chair: ‘’Session
on New molecules in development’’.
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Delhi Rheumatology Association
Update 2013, New Delhi. February 17,
2013, Invited talk: ‘’Optimum use of
Non-Biologic DMARDs in RA- Which
drug, what dose, how to monitor, when
to change?’’
Conference on SLE, Odisha Chapter
of IRA, Cuttack. April 24, 2013, Invited
talks: ‘’Diagnosis of Lupus: Lessons
from real life’’ and ‘‘Minor Organ
involvement in SLE- Minor but not
unimportant!’’
Indian Rheumatology Association
(IRA) Midterm CME, Lucknow. July 28,
2013, Invited talk: ‘’Immunogenicity
& Biologics- At the cross roads of
Immunology & Rheumatology’’.
Association of Physicians of India,
Delhi State Chapter CME, New
Delhi, July 31, 2013, Invited talk:
‘’Gout: Integrating myths, facts and
evidence!’’, Indian Rheumatology
Association, Rajasthan Chapter
CME- Art & State of the Art Clinical
Rheumatology 2013, Jaipur, August 4,
2013, Invited talk: ‘’Gout: Integrating
myths, facts and evidence!’’
Max Internal Medicine Update 2013,
New Delhi. November 9-10, 2013,
Invited talk: ‘’Vasculitis-Diagnostic
approach’’.
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Annual Conference of Delhi
Orthopaedic Association, New
Delhi, November 9-10, 2013, Invited
talk: ‘’Rheumatology-Orthopedics
Interface- Name changers & Game
changers in 2013’’.
XXIV Annual CME Association of
Physicians of India-Delhi State
Chapter, New Delhi, December
28-29, 2013, Invited talk: ‘’Ankylosing
Spondylitis: Integrating Myths, Facts
and Science’’.
Rheumatology Update 2013,
Postgraduate Medical Institute,
Chandigarh. November 10, 2013,
Invited talk: ‘’Gout: Moving from
Evidence to Practice’’.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journal
Member Editorial Board, Clinical
Rheumatology Member Editorial
Board, Current Rheumatology Reports
Member Advisory Board, Journal of
Association of Physicians of India
Member Editorial Board, Indian
Journal of Rheumatology Positions
held Vice Dean, Indian College of
Physicians (2013-2016).
15th Postgraduate Instructional
Course in Orthopedics, Maulana
Azad Medical College, New Delhi,
November 13-16, 2013, Invited
talk: ‘’Management of Rheumatoid
Arthritis’’.
Association of Physicians of IndiaDIAS Programme (Dissemination of
Updated Information through API
Speakers), New Delhi. November
17, 2013, Invited talk: ‘’Differential
Diagnosis & Treatment of Rheumatoid
Arthritis’’.
29th Annual Conference of Indian
Rheumatology Association- IRACON
2013, Kolkata. December 6-8,
2013, Invited faculty: Moderator
Interface Session: ‘’Rheumatology,
Pulmonology, Hematology &
Nephrology’’, Session chaired:
President’s Oration.
CME on Rheumatic Diseases for
Physicians, Association of Physicians
of Surat and Rheumatology
Association Gujarat, Surat, December
22, 2013, Invited talks: ‘’Biologics
in India: Cutting costs or cutting
corners?’’, ‘’Rheumatoid Arthritis:
Early recognition and Effective
management’’ and ‘’Demystifying
connective tissue diseases’’.
Elected Chair Scientific Committee,
Annual Conference of Indian
Rheumatology Association (IRACON)
2014, Chandigarh.
Elected Chair Scientific Committee,
Asia Pacific League of Associations
for Rheumatology (APLAR) Congress
2015, Chennai.
Invited Examinership
National Board of Examinations: DNB
Rheumatology
Awards
Excellence in Integrative Medicine
(ECIM) Research Award 2013 by
The European Society of Integrative
Medicine (ESIM), Chopra A, Saluja
M, Tillu G, Sarmukkaddam S,
Venugopalan A, Narsimulu G, Handa
R, Sumantran V, Raut A, Bichile L,
Joshi K, Patwardhan B, ‘’Ayurvedic
medicine offers a good alternative
to glucosamine and celecoxib in
the treatment of symptomatic knee
osteoarthritis: a randomized, doubleblind, controlled equivalence drug
trial’’.
Dr. S. K. Agarwal
Internal Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
achievements
41st National Conference of Indian
Association of Dermatologists,
Venereologists & LeprologistsDermacon 2013, Ahmedabad, January
24-27, 2013, Invited talk: ‘’Recent
Investigations in Connective Tissue
Diseases’’.
Awards
Life time achievement award, East
Delhi Physicians Association (EDPA) .
Dr. Sapna Nangia
Radiation Oncology, Indraprastha
Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
Presentations
‘’Hypofractionated Rotational
Modulated Radiotherapy in Prostate
Cancer using CBCT: Early Results’’,
S. Nangia, M Chomal, A Agarwal, R
Srivastava, MP Noufal, G Saini, PK
Sharma, Indian Cancer Congress
2013, Nov-13.
Lectures
Radiation Oncology in India: “Into Ever
Widening Thought & Action”, Annual
Meeting of Indo-American Cancer
Association, Nov-13, Atlanta, USA.
Prof. Dr. Shakti Bhan Khanna
Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi
Lectures
‘Role of Robotic in Gynae Onco
Surgeries’, XXXIII annual convention
Indian Medical Association South
Delhi Branch on 3rd Feb 2013.
‘Role of Well Woman Check in
Screening for Gynaecological
Malignancies’ in 23rd national
converntion of Forum of Women in
Public Sector on 12th February 2013.
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‘Role of robotic surgery in Gynae
Onclogy’ in National Oncology CME on
30 th June 2013.
‘Endometrial Stromal tumors-then
and now’, AOGD monthly clinical
meeting on 26th July2013.
‘Robotic Surgery In Gynaecology’,
AOGD monthly clinical meeting on
26th July 2013.
‘Swine flu in pregnancy’, AOGD
monthly clinical meeting on 26th July
2013.
Panelist, ‘Paediatric & Adoleoscent
issue’ in AICC-RCOG conference on
1st september 2013.
‘Cervical Cancer in Pregnancy
Wait, treat and Interrupt’, on Gynae
Oncocon on 7th September 2013.
Presentations
‘Letrazole in the treatment of
endometrial stromal sarcoma’ in
International congress of Oncology
Delhi November 2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Apollo Medicine, 2013.
Positions held
Member representing India, Asian
football confederation ADHOC
committee for disorders of Sex
development from 2011 to 2015.
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Member, south and south east district,
Family welfare Govt of NCT of Delhi.
Awards
KECSS (The Kashmir Education,
Culture and Science Society (Regd)
New Delhi) Award for outstanding
contribution in the field of Medical
sciences on February 15, 2013.
Dr Shuaib Zaidi
Surgical oncology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications in peer reviewed
journals
‘’Mutation and protein expression
analysis of CYP1A1 gene-a study on
female breast cancer cases from
India’’, Mohammad Zeeshan Najm,
Salman Akhtar, Istaq Ahmad, Shilpi
Chattopadhyay, Nasar Mallick, Sarah
Siddiqui, Shuaib Zaidi, Waseem
Ahmad Siddiqui, Syed Akhtar Husain,
Tumor Biology (Impact Factor: 2.52),
10/2013, DOI:10.1007/s13277-0131262-5, Source: PubMed.
‘’Immunohistochemical expression
and mutation study of Prohibitin gene
in Indian female breast cancer cases’’,
Mohammad Zeeshan Najm, Shuaib
Zaidi, Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui, Syed
Akhtar Husain, Medical Oncology
(Impact Factor: 2.14), 09/2013;
30(3):614, DOI:10.1007/s12032-0130614-8.
Dr Sohani Verma
Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi
Chapters contributed to text books
Manual of Assisted Reproductive
Technologies & Clinical Embryology,
Jaypee Publication, 2nd Edition, 2013,
‘’Oocyte and Maternal Inheritance’’,
pp 416-423.
Publications
‘’Are women satisfied when using
Levonorgestrel- releasing intrauterine
system for treatment of abnormal
uterine bleeding (A multicentre
study)’’, Mansukhani N, Unni J, Dua
M, Darbari R, Malik S, Verma S, Bathla
S, Journal of Mid-life Health, Jan-Mar
2013, Vol 4, Issue 1, pp 31-35.
Lectures
‘’The best stimulation protocol for
Endometriosis’’, 9th Annual National
Conferece of Indian Fertility Society,
7-8 Dec 2013.
‘’When to start thinking about IVF- Pre
Conf Workshop’’, 9th Annual National
Conferece of Indian Fertility Society ,
06-Dec-13.
‘’Human Oogenesis - Embryology’’,
Certification Course, 4-6 Dec 2013.
‘’Ovulation Induction- Protocol for IUI
- Pre-cong Workshop’’, 35th Annual
Conference of AOGD, 20-Sep-13.
‘’Ovarian Stimulation ProtocolsNewer Concepts’’, Pre Conf AOGD
Workshop on Oocyte Retreival and IVF
Lab techniques, 20-Sep-13.
achievements
‘Gynae Cancer Screening’, Annual
conference of Kashmir Medicos
Association in India, on 28th april
2013.
‘’ART in special situations- Cancer,
HIV positive, Post Bariatric surgery’’,
28th AICC RCOG National Annual
Conference, 30 Aug - 1 Sept 2013.
Organized 28th Annual National
Conference of AICC RCOG and 9 pre
and post Conference Workshops as
Organizing Chairperson, 28 Aug - 2
Sept 2013.
Organized RCOG UK Franchised
Courses for MRCOG Part II, Basic
Practical Skills twice a year, (January
and July 2013).
Positions held
Chairperson, North Zone AICC RCOG
India, since May 2012 (Five year post).
Vice President, Indian Fertility Society,
since 1 April 2012.
Honorary Professor, Centre for
Reproductive Biology, Amity University
UP, since 5th Dec 2013.
‘’Myths & Facts about Clomiphene’’,
20th Annual National Conference of
NARCHI 2013, 28-29 Sept 2013.
‘’Advances in Ovarian Stimulation
Protocols’’, 35th Annual Conference of
AOGD, 21-22 Sept 2013.
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Liver Transplant Surgery,
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi
Publications
‘’Single-lobe living donor liver
transplant in a morbidly obese
cirrhotic patient preceded by
laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy’’,
Taneja S, Gupta S, Wadhawan M, Goyal
N, Case Rep Transplant, Epub 2013,
Dec 10.
‘’Fifteen years of liver transplantation
in India’’, Sibal A, Bhatia V, Gupta S,
Indian Pediatr, 2013 Nov 8;50(11):9991000.
Dr. Subhash Kumar Wangnoo
Endocrinology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Wangnoo SK, Bader G, Gawai A, Singh
S, ‘’Effectiveness and Tolerability of
Vildagliptin in Indian Patients with
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Results from
Edge−A Real-World Observational
Study’’, IJCP, 2013; 24(6):537-42.
Jindal R, Gupta N, Siddiqui MA,
Wangnoo SK, ‘’Post-Prandial
Hyperglycemia’’, JIACM, 2013, 14(34);242-246.
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Mathieu C, Barnett AH, Brath H,
Conget I, de Castro JJ, Göke R,
Márquez Rodriguez E, Nilsson PM,
Pagkalos E, Penfornis A, Schaper
NC, Wangnoo SK, Kothny W, Bader
G, ‘’Effectiveness and tolerability of
second-line therapy with vildagliptin
vs. other oral agents in type 2
diabetes: a real-life worldwide
observational study (EDGE)’’, Int J Clin
Pract, 2013, Oct; 67(10):947-56.
Wangnoo SK, Maji D, Das AK, Rao
PV, Moses A, Sethi B, Unnikrishnan
AG, Kalra S, Balaji V, Bantwal G,
Kesavadev J, Jain SM, Dharmalingam
M, ‘’Barriers and solutions to diabetes
management: An Indian perspective’’,
Indian J Endocrinol Metab, 2013
Jul;17(4):594-601.
Radhika Jindal, Ayesha Ahmad,
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui,
Inderpal Singh Kochar, Subhash
Kumar Wangnoo, ‘’Novel mutation
c.597_598dup in exon 5 of ABCC8 gene
causing congenital hyperinsulinism’’,
Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome:
Clinical Research & Reviews, In Press,
Corrected Proof, Available online 26
March 2013.
Niti Agarwal, SK Wangnoo, Asim
Siddiqui, Mukul Gupta, ‘’Primary
Thyroid Lymphoma: A Series of Two
Cases and Review of Literature’’, JAPI,
2013;(61)496-498.
Gokulnath, Sahay M, Kalra S,
Vishwanathan V, Zargar AH, Talwalkar
PG, Wangnoo SK, Maji D, Kumar
GV, Sharma RK, Chafekar D, Mohan
B, Bantwal G, Bansali A, Sahni JS,
‘’Protocol of an observational study to
evaluate diabetic nephropathy through
detection of microalbuminuria in
Indian patients’’, Indian J Endocrinol
Metab, 2013 May;17(3):496-504.
Presentations
Ayesha Ahmad, Radhika Jindal,
Mohammad Siddiqui & Subhash
Wangnoo, “Pregestational BMI
predicts neonatal hypoglycemia in
women with gestational diabetes”,
Endocrine Abstracts (2013) 31 P213,
Presented at the British Endocrine
Society Annual Meeting, Harrogate,
Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Subhash Wangnoo, Radhika
Jindal, Nitin Gupta, Mukul Gupta,
Mohammad Siddiqui, ‘’Prevalence
and Characteristics of painful diabetic
neuropathy in a community based
diabetic population attending a
tertiary care setting’’, AACE Annual
Meeting 2013, Abstract 235, P39,
Presented at American College of
Endocrinology Annual Meeting,
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of
America.
Radhika Jindal, Nitin Gupta, Mukul
Gupta, Mohammad Asim Siddiqui, and
Subhash Kumar Wangnoo, ‘’Study
of Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes
in Women with Gestational Diabetes
Mellitus’’, Endocr Rev 2013 34: SAT818, Presented at the 95th Annual
Endocrine Society Meeting 2013 at
San Francisco, United States.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals:
Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics
Journal of Associations of Physicians
of India
Indian Journal of Endocrinology
Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome:
Clinical Research & Reviews
Lectures
‘’Indian Incretin axis: Role of Gliptins
in Indian diabetics’’, International
symposium on Diabetes- IDSI,
Mumbai, 12th and 13th January, 2013.
‘’Dyslipidemia in Pregnancy’’, 8th
Annual Conference of Diabetes in
Pregnancy Study group India - DIPSI
2013, 16 - 17 February, 2013, Thaltej,
Ahmedabad.
‘’Technology and Diabetes’’,
International conference on Recent
Advances in Diabetes & Endocrinology
(IC-RADE 2013), Aligarh, 15-17 March,
2013.
achievements
Dr. Subhash Gupta
‘’Role of Sulphonylurea in Gliptin Era’’,
5th World Congress of Diabetesindia,
Kochi, April 18-21, 2013.
‘’Metabolic Syndrome in Pregnancy’’,
Specialty training Group in Gestational
Diabetes. Chennai, May 18-19th, 2013.
Dr Sundeep Upadhyaya
Rheumatology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Indian Association Orthopaedics Delhi
chapter, 2013 Goa: “Advances in the
management of rheumatoid arthritis”.
Delhi Rheumatology Association
annual meet 2013: “Approach to
MCTD, Sjogrens Syndrome and Other
CTDs”.
Clinical Immunology Society of India
2013 Kochi - “Do antiphospholipid
antibodies co-relate with clinical
features?”
Interrnational Conference of
Antibodies: 2013, Hangzhou China,
“Antibodies to cytokine targets
in Rheumatoid Arhtritis and
Spondyloarthritis: the clinical science
and unmet needs. Results of a single
centre.”
International Conference of Vaccines:
2013, China, “Immunotherapy
and Vaccines for RA and
Spondyloarthritis”.
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Neurosurgery, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Progress in Clinical Neurosciences,
Volume 27, Jaypee.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Journal of paediatric neurosciences.
Positions held
Secretary of Indian society
for stereotactic & functional
neurosurgery, 2013.
Dr. Vinit Suri
Neurology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
‘’Young girl with abnormal behavior:
Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor
immune encephalitis’’, Vinit Suri,
Sushma Sharma, Rohan Gupta, Nilesh
Jadhao, Kunal Suri, Annals of Indian
Academy of Neurology, April-June
2013, Vol 16, Issue 2, 169-171.
‘’Bronchogenic adenocarcinoma
masquerading as recurrent embolic
strokes and myocardial infarction
due to nonbacterial thrombotic
endocarditis’’, Vinit Suri, Sushma
Sharma, Nilesh Jadhao, Ruchi
Rastogi, Neurology India, Jan-Feb
2013, Vol.: 61, Issue:1, Page:80-82.
Lectures
‘’Iv thrombolysis vs mechanical
thrombectomy in posterior
circulation Stroke’’, annual DNA Delhi
Neurologycal Association Conference,
02-01-2013.
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‘’Stroke management in patients
with Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis in
Heart and Stroke’’, Heart and Stroke
conference at India Habitat, 9/11/2013.
‘’Stroke management from guidelines
to practice”, API-DIAS, API Delhi
Chapter, 11-10-2013.
‘’Early stroke management at API
Uttaracon’’, API Uttaracon at Roorki,
17/11/13.
“Update on thromboloysis 2013”,
Neuroedge-Conference at Chennai,
27-July-2013.
Conducted first summer school of
Indian Stroke Association at wild
Flower Mashobra, Simla-7 & 8th June
2013, Summer school of Indian Stroke
Association, 7- 8- June 2013.
Given talks on
i) Basilar artery occlusion
ii)Thrombolysis Beyond Guidelines
iii)Personalized, prevention of Stroke
iv)Restarting antiplatelets
anticoagulation after ICH and
hemorrhagic stroke.
Positions held
Executive Member, Delhi Neurological
Association, 2012-2015
Secretary, Indian Stroke Association,
2012 -2015.
Dr Yatinder Kharbanda
Orthopedics, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Yatinder Kharbanda, Mrinal Sharma,
AnandVadhera, Vivek Srivastava,
Apollo Medicine, December 2013,
Volume 10, Number 4; PP.276-279.
Yatinder Kharbanda, Mrinal Sharma,
Kuldeep Singh, Lokesh Kumar,
Sideswipe injuries around the
elbow: Management and functional
evaluation, Indian Journal of
Orthopaedics, July 2013, Vol. 47, Issue
4; pp. 382-387.
Presentations
Chairman, Hip Arthroplasty Cadaver
Course at M S Ramaiah Advanced
Learning Centre, Bangalore, 30th
June 2013.
Faculty, Revision Hip Course at M S
Ramaiah Advanced Learning Centre,
Bangalore, 24th August 2013.
Bone grafting in Primary Total Hip
Arthroplasty- Great Expectations
2013, Stryker 7th Asia Pacific Hip &
Knee Symposium September 28-29
2013.
Exeter Stem for all Hips - Great
Expectations 2013, Stryker 7th Asia
Pacific Hip & Knee Symposium
September 28-29, 2013.
Accolade Hip, Indian experience Great Expectations 2013, Stryker 7th
Asia Pacific Hip & Knee Symposium,
September 28-29 2013.
Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty,
2 stage revision surgery – Annual
Conference, Delhi Orthopaedic
Association, 9th-10th November 2013.
achievements
Dr V P Singh
Course Director, Basic Primary Knee
Cadaver Course, Himalayan Institute
of Medical Science, Dehradun,
November 24th 2013.
Course Director, Basic Primary Knee
Cadaver Course, Himalayan Institute
of Medical Science, Dehradun, March
2013.
Dr Rajesh Taneja
Urology, Andrology and Robotic
Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi
Publications
Article review, Testicular function
in male patients with lepromatous
leprosy, reviewed in March 2013.
Anterior Urtheral Valves without
Diverticulae: A Report of Two Cases
and Review of the Literature. Rajesh
Taneja, Dig Vijay Singh. Congenital
Anomalies Oct 2013.
Giant Renal Angiomyolipoma: Unusual
Cause of Huge Abdominal Mass.
Rajesh Taneja, DigVijay Singh. 2013
Journal of Clinical Imaging Science, 3
: 1, p 56
Lectures
Delivered a guest lecture to IMA
Jalandhar, ”Role of Robotic Surgery in
Urology”, on 20 December 2013
Conducted a round table meeting with
academic forum of doctors at Sarita
Vihar on Uro oncology, 28 November
2013
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Delivered a talk on ‘Role of Robotic
Surgery in Urology’ at IMA meeting
at Mathura, 31 August 2013.
Chaired a session on “Robotics in
Urology” during a CME organized by
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New
Delhi, 18th July 2013.
Delivered a talk on “Role of Robotic
Surgery in Urology” at the annual
conference of DMA, GPCON 2013 at
New Delhi on July 17, 2013.
Delivered a talk at the annual meeting
of Kashmir Doctors association
on ‘Diseases of prostate in elderly,
Benign and Malignant’ on 4th July
2013.
Invited to deliver a talk on ‘Role of
Robotic Surgery in Diseases of Urinary
Tract’ at CME held at Kabul, 4th May
2013.
Delivered a talk on ‘Robotic Radical
Prostatectomy’ during Annual
convention of IMA South Delhi Branch,
held on 3rd February 2013.
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Conducted a Mentorship program
on Holmium Laser Enucleation of
Prostate (HoLEP) at Nova Surgical
center, Bangalore, on 13th September
2013.
Delivered a talk ‘Preventing
complications during HoLEP’ during
the annual conference of Urology
society of India held at Pune, 17-20
January, 2013
Conducted live operative workshop on
Holmium laser enucleation of prostate
(HoLEP) at SMS Medical College and
hospital Jaipur, 6th July 2013.
Presented a lecture on ‘High power
Laser in treatment of Stone disease’
at the annual conference of Urology
society of India held at Pune, 17-20
January, 2013
Invited to mentor a program of
holmium laser prostatectomy (HoLEP)
at Nawaloka Hospitals, Colombo, Sri
Lanka in 18th May 2013.
Conducted a mentorship program
on Holmium Laser Enucleation of
Prostate, (HoLEP) at Rama Krishna
Mission Hospital, Kolkata on 9th
March 2013.
Invited to Demonstrate and supervise
HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation
of Prostate) at Fortis Hospital Mohali,
Chandigarh, on 10th February, 2013.
Conducted a Mentorship program for
HoLEP at Apollo Hospitals Kolkata on
4th and 5th January2013.
Conducted a training workshop and
performed live HoLEP in Vizag, 6
December 2013.
National level conferences
Delivered a talk ‘How to prevent
Stress Urinary Incontinence during
HoLEP’ at the annual conference of
Urology society of India held at Pune,
17-20 January, 2013
Conducted a mentoring session and
demonstrated live the art of HoLEP
at Care Hospital, Hyderabad on 25th
October 2013.
Chaired a session on ‘Uro Oncology’
held at the annual conference of
Urology society of India held at Pune,
17-20 January, 2013
Delivered a guest lecture on Oligo
AsthenioTerato spermia During
annual conference of north zone
Urological society of India, held at
Chandigarh on 15th November, 2013
Chaired a session on “Robotic Radical
Prostatectomy” during a CME held at
Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon on 14th
September 2013.
Dhaka
Dr. Anisur Rahman
General Surgery, Apollo Hospitals,
Dhaka
Presentations
Poster presentation, World Congress
of Surgery, Obstetrics, Trauma and
Anaesthesia, October16-17, 2013, Port
of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Sandip Kumar Dash
Neurology, Apollo Hospitals, Dhaka.
achievements
Delivered a guest lecture in a meeting
held by IMA Patiala, ”Robotic surgery
in Uro Oncology” on 16 November
2013.
Publications
‘’Zolpidem in progressive
supranuclear palsy’’, Dash SK, Case
Rep Neurol Med. 2013; 2013:250865,
doi: 10.1155/2013/250865, Epub 2013
May 9, PMID: 23762677 [Pub Med].
‘’Cognitive impairment and diabetes’’,
Dash SK, Recent Pat Endocr Metab
Immune Drug Discov, 2013 May;
7(2):155-65. Review, PMID: 23489242
[Pub Med - indexed for MEDLINE].
Hyderabad
Dr. R Paul
Critical Care, Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee
Hills, Hyderabad
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
Hony. Secretary of the Indian Society
Of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)
Hyderabad Chapter for the session
2013 - 2015.
Dr Rachna Vinaya Kumar
Paediatric Ophthalmology and Adult
Strabismus, Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee
Hills, Hyderabad
Presentation‘’Amblyopia in congenital
ptosis- Factors that matter’’, 28th
Congress of the Asia Pacific Academy
of Ophthalmology in conjunction with
the 71st Annual Conference of the All
India Ophthalmic Society, Hyderabad,
January 2013.
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Awards
Best rapid fire case presentation
in neuro ophthalmology for
‘’Convergence insufficiency in
Parkinsons’ disease’’ at Confluence
Eye and Beyond - the International
masters’ course in Oculoplasty,
Aesthetics, Ocular Oncology, and
Neuro-ophthalmology’, Hyderabad,
December 2013.
Dr. Sai Praveen Haranath
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine,
Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills,
Hyderabad
Publications
‘’Caring for the Critically Ill’’, Aug
2013, eHealth Magazine.
Vaccine update, B Positive .
Lectures
A prospective observational study on
the impact of a structured mechanical
ventilation workshop on pre-test and
post test assessment, ESICM, Paris
2013.
‘’Talk on TeleICU’’, Apollo Patient
Safety Conference, 2013.
Positions held
American College of Chest Physicians.
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Chair, Disaster Response Network
Steering Committee, ACCP till 2015.
Member, Occupational and
Environmental Diseases Network
Steering Committee, ACCP.
Chest 2013 Liaison: Scientific
Program Committee.
Srinivas Jakkinaboina
Critical care medicine , Apollo
Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
Presentations
‘’A prospective observational study on
the impact of a structured mechanical
ventilation workshop on pre-test and
post test assessment’’, European
Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Annual Conference, October 7th 2013,
Paris, France.
‘’Outcomes of sepsis in patients
admitted to a tertiary hospital in india
after implementation of a sepsis
pathway: a retrospective study’’,
European Society Of Intensive Care
Medicine Annual Conference, October
9th 2013, Paris, France.
Publications
‘’A prospective observational study on
the impact of a structured mechanical
ventilation workshop on pretest and
post test assessment’’, International
journal- Intensive care medicine,
October supplement 2013.
‘’Outcomes of Sepsis in Patients
Admitted to A Tertiary Hospital in
India After Implementation of A Sepsis
Pathway: A Retrospective Study’’,
International journal- Intensive care
medicine, October supplement 2013.
Positions held
Executive member, Indian society of
critical care medicine for Hyderabad
chapter.
Dr. Ratna Rao
Infectious diseases, Apollo Hospitals,
Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
Publications
‘’Avian Ecto Parasite Infestation in the
Hospital’’, Ratna Rao, MD, Infection
Control and Hospital Epidemiology,
Vol. 34, No. 2 (February 2013), pp.
219-220, Published by: The University
of Chicago Press on behalf of The
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology
of America, DOI: 10.1086/669077,
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/
stable/10.1086/669077.
V Satya Suresh Attili
Medical Oncology and Hematology,
Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills,
Hyderabad
Publications
‘’Palliative chemotherapy in head and
neck squamous cell cancer - What
is best in Indian population? A time
without symptoms, treatment toxicity
score based study’’, V Anuradha, BB
Anand, A. V. S. Suresh, Sudha Sinha, S
Chinna Babu, K Suresh, Indian J Med
Paediatr Oncol, 2013;34:11-5.
‘’A randomised, double-blind,
placebo-controlled phase 2
study of trebananib (AMG 386) in
combination with FOLFIRI in patients
with previously treated metastatic
colorectal carcinoma’’, M Peeters,
A H Strickland, M Lichinitser, A V
S Suresh, Br J Cancer, 2013, 108:
503-511.
Presentations
‘’Hospital based observational study
on the tolerability, and efficacy of two
gemcitabine oxaliplatin regimens’’,
ESMO- GI conference Barcelona,
Spain, 04- July 2013.
achievements
‘’Amblyopia in congenital ptosisFactors that matter’’ at the young
ophthalmologists’ session at the
American Association of Paediatric
ophthalmology and Singapore
National Eye Centre collaborated
Intercontinental Perspective of
Paediatric Ophthalmology and
Strabismus, Singapore, July 2013.
‘’A randomised, multicentre, openlabel, phase 3 study of panitumumab
vs cetuximab for previously treated
wild-type (WT) KRAS metastatic
colorectal cancer (mCRC)’’, COSA
2013, http://www.cosa2013.org,
Session, Best of best orals – GI cancer,
date: 12/11/2013.
Proof-read paper
‘’A randomised, multicentre, openlabel, phase 3 study of panitumumab
vs cetuximab for previously-treated
wild-type (WT) KRAS metastatic
colorectal cancer (mCRC)’’, The
European Cancer Congress 2013,
Session title: GI malignencies Colorectal Cancer I, Session type:
Proffered Papers Session, Abstract
number: 18.
Guest of Honour and Guest lecture
Biomarkers in development of
bio-similar drugs, International
Conference on “Emerging Trends in
Biomarker Research – Prospects &
Challenges”, ICBR 2013, 13 & 14th
September- 2013.
Positions Held
Member- National Advisory board,
Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of
Advanced Studies, 2 years.
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
Hemovoigilence committee, NBI, Govt
of India, In collaboration with CDSCo,
AP branch, 1 year.
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November 23rd, JNMC and KLE
society Belgaum for the following
topics: Recent trends in blood
banking, safe blood transfusion,
Triggers of blood transfusion.
Publications
‘’Experiences on Autologous
Peripheral Blood Stem cell
collection’’, Vox sangunis volume 105
s1 June 2013.
Pankaj Kumar, Sagar Raj Pandy,
Myxofibrosarcoma of hand with
metastasis to lung- a case report’’,
Accepted for publication in Apollo
Medicine.
Dr Sudha Ranganathan
Lectures
December 1-4, 25th Regional
congress of the ISBT at Malaysia and
presented a poster on the topic: The
impact of Nucelic Acid testing (NAT)
in the detection of occult Hepatitis B
infection in a blood donor population
in India.
The impact of Nucelic Acid testing
(NAT) in the detection of occult
Hepatitis B infection in a blood donor
population in India, vox sangunis, Dec
2013, volume 105, issue s2 page 91.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Member, Editorial Board, World
Journal of Orthopedics.
Karimnagar
Talk on ‘’Role of emergent
technologies in blood transfusion’’,
Nov 12-14th, National Conference
of the Indian Society of Transfusion
Medicine (ISTM), Bangalore.
Dr.Pankaj Kumar,
Positions held
Adjunct Associate Professor of AHERF
in 2013.
Transfusion medicine, Apollo
Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad
Invited speaker
Feb 23rd ISBT Karnataka chapter held
at BELLARY – invited to participate on
a debate: on “NAT is the need of the
hour”.
March 16th, ‘’Safe blood transfusion
– a collective responsibility”at LTMG
medical college and Sion hospital
Mumbai.
March 31st, ‘’Blood transfusion
in clinical practice” as a part of
annual update on Haematology and
Transfusion medicine’’, Hyderabad.
May 26, Blood transfusion update for
clinicians as a part of Indian Medical
Association, Pune.
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Oral presentation- Experiences with
Luminex bead assay for HLA cross
matching in Live related Kidney
transplants, Nov 12-14th, National
Conference of the Indian Society
of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM),
Bangalore.
October 26, ‘’Overview of blood and
blood components as a part of CME on
blood conservation in cardiovascular
thoracic surgeries’’ Star hospital,
Hyderabad.
Poster presentation- ‘’case of
platelet refractoriness, diagnosis and
management’’, Nov 12-14th, National
Conference of the Indian Society
of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM),
Bangalore.
Nov 7-9th, Attended the National
conference of the Indian Association
of Hematology and Blood transfusion
and presented the topic “Experiences
with Autologous Periphereal Blood
Stem cell transplants”.
June 2-5, 23rd regional congress
of the ISBT Amsterdam, poster
presentation, ‘’Experiences on
Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem
cell.
Orthopedics, Apollo Hospitals,
Karimnagar
Publications
Pankaj Kumar, ‘’Pediatric cervical
spine clearance: A review and
understandings of the concepts’’
Apollo Medicine; in press, Available
online, February 2013.
Pankaj Kumar, ‘’Thoracic myelopathy
secondary to ossification of
ligamentum flavum: Short case series
and review of literature’’, Apollo
Medicine, available online 20 June
2013.
Pankaj Kumar, ‘’Floating first
metatarsal: a rare injury’’, Apollo
Medicine, available online 19 June
2013.
achievements
Invited examinership
3 thesis as external expert examiner,
PhD Review committee, NIMS,
Hyderabad.
Member, Editorial Board, Case
Reports in Orthopedics.
Awards
‘’Leading Health Professionals of
the World’’, International Biographic
Centre, Cambridge, England.
Dr. Sudhkar Thungaturthi
Lab services, Apollo Hospitals,
Karimnagar
Publications
‘’Ratios of Age & Sex with Blood
Group Prevalence’s in Dengue Fever’’,
Sudhakar Thunguturthy, Kolan
Bhagavan Reddy, B. Sai Ravi Kiran,
Journal of Current Trends in Medicine
and Laboratory Biochemistry, Vol:1,
Issue:2, July- Sept 2013, pp 24.
Pankaj Kumar, ‘’Closed Plaster
treatment of severe compound
injuries- a report and revisit’’, Apollo
Medicine, available online 10 June
2013.
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Dr Anjan Bhattacharya
Developmental Paediatrics, Apollo
Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata
Chapters contributed to text books
Paediatric Neurology, Textbook of
Indian Academy of Paediatrics, IAP
Barmer, 2013, ‘’Global Developmental
Delay’’, First Chapter p4-11.
Behavioural Paediatrics, West
Bengal Academy of Paediatrics,
2013, ‘’Developmental Coordination
Disorder’’.
Publications
‘’Toward the Development of
the International Classification
of Functioning Core Sets for
Children With Cerebral Palsy: A
Global Expert Survey’’, Veronica
Schiariti, Louise C. Mâsse, Alarcos
Cieza, Anne F. Klassen, Karen
Sauve, Robert Armstrong and
Maureen O’Donnell, Journal of
Child Neurology. Publication is
from British Columbia University,
Vancouver, Canada, 21 February
2013. DOI:10.1177/08830738134754
81,http://jcn.sagepub.com/content/
early/2013/02/21/08830738134 75481.
‘’What is a multidisciplinary
developmental input for a child with
special needs?’’, Anjan Bhattacharya
et. al., Conference brochure
publication, Jharkhand State Annual
Paediatric Conference, 2013, 13:32-37.
‘’Clinical Governance (CG): Principles
and its relevance in Indian Contexts’’,
Anjan Bhattacharya, Journal of Indian
Medico-legal & Ethics Association,
2013, 1(2):44-52.
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Lectures
Trainer, ‘’Neonatal Resuscitation
Program’’, National Medical College,
Nov, 2013, Kolkata.
Invited examinership
National Board of Examinations, DNB
Centre Appraisal, Tata Memorial
Hospital, Jamshednaga, Jharkhand.
Chair, ‘’Paediatric Stroke’’, East Zone
PEDICON, 17/11/13, Tezpur.
Invigilator, Examiner Elect , MRCPCH,
UK.
Panel Discussion, ‘’Autism - what’s
new?’’, GDBP & State PEDICON,
12-08-2013, Kolkata.
Awards by state or national or
international professional bodies
Pioneer, East Zone IAP, 16/11/2013.
Monthly Contact Program,
International Teaching Course, DCH/
IPPC, 3rd Sundays/month, AGH,
Kolkata.
Monthly Academic Meetings, Child
Development Centre, Paediatricians
& Developmental Professionals of the
metropolis, 1st Thursdays of every
month, AGH, Kolkata.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Associate Editor, Journal of Indian
Medico-legal and Ethics Association,
since June-2013.
Positions held
Organizing Secretary, Preconference
Workshop, Growth & Autism, AGH,
Kolkata, 12-06-2013.
Jt. Organizing Secretary, National
GDBPCON & WB State PEDICON,
Paediatric Annual State & National
Chapter Conference, Kolkata,
7-8/12/2013.
Sponsor and Patron, India ICF Group,
Kochi, 3-4/12/2013.
World Expert, ICF Core Standard
setting, WHO International, Vancouver,
Canada, 4-6/6/2013.
Treasurer, Disability Group, IAP, 1
year.
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
IAP Presidential Action Plan, ToT
Task Force, ‘’Emotional Intelligence &
Emotional Quotient’’, IAP, Design and
dissemination of Training module for
Trainers in the country.
Neurosurgery, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospitals, Kolkata
Publications
‘’Osteosynthesis a physiological way
of managing Hangman’ fracture, Dr
Binod Kumar Singhania, Dr Sapna
Sirohia’’, Apollo Medicine- Sept 2013,
Vol 10.
Expert opinion, ‘’City Scientists on way
to Dementia Cure’’, Times of India, 5th
Dec 2013.
Expert opinion, ‘’Tech tonic for tough
disease’’, Times of India, 23rd Dec
2013.
Orations
Dr Kumud Sankar Ray JIMA Oration,
Neurosurgery in present and future,
IMA, Kolkata, 2013.
Lectures
C1-C2 Screws are better option for
traumatic Dislocation, ANEICON 2013,
17th Nov, 2013.
Dr Vikash K Agarwal
Issue Editor, OMICS, since Dec 2013.
Positions held
Vice President, Growth, Development
& Behavioural Paediatric Chapter, IAP,
1 year.
Dr Binod Kumar Singhania
achievements
Kolkata
Dr Saikat Gupta
Medical Oncology, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospital, Kolkata
Abstract
Acceptance of abstract for poster
presentation at the European Breast
Cancer Congress at Glasgow.
Onco-surgery, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospitals, Kolkata
Abstract
Gouri Shankar Bhattacharyya,
Hemant Malhotra, Purvish M.
Parikh, Kanaka Govindbabu,
Tanweer Shahid, Vikash Agarwal,
Saumen Basu, Raja Dhar, Sushmita
Roychoudhury, Raman Deshpande,
Abstract 1356, ‘’Heterogenity of
Adeno carcinoma of Lung - change
in Immunohistochemistry and
histopathology chacter in patients
treated with chemotherapy or EGFRTKIs’’.
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Dr Chinmay Nath
Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, Apollo
Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata
Lectures
Lecture delivered at 34th SICOT
Orthopaedic World Congress 17-19
October 13, ‘’Management option
for tandem spinal stenosis (TSS)’’,
Hyderabad.
Poster presentation at 34th SICOT
Orthopaedic World Congress 17-19
October 13, ‘’A case of post operative
spondylodiscitis’’, Hyderabad.
Dr. Dev Roy
Head & Neck Oncology And Facial
Cosmetic Surgery, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospital, Kolkata
Publications
‘’Transoral lasers in Head and neck
oncology’’, D.Roy, D. Mukherjee, I.
Chatterjee, Bulletin: Dr SG Cancer
and Research publication, Dec 2013.
Lectures
Panelist, Rhinology Symposium, 5th
Jan 2013.
Complications and how to avoid
pitfalls in Botox injections in the
face, 13th Annual Plastic Surgery
Association State Conference,
Ramkrishna Mission Hospital,
Kolkata, 17th Feb 2013.
Infections in Head & Neck,
Emergency, Apollo Hospital, Kolkata,
12th April 2013.
Allergic rhinitis—Pearle Hotel, Cipla,
Kolkata, 27th April 2013.
Surgical management of snoring &
sleep apnoea, World asthma day,
National Allergic Asthma Bronchitis
Institute, Swabhumi, Lupin, 7th May
2013.
Hair transplant workshop, Indore, 2nd
June 2013.
Allergic rhinitis Hotel Pearle, Cipla,
3rd August 2013.
Invited Guest speaker on
“Laryngoplasty,“ hoarseness
evaluation, panel discussion”,
“Botox in Spasmodic dysphonia”,
Annual 3rd Laryngology conference,
Sri Ramchandra Medical College,
Chennai, August 2013.
Invited Guest speaker and Live
Surgery on Rhinoplasty, Koti ENT
Hospital, Hyderabad, Organised
South Zone All India Otolaryngology
Association of India (Feb 2013).
Dr Sudipta Sekhar Das
Transfusion Medicine, Apollo
Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata
Publications
Das SS, Bhattacharya S, Sen
S “Managing uncontrolled
postsplenectomy reactive
thrombocytosis in Idiopathic
thrombocytopenic purpura: Role of
thrombocytapheresis”, Transfusion
and Apheresis Science, 2013, Oct;
49(2):171-3.
Das SS, Zaman RU, Biswas D, ‘’Era
of blood component therapy: Time
for mandatory pre-donation platelet
count for maximizing donor safety
and optimizing quality of platelets’’,
Transfusion and Apheresis Science,
2013 Dec; 49(3):640-3.
Das SS, Zaman RU, Safi M, Sen S,
‘’Investigating weak A subgroups
in a healthy lady: The blood bank
limitations’’, Asian Journal of
Transfusion Science, Dec 2013.
Invited speaker
Organizing secretary, speaker,
Moderator. First Eastern
India wet workshop on basic
Immunohematology on 20th January,
2013 Kolkata under Indian Society of
Transfusion Medicine.
Speaker, Clinical Blood Transfusion
Practice on 7th of March, 2013
at Thakurpukur Cancer hospital,
Kolkata.
Speaker, Role of Leukoreduction in
clinical practice at Fortis Hospital,
Kolkata on 23rd March, 2013.
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Speaker, Clinical Blood Transfusion
Practice at Fortis hospital, Kolkata on
25th April, 2013.
achievements
Temozolomidemetronomic
schedule with weekly of cisplatin
in metastaticsoft tissue sarcoma,
Tanweer Shahid, Vikash Agarwal,
Saumen Basu, Gouri Shankar
Bhattacharyya, 2013 ASCO Annual
Meeting (May 31 - June 4, 2013).
Speaker on “Outcome of platelet
transfusion” at the 23rd Regional
Congress of the International Society
of Blood Ttransfusion, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, from June 2 – 5,
2013.
Speaker, “Need for safe blood & blood
products with special emphasis on
use of blood components” at ESI
Hospital Kolkata on 12th June, 2013.
Speaker at the Fresenius Kabi
Advanced Course on Transfusion
Technology July 19, 2013 Taipei,
Taiwan.
Guest speaker at the Transfusion
Summit – Advancing Practices in
Transfusion Medicine September
5-6th, 2013, Phuket, Thailand.
Speaker, “Rational Use of Blood &
Blood components” at ESI Hospital
Kolkata on 27th September, 2013.
Moderator & Speaker, National
immunohematology workshop
of Indian Society of Transfusion
Medicine, 12th September 2013,
Bangalore.
Speaker, National conference of Indian
Society of Transfusion Medicine, 1315th September 2013, Bangalore.
Speaker, “Blood Component Therapy”
at ESI Hospital Kolkata on 8th
November, 2013.
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Chairperson
Chairperson, National conference of
Indian society of blood transfusion
and Immunohematology, 13-15th
September 2013, Bangalore.
Chairperson, Fresenius Kabi Advanced
Course on Transfusion Technology
July 19, 2013 Taipei, Taiwan.
Member of task forces of Government
of India or State Governments
External resource person, Transfusion
Medicine, National AIDS control
organization, Government of India.
Technical expert, Transfusion
Medicine & Blood banking, Govt. of
West Bengal.
Awards
“Best Scientific paper of the Year
Award” in 2013 by Indian Society of
Transfusion Medicine, in September
2013, Bangalore.
Dr. Chandrashish Chakravarty
Critical care, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospitals, Kolkata
Publications
Chakravarty C, Hazarika B, Goswami
L, Ramasubban S, ‘’Prevalence of
malnutrition in a tertiary care hospital
in India’’, Indian J Crit Care Med
[serial online] 2013 [cited 2014 Jan
25]; 17:170-3, http://www.ijccm.org/
text.asp?2013/17/3/170/117058.
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Punj J, Chakravarthy C, Sivakumar
P, ‘’Acute abdomen in a young
girl with factor XIII deficiency:
Perianesthetic issues’’, J Anaesthesiol
Clin Pharmacol [serial online]
2013 [cited 2014 Jan 25]; 29:1368, http://www.joacp.org/text.
asp?2013/29/1/136/105833.
Lectures
Criticare 2013, ‘’Selective
decontamination of digestive tract
(SDD/SOD): is it an option in India? ‘’
Organizer & faculty at “Mechanical
Ventilation” workshop at Criticare
2013.
Dr. Debasish Chowdhury
Nuclear medicine, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospitals, Kolkata
Chapters contributed to text books
Current Trends In Cardiology, April
2006, Ramkrishna Seva Pratisthan
& Vivekananda Institute of Medical
Sciences, ‘’Nuclear Imaging in
Cardiology : Current Status’’.
Position Held
Secretary, Society of Nuclear Medicine
(EC), last 4 years.
Dr. Amitabha Ghosh
Neurology, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospitals, Kolkata
Publications
Using the revised diagnostic criteria
for fronto-temporal dementia in India:
Evidence of an advanced and florid
disease, Ghosh A, Dutt A, Bhargava P,
Rao P S, Plus One, 2013, 8(4), 60999.
Evironmental Dependency in fronto
-temporal dementia: Have we
underrating them?, Ghosh A, Dutt A,
Bhargava P, Snolxlen J, Journal of
Neurology, 2013, 260: 861-868.
Genetic Study of fronto- temporal
loban degeneration cases of India’’,
Das G, Sadhukhan t, Biswas A, Pal
S, Ghosh A, et al., Parkinsonism
and related Disorders, 2013, 19 (4):
487-489.
Lectures
‘’Fronto-temporal dementia in India’’,
Establishing therapeutic efficacy in
families FTLD Meeting, Nov 2013,
University of California, San Francisco.
‘’FTD in India: Distinctive behavioural
patterns’’, Symposium of FTD in Asia:
16th International Psycho-geriatric
Congress, October 2013, Seoul, South
Korea.
‘’FTD: Cross cultural issues’’, World
Federation of Neurology Symposium
on FTD/ ALS, August 2013, Columbia.
‘’Clinical Spectrum of FTD’’, 19th
Annual Conference of ARDSI,
November 2013, Guwahati.
‘’FTD: Disorders in disguise’’, Annual
Conference of Indian Academy of
Neurology, October 2013, Indore.
achievements
Speaker, CME on “Enhancing Blood
Safety through NAT” organized by
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata,
1st December, 2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Apollo medicine, since 2013.
Positions held
Treasurer, Association of
Neuroscientists of Eastern India,
2012-2015.
Dr. Sanjay Chatterjee
Diabetology, Apollo Gleneagles
Hospitals, Kolkata
Chapters contributed to text books
Diapedia (Initiative of European
Association for Study of Diabetes),
Driebit, Amsterdam. Edited by
Prof. Edwin Gale, 2013, Chapter
contributed- ‘’Hyperparathyroidism
and Diabetes Mellitus Ref: Chatterjee,
Sanjay, Hyperparathyroidism and
Diabetes Mellitus [internet]. 2013
[cited 2014 Jan 14]; Diapedia
4104673121 rev. no. 16. Available from:
http://www.diapedia.org/other-typesof-diabetes-mellitus/4104673121/
hyperparathyroidism-and-diabetesmellitus’’.
Diapedia (Initiative of European
Association for Study of Diabetes),
Driebit, Amsterdam, Edited by
Prof. Edwin Gale, 2013, Chapter
moderated- ‘’Hyperthyroidism,
Reference: Groups, Sapienza,
Chatterjee, Sanjay, Hyperthyroidism,
2013, Diapedia 41040851105,
rev. no.54, Available from: http://
www.diapedia.org/other-types-ofdiabetesmellitus/41040851105/
hyperthyroidism’’.
APOLLO EXCELLENCE
REPORT 2013
191
‘’Vildagliptin With Metformin OnceDaily Regimen-Insights From a
Single-Center Analysis’’, Sanjay
Chatterjee & Saurav Chatterjee,
American Journal of Therapeutics,
Am J Ther. 2013 May 9. [Epub ahead
of print].
‘’Glycemic Effects of Vildagliptin
and Metformin Combination
Therapy in Indian Patients with
Type 2 Diabetes - An Observational
Study’’, Sanjay Chatterjee and Sudip
Chatterjee, Journal of Diabetes,
Reference: J Diabetes. 2013 Jul 24.
doi: 10.1111/1753-0407.12078. [Epub
ahead of print].
‘’History of Discovery of Insulin: From
isletin to degludec and beyond’’,
Sanjay Chatterjee, Anirban Majumdar,
Ghanshyam Goyal, Journal of the
Indian Medical Association, November
2013; vol 111, 11, 729 – 734.
Positions held
Vice-President, Integrated Diabetes &
Endocrine Academy, July 2011 – July
2014
Organizing Chairperson, IDEACON
2013 – the annual conference of the
Integrated Diabetes & Endocrine
Academy.
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Ludhiana
Dr. Anurakti Dev Singla
Pediatric Cardiology, SPS Apollo
Hospitals, Ludhiana
Chapters contributed to text books
‘’A Comprehensive Approach to
Congenital Heart Diseases’’, Jaypee
Brothers, Chapter Pulmonary atresia
with Ventricular Septal Defect, 2013.
Publications
Transcatheter device closure of
patent ductus arteriosus without
arterial access- Single institution
experience (Original article), Gaurav
Garg, Anurakti Srivastava, Himanshu
Tyagi, Sridhar P. Reddy, Anil Sivadasan
Radha, Indian Heart Journal, issue 65
(2013), pp 546-551.
Pneumatic Blalock Taussig Shunt:
Case Report, Gaurav Garg, Anurakti
Srivastava, Anil Sivadasan Radha,
Pediatric Cardiology, Vol. 34 Issue 3
(2013) 752-753.
Lectures
‘’Transcatheter Closure of
Decompressing Vein in Glenn
Physiology’’, 6th World Congress
Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac
Surgery, 17-22 Feb, 2013, Capetown,
South Africa.
‘’Ductal Stenting- Single Institiution
Experience’’, 6th World Congress
Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac
Surgery, 17-22 Feb, 2013, Capetown,
South Africa.
‘’Transcatheter Device Closure Of
Patent Ductus Arteriosus Without
Arterial Access- Single Institution
Experience’’, 6th World Congress
Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac
Surgery, 17-22 Feb, 2013, Capetown,
South Africa.
‘’A Rare Case of Benign Multicystic
Peritoneal Mesothelioma: A Clinical
Dilemma’’, Ashish Gupta, Harish K.
Rao, Raghav Pande, Soumya Gupta,
Indian Journal of Surgery, June
2013,Volume 75, Issue 1 Supplement,
Page 27-29.
‘’Novel Use Of Rapid Ventricular
Pacing In Pediatric Cardiac
Catheterization’’, 6th World Congress
Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac
Surgery, 17-22 Feb, 2013, Capetown,
South Africa.
Lectures
‘’Eyelid Avulsion Injury: Apparent
loss but Obviously not’’, International
conference on oculoplasty, aesthetics,
ocular oncology, ophthalmic
pathology and neuro-ophthalmology:
“Confluence - Eye and Beyond”, 1315th Dec 2013, Hyderabad.
‘’Carotid Approach For Stenting The
Arterial Duct’’, 6th World Congress
Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac
Surgery, 17-22 Feb, 2013, Capetown,
South Africa.
Dr Ashish Gupta
Plastic & Micro-vascular Surgery, SPS
Apollo Hospitals, Ludhiana
Publications
‘’Demographic profile of hand injuries
in an industrial town of north India:
A review of 436 patients’’, Dr Ashish
Gupta, Dr Ashok K Gupta, Dr Sanjeev
Uppal, Dr RK Mittal, Dr Ramneesh
Garg, Indian Journal of Surgery,
December 2013, Volume 75, Issue 6,
Page 454-461.
‘’Rotation advancement flap for
isolated congenital alar rim defect:
An effortless paradigm?’’, Dr
Ashish Gupta, Dr Ashok K Gupta,
International Journal of Pediatric
Otorhinolaryngology, 2013 Jan;
Volume 77(1), Page 144-6.
achievements
Publications
‘’Review: Dipeptidyl peptidase -4
inhibitors do not increase overall
adverse events in type 2 diabetes’’,
Saurav Chatterjee & Sanjay
Chatterjee, Annals of Internal
Medicine, 16 April 2013, 158, Number
8, Reference: Ann Intern Med. 2013
Apr 16;158(8):JC8. doi: 10.7326/00034819-158-8-201304160-02008.
Dr Priyanka Gupta
Paediatric Haematology & Oncology,
SPS Apollo Hospitals, Ludhiana
Chapter Contributed to textbooks
‘’Immunological Problems & Critical
Illness’’, Priyanka Sharma, Mukesh
Desai, IAP Textbook on Pediatric
Intensive Care (Chapter 40, Page536
-549), 2nd Edition, Jaypee Publishers.
Lectures
Speaker on ‘’Osteonecrosis in ALL’’,
HEMATOCON 2013, December 2013.
‘’Thrombotioc Thrombocytopenic
Purpura (Panel Discussion)’’, Annual
Mumbai Hematology Group, October
2013.
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REPORT 2013
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Dr. G. L. Avasthi
Transfusion Medicine, SPS Apollo
Hospitals, Ludhiana.
Medicine, SPS Apollo Hospital,
Ludhiana
Presentations
Overcoming the challenges of
Introducing Leucoreduction, 9th
Annual Conference of South Asian
Association of Transfusion Medicine,
4-5th October, 2013 at Gurgaon.
Publications
‘’Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulin
in neurological recovery and its
effect on circulating TNF-α levels in
Guillan-Barré syndrome’’, Gurcharan
Avasthi, Prashant Bhatt, Amit Kumar
Soni, Rajinder Bansal, Journal of
International Medical Sciences
Academy, Accepted for publication.
Biomedical Waste Management in
Blood Bank: An 18 month audit at
SPS Apollo Hospitals, Ludhiana, 9th
Annual Conference of South Asian
Association of Transfusion Medicine,
4-5th October, 2013 at Gurgaon.
Pattern of Blood Procurement and
Utilisation at SPS Apollo Hospitals,
Ludhiana, Punjab, 38th National
Conference of Indian Society of Blood
Transfusion and Immunohematology,
18-20th October, 2013 at Surat.
Seroprevalence and Trends in
Transfusion Transmitted Infections
among Blood Donors at SPS Apollo
Hospitals, Ludhiana. 38th National
Conference of Indian Society of Blood
Transfusion and Immunohematology,
18-20th October, 2013 at Surat.
Positions held
President, Indian Society of Blood
Transfusion and Immunohematology
(Punjab Chapter).
Awards
Best Poster Award, Biomedical Waste
Management in Blood Bank: An 18
month audit at SPS Apollo Hospitals,
Ludhiana, 9th Annual Conference
of South Asian Association of
Transfusion Medicine, 4-5th October,
2013 at Gurgaon.
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Orations
‘’G.S. Sainani Pushpa Sainani Oration,
Cancer Screening- A Physician’s
perspective’’, 21st Annual conference
of Indian Association of Clinical
Medicine, October 26-27, 2013,
Medical College, Kota, Rajasthan,
India.
Positions held
President, Punjab Chapter,
International Medical Sciences
Academy, since 2011.
Invited examinership
DNB-General Medicine
DNB-Family Medicine
Madurai
Dr. J. KannaPeruman
Orthodontics, Apollo Hospitals,
Madurai
Publications
‘’Tuberculous Osteomyelitis of
Mandible– A rare Case report’’,
Kannaperuman J, Natarajarathinam
G, Rao AV, Palanimuthu S, Dent
Res J (Isfahan) (Pubmed Indexed
International Journal), 2013 Mar,
10(2):283-6.
‘’Micro-implants for Orthodontic
Anchorage – a Review’’, J.
Kannaperuman, G, Natarajarathinam,
Adith. V, Int. Journal of Contemporary
Dentistry, April, Vol 4, No 1 (2013) pp
61– 65.
Lectures
‘’Micro and Mini Implants– the
Future, rather the present day
anchorage in orthodontics’’, FDI /
SLDA Joint International Conference
& 80th Anniversary Annual Scientific
Sessions of Sri Lanka Dental
Association, June 2013 – Colombo, Sri
Lanka.
‘’Osseointegrated implants in
Orthodontics’’, 66th Indian Dental
Conference, February 2013, Kolkata.
‘’Implant Anchors’’, Indian Dental
Association, Tamil Nadu State
Conference, December 2013,
Pondicherry.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
Associate Editor, Indian Orthodontic
Society Times (Official Newsletter of
the Indian Orthodontic Society).
achievements
Dr.Hitish Narang
Editorial Board, Dental Journal of
Indian Dental Association, Madurai
Branch.
Positions held
Indian Dental Association, State
Executive Committee Member (Tamil
Nadu).
Executive Member, Indian Orthodontic
Society (National Association for
Orthodontic Professionals).
Panel member in Colgate oral devices
expert group, Representative for Tamil
Nadu.
Awards
Best Poster Award, Awarded at the
48th Indian Orthodontic Conference,
National conference at Ahmedabad
(November 2013).
Dr. Krishnan Swaminathan
Endocrinology, Apollo Hospitals,
Madurai
Publications
Swaminathan K, Sundaram M,
Prakash P, Subbiah S, ‘’Diabetic
ketoacidosis: an uncommon
manifestation of pesticide poisoning’’,
Diabetes Care, 2013 Jan; 36(1).
S.Meenakshi-Sundaram, SN Karthik,
S Bharathi, T Badrinarayanan, K
Swaminathan, ‘’Cranial Nerve palsy in
Diabetes. A Hunt for the diagnosis’’,
Practical Diabetes, June 2013.
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K Swaminathan, A Mathavan, J
Sharnika, ‘’Diabetes and Coronary
artery Disease in South Asians.’’,
British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular
Disease, June 2013.
Mysore
Pune
Dr. Raghavendran,
Dr Jyothi Unni
K Swaminathan, ‘’Experience
of Metformin use in Gestational
Diabetes’’, Contribution to the debate,
Apollo Medicine, June 2013.
Membership of editorial boards of
peer reviewed journals
K Swaminathan, A SureshKumar, K
Usha Rani, K Hemalekha, ‘’Adrenal
mass in pregnancy: Diagnostic
approach and dilemmas’’, Apollo
Medicine, June 2013.
K Swaminathan, K Usha Rani, S
Rohini, V Keerthiga, ‘’Diabetes and
Nephropathy is not always equal to
diabetic nephropathy’’, British Journal
of Diabetes & Vascular disease, Sep
2013.
K Swaminathan, ‘’Pesticides and
human diabetes, A link worth
exploring’’, Diabetic Medicine,
November 2013.
Presentations
‘’Pesticides and diabetes: A potential
link’’, Diabetes UK Annual Conference,
Manchester, UK 2013.
‘’Epidemiological study of subjects
attending a Master Health Check’’,
the Diabetes UK Annual Professional
Conference, Manchester, UK 2013.
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Urology and Transplant Surgery,
Apollo Hospitals, Mysore
Reviewer, American Urological
Association’s guidelines for
Urotrauma and Cryptorchidism.
Noida
Dr. Bincy Varghese
Dermatology, Apollo Hospital, Noida
Publications
‘’Successful management of airway
hemangioma with propranolol’’,
Vibhu Mendiratta, Bincy Varghese,
Ram Chander, Ankit Parakh, Ravi
S. Solanki, International Journal
of Dermatology, Volume 52,”http://
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/
ijd.2013.52.issue-6/issuetoc”, pages
750–752, June 2013.
Awards
IADVL Training Fellowship award
2013, Paediatric Dermatology under
Dr. G. Sethuraman at AIIMS, New
Delhi in August 2013.
WCPD grant from International society
of Paediatric Dermatology (ISPD) for
attending the 12th World Congress
of Paediatric Dermatology at Madrid,
Spain, September 25th to 27th 2013.
HOD, Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
Jehangir Hospital, Pune
Chapters contributed to text books
A Practical Guide to Obstetrics 2013,
Universities Press (India) Private
Limited, ‘’Peripartum Critical Illness
and Collapse’’.
Publications
‘’Are women satisfied when using
levonorgestrel- releasing intrauterine
system for treatment of abnormal
uterine bleeding’’, Mansukhani N,
Unni J, Dua M, Darbari R, Malik S,
Verma S, Bathla S, Journal of Midlife
Health 2013, 4(1):31-5.
Orations
Prof Tarun Banerjee Memorial Oration
on Current Usage of Menopausal
Hormone Therapy, 24 Nov 2013 at IMS
Kolkata Chapter Annual Conference.
Lectures
Moderator, Panel Discussion on Multispecialty partnerships in Pregnancy
and Delivery, 19 Jan 2013, All India
Congress of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists in Mumbai.
Invited Lecture, ‘’Vitamin D Deficiency
in a Land of Sunshine’’ in British
Menopause Society Annual Congress,
24 May 2013, Stratford–upon-Avon,
UK.
‘’Pre Cancerous Lesions of the Cervix’’
at AICC RCOG West Zone Annual
Conference, Kolhapur, 25 August 2013.
‘’Tissue Selective Estrogen Complex’’,
02 October 2013, GYNECON 2013,
Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.
Positions held
Chairperson, All India Co-ordinating
Committee of Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
(AICC RCOG) Western Zone, October
2010 - 2015.
President, Indian Menopause Society,
2013-2014.
Dr Prasad Walimbe
Ophthalmology, Jehangir Apollo
Hospital, Pune
Presentations
Combined Small Incision Cataract
Surgery with Trabeculectomy (Fp000321), 9th International Symposium
of Ophthalmology (ISO 2013),
Guangzhou, China (9-11 Nov 2013).
Combined (small incision cataract
surgery) with trabeculectomy
with ologen implant (FP-000322),
9th International Symposium
of Ophthalmology (ISO 2013),
Guangzhou, China (9-11 Nov 2013).
Combined Trabeculotomy with
Trabeculectomy in Congenital
Glaucoma (FP-000323), 9th
International Symposium of
Ophthalmology (ISO 2013),
Guangzhou, China (9-11 Nov 2013).
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Combined Trabeculotomy With
Trabeculectomy in Congenital
Glaucoma, AAPOS and SNEC
Joint Meeting, An Intercontinental
Perspective of Pediatric
Ophthalmology and Strabismus,
Singapore (July 14-16, 2013).
Surgical Techniques in Various
Types of Pediatric Cataract,
AAPOS and SNEC Joint Meeting,
An Intercontinental Perspective
of Pediatric Ophthalmology and
Strabismus, Singapore (July 14-16,
2013).
‘’Persistent Epiphora post sac
surgery’’, 6th annual conference
of Poona Ophthalmological Society
(POSCON 2013), Pune (Dec 2013).
Dr Vikram Padbidri
Microbiology & Infection Control,
Jehangir Hospital, Pune
Presentations
Our experience with VAP over three
years, Apollo International forum for
Infection Control, 5th & 6th January
2013.
Orations
‘’Management of Congenital
cataract’’, FOCUS STRABISMUS- 20th
annual conference of Strabismological
Society of India & Paediatric
Ophthalmology Update, Pune (7-8 Dec
2013).
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