The chronicle oct dec 2016 10(4) by Dept of Medical Informatics

Volume 10 (4)

OCt-Dec 2016

Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth

The Chronicle

Official NEWSLETTER FROM SBV, MGMCRI, SSSMCRI, IGIDS, KGNC, AHS & CIDrF

Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth

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contents  University Communique  MGMCRI-Research and Scholarship  Academic Initiatives  Innovations  The Dawn of New Chapters  Scholars in The Making  Other Highlights  Out Reach Services  Staff Nurses of MGMCRI  SSSMCRI  IGIDS  KGNC  AHS  CIDRF

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MoU between SBV and IMC University of Applied Sciences, KREMS, Austria

A high level delegation from Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, comprising of Prof. K.R. Sethuraman, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. N.Ananthakrishnan, Dean, R&AHS Prof. A.R.Srinivasan, Registrar and Prof. Sumathy Sundar, Director, CMTER visited IMC University of Applied Sciences, KREMS, Austria at their invitation between 23.11.16 and 24.11.16. An official Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between SBV and IMC, KREMS for Doctoral Research in Music Therapy. The Visit also marked the inauguration of Josef Ressel Centre for personalised music therapy & was attended by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IMC, KREMS, Prof. Karl Einsfellner and Prof. Gerhard Tucek, Programme Director, Music Therapy, IMC, KREMS. The MoU was for collaboration between the two institutes for the PhD course in Music therapy. This MOU aims at long term collaboration to promote novel methods in the Quick Link form of music therapy as a salutogenic approach. (contd. pg. 04)

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University communique ▶▶ From VC’s Desk Enhancing the Client Experience: a laudable goal for 2017 With the current highly competitive situation in health professions education and practice, all the health-professions need to enhance the client experiences. The client could be (i) a prospective or a current student visiting us for education or (ii) a patient visiting us for service. Here are initial queries to helpour analysis get started. Add specific questions related to our specific context and objectives. Does the client: Know what to expect and when? yy Have the right information at the right time? yy Know whom to contact for his/her specific needs? yy Know what to do if things donot go as planned or as smoothly as expected? yy Get informed promptly and adequately if something goes wrong or if there is a delay? yy Get acknowledgment of requests or complaints submitted to us? Do our clients’ interactions within our organization: yy Work as we intend them to work? yy Flow in a way that’s logical and easy to follow? yy Provide the right level of interaction at the right time? yy Give the right information? yy Are weproviding the client too much or too little information? Is our organization: yy Efficient and effective? yy Organized, with clear responsibilities for client interaction? yy Or are we confusing to the client with too many options or departments? 2

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Based on an honest introspection, we could decide what we need to collectively achieve in order to attract more and more clients in to our organization for education or clinical service. Let this be our focus for 2017 to collectively forge ahead in terms of client satisfaction. (Ref: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/ newSTR_85.htm)

Academic Activities of the Prof.K.R.Sethuraman, Vice Chancellor, SBV University during the last quarter of 2016. Oct 3rd- 5th – Intensive Coaching on Communication skill for senior PGs of MDS (Prostho) Oct 7th – Keynote Address at Chettinad Medical College for the new MBBS Students

Oct 12th – Inaugurated Nursing conference on Cancer Care (Onco Nursing)

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Oct 13th – Conducted a 4-hour workshop on “Integrated Teaching and Learning” at MEDUCON-2016 at JIPMER

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Oct 13th – Monthly Review Meeting with University functionaries & Management Oct 17th – Review Meeting with PhD scholars Oct 24th – Inaugural address to the New Batch of BDS students of IGIDS Nov 02nd – Attended the Anniversary Day Celebration of CYTER rd Nov 03 – Inaugurated International seminar on Endocrine disorders at MGMCRI

Nov 04th – Attended Annual Internal Oration by Prof N Ananthakrishnan for SAF-IGIDS

Nov 18th – Inauguration of “MORE” – a CME Programme of Orthopaedics at MGMCRI Nov 21st -22nd – Chaired the quarterly Academic Audit of MGMCRI for IQAC

Nov 23rd-27th – Visit to IMC-KREMS, Austria for signing MOU on Doctoral Research in Music Therapy at CMTER of AHS Faculty, SBVU th Nov 29 – Supervised NIRF Data final Upload Dec 1st – Meeting with M.R.Rajagopal of Pallium India, Trivandrum.

Nov 09th – External member for Academic Council Meeting of Chettinad University, Chennai Nov 10th – Inauguration of CME on Translational Research in Diabetes Mellitus

Nov 11th – Monthly Review Meeting with University functionaries & Management th Nov 12 – Inaugural address at the Annual CME programme at Aravind Eye Hospital. Nov 13th – Special Meeting with NIRF consultants SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Dec 5th – Bhoomi Pooja of Small Animal Research Lab. Dec 5th – FDP on “Authentic assessment” for MGMCRI (HODs) organized by MEU Dec 10 th – Attended OMEGA Conference at Vijayawada to talk on “Authentic Assessment of under Graduates in Medicine,” Organized by PSIM, Dr NTRUHS, AP Dec 15th – Presided over the Lamp lighting ceremony of KGNC Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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Dec 16th – Website Audit Dec 16th – Monthly Review Meeting with University functionaries & Management Dec 19th- 23rd – Review E-Portfolio all the first year PGs of MGMCRI

Dec 20th – Career Guidance and Support (C-5) Program for outgoing interns

Dec 20 – Meeting with Prof. Arthur Nowak and visiting dental students of IOWA University. th

▶▶ FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN - Research and ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES Prof.N.Ananthkrishnan, Dean (Research and AHS), received a Scroll of honor from the Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology held at Coimbatore from 06.10.16 to 09.10.16 in appreciation of the outstanding contribution to the establishment of the specialty of Surgical and Gastroenterology and for his contribution to the commencement, sustenance and growth of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology in India. Ananthakrishnan N, delivered a guest lecture on the topic, ‘Work place based assessment – is it possible in India’ and ‘Postgraduate training in Surgery’ at Meducon, 2016, Pondicherry in the month of October, 2016. He also gave the Dr.R.Ahmed Internal Oration, Scientific and Academic Forum, IGIDS, SBV, Pondicherry, in the month of November, 2016 on the topic, 'Professionalism'. He delivered a guest lecture on the topic, ‘Optimum evaluation Points during curriculum and rationale’ at OMEGA, 2016, Vijayawada, December, 2016.

▶▶ FROM THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR NOVEMBER 2016 Contd from page 1 - An official Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between SBV and IMC, KREMS for Doctoral Research in Music Therapy.

Dec 22nd – Academic Council Meeting of SBV

DECEMBER 2016 Dec 28th – Exit meeting with Prof. Nowak IOWA University Dec 29th – Portfolio presentation by the five visiting students of Dentistry, IOWA University. Dec 30th – In-depth discussion with Prof. Krishna Seshathri, Visiting Consultant, MGMCRI. 4

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Felicitation of Task force members of NIRF 2017 A Felicitation programme to recognize all the task force members and the functionaries from all the constituent colleges of SBV for their committed and dedicated work that led to the successful upload of the data pertaining SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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to National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) -2017 was held on 3rd December 2016 at the Board Room of the University under the Chairmanship of Prof. K.R.Sethuraman, Vice – Chancellor and presided by Prof. N.Ananthakrishnan, Dean – Research and AHS. The Vice – Chancellor complemented the single minded efforts and dedication of the task force members in realizing this endeavor which from now on will be an annual exercise of immense significance. Vice – Chancellor placed on record the efforts put by Dean – Research & AHS in co-coordinating this process which was held over a period of more than two months. The members were felicitated with mementos.

22nd Academic Council meet of SBV The 22nd Academic Council meet of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth was held on 22nd December 2016 under the Chairmanship of Prof. K.R. Sethuraman, Vice – Chancellor in the Board Room of the University. The External Experts Dr. S.P. Thyagarajan, Professor of Eminence and Dean (Research) of Sri Ramachandra University and Prof. G. Subramanian, Founder Director, National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli. Many academic proposals were ratified in the meeting which was largely attended by the members of the Academic Council.

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The Central library, SBV is housed in a separate centralized three storied building and it is fully automated. It is a high tech library with all modern facilities like WIFI, Internet, Digital Library, E Learning, CCTV and OPAC. It has a separate own book reading section with capacity for 250 students for using their own book. The library has reach collection (21,800) of latest print books and 10,000 E-books. The library is subscribing 136 print journals which include 64 International and 72 National Journals. In addition to this the library also subscribes for 3000 online journals. The Library collection is updated periodically with latest books. The collection includes not only books on health and allied sciences but also books on Words of Wisdom and other areas of Interest like Yoga, Computer Science, Music and Management. The library has collections which include publications brought out by International organizations like WHO, UNICEF, UN and by National Organizations like ICMR, DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and DST. There is a separate thesis collection with 500 thesis. The archives collection has journals from 2001 onwards. The Library spends every year 50L on Print Journals and 10L on E Journals.The Library is used extensively by Faculty, PG, and UG. On an average about 300 persons are using the Library.For the better utilization of the Resources available and also to feel free, the library organizes orientation program for all the new students in which all about the Library (Timing, Rules and Regulations, Services and Facilities) and Dos and Don’t are briefed.With all these high tech qualities the central library serves as the main “Learning Resource Center” for MGMCRI and for the constituent colleges, KGNC, IGIDS and SSSMCRI.

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▶▶ CHRONOLOGY OF "THE CHRONICLE" - 2016 JANUARY • MGMCRI won the “Duct Philanthropy Awards-2016 • KGNC Lamp Lighting Ceremony • Training of Trainers DEU of IGIDS • IOWA faculty visit to IGIDS • IGIDS program on Research for undergraduates • Inauguration of MIST - MGMCRI • Communication Building Programme at KGNC • Intercollegiate paper / poster contest on PG Research - SBV • MOU between CYTER and Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute • CDE programme on “ Unraveling the myths of occlusion” • Invited talk on “Highlights of Scientific Yoga Research at Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute” by Sri SubodhTiwari

FEBRUARY • SBV- FDP on ‘Goal setting, Bench Marking’ by Pro-VC • Third International Conference on Music Therapy • Guest talk on“Music, addiction and reward processing. Implication for therapy and education” by Prof.JorgFachner - MGMCRI • CDE program ‘Undergraduate “OOO” Consortium 2016’ • CME on Common Orthopedic Ailments - SSSMCRI • CDE workshop on Sytematic Review – Writing a protocol • “Magic Potion of an Influencer” talk by Mr. Prason Christopher Robin at IGIDS • Visit by CLTRT for academic collaboration with MGMCRI • CME on Zika Virus outbreak - MGMCRI • NEU on “Choice Based Credit Grading System” • CME on Leprosy at MGMCRI & SSSMCRI • Guest talk by Prof.Thameem Ansari from Penang Adventist hospital, Malaysia – MGMCRI • Inauguration of youth red cross of KGNC • Live Surgical Workshop on Advanced Otological Surgery - MGMCRI • Valedictory Function of Interns Oration Programme – MGMCRI & SSSMCRI • Meeting at SSSMCRI with SBV–PMI core group • CME on “Minimal access surgery” – MGMCRI • 39th AMASI Skill Course and FMAS Examination – MGMCRI • Postgraduate clinical update programme “Confluence 2016” - MGMCRI • PG CME - Mahatma Gandhi Intense Surgical Training – MIST 2016 • Special lecture on, “Introduction to anthropological perspectives on mental health” by Krzysztof Bierski - MGMCRI • “TARGET 2016”, 4th Annual conference of the Association of OMFSs

MARCH • Spectra 2K16 , Arena’16, IGnite’16, Celestial 2K16, Crescita 16 of SBV • IGIDS organized Confluence’16.

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• Intra & Intercollegiate Quiz Competition - MEDMASTERS 2016 • Refresher Workshop - “Prosthodontic Management of TMJ Disorders” • SBV-Women’s day function • National conference on “Chronobiology & Health” - MGMCRI • Meeting with Alumni of IGIDS • MOU signing ceremony between SBV & PMI • MVK-IYER Oration by Prof. Mudge, CEO-PMI - MGMCRI • Super-speciality foundation stone Inauguration -SBV • GLAUCOS 2016’, CME on Glaucoma - MGMCRI

APRIL • Introduction of Competency Based Medical Education - SSSMCRI • Rukmani Ammal Internal Oration of SAF-MGMCRI • Launching of Immuno-Histo-Chemistry Lab- IGIDS • PMI-SBV joint workshop for Educational reforms at MGMCRI & SSSMCRI • IPR-Day commemoration • Special seminar on “Current concepts about emergence from anesthesia” • TEE Workshop - “Simulation based workshop on transesophageal echocardiography” • Symposium on ‘Management of Diabetes Mellitus’ -MGMCRI • World health day program for Transgenders – IGIDS • Guest lecture on ‘Carcinoma Stomach -Recent Trends’ by Dr. O. L. NaganathBabu -SSSMCRI

MAY • Workshop on Geospatial Information & Research -SBV • Workshop series on Research Methods and Bio-Statistics - MGMCRI • Training workshop on Bayley scales of Infant and toddler development- MGMCRI • Meeting with Dental Education Unit for consultancy Plans • CBME for PGs Session at MGMCRI • Inaugurated Yoga Therapy Conference • CBME for PGs at SSSMCRI • PG Orientation Programme - MGMCRI • Basic Surgical Skills Workshop - MGMCRI • Webinar on “Critical thinking in Health Education & Evidence based Dentistry” by Dr.Terese A Marshall, IOWA, USA. • NEU guest lecture on “OSPE & OSCE” • 2nd national level workshop on Polymerase Chain Reaction - CIDRF

JUNE • Proceeding of IPR Awareness Workshop with Focus on “ Patents And Copyrights” -SBV • National Symposium on “An Update on Antimicrobial Agents and their Uses” at MGMCRI • National conference on “Introducing Yoga in Health Professions Education - MGMCRI • Dental Education External Consultancy SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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JULY • MGMCRI celebrated, ‘Institute Day’ • 27 th Association of Southern zone Urologists Annual conference”- MGMCRI • Workshop by Dr. Shailesh Lele, Saudi Arabia on “Curriculum development for Competency based education” – IGIDS • AERO- PG foundation program – IGIDS • Himalayan Dental Project at Leh, Ladakh - IGIDS

AUGUST • Guest talk by Dr. Adhisivam, on, “Breastfeeding-Science & the Society”. - MGMCRI • Visiting Team from UK to CYTER talk on ‘Salutogenesis’. • Special SAF guest lecture on ‘Conservation of Biodiversity” - MGMCRI • National Conference of Heath Profession Education – DEU & MEU • White Coat Ceremony at MGMCRI & SSSMCRI. • PGDHPE for II Batch – Inauguration. • KGNC Inauguration of New Batch of B. Sc Nursing. • CME on ‘An approach to common Rheumatological disorders’- SSSMCRI • Guest lecture on ‘Carcinoma Breast’ Prof. S. Jegadesh Chandra Bose – SSSMCRI • International Symposium on Yoga and Wellbeing – CYTER • Launch of the first Master’s degree program in Medical Music Therapy • IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria – SBV Initiatives for Doctoral Program in Music Therapy from CMTER

SEPTEMBER • CME on National Conference on Upper GI and HPB - MGMCRI • SAF guest lecture on "Paradoxes in Cardiology" - MGMCRI • SAF Guest Talk on ‘Overview of Liver Transplantation’ by Dr. M. P. Senthilkumar - MGMCRI • CDE Program- LASER ATELIER -IGIDS • Curriculum reforms in MBBS – MGMCRI & SSSMCRI • Teachers Day Celebration • Inauguration of National Conference of Psychiatric Nursing. • CREAMS - Presentation by MBBS Students (III Semester). • Inauguration of MBBS - 2016 Batch – MGMCRI & SSSMCRI • Launching of Pharmacogenomic services at MGMCRI by CIDRF. • Inauguration of Surgical CME at MGMCRI. • 18 hours Module on Communication Skill for PGs of Prosthodontics. • Workshop for KGNC on Problem Based Questions. • 6th National Conference on “Developing Strategies for Quality Care in Psychiatry” -KGNC • Placement and Entrepreneurship Guidance Programme -KGNC

OCTOBER • Intensive Coaching on Communication skill for PGs of MDS (Prostho) • The 7th National Conference on Breaking Bad News to Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

• First BDS Induction Program • Workshop on quality management system and internal audit ISO 15189-2012 – MGMCRI • Inauguration of the New PICU- MGMCRI • Guest talk for students on ‘Ill effects of drug abuse and addiction’ by Mr.Venkatesh Babu, I.R.S - MGMCRI • Guest Lecture on ‘Pharmacoeconomics’ –SSMCRI • CME on Anesthesia – SSMCRI • Commemoration of National Unity Day -SBV • CIDRF Workshop on “Basic and Applied Bioinformatics for Clinical Genomics”

NOVEMBER • Anniversary Day Celebration of CYTER • Lecture on “Surgical consideration in implant placement in the aesthetic zone” - MGMCRI • International seminar on Endocrine disorders at MGMCRI • SAF Annual Dr. R. Ahmed Internal Oration, IGIDS by Prof N Ananthakrishnan • CME - Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis & Management of Diabetes Mellitus - MGMCRI • “MORE” – a CME Programme of Orthopaedics at MGMCRI • Visit to IMC-KREMS, Austria for signing MOU on Doctoral Research in Music Therapy at CMTER of AHS Faculty, SBVU • SAF Panel discussion on “Practicing Safe Medicine” - MGMCRI • CME on “Artificial sweeteners” by Dr. Sadishkumar - MGMCRI • Creation of Department of Critical Care Medicine - MGMCRI • CME on the “Role of Nuclear Medicine in Thyroid Management” – SSSMCRI • CME on ‘Recent trends in Management of CSOM’ – SSSMCRI • Guest lecture on “Reference Managers for Your Research” – SSSMCRI • CME on “Psoriasis - SSSMCRI • CDE program, Clinical Oral Medicine and Radiology Evince (CORE)

DECEMBER • Guest lecture on “Integration of Palliative Care in Medical Practice”

and SAF “Symposium on End of Life Care Issues in ICU” by M.R.Rajagopal of Pallium, Trivandrum. - MGMCRI • Inauguration of the Inpatient ward for Palliative Care- MGMCRI • CME on “Sleep Disordered Breathing” - MGMCRI • Bhoomi Pooja of Small Animal Research Lab -CIDRF • FDP on “Authentic assessment” for MGMCRI (HODs) organized by MEU • Lamp lighting ceremony of KGNC • Review E-Portfolio all the first year PGs of MGMCRI • Career Guidance and Support (C-5) Program for outgoing interns - MGMCRI • International Student Observership Program With Prof. Arthur Nowak and visiting dental students of IOWA University. & Portfolio presentation by the five visiting students of Dentistry, IOWA University. • International CDE program was conducted Infant Oral Health Care - “The Untold Story” • CIDRF - “National Hands-on Workshop on Advanced Methods in Real Time PCR techniques in Biomedical Research” Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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mahatma gandhi medical college and research institute Research and Scholarship ▶▶ PUBLICATIONS Rani P, Hemanth Kumar VR, Ravishankar M, Sivashanmugam T, Sripriya R, Trilogasundary M.Rapid and reliable smooth extubation – Comparison of Fentanyl with dexmedetomidine: A randomized, double-blind clinical trial. Anesth Essays Res Sep-Dec 2016;10:597-601. Srinivasaraghavan R, Dhandapany G. Non availability of Cloxacillin, A Deterrent for Rational Antimicrobial Practice. Indian Pediatr. 2016;53(11):1032-1033. PMID: 27889744 Rajkumar M, Santhanam T Efficacy of Expressive Writing Therapy (cognitive based) in Managing Depression and Anxiety. International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Nov 2016;6(5): 1-5. P. Karthikeyan, DT Pulimoottil. Regarding “Analysis of the incidence and factors predictive of inadvertent parathyroidectomy during thyroid surgery.” J Laryngol Otol 2016;130:669-73. Pandiamunian J, Kartik J. Salwe, Somasundaram G, Kolasani BP. A study on prescribing pattern of antimicrobial agents in the neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in Puducherry, south india. AJPCR2016;9(5): Sumina S, Kingshuk Lahon, Johan Pandian and Manimekalai K. Evaluation of Acute Anxiolytic and Antidepressant Activity of Ethanolic Extract of Ocinum sanctum (Tulsi) Leaf in Wistar Albino Rats. RJPBCS 2016;7(6): Surekha A, Suguna Anbazhagan. Are women vulnerable or defendable to disaster? Health action. Dec 2016;29(12):17. Surekha A, Anbazhagan S. Non-Communicable Diseases during Disaster - Time to Take Action. IJHSR 2016;6(12):292-296. Suguna Anbazhagan,SurekhaA. Social Accountability in Medical schols-Do the students account about it? Indian Journal of Research 2016;5(11):24. 8

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H. D. Shewade, S. Govindarajan, P. Thekkur, C. Palanivel et al. MDR-TB in Puducherry, India: reduction in attrition and turnaround time in the diagnosis and treatment pathway. PHA 2016;6(4):242–246. Shuba Srinivasan, Jyothi B. Lingegowda, Ramkumar Kurpad R, Prakash H. Mudde gowda, Niranjan Gopal. Association of IDF criteria of waist circumference with diabetes mellitus in a rural diabetic population. Journal of evidence Based Medicine and health care. 2016;3(76):2519-2522. Niranjan Gopal, Srinivasan A. R, Prakash H. Muddegowda, Sathish Babu Murugaiyan, Srikanth K, Ramesh Ramaswamy, Anitha Rajendiran. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Health & Disease: A Review. Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Health care 2016;3(80):4363-4373. Sahu Sibasis, Ravichandran.S, Surendher Kumar.R, Krishna Gopal.R: Functional Outcome Following Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nailing For Clavicle Fractures - International Journal of Orthopaedics Traumatology & Surgical Sciences 2016;2(1):133-136. Vineet Thomas Abraham, Krishnagopal. R, Vamsi Kondreddi, Swagat Mahapatra: A study on the functional outcome of arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction done with bone patellar tendon bone graft using the IKDC score - International Journal of Research in Orthopaedics, 2016 Dec;2(4):346-349. Chandrasekaran Marimuthu, Vineet Thomas Abraham, Mirunalini Ravichandran, Rajamani Achimuthu :Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Instrumented Spinal Fusion Surgery: A Comparative Analysis of 24-Hour and 72-Hour Dosages - Asian Spine Journal 2016;10(6):1018-1022. Manoharan M, Swagat Mahapatra: Internal fixation of pediatric shaft femur fractures by titanium elastic nails: clinical and radiological study – Int J Res Orthop December 2016;2(4): Mathumithra T, Koteeswaran G, Jeevaraj G. Extra skeletal Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma-A rare case report. International Journal of science and research 2016;5(10):25-8.

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Ravichandran.L, Umadevi S, Pramodhini.S,Srirangaraj.S. Kumar RM, Rathna S, Sowmya S, Venkatraman J. Seetha.K.S.Prevelance of virulence factors among clinical Histopathological study of placenta in anaemia of pregnancy isolates of Enterococcus spp. Asian journal of Pharmaceutical in rural Puducherry. J. Evolution Med. Dent. Sci. 2016;5(96): and Clinical research 2016;9(3):1-4 32-5. DOI: 10.14260/jemds/2016/1. Umadevi S, Pramodhini S, Seetha KS. Resistance pattern of Enterococcus spp.Isolated from clinical specimens. Priya M, Bakshi SS, Coumare V N, Vijayasundaram S, Latheef MN. Solitary extraosseous neurofibroma of hard Int J CurrMicrobiol App Sci 2016;5(11):340-345. palate: Report of a case with a review of literature. J Dent Allied Sci 2016;5(2):95-97.

Samiyappa DP, Ghose S, John LB, Samal R. Maternal and perinatal outcome in meconium stained amniotic fluid at term: a case control study. Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Satvinder Singh Bakshi.Tiroides lingual. Medicina Clinica. Gynecol 2016;5:3404-10. DOI:10.1016/j.medcli.2016.07.029 Shanmugam A, Ghose S, Parida P, Begum J. Sublingual versus vaginal misoprostol for medical termination of Bakshi SS A hard calculus: submandibular sialolithiasis. pregnancy: a comparative study. Int J Reprod Contracept The American journal of medicine. DOI: http://dx.doi. Obstet Gynecol 2016;5:3398-403. org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.09.010 Jenkins A, Sendhil CA, Ghose S. Comparison of the efficacy of extra amniotic Foley catheter, intravaginal Satvinder Singh Bakshi. Plexiform Neurofibroma. prostaglandin E1 tablet and intracervical prostaglandin Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 2016 Nov;83(11):792. E2 gel for pre induction cervical ripening: a randomized comparative study. Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol Bakshi SS. Pretreatment Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio 2016;5:3902-8. in Salivary Gland Tumors Is Associated with Malignancy. Reddi Rani. Menopause and HRT Current Medical Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 155(6):1069-1069 Journal of India 2016:22(7):41-45. Satvinder Singh Bakshi, Anandraj Vaithy K. Antrochoanal Polyp. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology : In Practice. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2016.10.005

N.Mugunthan, K.Shanmuga Samy,J.Anbalagan,S. Meenachi, Long term exposure of 900-1800 MHz mobile phone radiationn on mice liver-Ahistological study, National journal of clinical Anatomy, 2016;5(4):196-201.

Satvinder Singh Bakshi. Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome. ▶▶ Editor/ reviewer The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology : In Practice. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2016.09.034 Dr. Dhananjay S Kotasthane, Head, Dept of Pathology reviewed an article for journal. Libertas academica - Clinical Satvinder Singh Bakshi. Mandíbula abultada. Medicina Medicine Insights: Pathology. Clinica. - DOI:10.1016/j.medcli.2016.09.035 Prof.Joseph Philipraj, Department of Urology was selected Priya M, Bakshi SS, Coumare V N, Vijayasundaram S, as member of editorial committee for Indian journal of Latheef MN. Solitary extraosseous neurofibroma of hard Urology on 16.12.2016. palate: Report of a case with a review of literature. J Dent Dr. P. Karthikeyan, Professor and HOD, ENT reviewed Allied Sci. 2016;5(2):95-97. article for “Indian Journal Of Anatomy of Head , Neck Anitharaj V, Stephen S, Pradeep J, Park S, Kim SH, Kim And Brain” YJ, Kim EY, Kim YW. Serological Diagnosis of Acute Scrub Typhus in South India: Evaluation of InBios Scrub Dr.Tumbanatham, Asst.Professor, Department of General Typhus Detect IgM Rapid Test, and Comparison with other Medicine peer reviewer for Journal of Clinical and diagnostic Serological Tests. J Clin Diagn Res. 2016;10(11):7-10. research during this quarter.

Dr.Lokesh , Associate Professor, Department of General Kalaivani R, Kali A, M.V.P Charles, K.S Seetha. Comparitive evaluation of three stool concentration Medicine, is the Editor for Journal of Current trends in techniques in the diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections. clinical medicine and laboratory biochemistry and for Journal of clinical and diagnostic research Int.j. Curr.Microbiol.app.Sci. 2016;5(11):299-304. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Initiatives ▶▶ AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Awards Dr. Arul VijayaVani S, Asst. Professor, Department of Biochemistry was awarded Gold medal (91%) from NPTEL online certification course on Health Research Fundamentals (NIE-ICMR e-certificate course). Dr. Niranjan G, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry got the best poster presentation titled “Effectiveness of tem learning for 1st MBBS students” at the National MEDUCON-2016, organized by NTTC, JIPMER, Puducherry on 14.10.2016. Dr.R.Vimal Raj, Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine attended the Basic Bronchoscopy &Thoracoscopy Workshop 2016, organized by the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, between 18.10.2016 and 19.10.2016 and got First prize in the QUIZ competition.

Dr. P. Karthikeyan, Professor and HOD, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery attended a conference “ENT ACADEMY organized by Dr.Deenadayalan at Hotel Raviz” Kollam, Kerala, between 21.10.2016 and 22.10.2016 and won 2nd Prize in QUIZ competition.

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Dr. Alai Taggu, Associate Professor and HOD, Dept. of Critical Care Medicine, delivered a talk on “Use of ultrasonography for assessment of diastolic dysfunction (E/E’) and diaphragmatic fractional change as a predictor of extubation outcome” at Annual Conference of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, 2016 at Milan, Italy on 03.09.2016. Dr. Pruthu T K, Assistant Professor, department of Community Medicine was a resource person at the IAPSMIPHA Workshop on ‘Efficient, Quality assured data capture using EpiData software’ held at PIMS, Puducherry in collaboration with International Union Against Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis (IUALTD-Union). Dr. Sivaprakash B, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, was a resource person at the CME on “The Medical Education Conference 2016 (MEDUCON 2016)” in JIPMER on 14.10.2016. Dr. K. A. Narayan, Professor, department of Community Medicine was a Resource Person at the Medical Education Conference-2016 (MEDUCON-2016)” between 13.10.16 and 14.10.16 in JIPMER. Dr.V.Jayapal, Professor, Department of Microbiology, delivered a Guest lecture in CME on, “Automation in Microbiology-an advantage for physicians”, conducted by SVMC&RC, Puducherry under the auspices of IAMM -Puducherry Chapter, on 14.10.2016. Dr. Sivashanmugam, Professor & Head, Department of Anesthesiology, invited as a Faculty to deliver a talk on “US in anesthesiology – seeing is behaving” on CHETANCON 2016 Commemorating “World Anaesthesia Day” held at Chettinad University, Chennai on 15.10.2016.

“World Anaesthesia Day-CME” at Sri ManakulaVinayagar Medical College & Hospital, Pondicherry on 17.10.2016. Dr. Syed Habeebullah, Professor of O&G was an invited speaker at a CME on Abnormal Uterine Bleeding conducted by OGSP Pondicherry on 16.10.16. Dr. Syed Habeebullah, Professor of O&G was an invited as speaker to QUEST 2016 at Calicut for case discussion on Adnexal mass and Post Menopausal Bleeding on 21.10.16. Dr.R.Pajanivel, Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine was a Resource person and delivered a talk on “Orphan lung diseases” in the South Zone Pulmonary Medicine PG CME 2016, held at the Institute of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram, between 21.10.16 and 22.10.16. Dr. S. Avudaiappan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, delivered a talk titled “Dignity in mental health: Psychological & mental health first aid for all” at KGNC SAF on 24.10.2016. Dr.R.Sobana, Associate Professor of Physiology was a resource person in the Integrated Teaching Programme at Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College on “Pregnancy Induced Hypertension” on 26.10.16. Dr. Syed Habeebullah, Professor of O&G, was an invited speaker at a PG CME ‘OBGYAN’ at KUPPAM, on 2.11.16. Dr.Mohamed Hanifah, Professor, Department of General Medicine was invited as a speaker at the International conference on Endocrinology organized by Dept. of Pharmacology, MGMCRI on 3.11.16 at MGMCRI, Pondicherry.

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Dr.SendhilCoumary, Professor of O&G was invited for a PG case discussion on ‘Recurrent Pregnancy Loss’ at Sri ManakulaVinayagar Medical College Pondicherry 4.11.16.

Symposium” conducted by National College of Chest Physicians (India) & Indian Chest Society held at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai from 24.11.16 to 27.11.16.

Dr. S. Avudaiappan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, delivered a talk on “Depression on General Practice” in IMA Panruti on 05.11.2016.

Prof. S. Gopalakrishnan, Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery gave a talk on “Emergimg trends in tracheostomy” at “ENT CARE 2016 – Airway Managament – An Overview” held at Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chennai on 11.11.2016.

Dr. Parthasarathy S, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, was invited as chairperson on “Ultrasound in trauma” on (IGAP-2016) 5th Annual CME and Workshop conducted by IGMCRI, between 5.11.16 and 6.11.16.

Dr. Syed Habeebullah , Professors of O&G delivered an Oration on ‘Cesearean Section – Problems and Solutions’ and also delivered a guest lecture on ‘Obstetric Coagulopathy’ at the VizagObgyn Society Golden Jubilee celebrations on 26.11.16. Dr. Hemanth Kumar, Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, was invited as a guest faculty to deliver a talk on “clinical applicability of gas laws” at the Annual Anaesthesia National conference (ISACON 2016) held at Ludhiana, from 25.11.16 to 29.11.16. Dr.Kalyanram. K, Department of Urology delivered a lecture on ‘Hormonal Therapy for Ca Prostate’ at the CME-Clinical discussion on Ca Prostate Molecular biology, androgen deprivation therapy, Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy at JIPMER, Pondicherry on 04.12.2016

Dr. Hemanth Kumar,Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, was invited as resource person on “Transthoracic echo workshop” (IGAP-2016) at 5th Annual CME and Workshop conducted by IGMCRI, between 5.11.16 and 6.11.16.

Dr. Sukanto Sarkar, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, delivered a lecture on “Psychosocial aspects of sleep-disordered breathing” at a CME on Sleep-Disordered Breathing - A Medical & Surgical Overview, jointly organized by the departments of Pulmonary Medicine & Otorhinolaryngology, at MGMCRI, Puducherry, on 09.12.2016.

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Dr. Sivashanmugam,Professor & Head, Department of Anaesthesiology, was invited as a Faculty to deliver a lecture on “Image optimization” and conducted workshop on Regional Anaesthesia on VIEWSS-2016 held at Velammal Medical College Hospital & Research Institute at Madurai between 10.12.16 and 11.12.16. Dr. Parthasarathy, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, was invited as a faculty to deliver a lecture on “Management of Acute Pain” at Update on pain and inflammation for frontline physicians (UPFRONT CME 2016) organized by Indian Medical Association, Kumbakonam Branch at Kumbakonam on 24.12.2016.

Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, between 10.12.16 and 11.12.16. D r.R .Pajanivel, Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine chaired sessions on “An Overview On Pulmonary Hypertension, Oxygen Therapy” and “Step by step approach to ABG, PFT, USG and HRCT Thorax” , held at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, between 10.12.16 and 11.12.16.

Officiating as Chairperson in Academic / Scientific Events Prof. M. Ramanathan, HOD, Department of General Surgery chaired a session in the IMSACON-16 conference conducted by the International Medical Science Academic at Mauritius during the period from 06.10.2016 to 08.10.2016 Dr.Udhaya Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology chaired a session at Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute for the CME on Gastro Enterology held on 15.10.16. Dr.Jeetendra, Faculty of O&G, chaired a session at YUVA FOGSI Kochi between 12.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr. Eswaran S, Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry chaired a session on “Psychosocial aspects of sleep-disordered breathing”at a CME on Sleep-Disordered Breathing - A Medical & Surgical Overview, jointly organized by the departments of Pulmonary Medicine & Otorhinolaryngology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Puducherry, on 09.12.2016.

Dr.Pramod Kumar GN, Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine chaired a session ‘Current trends in Medical litigation cases’ in CME (1st MEDICO – JURIDIQUE 2016) on “Insights on Current Medicolegal Issues” organized by Dept of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, IGMCRI, Pondicherry on 17.12.16. Prof..RajkumarPatil, Dept. Of Community Medicine and Coordinator, IQAC and Dr.A.N.Uma, Asst. Professor of Medical Genetics, Genetic Unit, Anatomy & Editor-in -Chief, ‘The Chronicle’ chaired the quarterly Academic Audit of MGMCRI for IQAC between 21.11.2016 and 22.11.2016.

Dr.K.SurendraMenon, Professor & H.O.D, participated at the 2nd Tamil Nadu And Puducherry State Conference on Pulmonary Diseases (TAPPCON-2016) and chaired sessions on “Approach To Undiagnosed Pleural Effusion” and a topic on ‘Solitary Pulmonary Nodule’, held at SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Officiating as Moderator / Panelist in Academic / Scientific Events Under the aegis of Urological society of India, Continuing Urological education programme in memory of Prof.H.S.Bhat was conducted in Puttaparthy on 07.11.16 wherein Dr.KalyanramKone, Associate Professor, Department of Urology moderated a session on pointcounterpoint debate. Prof. N. Seetharaman, department of Community Medicine was a panelist at the CME on Translational Medicine in the diagnosis & Management of Diabetes Mellitus held at MGMCRI on 10.11.16. The session on “Video Demonstration on OSA surgeries” by Dr. VikasAgarwal was moderated by Dr. P. Karthikeyan, Professor and HOD, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at ENT meet, Cuddalore on 30.11.16. Dr. Ambujam Sreedevi, Prof. Dept. of DVL was invited as moderator for a debate on “Media and Family Influence on Present Day Adolescents”- Are they positive or negative towards Prevention of HIV/AIDS” held on 6.12.16 , conducted by RED RIBBON CLUB.

Officiating as Judge in Academic / Scientific Events Dr.S.Krishnan, Prof. Dept.of DVL, judged the award paper presentations at Dermazone conducted from 07.10.16 to 09.10.16 at Trichy. Dr. K.A. Narayan, department of Community Medicine was the Judge for the poster sessions at the 2nd Annual Scientific Society meeting of Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences on 14.10.16. Dr. ReddiRani, Professor O&G, was the Judge for Poster presentation to PIMS, Puducherry on 14.10.16. Under the aegis of Urological society of India, Continuing Urological education programme in memory of Prof.H.S.Bhat was conducted in Puttaparthy on 07.11.2016. Prof.JosephPhilipraj, Department of Urology was selected for Point-Counterpoint debate on the access during PCNL (Upper pole Vs Lower pole) and he was for lower pole access.

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Dr.Eswaran S, Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, served as external Examiner for MD Psychiatry Exams at Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam (NTR University), from 25.11.16 to 26.11.16 and 26.12.16 to 27.12.16. Dr. S. Vijayasundaram, Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology was invited as External Examiner for Undergraduate Examination (Final MBBS-I) at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry from 06.12.16 to 08.12.16. Dr. Lopa B John, Assoc. Professor O&G, went as an Undergraduate examiner to Indira Gandhi Medical College, Puducherry, on 8.12.16. Dr. SeeteshGhose , Professor and Head, O&G, went as an undergraduate examiner to JIPMER, from 8.12.16 to 10.12.16. Dr. Pallavee P, Professor O&G, went as an Undergraduate examiner to Indira Gandhi Medical College, Puducherry, on 10.12.16. Dr K Srikanth, Prof & HOD, Department of Ophthalmology was invited as External Examiner for Undergraduate Examination (Final MBBS-I) at JIPMER, Pondicherry from 22.12.2016 to 24.12.2016. Dr.Mohamed Hanifah, Professor, Department of General Medicine was an MD. Thesis evaluator for Chettinadu university during this quarter. Dr.Narayanan, Professor, Department of General Medicine went as the External examiner for MD (GM) for part II clinical examination for Chettinadu University, Chennai and as the External examiner for MD ( GM) for part II clinical examination for Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai during this quarter.

Elected / member in Scientific and Academic Offices Rajkumar M., Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, joined as member of Tamil Nadu Psychology Association in October 2016. Dr. N. Seetharaman was the Selection Committee member at the PSG-PRIME in the month of November, 2016. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Dr.R.Pajanivel, Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine was elected as RNTCP Zonal –II Task Force Vice-Chairperson 2016 in the RNTCP meet held in Puducherry, on 1&2 December 2016.

Dr. Alai Taggu, Associate Professor and HOD, Dept. of CCM was elected for advanced training program in the tertiary care Center for ECMO / Transplant ICU by Mead Hospital, New South Wales Australia, Sydney.

Organizing member Dr. Alai Taggu, Associate Professor and HOD, Dept. of Critical Care Medicine was a co-coordinator of workshops on ‘Mechanical Ventilation’ and ‘Haemodynamic monitoring’ for postgraduate trainees (Internal Medicine, Anaesthesiology and Pulmonology specialities) at Annual Conference of European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, 2016 at Milan, Italy in October 2016. Dr.R.Sobana, Associate Professor of Physiology, Coordinated with the CMTER and conducted “MEETS” (Musically Express your Emotions & Thoughts for Success) for I MBBS student on 19.10.16. 228 I MBBS students participated in the structured programme. Dr. Kartik J Salwe, faculty, Department of Pharmacology attended the IHEC meeting conducted in Aravind Eye Hospital, Puducherry, on 24.11.16, as an External IHEC Member.

World AIDS Day by coducting Quiz for MBBS STUDENTS on 1.12.2016 at MGMCRI. Dr.K.Surendra Menon, Professor & HOD, was the organizing co-chairperson while Dr.R.Pajanivel, Professor, was the co-Treasurer for the 2nd Tamil Nadu And Puducherry State Conference On Pulmonary Diseases (TAPPCON-2016) at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, on 10.12.16 and 11.12.16. Dr. Manimekalai. K, Chairperson/Member Secretary IAEC, MGMCRI and Dr. Uma Narayanamurthy, Organizing Member, IAEC, MGMCRI of the Department of Pharmacology organized the IAEC Meeting, in the Seminar Room, Department of Pharmacology, MGMCRI on 21.12.16.

Fellowship / Online course participation / completion Rajkumar M., Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, completed three months certification course on “Learning Disability” in SDS Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Chennai on 9.10.2016. Dr.SunilSamal completed USG training at Lotus Hospitals Erode in the month of October 2016. Four doctors are selected every year for Ganga Hospital - Synthes Fellowship in Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery in the Asia Pacific Region, three doctors from outside INDIA and one doctor from INDIA. Dr.Vijay J, Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery was selected for this International fellowship at Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, and received the fellowship titled, Ganga Synthes Fellowship for reconstructive microsurgery and hand surgery.

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Dr.AnandrajVaithy, Asst. Professor of Pathology had successfully completed Fellowship training course in Cytopathology offered by Indian Academy of Cytology at Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, Kerala from 1.11.16 to 30.11.16. Dr. SunitaSamal, Dr.Pallavee, Dr.AishwaryaJagan, Dr.RupalSamal completed a certificate course in GDM on 13.11.16. Dr.MeenuPriyadarshini completed her USG training at Sonoscans Coimbatore in November 2016.

▶▶ Presentations in Academic / Scientific Events Rajkumar M., Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, presented a paper titled “Efficacy of expressive writing therapy (cognitive based) in managing depression and anxiety” in 3rdInternational Conference of the Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University & 6th In SPA International Conference Successful mental health & well-being, at Pondicherry University on 15.10.2016.

Dr.R.Sobana, Associate Professor of Physiology, presented a poster titled “A study on the influence of age in the accuracy of Non Invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP) recording compared to Intra Arterial Pressures (IAP)”in the National level CME “Healthy Ageing” conducted on 21.10.16 at Sri ManakulaVinayagar Medical College, Pondicherry.

- International Conference on Contemporary Trends in Clinical Psychology: Training, Research and Practice” in NIMHANS, Bangalore on 17.11.2016. Dr. Uma Devi, Professor, Department of Microbiology made a poster Presentation on “Comparative analysis of detection of VRE by various Phenotypic methods” in MICROCON – 2016, the 40th Annual conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists from 25.11.2016 to 27.11.2016, at PGIMER, Chandigarh. Dr. Srirangaraj, Professor, Department of Microbiology made Oral Presentation on “Evaluation of invitro susceptibility to Fosfomycinampng gram negative bacterial isolates from urine culture, a study from Puducherry” in MICROCON – 2016, the 40th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists from 25.11.2016 to 27.11.2016, at PGIMER, Chandigarh Dr. Gayatri Mishra presented a poster on “Dual mode ventilation (jet ventilation along with the conventional ventilation) for miPo laryngeal surgery for multiple vocal cord polyps”on TMC National Conference on “The Difficult Airway” TMC-DAC-2016 organized by Department of

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Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, at Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai from 09.12.2016 to 11.12.2016. Mr. V. KuzhandaiVelu, Tutor cum Research Scholar, Department of Biochemistry, participated and poster presented title “Diagnostic role of MicroRNA-499 in Acute Myocardial Infarction” atACBICON2016 Organized by Department of Biochemistry, Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru, Karnataka from 12.12.16 to 15.12.16 Dr.Vineet Thomas Abraham, Associate Prof., Department of Orthopaedics attended as a delegate in “61st Annual conference of Indian Orthopaedic Association and presented paper: Treating the Torm Rotator Cuff : Outcome of Transosseous Mini Open Rotator Cuff Repair on 16.12.16. Dr. M.Manoharan, faculty, Department of Orthopaedics attended as a delegate in “61st Annual conference of Indian Orthopaedic Association and presented a poster titled, Interesting Case – Radial Nerve Entrapement in Lateral Condyle Humurus- Case Report on 16.12.16. Dr.A.R.Pritem, Faculty, Department of Orthopaedics attended as a delegate in “61st Annual conference of Indian Orthopaedic Association and presented a paper titled, Lumbar Canal Decompression by Miunilateral Approach With Contralateral Decompression on 16.12.16 Dr. Anandraj Vaithy, Asst.Prof, Department of Pathology, presented a poster titled, Medical Students’ perception on role of audiovisual aids versus virtual microscopy in slide observation at the MEDUCON-2016 JIPMER-NTTC National Conference Sponsored By Medical Council of India, which was graced by eminent speakers like Prof.Ananthakrishnan Dean Research, SBVU, Professor. KR.Sethuraman, Vice Chancellor, SBVU. Dr. Anandraj Vaithy, Asst.Prof, Department of Pathology, presented a poster titled, 'A novel step in fixing the turn around time in surgical pathology reports-A part of quality management system' at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, National Conference, in December 2016. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

▶▶ Participation in Academic/Scientific Events Dr.Vijay J, MS MRCS DNB (General Surgery ), MCh, DNB (Plastic Surgery), Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery , attended training course for hair transplant in February at MEDISPA at Jaipur held from 07.02.2016 to 12.02.2016. Dr. Uma Narayanamurthy, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology attended the SIDCER Survey, JIPMER 2016, as a Survey trainee for 3 days from 3.10.16 to 5.10.16 held at JIPMER. Dr.Manimekalai.K, HOD and Dr. Mirunalini. R, Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology attended Elsevier Author Workshop 2016, on 6.10.16 held at Accord Hotel, Puducherry. Prof. C.P. Ganesh Babu, Department of General Surgery attended IASYCON 2016 held in Coimbatore from 6.10.16 to 9.10.16. Dr. Vaithiyanathan and Dr. Suguna, Assistant Professors, Community Medicine attended a MEU workshop on ‘Learning Objective writing’ on 07.10.2016 Dr.S.Kalaimani, Dr. Sakthi Suganya, Dr. Tony Mathew Kadavanu, Asst .Professors, and Dr. K. Sudharsan, Senior resident, Department of General Medicine attended a work shop on Setting the learning objectives on 07.10.2016 at ME Unit, MGMCRI. Dr. Umadevi, Faculty member, Department of Microbiology attended a workshop on “Academic Leadership” MEDUCON- 2016, organised by MEU, JIPMER & Alumini association NTTC,JIPMER held on 13.10.2016 JIPMER, Pondicherry. Dr Maithili Karpaga Selvi N and Dr. Sripradha, Tutors, Department of Biochemistry, participated Hands on workshop on “Basic and Applied Bioinformatics for Clinical Genomics” conducted by CIDRF, SBV 14.10.16. Prof. R. Ramesh, Professor and Head, Dr. Niranjan, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, participated in National at MEDUCON-2016, organized by NTTC, JIPMER, Puducherry 14.10.16. Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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Dr.Pramod Kumar GN, Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine attended MEDUCON 2016- National Conference on Medical Education at JIPMER on 14.10.16 Dr. Namratha K Bhosale, Dr. Valentina .Y, Faculty members, Department of Microbiology attended CME on, “Automation in Microbiology-an advantage for physicians”, conducted by SVMC&RC, Puducherry under the auspices of IAMM-Puducherry Chapter, on 14.10.16. Dr. Sivaprakash B, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, participated in the CME on “The Medical Education Conference 2016 (MEDUCON 2016)” in JIPMER on 14.10.2016. Dr. S. Avudaiappan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, participated in “IPSOCON 2016” 49th Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society – South Zone Branch held at Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park from 14.10.16 to 16.10.16. Dr.Vijay J, Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery attended the training program on Cranio maxillofacial Surgeries at Mumbai, held from 14.10.16 to 16.10.16. Dr. Arun kumar, Dr.S.Kalaimani, Asst .Professors, Department of General Medicine attended “PAGE’ – CME programme on Gastroenterology at IGMC&RI, Pondicherry, on 15.10.2016. Dr. Abhijith V Bortane, Associate Professor, Dr. Vaithiyanathan, Dr.Jayaramachandran S, Dr. Suguna and Dr. Surekha, Assistant Professors, Community Medicine participated in CME Programme on Surveillance of Measles and Polio on 15.10.2016 at JIPMER. Dr. Arul VijayaVani S, Asst Prof., Mrs. V. Mohana Valli, Tutor, Department of Biochemistry, participated in Workshop quality management system and internal audit in medical labs as per ISO 15189-2012 organized by Department of Biochemistry in collaboration of ‘HELP 360’, New Delhi at MEU, MGMCRI from 19.10.16 to 22.10.16.

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Dr. Sunita Samal, Dr.Sendhil Coumary, Professors of O&G and Dr. RupalSamal, Asst. Professor O&G attended a CME on Abnormal Uterine Bleeding conducted by OGSP Pondicherry on 16.10.16. Dr. Selvaraj Stephen, Faculty member, Department of Microbiology attended workshop on “State Measles/ Rubella case-based surveillance transitioning workshop” at Puducherry organized by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India & WHO were granted two days from 18.10.2016 to 19.10.2016. Dr. Pramodhini, Dr. Pravin Charles M.V, Dr. Namratha K Bhosale, Dr. Valentina .Y, and Dr. Prabha, Faculty members, Department of Microbiology attended workshop on “Training programme on Laboratory Quality system & Internal Audit as per IS/ISO: 15189 organized by HELP in Department of Biochemistry, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute , Pondicherry, from 19.10.16 to 22.10.16. Dr.R.Pajanivel, Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine attended International Meet with Prof.Eric Bateman a TOT Meeting on “SMART Therapy” in Asthma, held at Hotel Radisson Blu, Chennai, on 20.10.16. Dr. Madanmohan, Professor & Head, Dr.K.Jai Ganesh, Professor, Mr. Vasanthan, Assistant Professor, Dr. Selvakumar, and Mr. Uthiravelu, Tutors, Department of Physiology attended the National level CME “Healthy Ageing” conducted on 21.10.16 at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College, Pondicherry. Dr. R. Kalaivani, Faculty member, Department of Microbiology attended CME on restrict Review & Renew antibiotics” organised by department of Microbiology at PIMS on 22.10.16. Dr. Sivashanmugam, Professor & Head, Dr. Hemanth Kumar, Professor, Dr. Rani, Dr. Kusha, Dr. Sameer Jahagirdar, Dr. Sripriya, Dr. DewanRoshan Singh, Associate Professors, Dr. Antony John Charles, Dr. Gayatri Mishra, Dr. Annie Sheeba, Dr. Indubala, Assistant Professors, Dr. ArchanaAreti, Dr. Senthil Kumar, Dr. Vivek, Dr. SiyamSundar, Senior Residents, Department of Anaesthesiology, participated a ISA Puducherry PG Meet 5th edition on Interpretation of Capnography and Spirometry organized by Dept. of Anaesthesiology, MGMCRI associated with ISA Puducherry Branch at Hotel Athithi on 22.10.2016. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Dr. Arun kumar, Dr. Tony Mathew Kadavanu, and Dr. Sakthi Suganya, Asst Professors, Department of General Medicine attended a CME- Infectious diseases update at JIPMER, Pondicherry on 22.10.16. Dr. A.Thumbanatham, Asst Professor, Department of General Medicine attended a CME- Infectious diseases update at JIPMER, Pondicherry on 22.10.16. Prof. R. Ramesh, Professor and Head, Dr. Niranjan G, Dr. M. Sathish Babu, Associate Professors, Dr. R. Reeta, Asst Prof., Mrs. V.MohanaValli, Tutor attended conference CLINICON-2016, Trichy, Tamil Nadu on 23.10.2016. Dr.Pallavee P, Professor of O&G attended CME on Fetal Imaging at AVMC, Puducherry on 3.11.16. Dr.Pramod Kumar GN, Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine attended ‘International seminar on Endocrinological disorders’ organized by Dept of Pharmacology, MGMCRI, Pondicherry on 03.11.16. Dr.Pallavee, Dr,SunitaSamal Professors of O&G Dr.Lopamudra B John, Assoc. Professor O&G and Dr.Rupal Samal, Asst. Professor, O&G attended the International Seminar on endocrine disorders on 3.11.16 at MGMCRI. Prof. R. Ramesh, Professor and Head, Dr. M. Sathish Babu Associate Professor, Dr. R. Reeta, Dr. S. Arul Vijaya Vani, Asst Profs., Mrs. V. MohanaValli, Dr Maithili Karpaga Selvi N and Dr.Sripradha Tutors, Department of Biochemistry, attended International Seminar on Endocrinological disorders, organized by Department of Pharmacology, MGMCRI, on 3.11.16. Dr.Tridip Dutta Baruah, Dr.Balasubramanian, Dr.Kannan.R, Dr.Saravana kumar.S, Dr.Ganesh Babu C.PDr.Mugilan, Dr.Vinoth S and Dr.R.Durai, Faculty, Department of Surgery, attended Endoscopy Fellowship Training Course in Erode (EFIAGES 2016) from 3rd November to 5th November 2016. from 3.11.16 to 6.11.16.

Dr. Soundararajan, Faculty, Pediatrics Department attended International seminar on endocrinology disorders held at MGMCRI on 03.11.2016. Dr.S.S.Bakshi, Assistant professor attended Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, “International Seminar on Endocrinological Disorders” on 3.11.2016 at MGMCRI, Pondicherry. Dr. Aarthi A, Dr. Tony Mathew Kadavanu, Dr. J Thamilarasan, and Dr.S.Kalaimani, Asst Professors, Dr. K. Sudharsan, Senior resident, Department of General Medicine attended a seminar on Endocrine disorders on 03.11.2016 at MGMCRI, organized by the department of Pharmacology. Dr. Uma Narayanamurthy and Dr. Mirunalini. R Department of Pharmacology attended the CME DRIVE 2016, on 6.11.16 organized by the Diabetes Research Foundation, Puducherry at Shenbagha Hotel, Puducherry. Dr. Sivashanmugam, Professor & Head, Dr. Hemanth Kumar, Professor, Dr. Annie Sheeba, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Archana, Senior Resident, Department of Anaesthesiology, attended as a delegate on 5th Annual CME & Workshop (IGAP-2016) organized by Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, IGMCRI and ISA-Puducherry State Branch on 5.11.16 and 6.11.16. Under the aegis of Urological society of India, Continuing Urological education programme in memory of Prof.H.S. Bhat was conducted in Puttaparthy on 07.11.2016. It was attended by Dr.A.Mossadeq (Prof & HOD), Dr. S, Joseph Philipraj (Prof ), DrVasudevan T, Dr. Deepak, Asst.Professors, department of Urology. Dr. Tony Mathew Kadavanu, and Dr.S.Kalaimani, Asst. Professors, Department of General Medicine attended CME on Translational Medicine in Diabetes on 10.11.2016 at MGMCRI. Dr. Hemanth Kumar, Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, attended a CME on “Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes Mellitus” organized by the Department of Biochemistry, MGMCRI on 10.11.2016. Dr. P. Karthikeyan, Professor and HOD, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery and Dr.Joseph Philipraj, Professor of Urology, attended a

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a Guest Lecture on “Psychiatric Genetics”, in CIDRF, on 14.11.16. All Faculties, Department of Psychiatry, participated the SAF Guest Lecture titled “Recent advances in psychiatric genetics” by Dr. Krishnamoorthy R, INSERM, Paris on 14.11.2016. “Workshop on MCI Revised Basic Course and ATCOM Module Workshop” at JIPMER, Pondicherry, as delegates on 07.11.2016 and 10.11.2016. Dr. Suguna.A and Dr. Surekha.A ,Assistant Professors, Community Medicine participated in MEU- Micro Teaching Programme on 10.11.2016 at MGMCRI. Dr. Madanmohan, Professor & Head, Dr. Nikhilesh Singh, Dr. Richa Gupta, Dr Devi R Nithiya, Asst. Professors,Mr. Uthiravelu, Tutor, Physiology dept., attended the National level CME “Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes Mellitus”, conducted on 10.11.16 at MGMCRI, Puducherry. Dr.S.S.Bakshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery attended “Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes Mellitus” on 10.11.2016 at MGMCRI, Pondicherry. Prof. T.K.Dutta, Department of General Medicine attended 57th Annual conference of Indian Society of Haematology, Blood Transfusion at Jaipur on 10.11.16 to 13.11.16. Prof. S. Gopalakrishan, Professor, Dr. S.S.Bakshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery attended “ENT CARE 2016 Airway Management - An Overview” on 11.11.2016 at Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chennai. Dr. K Srikanth, Professor and HOD, Dr. KN Jha, Professor of Ophthalmology, Dr. AR Rajalakshmi, Associate Professor, Dr. N Swathi, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology attended the Conference “PHACO EXCEL 2016 – Excellence in Cataract Surgery” as delegates held at Aravind eye Hospital, Pondicherry on 12.11.2016 & 13.11.2016.

Dr Ramesh R, HOD, Department of Biochemistry, participated in the e-learning course conducted by MEU India group on 15.11.16. Dr. J Thamilarasan, Senior resident, Department of General Medicine attended Annual conference of Research society for the study of Diabetes in India at HICC, Hyderabad, from 18.11.16 to 20.11.16. Dr. K. Sudharsan, Senior resident, Department of General Medicine attended Annual conference of Research society for the study of Diabetes in India at HICC, Hyderabad, from 18.11.16 to 20.11.16. Rajkumar M., Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, participated in a workshop on “Application of Digital Technology in Medical & Social Sciences Research” conducted by SDS Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Chennai on 26.11.16 & 27.11.16. Dr. Soundararajan, Dr.Anup, Dr.Manju, Dr.Lalitha, Faculty, Pediatrics Department, attended workshop on development: Cradles to crayons and beyond held at AVMC on 27.11.2016. Dr.SunitaSamal, Professors of O&G Dr.Rupal Samal, Dr.Sunil Kumar Samal, Dr.Setu Rathod and Dr.Madhusmita, Asst. Professor O&G attended a Live Laparoscopy workshop at MGMCRI relayed from Indore India on 27.11.16. Dr. B.R. Nagaraj, Professor and HOD, Department of Radiology attended the Inauguration of District branch of IRIA at Davangere on 28.11.16.

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Dr. Uma Narayanamurthy, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology attended the Monthly CME’s in Cuddalore IMA for the months from October and November, 2016 held at IMA Hall, Cuddalore. Dr. Pruthu T K has participated in RNTCP South Zone-2 Zonal Task Force- 2016 on 01.12.2016 and 02.12.2016 at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Science, Puducherry. Dr. Manimekalai.K, HOD and Dr. Mirunalini. R Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology attended the CME on Commemoration of World Diabetes Day - Speaker Dr. Sadhish Kumar Kamalanathan, Endocrinologist, JIPMER, organized by the Department of Medicine, MGMCRI. Dr. Manimekalai. K, HOD, Department of Pharmacology attended and issued the awards for the Prize winners of the Quiz competition for AIDS day, organized by the Department of Community Medicine, MGMCRI. Dr.A.Mossadeq (Prof & HOD), Dr. S, Joseph Philipraj (Prof ), DrVasudevan T, Dr. Deepak, Asst.Professors, department of Urology attended a CME on ‘Clinical discussion on Ca Prostate Mollecular biology, androgen deprivation therapy, Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy’held at JIPMER, Pondicherry on 04.12.2016. Dr. Sivashanmugam, Professor and Head, Dr. Hemanth Kumar, Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, attended a workshop on “Authentic Assessment of Graduate Outcomes” held at MEU, MGMCRI on 05.12.2016 and 08.12.2016. Dr. Manimekalai.K, HOD, Associate Professors Dr. Kartik J. Salwe& Dr. Padmavathi.S, Department of Pharmacology attended the Authentic assessment of graduate outcomes on 5.12.16 & 8.12.16 at MGMCRI Dr. Eswaran S, Professor & Head, Dr. Sivaprakash B., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, attended workshop titled “Authentic Assessment of Graduate Outcomes” in MEU Lecture Hall, MGMCRI on 5.12.2016 & 08.12.2016. Dr. K.S. Seetha, Dr. Selvaraj Stephen, Dr. Umadevi, Faculty members, Department of Microbiology attended

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Workshop on Real Time PCR technique in Biomedical research, conducted by SBV on 08.12.2016 & 10.12.2016. Dr. K.S. Seetha, Faculty members, Department of Microbiologyattended CME on sleep disordered breathing – A medical and surgical overview on 9.12.16 at MGMCRI. Dr. Manimekalai.K, Dr. Kartik J Salwe, Dr. Johan Pandian J, Dr. Mirunalini R and Dr. Uma Narayanamurthy, faculty, Department of Pharmacology attended the CME on Sleep Disordered Breathing, A Medical and Surgical overview, jointly organized by the Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Otorhinolaryngology, MGMCRI on 9.12.16. Dr. Soundararajan, Faculty, Pediatrics Department attended CME on “Sleep Disordered Breathing – A Medical and Surgical Overview” organized by Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Department of Otorhinolaryngology at MGMCRI, Pondicherry on 09.12.2016. Dr.Jayaramachandran S, Assistant Professor, Community Medicine has participated in Sleep Disordered Breathing - A Medical & Surgical Overview on 09.12.2016 held at MGMCRI, Puducherry. Dr.A.N.Uma, Asst. Professor of Medical Genetics, Genetic Unit, Anatomy participated as a delegate at the CME on “Sleep Disordered Breathing - A Medical and Surgical Review” jointly organized by the departments of Pulmonary Medicine and ENT, held on 09.12.2016 at MGMCRI, Puducherry. Dr. Devi R Nithiya, Assistant Professor of Physiology attended the National level CME on “Sleep disordered breathing- A medical and surgical overview jointly organized by Dept of Pulmonary Medicine and Department of otorhinolaryngology on 9.12.16 at MGMCRI, Puducherry. Dr. Jaya, and Dr.Indubala, Assistant Professors, Dr. BalasubramaniamAnusha, Senior Resident Department of Anaesthesiology, attend as a delegate on CME on “Sleep Disordered Breathing – A Medical and Surgical Overview” organized by Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Department of Otorhinolaryngology at MGMCRI, Pondicherry on 09.12.2016.

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Dr. P.Dhivya, Asst .Professor, Department of General Medicine attended CME Programme on Obstructive sleep apnoea jointly organized by the departments of Pulmonary Medicine and ENT, held on 09.12.2016 at MGMCRI, Puducherry. Dr. Gayatri Mishra, Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, has attended as a delegate on TMC National Conference on “The Difficult Airway” TMCDAC-2016 organized by Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, at Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai from 09.12.2016 to 11.12.2016. Dr.A.A. Rajamani, Department of Orthopaedics attended as a faculty in 61st Annual conference of Indian Orthopaedic Association, from12.12.16 to 17.12.16. Dr.Satish Kumar, Professor & Head, Dr.Dhritiman Nath, Associate Professor Dr.Prasanna P, Tutor of Forensic Medicine attended CME (1st MEDICO – JURIDIQUE 2016) on “Insights on Current Medicolegal Issues” organized by Dept of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, IGMCRI, Pondicherry on 17.12.16. Prof. R. Kannan, Assoc.Prof, Department of General Surgery attended ASICON conference in the month of December 2016, held in Mysore Dr. Devi R Nithiya, Assistant Professor of Physiology attended the International level workshop on “Techniques in physiological science” for SAARC nations organized by Department of Physiology held at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi from 20.12.16 to 22.12.16. Dr. Arul VijayaVani S, Asst. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, participated in “Workshop in aligning objectives to learning and assessment” conducted by MEU, MGMCRI. Dr. Kartik J Salwe, Dr. Padmavathi. S, Dr. Johan Pandian. J, Dr. Mirunalini. R, Dr. Uma Narayanamurthy and Dr. SabariAnandh, faculty, Department of Pharmacology attended the CME on Translational Medicine, organized by the Department of Biochemistry, MGMCRI.

▶▶ MISCELLANY Dr.A.N.Uma, Asst. Professor of Medical Genetics, Genetic Unit, Anatomy was the judge for the Elocution competition on the topic’ National Unity vs Aspirations of the States’ for the UG medical student s on the occasion of National 22

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Unity Day “Rashtriya Ekta Diwas” held on 05.11.2016 at MGMCRI, Puducherry. “Critical Care Unit” from the Anaesthesiology Department has been developed into “Department of Critical Care Medicine” on 01.10.2016. Dr. Sameer M. Jahagirdar has been transferred as Assistant Professor in Department of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Sreedhar Reddy has been transferred as Assistant Professor in Department of Critical Care Medicine. ‘Palliative care inpatient ward” was inaugurated by Dr. M.R. Rajagopal, Pallium India, at I block first floor, MGMCRI on 01.12.2016. Dr. Dewan Roshan Sigh, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, is part of Hospital Palliative Care Team.

▶▶ SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC FORUM During the last quarterly of 2016 (Oct- Dec), the Scientific and Academic Forum & Medical Education Unit, MGMCRI, conducted four internal meetings, and three external meetings consisting of one panel discussion, one guest lectures, and one symposium.

SAF - INTERNAL MEET 07. 10. 2016 The first SAF internal meeting for the last quarter was held on 07.10.2016. The president of SAF Dr. Partha Nandi, Prof of Community Medicine & Vice Principal welcomed the gathering. SAF Secretary, Dr. Uma AN, Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics, Genetic Unit, Anatomy Dept. , gave the Minutes of the Previous Meet, while Dr. Sukanto Sarkar, Associate Professor of Psychiatry conducted the Mediquiz. There were three paper presentations namely “Pedunculated mesenteric lipoma causing intestinal obstruction” by Dr. Sadhan, Post Graduate, Department of Gen. Surgery, Multiple “silent” Abscesses in a Child with Hyper IgE Syndrome” by Dr. Sumathisri,R, Post Graduate, Department of Pediatrics and “An Interesting Case of Neck Pain in an Adolescent” by Dr. N.J. Reguvaran, Post Graduate, Department of SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Orthopaedics. The results of the quiz and the winners were announced. The meeting had a lucky dip contest where one of the members present in the audience cell was selected by a lucky Draw and treated with a gift. The forum ended with prizes given to the winner of the quiz, certificates to the presenters and to the judges who evaluated the paper presenters. SAF Secretary, Dr. Uma AN, proposed the vote of thanks. About 250 faculty and residents participated in this program.

21.10.2016 The second SAF internal meeting for the last quarter was held on 21.10.2016 between 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm in the presence of the president of SAF, Dr. ParthaNandi, SAF Secretary, Dr. Uma AN, and other members of SAF team. The session started with the Dr. SukantoSarkar conducting

the Mediquiz. This was followed by a Capsule talk on “Surgical treatment of ruptured intracranial aneurysms” (With Surgical videos) by Dr.R Pratheesh, Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery. The capsule talk was followed by three presentations namely, ‘Save the Spleen”Coil embolisation by Dr.Greeshma Yarlagadda, Final year Post Graduate, Radiology Dept., “When the Mask gave up the Masquerading” by Dr. Ben George, Final year Post Graduate, DVL Dept., and “A Case of Hemorrhagic Fever” by Dr. Sivaji Patibandla, Postgraduate, General Medicine Dept. The results of the quiz and the winners were announced followed by the regular formalities as the earlier meet. 200 faculty and residents participated in this program. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

The third SAF internal meeting for the last quarter was held on 04.11.2016 between 2. 00 pm and 4.00 pm in the presence of the president of SAF, Dr. ParthaNandi, SAF Secretary, Dr. Uma AN, and other members of SAF team. The session started with the Dr. SukantoSarkar, conducting the Mediquiz. This was followed five case presentations namely, ‘Role of Platelet Rich Plasma in Healing of Chronic Ulcers and Wounds’ by R Balavignesh, Postgraduate, Department of Surgery. ‘HHH syndrome’ by Dr. Gaurav Balpande, Postgraduate, Dept of Radiology. ‘A Rare case report of Vanishing Bone Disease’ by Dr. Shamim Ahmed, Postgraduate, Department of Orthopedics. ‘Non Communicating Rudimentary Horn of Uterus’ by Dr. Mohit Vashishta, Postgraduate, Dept of Radiology and Intradural extra medullary lesion of capillary hemanigioma - A Rare Case for diagnosis by Dr.R.Chitarth, Postgraduate, Department of Orthopedics. The results of the quiz and the winners were announced followed by the regular formalities as per the earlier meetings. 175 faculty and residents participated in this program.

09.12.2016 The fourth SAF internal meeting for the last quarter was held on 09.12.2016 between 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm in the presence of the president of SAF, Dr. ParthaNandi, SAF Secretary, Dr. Uma AN, and other members of SAF team. The session started with the Dr. Sukanto Sarkar conducting the Mediquiz. This was followed by a Capsule talk on “The Pioglitazone controversy -What can it teach us?” by Dr Karthik Balachandran, Asst Professor, Department of Endocrinology. The capsule talk was followed by three presentations namely, ‘Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: Rare or Not?’ by Dr. Shashank Tiwari, Postgraduate, Dept of General Medicine, ‘Innovative IR’ by Dr. Sarath Sasidharan Pillai, Postgraduate, Dept of Radiology and ‘A Rare Case Report of Breast Lump – Interesting Cytomorphological Diagnosis’ by Dr. Shameera Begum, Postgraduate, Department of Pathology. The results of

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the quiz and the winners were announced followed by the regular formalities as per the earlier meetings. 200 faculty and residents participated in this program.

SAF EXTERNAL MEET Panel discussion on “Practicing Safe Medicine” A PANEL DISCUSSION was held on 18.11.2016 at Ground Floor Lecture Hall, College Block on the topic, “ ‘Practicing Safe Medicine’: Safe Patient, Safe Doctor, and Safe Community”. The Panelist were Dr.TN.Ravisankar, MBBS, DFM (Colombo), PGDMC & E., Hony. Secretary, FSS, President Elect, Indian Medical Association, TN State, Branch, Deepam Hospital, Muthurangan Road, West Tambaram. Chennai, Dr.Dekal.V, M.D (Forensic Medicine), PGDMLE, Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Saveetha Medical College, Thandalam, Chennai, Dr.P.Elanthirayan, MS, MRCS., M.Ch (Pediatric Surgery) Consultant Pediatric Surgeon, Crisis Committee, Cuddalore and Dr.C.P.Ganesh Babu, MS, Professor of General Surgery, MGMCRI. The Moderator for the session was Dr.Partha Nandi, Vice Principal (Student Affairs), Professor, PSM Dept., SAF- President, MGMCRI. The discussion threw light on many issues. The following are a few excerpts: ‘Modern health care is highly complex, high

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risk and error prone. Not surprisingly, health care errors and consequent adverse events are a leading cause of death and injury, even though well-documented methods to prevent the occurrence of many of these errors are available. The recent heightened attention that has been focused on medical errors has sparked interest in the use of health care practices that reduce the risk of harm resulting from the processes, systems, or environments of care, i.e., Safe medical practices that not only serves the patients but also lays a helping hand to the treating doctors. As doctors, we are used to treating patients who have been involved in accidents, including workplace accidents and mishaps. They range from minor trauma to catastrophic injuries. But, as medical professionals, we also need to remain vigilant about our own safety in the workplace. Medical workplaces need to develop a culture of best practice when it comes to safety of the doctors and the patients. This requires constant vigilance and improvement wherever possible’. Guest lecture on “Integration of Palliative Care in Medical Practice” SAF, in collaboration with the Hospital Palliative Care Team, MGMCRI conducted a Guest lecture on 01.12.2016,

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Thursday at 2.00 pm in the Ground floor lecture hall, College block. The SAF Guest Lecture was held on the topic, “Integration of Palliative Care in Medical Practice” with the speaker of the day being Dr.M. R. Rajagopal, MD, Chairman, Pallium India, (WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Policy on Access to Pain Relief ), Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences. The SAF talk was an ever cherished one. “Dr.M.R.Rajagopal, put light into the feeling of hopelessness, despair, worries about children and the hurdles of patients with life limiting illness, uncontrolled pain and other symptoms that add intensity to their helplessness. Such patients step into the palliative care unit which does a great soulful personal touch and care that makes them feel better. With such holistic and empathetic approach, the palliative care unit assures comfort and dignity to the dying patients”.

talk and took the session for a debate with Dr. Alai Taggu, Associate Professor and HOD, Dept. of Critical Care Medicine. The main points that were discussed were - ‘The end of life care decisions (EOLD) are grossly neglected in the present practice’, ‘The legal stand on EOLD in India is not clear’, ‘CPR for patients coming under the EOLD makers is questionable’, and ‘The way forward in the absence of law of the land is through: a) CLEAR discussion, b) Daily Clear documentation and c) Form a joint committee with multi-disciplinary involvement to discuss futility and hence a decision on CPR in those patients.

▶▶ Department of Pharmacology INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ENDOCRINOLOGICAL DISORDERS Department of Pharmacology successfully organized a one day seminar program entitled as “International Seminar on Endocrinological Disorders” on November 3rd 2016. Nearly 110 delegates attended the program. The program started with the inauguration function in which the Vice Chancellor

SAF “Symposium on End of Life Care Issues in ICU”.

SAF, in collaboration with the Department of Critical Care Medicine conducted a Symposium on 02.12.2016, Friday at 2.00 pm in the D2 Lecture Hall, Second Floor, Hospital Block on the topic “Symposium on : End of life care decisions in Intensive care unit in Indian scenario “. The symposium had an eminent speaker, Dr.M.R.Rajagopal, Chairman, Pallium India, (WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Policy on Access to Pain Relief ), Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences who inaugurated the symposium, delivered a SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Prof KR Sethuraman delivered the inaugural address and Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Prof. M. Ravishankar presented the keynote address. International Experts and eminent speakers from the field of endocrinology enlightened the delegates about the various endocrinological disorders. The renowned Endocrinologist from Dalhousie University, Canada, Dr.Santhosh Kumar NL, shared his ideas about the management of pituitary tumors. Dr Nanda Kumar N from Blackpool Victoria teaching hospital, UK enlightened the crowd about juvenile diabetes mellitus. Dr Mohamed Hanifah, Professor of General Medicine, MGMCRI spoke about the management of subclinical hypothyroidism and Dr.Gowri Dorairajan Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, JIPMER shared her knowledge about the management of PCOD. Dr.Dedeepiya Devaprasad V. from Niche- in – centre for regenerative medicine in Chennai gave a talk on the role of stem cells in endocrinological disorders. Finally there was a Panel discussion on the topic “Cost effective management of endocrinological disorders” convened by Prof. Manimekalai K. Head of the Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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Department, Pharmacology. The program ended with the valedictory function.

chaired by Prof. R.Pajanivel and Dr.S.Yuvarajan, Associate Professor, Pulmonary Medicine, SMVMC, Pondicherry.

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The CME ended with a panel discussion on “Approach to Patients with SDB”. Dr. Loganathan, Interventional Pulmonologist, Ramakrishna Hospitals, Coimbatore, Dr.VijayaKrishnan.P, Consultant, Otorhinolaryngologist, MERF, Chennai, Professor B.Amirtha Ganesh , HOD , Cardiology, MGMCRI and Dr.Karthik Balachander, Endocrinologist, MGMCRI were the panelists. Dr.Vidyasagar .R, Associate Professor of ENT, NRI Medical College, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh moderated the discussion. Vote of thanks was delivered by Prof R. Pajanivel. All sessions were well received and the participants gave a good feedback. The CME was awarded 2 credit points by Tamil Nadu Medical Council.

CME ON “SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING (SDB)” – A MEDICAL AND SURGICAL OVERVIEW Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Department of Otorhinolaryngology jointly organised a CME on “SLEEP DISORDERED B R E AT H I N G (SDB)” on 9th December 2016 sponsored by Philips Respironics held at the Central library, SBV campus, Puducherry. Prof.P.Karthikeyan, HOD, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, gave the welcome address. The chief guest Prof.M.Ravishankar, Dean (Faculty of Medicine), MGMCRI, inaugurated the program by lighting the lamp and gave the inaugural address. Prof.K.SurendraMenon, gave the keynote address. Nearly 150 delegates attended the CME. Experts and eminent speakers from the fields of Pulmonary Medicine, Otorhinolaryngology, Cardiology, Psychiatry, General Medicine, and Endocrinology shed light on medical, surgical and psycho-social aspects of sleep disordered breathing. Prof.K.SurendraMenon chaired a session with Prof.King Herald Kisku (HOD, Pulmonary Medicine, PIMS, Pondicherry) on “Sleep Disordered Breathing – an overview and approach to diagnosis”. Dr.R.Vimal Raj, Assistant Professor, gave a talk on “Non-Surgical Management of SDB-OSA” at the CME. This session was

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▶▶ Department of Biochemistry WORKSHOP ON QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND INTERNAL AUDIT - ISO 15189-2012 The Department of Biochemistry, MGMCRI organized a Workshop a quality management system (QMS) and internal audit in medical laboratories as per ISO 151892012 and in association with HELP 360 from 19th to 22nd October 2016. Eminent resource person including Prof. M. K. Lalitha, Former Head, Department of Microbiology

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CMC vellore and former Prof. Ramadeshikan, Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Madras Medical College elaborated on several facets of quality Management, as applied to diagnostic laboratory. The programme was inaugurated by Prof. M. Ravishankar, Dean-Faculty, MGMCRI, SBV. There are nearly 20 participants were participated in this workshop those are faculty and technical persons form various institute in and around Puducherry.

from prestigious institutions, namely Dr. Aaron Chapla Scientist-Molecular endocrinology laboratory,Christian medical college, Vellore, Dr. Jayesh Warade, Consultant Biochemist &Molecular Biology, NABL assessor, Meenakshi mission Hospital, Madurai, Faculty –Abott POCT, USA, Dr. Channaveerappa Bammigatti Associate Professor, Dept. of General Medicine JIPMER and two of them are form our own institute Prof. R. Ramesh Head, Department of Biochemistry, MGMCRI and Dr. Anand Balayogi Bhavanani, Dept. of Yoga therapy, MGMC&RI were the resource persons. Impressive postens donned the portals of the Department of Biochemistry. Earlier, the Hon’ble VC of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth Pro. K. R. Sethuraman and the Dean ( Research & AHS) Prof N. Ananthakrishnan laid emphasis on the cardinal principle of Translational Research and Prof C. Adithan, Director CIDRF offered felicitations. WORKSHOP - “GOOD PRACTICES IN PHLEBOTOMY”

CME - TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE IN THE DIAGNOSIS & MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS The department of biochemistry conducted an national Continuing Medical Education Programme title “Translational medicine in the Diagnosis & Management of Diabetes Mellitus”, on 10th November 2016. Diabetes mellitus has been assuming menacing proportions since the last few years and there is an immediate need to focus attention on Translation research in Diabetes mellitus which means that effective bedside. This year the theme was titled ‘Eyes on Diabetes’. Eminent speakers drawn

Department of Biochemistry in collaboration with central laboratory MGMCRI conducted workshop on “Good Practices in Phlebotomy” for laboratory technicians and nursing staff. The workshop was held on 5rd and 7th December 2015 at C-II block of Hospital and nearly 80 to 100 participants from our institute got trained. Phlebotomy has frequently been highlighted in all programmed meant for educating laboratory personnel. However a unique feature of this workshop was that, several less emphasized points in analytical/clinical biochemistry pertaining to phlebotomy were enumerated by Dr. Kulkarni Sweta and Dr. R.Reeta faculties of department of Biochemistry led by the Professor and Head, Dr. R. Ramesh.

▶▶ Department of Orthopaedics MORE 2016 (MGMCRI ORTHOPAEDIC REVISION EDUCATION) on 18, 19 November 2016 Department of Orthopaedics conducted the 2nd Post Graduates teaching programme in the Institute and in the State of Pondicherry was conducted on 18 & 19 November 2016. Presence of eminent faculties from various Institutes was hallmark for this program. A total of 15 were external

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and 6 were internal faculties. It had four sessions of Clinical case discussions and didactic lectures on approach to various case scenarios. This programme has been planned to be organized annually for the benefit of exam going Post Graduates. Dr.Tumbanatham, Asst.Professor, Department of General Medicine peer reviewer for Journal of Clinical and diagnostic research during this quarter. Dr.Lokesh , Associate Professor, Department of General Medicine, is the Editor for Journal of Current trends in clinical medicine and laboratory biochemistry and for Journal of clinical and diagnostic research

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Officer, Dr. Lakshmana Perumal. All the members of the nursing team and Pediatrics faculty were present during the occasion. The new PICU complex is located in the third floor C block extension of the main hospital complex. It is a six-bedded ICU with ventilator and all infrastructure necessary for managing sick children.

▶▶ Department of Critical Care Medicine The creation of Department of Critical Care Medicine was officially inaugurated by the office of Dean on 14.11.2016 with its functioning faculties as Dr. Alai Taggu (Associate Professor & HOD), Dr. Sameera M Jahagirdar (Associate Professor) and Dr. Sreedhar Reddy (Assistant Professor).The Department of Critical care medicine and SAF conducted a symposium on “End of life care decisions (EOLDs) in ICU” on 02.12.2016. Dr. Rajagopal, Chairman, Pallium India was the Guest Speaker. The session was interactive and an eye opener to the concept of EOLDs in India.

▶▶ Hospital Palliative Care Team Inauguration of the Inpatient ward for Palliative Care CME on “Artificial sweeteners” On 14.11.2016, as part of the commemoration of the World Diabetes day, a CME cum Student Enrichment programme was conducted. A special talk was delivered by Dr. Sadishkumar Kamalanathan, Associate Professor of Endocrinology, JIPMER, Puducherry on “Artificial sweeteners – How safe are they?” Around 150 UG students and 50 PGS attended the programme

Hospital Palliative Care Team has opened an inpatient ward for Palliative Care which was inaugurated by Dr. MR Rajagopal - who is better known as Father of Palliative Medicine in India on December 1st, 2016.

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▶▶ Department of QMS Mr.M.F.Kishore Coumar, M.Sc nursing (Quality Educator/BLS instructor) presented a topic on “How to communicate effectively with patients, doctors and all health care professionals” for all OPD nurses on 21.11.16. and he handled the session on “Care of Spine injuries” in Ms. Anu Savio Thelly was a Resource Person for the 7th National Conference on ‘Breaking Bad News to Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing”-Exploring New Horizons’, held on 12th October,2016 at KGNC, Pondicherry in association with ICMR. She spoke on ‘Integration of Alternative Therapies into Cancer Care.’

Medical stimulation centre for Dept of General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Anaesthesia (MS,MD,Asso.Prof & Diploma students) on 24.10.16 to 27.10.16 Mr.S.Selvaganapathi M.Sc nursing (Quality educator) presented a topic on “Basics of ECG” for staff Nurses in virtue of Continuing Nurses Education Programme on 19.10.16, 9.11.16, 16.11.16, He also handled a class on “Bed Sore” for Staff Nurse on 14.12.16.

Ms. Anu Savio Thelly has been selected to the Faculty pool of Palliative care in Pondicherry. She was a resource person for Foundation course in Palliative Medicine for Doctors from 15th-17th December, 2016 held at General Hospital, Pondicherry. This is the first training program in palliative Medicine conducted by Department of Health & Family Welfare for Medical Personnel working in different cadres for the Government of Pondicherry. The foundation course was attended by 16 doctors (from GH & IGMC) from different specialties. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Innovations ▶▶ Medical Simulation CeNtre (MSC) In appreciation of the activities of the MSC, MGMCRI, American Heart Association has renewed the prestigious International Training Centre status for 3 more years. From the inception as AHA Accrediated ITC (International Training Centre) the MSC, MGMCRI has developed 15 faculties as instructors to teach BLS, ACLS. With the active involvement& participation of the instructors, the MSC could accomplish the herculean task of disseminating CPR skill training to Interns, Postgraduates and Nurses. ITC team is also actively involved in creating community awareness BLS by conducting diverse our reach programmes to police personal and Geriatric community. During the last Quarter of 2016 MSC has conducted, 6 sessions of BLS programmes were conducted for the Interns of MGMCRI, 4 sessions of ACLS programmes were conducted for the Postgraduates of MGMCRI. Dr. R. Sobana, Assoc. Professor of Physiology & Mr. Kishore, Quality Instructor conducted an awareness programme cum demonstration of BLS to “Serene Pelican” Geriatric community on 1st December, which was attended by 70 elderly and also conducted a “Hands on Neonatal Resuscitation Skills Training for Nurses” for BSc Nursing students of KGNC on 3rd, 4th, 8th and 12th December which was attended by 100 BSc Nursing students of KGNC.

Professor & Head Microbiology and Dr. C.P. Ganeshbabu Professor Surgery, acted as facilitators. In all 21 faculty members participated from the departments of Pathology, Anatomy, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Pediatrics, General Medicine, Biochemistry, General Surgery, Forensic Medicine, ENT, Community Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Physiology. The objective of the workshop was to sensitize the II MBBS faculty on writing specific learning objectives. During the workshop Dr. Seshadri elaborately explained in detail the need for writing objectives, components of objective, and attributes of a well written objective. He stressed the use of appropriate action verbs for various domains and level of objectives. During the session he encouraged the participant faculty to formulate the objectives for a class on ‘tuberculosis’ for 5th semester students. The participant faculty developed the objectives for various domains on the same and each group was given the opportunity to present their list which was followed by in-depth discussion. Dr Seshadri also touched briefly on a strategy to integrate teaching and learning of the expected outcomes looking at the ‘big picture’ of the MBBS Curriculum. These two sessions were very much interactive. At the end of the workshop feedback was obtained from the participant regarding the usefulness of the workshop. The participants in general felt that the workshop was helpful in writing the specific learning objective.

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sessions (7th and 15th November 2016) under the supervision of the SBV/MEU faculty team comprising of Prof. B. V. Adkoli, Prof. K. A. Narayan, Prof. Seetesh Ghose, Dr. Partha Nandi, Prof. Tirou Aroul, Dr. Niranjan Gopal, Prof. D. Gunasekaran, Dr. R. Ramesh, Dr. Dhananjay S Kotasthane, Prof. V. N. Mahalakshmi assisted in coordinating the Practice sessions.

Hanifa; Student Experience at MGMCRI – Course feedback by Prof. V. N. Mahalakshmi; Pledge to continuing association by Alumni Group.

The analysis of the feedback received from the participants reveals that microteaching experience was a kind of “eye opener” for the faculty in understanding their strengths and weaknesses in teaching. Especially, the junior faculty appreciated the tips given for adopting interactive style of teaching to enhance their teaching effectiveness.

Authentic Assessment of Graduate Outcomes Workshop Two workshops on Authentic Assessment of Graduate Outcomes was conducted on 05.12.2016 and 08.12.2016. In all 45 faculty members participated from the department of Anaesthesiology, Pathology, Anatomy, Microbiology, DVL, Pharmacology, Pediatrics, General Medicine, Biochemistry, General Surgery, Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry, ENT, Community Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ortho, TBCD and Physiology. The Workshop was conducted by Prof. K. R. Sethuraman, VC, SBV, Prof. N. Ananthakrishnan, Dean (R & AHS) SBV, Prof. M. Ravishankar, Dean, MGMCRI & Prof. V. N. Mahalakshmi, VP Curriculum.

Career Guidance and Support (C-5) Program for outgoing interns A Career guidance and support program for batch of interns ( January – December 2016) was held at College block, Ground Floor Lecture hall on 20th December 2016. The program was attended by 102 Interns. The program included five major components (C-5) dealt by the resource persons as follows: ‘Coming together’ by Prof. M. Ravishankar, Dean, MGMCRI; Career Gradient & Mobility by Prof. K. R. Sethuraman, VC, SBV; Qualities to hone & nurture in a young doctor by Prof. Meenakshi Sundaram, Dean, Thiruvarur Medical College; Career options Ahead – An Interactive session by Prof. N. Seetharaman, HOD, Community Medicine, MGMCRI; NEET PG – The Implications for Outgoing Graduates - A Panel Discussion consisting of panelists, viz., Prof. K. R. Sethuraman, Prof. Meenakshi Sundaram, Prof. Krishna Seshadri moderated by Prof. Mohamed SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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New chapters ▶▶ LEADERSHIP TRANSITION Dr. B. R. NAGARAJ, joined MGMCRI as Professor and Head, Department of RadioDiagnosis on 23.11.2016. Before joining here he worked as the Professor and Head, Department of R.D. Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute. He did his MBBS in 1981 at M R Medical College, Gulbarga Karnataka University, DMRD in 1985 at Karnataka Medical College Hubli, Karnataka University and MDRD in 1995-1998 at Govt Medical College Mysore, Mysore University. He was awarded fellowship, F.I.C.R by the Indian College of Radiology in 2013-2014 at Kochi as life time achievement award. He has served as president IRIA Karnataka chapter for two terms.

APPOINTMENTS We take pride in welcoming the following faculty members who joined the fraternity of MGMC&RI during the lastquarter of 2016.

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Dr.Vigneshwara.R.K Dr.Nivedha.R Dr.Gorbacev.D Dr.Bharathy Mohan.P Dr.Punithavathi.V Dr.Devi R Nithiya Dr.Jonathan Victor Dr.Madhusmita Hembram Dr.Himaja.GJunior Dr.Dharma.B Dr.Janaki Dr.Monika.A.K Dr.Deva devi.N Dr.Shyamala Gowri Dr.Praveen.D Dr.Nui Darang Dr.Karthik.B Dr.Sabari Priya.E Dr.Kunisetty Gowtham Dr.Arun Prakash.T Dr.Ramachandran.K Dr.Balasubramanian Anusha Dr.Ameen.A

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OfficerCasualty Cardiology Cardiology Casualty Master Health Physiology Plastic Surgery OB & GY CTVS Neuro Surgery Radiology Neuro Surgery Pharmacology Community Medicine Casualty OB & GY Endocrinology Transfusion Medicine Cardiology Neurology Bio Chemistry Anaesthesiology Radiology

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▶▶ PROMOTION Dr.Pratheesh Ravindran, Associate Professor, Neuro Surgery has been promoted as Professor (01.08.2016) Dr.Abhijit V Boratne, Associate Professor , Community Medicine has been promoted as Professor (04.09.216) Dr.Mugunthan.N, Associate Professor , Anatomy has been promoted as Professor (04.09.2016) Dr.Chandrasekaran.M, Associate Professor, Orthopaedics has been promoted as Professor (01.10.2016) Dr.Lokesh.S, Associate Professor , General Medicine has been promoted as Professor (18.10.2016) Dr.Kalaivani.R, Assistant Professor, Microbiology has been promoted as Associate Professor (07.09.2016) Dr.Bhavani.K, Assistant Professor, Pathology has been promoted as Associate Professor (01.10.2016) Dr.Vasudevan.T, Assistant Professor, Urology has been promoted as Associate Professor (14.10.2016)

Dr.Siva Ranganathan Green, Asst Prof.,, General Medicine has been promoted as Associate Professor (01.11.2016) Dr.Manoharan.M, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics has been promoted as Associate Professor (01.12.2016) We congratulate all the faculty members on their appointments and promotions during the last quarter of 2016.

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Under the aegis of Urological society of India, Continuing Urological education programme in memory of Prof.H.S. Bhat was conducted in Puttaparthy on 07.11.2016 and the CME was attended by Dr.Sathyajeet and Dr.Vishal, post-graduates Department of Urology.

Mr. Lenin N, Research Scholar, Department of Biochemistry awarded first prize for poster competition title “Association between Genetic Variation in Beta Cell Function Genes Gycemic Control in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus”, CME “Translational medicine in the diagnosis & management of Diabetes Mellitus, organized by Department of Biochemistry, MGMC & RI, SBV on 10.11.16.

CME-Clinical discussion on Ca Prostate Molecular biology, androgen deprivation therapy, Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy was held at JIPMER, Pondicherry on 04.12.2016 and the program was attended by Dr.Sathyajeet, Dr.Vishal and Dr. Karthik post-graduates, Department of Urology. Dr.Sathyajeet, Dr.Vishal and Dr. Karthik post-graduates, Department of Urology, attended Zonal Uro-radiology quiz conducted by Urological Society of India at MMC, Chennai on 11.12.2016

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Scientific Presentations Mr. M. Lenin, Department of Biochemistry, Research Scholar participated and presented poster titled “Association between genetic variation in beta cell function genes glycemic control in gestational diabetes mellitus” at ACBICON2016, organized by Department of Biochemistry, Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru, Karnataka held from 12.12.16 to 15.12.16.

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Two of Full Time Ph.D. students, department of Microbiology, made Oral presentation of their research papers in an UGC Sponsored National Conference on “Emerging Infectious diseases and Curative Measures-2016” on 22.12.2016 held at Kamaraj College, Thoothukudi. Mr.Jothimani Pradeep spoke on the topic, ‘Confirmation of acute Q fever by PCR in patients positive for Coxiellaburnetii Phase II IgM antibody by Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay (IFA) – A retrospective Study’ while Velmurugan Anitharaj spoke on the topic ‘Comparison of Serological and Molecular diagnosis for acute Scrub Typhus in Puducherry’.

▶▶ PG NEWS Awards Dr Mubarak R M, second year resident in Department of Radiology won first prize in poster presentation titled “Posterior Circulation Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of CVJ Anomaly with Vertebral Artery Dissection” in Chennai Medical College Hospital And Research Institute, Trichy on 10.11.16. Dr. Ben and Dr. Sriteja, 3rd yr PG, Dept.of DVL won 3rd prize at the National IADVL QUIZ competition at CUTICON, Pondicherry on 27.11.16. Dr.Navya Sindhu, final year post graduate in Department of Radiology, presented an E-posters at 69th Annual State conference IRIA TN & PY chapter of IRIA titled, “Budd Chiari Syndrome: Finding a way to decongestion with percutaneous stenting” and won first prize for the poster. 34

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Dr. Dhivya, Dr.Geetanjali, and Dr. Rajesh, 2nd year PG, Dept. of DVL presented free paper on ‘Systematized verricous epidermal nevus’, ‘Papillon- Lefevre syndrome – A case report’, and an award Paper on “Exophialaspinifera – An uncommon bug in an immune competent host causing subcutaneous phaeohyphomycoses” respectively at the Dermazone conference held at Trichy from 07.10.2016 to 09.10.2016. Dr.Navya Sindhu, final year post graduate in Department of Radiology, presented paper “Role of MRI In the Evaluation of Compressive Myelopathy” at Annual IRIA Telangana State Conference on 14.10.16 in Hyderabad. Two post-graduates from Department of Pediatric, presented papers at the Muthu-Nellai Neocon organized by the National neonatology forum, Tamil Nadu chapter, held on 16.10.2016. Dr. Prasanna Venkatesh presented the paper titled “TORCH infection- an under recognized problem”. Dr. Sridhar Sangaiah, presented the paper titled “Evaluation and treatment of iatrogenic acquired Staphylococcus aureus infection in a previously healthy term neonate”. Both presentations were well appreciated by the team of judges. A certificate of appreciation for the same was presented to both. Dr. Ben George, 3rd year PG, presented a Case report “When the mask gave up the masquerading” in the SAF meeting conducted on 21.10.16. Dr.Mohit Vashishta, Final year resident, Department of Radiology presented a paper titled, “Non Communication Rudimentary Horn of Uterus” at Scientific and Academic Forum on 04.11.16. Dr. Gaurav Balpande, Final year resident, Department of Radiology presented a paper titled “HHH syndrome” at Scientific and Academic Forum on 04.11.16. Dr. Gisi Sebastian, Final year Post graduate, O&G presented a paper on “Comparison of maternal and SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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neonatal outcome in elective LSCS” done at 38 weeks and 39 weeks at OGSSI Annual Conference 2016 at Chennai between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr. Fathima, Final year Post graduate, O&G presented a paper on “Impact of decision delivery interval in Category 2 Caesarean Section”at OGSSI Annual Conference 2016 at Chennai between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr.Kabani, Final year Post graduate, O&G presented a paper on “Comparative study of pap smear in pregnant and non-pregnant women” at OGSSI Annual Conference 2016 at Chennai between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr.Sriteja, 3 rd year PG, Dept. of DVL presented a poster on “Visible clues to the invisible monster” at CUTICON held in Andhra Pradesh between 12.11.16 & 13.11.16. Two post-graduates from Department of Pediatric, Dr. Ajay Prakash. T. R and Dr. Prasanna Venkatesh, were awarded certificates for Oral presentation in the National level Pediatric postgraduate exam refresher course - RIPE 2016 at Sri Ramachandra university, Chennai held between 19.11.16 and 20.11.16. Both the presentations were appreciated by the faculty trainers at the event. Dr. Bhanupriya, 3rd yr PG, Dept. of DVL made a poster presentation on a case report – “confluent and reticulate papillamatosis” and Dr. Lasya , 2nd year PG made a poster presentation on “Cutaneous and sexually transmitted infections in transgenders – An introspective study” at CUTICON, Pondicherry on 27.11.16. Dr. Lasya, 2nd yr PG, Dr. Ben, 3rd yr PG and Dr. Sriteja, 3 yr PG , Dept. of DVL did their award paper presentation on “congenital blueberry muffin with lainypinnal an anociation / co existence”, ‘Case report of pellagra and hypothyroidism and “SSS Vs TEN – A diagnostic challenge” respectively at CUTICON, Pondicherry on 27.11.16. rd

Dr. Gitanjali, and Dr. Divya, 2nd yr PG, Dept. of DVL presented posters titled, ‘Behcets disease-a case report’ and ‘Rare presentation of Bullous pemphigoid’ respectively at CUTICON, Pondicherry on 27.11.16. Dr.Shameera Begum, 1st year PG student, Dept of Pathology presented oral paper, titled, “A rare case report of breast lump – Interesting cytomorphological diagnosis at SAF organized at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry on 9.12.16. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Dr.Sarath Sasidharan Pillai, First year resident, Department of Radiology presented a paper titled, “Innovative InterventionSuper Selective Renal Artery Embolisation” at Scientific and Academic Forum on 09.12.16. Dr. Arun N.A, 2 nd year postgraduate, Department of Pulmonar y Medicine participated and presented a poster titled “Case Series Of Opaque Hemithorax” in the 2nd Tamil Nadu And Puducherry State Conference On Pulmonary Diseases(TAPPCON-2016), held at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, between 10.12.16 and 11.12.16 Dr.Vimi Varghese, 2nd year post graduate, Department of Pulmonary Medicine participated and presented a poster titled “Clinico Radiological Profile of ILD Cases Presenting in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India” in the 2nd Tamil Nadu and Puducherry State Conference on Pulmonar y Diseases (TAPPCON-2016), held at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, between 10.12.16 and 11.12.16. Dr. N Sarala Reddy, Final year Post graduate, O&G presented a paper on “Study of occult urinary incontinence I Pelvic organ prolapse” at Telangana Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Conference 2016 at Khammam between 10.12.16 and 11.12.16. Dr.Greeshma Yarlagadda., PG III MD Radiology, presented a paper titled, “Quantification of Calcium Score In Patients Referred For Coronary CT and Correlation with Carotid Intima Media thickness and Sub Cutaneous Abdominal Fat Thickness” at IRIA State Conference held from 15.12.16 to 18.12.16 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai. Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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Dr.Navya Sindhu, final year post graduate in Department of Radiology, presented an E-posters at 69th Annual State conference IRIA TN & PY chapter of IRIA titled, “Painful to painfree en route – Radiofrequency ablation of osteoid osteoma”.

Scientific Participation Dr.Sekhar Reddy, PG III MD Radiology presented paper at ‘INDO –US imaging update’ which was held in Hyderabad, titled, ‘Comparative and Correlative Study Of Balthazhar Computed Tomography Severity Index and Modified Computed Tomograpghy Severity Index in Predicting the Outcome of Acute Pancreatitis’. Dr.K.V.Brinda, PG III MD Radiology presented paper on “Correlation of Doppler imaging in characterizing focal breast lesion with ultrasound and histopathology” at IRIA State Conference held from 15.12.16 to 18.12.16 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai.

Dr.AshwinSegi, Dr.Memota Laishram, Dr.Abhinay, Dr.Sindhuja M, Dr.Aditya M, Dr.VasanthKumar.R, Dr.Anudeep, & Dr.SruthyVaishali, Postgraduates, Department of Ophthalmology attended a CME “Vizhi Meet 2016- Ocular surface disorders and corneal diseases” conducted by the Villupuram District Ophthalmic Society in association with SVMC, at SVMC, Pondicherry on 02.10.2016. Dr. Prajith, Dr.Ramesh, Dr.Indu, Dr.Gobinath, Dr. Harith, Postgraduates, Department of Anaesthesiology, attended CME and Workshop on Anaesthesia Work Station and Advanced Airway (XIX World Anesthesia Day – 2016 ) organized by Department of Anaesthesiology, Stanley Medical College Chennai on 15.10.16 and 16.10.16.

Dr.GauravBalpande, Final year resident, Department of Radiology presented a paper titled, ‘MRI evaluation of posttraumatic internal derangement of knee” at IRIA State Conference held from 15.12.16 to 18.12.16 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai. Dr. Mubarak R M, second year resident in Department of Radiology presented a paper titled, “One in a Million Disorder-Tolosa Hunt Syndrome MR Imaging Appearance” at IRIA State Conference held from 15.12.16 to 18.12.16 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai. Dr. Mubarak R M, second year resident in department of radiology presented a poster titled “Ectopic Parotid” at IRIA State Conference held from 15.12.16 to 18.12.16 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai. Dr.Navya Sindhu, final year post graduate in Department of Radiology, presented paper “Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage Masquerading as Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension” at 69th Annual IRIA Tamil Nadu State Conference 2016 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai. 36

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Dr. Monika S, PG resident, Department of Psychiatry, attended BLS/ACLS course for PGs on 17.10.2016 to 21.10.2016, while Dr. Suriyakumar T, PG resident, Department of Psychiatry, attended BLS/ACLS course for PGs on 15.11.2016 to 18.11.2016. Dr. Thiyagesa Deva Ganapathy, 1st year post graduate, Department of Pulmonary Medicine attended and successfully completed the three day program on basic life support and advanced cardiac life support at MGMCRI from 19.10.16 to 21.10.16.

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Dr. Kavin Kumar M.P, Dr.Prathana Seles, Dr.Raam Deepak, Dr. Roby Thomas, Postgraduates, Department of Otorhinolaryngology attended a workshop and surgical workshop ESCON 2016 from 21.10.2016 to 23.10.2016 at SVMC, Pondicherry.

Drs.Ajay, Aijas, Madhumitha, Subbareddy, Sridhar, Prasanna, Sumathysri, post graduates, Pediatric Department attended Ramachandra Intensive pediatrics postgraduate exam review held at SRMC, Chennai between 19.11.2016 and 20.11.2016.

Dr. Arun N.A, Dr.Vimi Varghese, Dr.Chandrajith. C, Postgraduates Department of Pulmonary Medicine attended the Pulmonary Medicine post graduate meet 2016 held at A.J. Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Mangaluru, on 6.11.16.

Dr. Gisi, Dr.Kabani, Dr.Lakshmipriya, Dr.Kavitha, Dr.Amrutha, Dr.Prathima, Dr.Prudvi, Dr.Swathy, Dr.Sumaiya, post graduates, O&G attended live laparoscopic workshop at MGMCRI relayed from Indore on 27.11.16.

Dr. Kabani, Dr.Fathima, Dr.Gisi Sebastian, post graduates, O&G attended OGSSI Annual Conference 2016 at Chennai between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16.

Dr. Indu, Dr. Tina Mary Thomas, Postgraduates, Department of Anaesthesiology, attend a CME on “Sleep Disordered Breathing – A Medical and Surgical Overview” organized by Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Department of Otorhinolaryngology at MGMCRI, Pondicherry on 09.12.2016.

Dr. Vishnu Narayanan and Dr .Prathana Seles, Post graduates attended “ENT CARE 2016 Airway Management - An Overview” on 11.11.2016 at Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chennai. Dr.Anugraha, Dr.AshwinSegi, Dr Memota Laishram, Dr Prasanna Venkatesh, Dr.Abhinay, Dr.Zeeshan, Dr. Sindhuja M, Dr. Sruthi R, Dr.Paresh Nichlani, Dr.Vasanth Kumar.R, Dr.Anudeep, & Dr.Sruthy Vaishali, Postgraduates, Department of Ophthalmology attended a CME “PHACO EXCEL 2016 – Excellence in Cataract Surgery” as delegates held at Aravind eye Hospital, Pondicherry on 12.11.2016 and 13.11.2016 Dr. Chandrajith.C, 1st year post graduate, Department of Pulmonary Medicine attended and successfully completed the three day program on basic life support and advanced cardiac life support at MGMCRI from 15.11.16 to 17.11.16. Dr Abhinay, 2 nd year, Postgraduate, Department of Ophthalmology attended the 35 th Annual State Conference of the Karnataka Ophthalmic Society “KOSCON 2016” as delegate held at Udipi from 18.11.2016 to 20.11.2016. Dr.Vinod Amaran, Postgraduate, Department of Otorhinolaryngology attended a conference “ISOCON 2016” held on 18.11.2016 to 20.11.2016 at Welcom Hotel Raviz Kadavu, Calicut, Kerala. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Dr. Charanya T, Dr.Preethy R, Dr.Madhukar J, Dr. Natasha CS, Dr. Monika S (PG Residents), Department of Psychiatry, attended the CME on Sleep-Disordered Breathing - A medical & surgical overview, jointly organized by the departments of Pulmonary Medicine & Otorhinolaryngology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Puducherry, on 09.12.2016.

▶▶ UG News Student enrichment programs As part of the training in “Integrated clinical skills Review of systems” for 3rd semester MBBS students, a mental health module was organized by the department of Psychiatry on 05.10.2016. The module was handled by Dr. Sivaprakash B, Professor, Dr. Eswaran S, Professor and Head, Dr. Ashwinth Jothy P & Dr. Abu Backer S., Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry. MBBS students of MGMCRI, trained by the Department of Psychiatry, participated in an elocution contest on “Destigmatizing mental health problems”, organized by NMHP, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, in commemoration of World Mental Health Day 2016, on 26.10.2016. MGMCRI bagged 1st & 3rd places. Ms. Krupashree S won the 1st prize in the contest, while Ms. RinildaRajee Mathew won the 3rd prize in the contest.

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(Prelims on 30th Nov 2016) where 24 students participated, Poster competition conducted in MRD area where 4 students participated, Slogan writing was conducted in the department where 16 students participated and Short video message was conducted in the department where 25 students participated in observation of World AIDS day 2016 on the theme “Hands Up for HIV Prevention” on 01st Dec 2016. Winners were given certificate of achievement and participation certificate was given to all.

The Vice Chancellor of SBV, Prof.Sethuraman KR and the Dean of MGMCRI, Prof. M.Ravishankar graced the occasion and awarded the winners and all the participant with certificates.

Winners of Quiz Competition The department of Forensic medicine & Toxicology is proud to announce that R Pratyush & Praveen Kumar (V SEM) from MGMCRI secured 1st Place in National Level Quiz Competition in Forensic Medicine & Toxicology organized by Bangalore Medical College & research Institute, Bangalore on 15.09.2016.

Guest talk on ‘Ill effects of drug abuse and addiction’ Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University in collaboration the Central Bureau of Narcotics conducted a guest talk on, ‘Ill effects of drug abuse and addiction’. The talk was delivered by Mr.Venkatesh Babu, I.R.S, Assistant Narcotics Commissioner, Central Bureau of Narcotics on 10.10.2016.

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yy T opic: Psychology (Positive thoughts and Emotions can Transform our Lives) Content: The HR department organized a Motivational class to think about positive benefits to enhance life greatly. Participants were taught to be aware of their thoughts and emotions which can be psychologically affect them in many ways. Increasing one’s energy levels in positive way will create a ripple effect which will touch and transform all those around them. Speaker: Mrs. Marie Bernadette Josephine Date: 26/08/2016

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yy Topic: Life Insurance Corporation Content: It is an awareness program to create awareness about basic of Life Insurance and benefits of financial tool for retirement planning, savings, financing children’s education etc. Speaker: Mr. Sathiyamoorthy, Branch Manager and LIC Agents Date: 14/12/2016

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Services During the period of October-December, 2016, the Department of Community Medicine organized 11 community health camps at various underserved areas benefitting nearly 1200 people among which more than 230 cases were referred to MGMCRI for further manag ement. During the same period, nearly 500 patients were covered through our weekly extension OP services conducted in

Embalam and Kuruvinattham (MSSRF Village Knowledge Centres),SOS Children’s Village in Pillaiyarkuppam and HelpAge India in Thamaraikulam, Cuddalore. The Department of Community Medicine organised 15 community health awareness programmes in various places in Cuddalore and Pondicherry district. Nearly 700 peoples were educated and benefited through these awareness programmes.

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Total Cases

5.10.2016

White Angle Screening Camp,

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7.10.2016

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13.10.2016

Screening Camp School Teacher Century Academy

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13.10.2016

Annusamy school ,Selimadu

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Sagodiri Short Stay Home

25.10.2016

Balayam Home

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Urban Health Traning Center

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Panithittu

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29.11.2016

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Kurivinatham

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World Rabies Day

05.10.2016

Health Education On Anemia White Angle School, Puducherry

06.10.2016

13.10.2016

08.10.2016

14.10.2016

18.10.2016

22.10.2016

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Kuruvinatham

UHTC

Anganwadi,Suntharameshthiri street

White Angle School, Puducherry

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Breast Cancer Awareness Programme World polio day

Anganwadi, Kudiirupupalayam

14.11.2016

World Diabetes day

Anganwadi, Kandhanpet

30.11.2016

World AIDS Day

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05.12.2016

World AIDS Day

St.Josephscollege, Cuddalore

05.12.2016

First Aid Awarness Programme

Sri AdidyaVidyasharam School

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Club. Patient awareness talks were given by DrNivethitha (1st year Post Graduate) and Dr. Sathya (Senior Resident) at the MRD premises. A short AIDS awareness film was screened at the demonstration room at the department of DVL.

TG clinic A Transgender clinic is being conducted on every Mondays and Wednesdays. 76 TGs have come for review and 6 have newly registered during the months of Oct to Dec 2016. Members of the transgender community come to the DVL department for services like screening for sexually transmitted diseases and counseling regarding their prevention. Testing for HIV, Hepatitis B and syphilis are routinely done. Laser hair removal is also done to improve the cosmetic appeal of the transgenders.

▶▶ Department of General Medicine World Diabetes day World Diabetes day was commemorated on 14.11.2016 at the MRD complex wherein a public awareness programme was conducted by the Department of General Medicine. Dr.K.Jeyapalan gave a talk in Tamil to the common public about ‘Diabetes’. of Psychiatry, attended a mental health camp at Kirubalaya, Thavalakuppam, Puducherry, on 29.11.2016 and the number of beneficiaries’ were15.

▶▶ Department of DVL World Psoriasis Day World Psoriasis Day which is on the 29th Oct 2016 was celebrated by the Department of DVL on 03.11.2016. Awareness leaflets were distributed to the patients.

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▶▶ THE DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING The Department of Marketing [Health Care Services] of MGMC&RI focuses patient services & Care. The team Members consists of Mr.A.Smith Naveen Raj - Manager Marketing, Mr.M.Sudhakar– Asst.Manager Facilities, Mr.E.Thirugnanam –Coordinator Marketing, Mrs.S.Sudharsna – Customer care Manager . Mr.J.Simon Lourdu - Camp organizer. Mr.M.Vilva Jegan – Centrer's Coordinator, The Department of Marketing along with other clinical departments for the year 2016 conducted 79 free health camps, Health awareness programs, corporate camps, Promotional activities, Corporate tie-ups and the list is as follows: S.No 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

Camp Dates 1.1.2016 1.2.2016 1.3.2016 1.4.2016 1.7.2016 1.8.2016 1.8.2016 1.9.2016 1.9.2016 1.12.2016 1.12.2016 1.12.2016 1.18.2016 1.18.2016 1.23.2016 1.23.2016 1.30.2016 2.7.2016 2.10.2016 2.12.2016 2.13.2016 2.16.2016 2.18.2016 2.19.2016 2.25.2016 2.28.2016 2.29.2016 3.6.2016 3.10.2016 3.16.2016 3.16.2016 3.18.2016 3.22.2016 3.23.2016 3.26.2016

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Panjavadi Maruuvaie Pethankuppam Sindha manikuppam Azhaginatham Bhuvanagari Mettukuppam Panithittu (Baby Sara Home) ariyankuppam Singirikudi Ariyankuppam school Sangelikuppam Cuddalore Neyveli Parangepettai Oriyur Thirukovilur Cuddalore Pondy Panruti Cuddalore Gunamangalam Pondy ( Santha Trust School) Parangipatti Kattumanarkovil Chidambaram Naduveerapattu Uppalam - Pondy Embalam Tindivanam (Collaboration with lions club) Angle's school Vadalur TANFSC - Cuddalore OT Seshanganur Pudhukuppam

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Rotary Club - Madhagadipet Sharana Home Mehendra Big Beach - Kandhanpet MNTN - Pathirikuppam Embalam Help Age India Kurivinatham Thamarikulam Thindivanam Kanni kovil govt primary school Uluthurpatti kalmandapam Karuvadikuppam Muthiraipalayam Thiruppapuliyur Seliyamedu Maruthadu,Cuddalore Sathya Special School Kattukuppam Endiyur,Thindivanam Kaanattampuliyur Thottapattu Kattumannarkovil Peruvarapur Thindivanam Thittakudi Pillaiyarkuppam Sathankuppam Panruti MNTN Home,Cuddalore Baby Sara Home, Ariyankuppam Neyveli Mettupalayam - Centre Perumakkal- Lions Club Panruti - Rotary Club Cuddalore- Grama Vidiyal Uchimedu - Lions Club PS Palayam - Pondy Law College Gingee - Trust Kurinjipadi - RSBY Thindivanam - Lions Club Sanjivirayanpet Cuddalore - IMPA Melpattampakkam - PHC Grand Total

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In House Training programme for Staff nurses of MGMCRI Dr.Sajeeth Manikandan (Associate Professor) presented a topic on “Enema (Lactulose)” on 05.10.16 . Dr.Swati Jayant Pawar (DMS) presented a topic on “Prevention Of Fall & Morse Scale Assessment” on 12.10.16 . Mr.Selvaganapathy (QE) presented a topic on “Basic monitoring of ECG & Abnormalities of ECG” on 19.10.16, 09.11,16 and 16.11.16 . Mr.Mohammed Rafi (Nursing Supervisor) presented a topic on “Maintenance of equipments” on 02.11.16 and 23.11.16 .

Mrs .Lakshmi Thangam (ANS) & S/N Santhiya attended the National Conference on “Complexities and evolving towards a better direction in emergency poly trauma care” in Indirani College of Nursing at Ariyur on 23.11.16 and 24.11.16. Mrs.Chandra (NS), Mrs.Deonisia Philip (DNS), Mrs.Therasa (ANS), Miss.A.Prishanthini Anto (NE) and staff Nurses I/N Glory, I/N Ganagavalli, S/N Indumathi, S/N Amsavalli, S/N Selvi, M/N Prathap, S/N Victori Rani, attended the CME On “sleep Disordered Breathing” at seminar Hall on 9.12.16.

Mrs.Marthal(ANS), presented the topic on “ Meningitis” on 7.12.16.

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Dr.Praveen Charles(Associate Professor),Microbiology, Dr.Ramesh (HOD), Department of Biochemistry, Dr.Swetha Keelkarani, (AP) Biochemistry, Dr.Garima, Pathology (AP), Mr.Lesley (Lab Incharge ) presented the topic on “Collection of Sampling” on 6.12.16 & 07.12.16.

At KGNC, Campus Interview was conducted for 29 candidates by the Recruitment committee members Dr. Swati Jayant pawar (DMS), Mrs.Amir Alikhan Asmath (NS), Sr.Personnel Manager and Miss.A.Prishanthini Anto (NE ) on 07.12.16.

Mrs.Motcha Alankari (Nursing Supervisor) presented the topic on “ stem Technology “ on 28.12.16.

▶▶ Academic Events Mr. Mohammed Rafi (Nursing Supervisor) attended the International conference on healthcare on Healthcare, Nursing and diseases Management (HNDM) held at Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Executive Centre, S ingapore and presented his Research paper, “A Hermenutic phenomenological study to explore the lived IN Experience of Adult transgenders in Accessing health care services from public institutions in Puducherry, India on 10.11.16 & 11.11.16. 45

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by 2020 , Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 2016;9(6):438-439 Shrivastava S.R., Shrivastava P., Ramasamy J. Implementing strategic response framework for the control of Zika virus infection: World Health Organization, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 2016;9(6):408-409 Shrivastava S.R., Shrivastava P., Ramasamy J. Neutralizing the contribution of obesogenic environment in the development of childhood obesity ,Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 2016 ;9(6):430-431 Shrivastava S., Shrivastava P., Ramasamy J. Responding to the public health challenge of rising maternal mortality in humanitarian crises,Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health .2016;9(6):404-405 Shrivastava S.R., Shrivastava P., Ramasamy J. Strengthening and expanding the targeted interventions to accomplish schistosomiasis elimination Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 2016; 9(6):431-432 Mani G., Danasekaran R., Annadurai K. Substandard, spurious, falsely-labelled, falsified and counterfeit (SSFFC) drugs: Time to take a bitter pill, Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, 2016:5(4):122-124 Shrivastava S.R., Shrivastava P., Ramasamy J. Targeting the challenge of reducing the adverse consequences of mercury on health, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health .2016;9(6):428-429 Shrivastava S., Shrivastava P., Ramasamy J. Where does the world stand in the battle against tuberculosis? 2015 global update, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 2016 ;9(6):405-06 Raghuraman M.S. Errors in an article published in EgJA in 2016. Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia , 2016 Shrivastava S.R., Shrivastava P.S., Ramasamy J. Assessment of the level of awareness about tuberculosis among the different stakeholders of a medical college,

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Shrivastava SR, Shrivastava PS, Ramasamy J. Implementation of enhanced gonococcal antimicrobial surveillance program in Thailand. Indian dermatology online journal, 2016;7(6):545-546 Shrivastava SR,Shrivastava PS, Ramasamy J, Addressing the issue of shortage of oral cholera vaccines on the global front. Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University, 2016;9(6):774-775 Prasanna S, Sunilkumar Jada and Karthika Jayakumar, A rare case of tinea nigra of scalp in an immunocompetent individual caused by caused by Hortaea werneckii and Rhodotorula rubra from Kancheepuram, South India, , 2016, ternational Journal of Current Research.2016;8(10):39922-39924 S Swayam Jothi, J Antony, N Sujatha, Bifurcation of Facial Nerve, IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences, 2016;15(5):84-86 T Ilanchezhian, R Vanaja and Balaji Rajagopalan, Comparative Study of the Estimation of LDL Cholesterol by the Direct Method and Friedewald Equation in Secondary Hyperlipidemia, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, 2016;7(11):4632- 4636 Sathiyakala R, Suguna S, Karnaboopathy R Comparison Of Vaginal Hysterectomy And Laparoscopically Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy In Women With Benign Uterine Disease:a Retrospective Study ,International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2016;5(11):3915-3918 D.Madhavi, Sreelekha Dorairaj, S. Swayam Jothi Dorairaj, Hemanth Kommuru. Dermatoglyphic Study in Breast Carcinoma Patients, International Journal of Science and Research, 2016;5(10) Sowjan.M,Vikram.R,Rajkumar.P.G,Mohammad Ali Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome:A case report from South India, International Journal of Pediatric Research, 2016;3(9) Shrivastava SR,Shrivastava PS, Ramasamy J Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Hajj. Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University , 2016;9 (5):635-636 Glad Mohesh MI, Semmal Syed Meerasa, Perceptions on M-learning through WhatsApp application ,Journal Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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of Education Technology in Health Sciences, 2016; 3(2):57- 60 Prasanna S, S. Dharanidevi, Nikunja Kumar Das and Sathya Raj. Prevalence, Phenotypic Characterization and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Non-Fermentative Gram, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2016;5(8):442-454 Shrivastava SR,Shrivastava PS, Ramasamy J Strengthening prevention and control activities to respond to the challenge of emergence of chikungunya in American and European regions, Environmental Disease, 2016;1(3):105-106 Datchinamoorthi S, Vanaja R and Rajagopalan, The study of serum vitamin d status with insulin resistance in obese adolescents .International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, 2016;7(12):5088-5091 Srbl Shrivastava, Ps Shrivastava,Jegadeesh Ramasamy, What can be done at national level for the welfare of the aging population: World Health Organization leads the way, Journal of Geriatric Mental Health, 2016;3(2):185-186 R Rajkamal, M Kumar, M Raj, M Rajesh,Jaya Kiruthiga, Joy Bazroy, Assessment of water quality standards in the villages of Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India, International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 2016;3(11):3179-3183 M Anitha, DM Monisha, K Ramya, Y Chinmayee, A. Mohamed Sulthan, A study on the occurrence of bacterial isolation in mouth ulcer patients. International Journal of Advanced Research in Biological Sciences, 2016;3(10):188-192 G Mani, R Danasekaran, K Annadurai, DisasterResilient Hospitals: The Noah's Ark, Public Health of Indonesia, 2016;2(4):172-176 SRBL Shrivastava, PS Shrivastava, Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava, Jegadeesh Ramasamy, Envisaging plain packaging of tobacco products: Appeal to national policymakers ,International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2016;7(1):131 N Noorunnisa, SA Hussa, Evaluation of endometrial biopsies in abnormal uterine bleeding - analytical 48

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study in rural population of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. MedPulse, International Medical Journal, 2016;3(10):866-868 K Annadurai, R Danasekaran, G Mani, K Annadurai, Exploring the Role of Self-Care in Preventive Nephrology, Scholars Report, 2016; 1(2):1-3 KG Seshadri, Improving decision-making in thyroid nodules ,Thyroid Research and Practice, 2016;13(3):99-100 K Mohan, L Mohana Rupa, Ketamine and levobupivacaine versus ,levobupivacaine alone for post operative analgesia and side effects in lower abdominal surgeries in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; A comparative study ,International Archives of Integrated Medicine, 2016;3(10):70-73 S Rajendiran, U Gopalan, K Jayakumar, Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B infection among pregnant women in South India, International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2016; 6(1):249-251 S Jayalakshmi, S Dharanidevi, The Prevalence of Intestinal Parasitic Infections in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Southern India-A Retrospective Study, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2016;5(10):718-723 Karthika Jayakumar, A comparative microscopic and cultural tuberculosis diagnostic study in rural Chennai. International Journal of Current Research, 2016;8(10):39915-39918 Sunita Bharathi,N.Suthatha,S.Swayam Jothi, Anomalous branches of Median Nerve in the arm ,IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences, 2016;15(9):15-18 Naseem Noorunnisa, Prema Saldanha, Syed Ahmed Hussain, Senthil N. Ganesh. Diversity in the spectrum of malignant soft tissue tumors, International Journal of Recent Trends in Science and Technology, 2016;21(1):1-4 SR Srivastava, Shrivastava.PA, Ramasamy.J, Eligibiligy criteria for antiretroviral therapy expanded:World Health Organization aims for a better future for people living with HIV, Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences, 2016;6(3): 77 Sridhar Govindaswamy,Raja Danasekaran and Karnaboopathy Ranganathan. Evaluation of Anti HBs SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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response in Hepatitis B vaccinated health care workers in a tertiary care hospital of rural Kanchipuram District, Tamil nadu,India, Journal of Disease and Global health, 2016;8(3):18-112

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Srinivasa Rao.Y,SwayamJothi.S,Saratha Kathiresan, Histogensis of thymus in human foetuses of different gestational ages-A pilot study, IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences, 2016;15(9):15-18

Prof. & HOD, Dr. Subramanian V was awarded with “Distinguished Scientist award” at Venus International Foundation, Annual Research Meet– ARM 2016.

Sunilkumar Jada, Suyambu Raja, Karthika Jayakumar and PriyadarshiSahu. Incidence of Intestinal Parasitic infestation and anemia among school children in Ammapettai, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, 2016;(11):14312-14316 Raghuraman M.S, Letter to the Editor:Errors in an article published in EgJA, Egyptian Journal of Anaesthesia,2016. Prasanna S, Karthika Jayakumar and Jayashree V, Primary cutaneous aspergillosis- Tinea pedis caused by Aspergillus nigerin an immunocompetent adult individual residing in silk city of Kancheepuram district. International Journal of Advanced Research, 2016;4(9):443-446 Dipayan DB, Vijaya KNG, Sudden Unexplained Death in Sleep in Adults: Autopsy Challenges. Journal of Karnataka Medico-legal Society, 2016, 25(2)

Book / Chapters Publications Dr.K N Viswanathan, Professor of Internal Medicine, SSSMCRI has authored the following Chapters in the 9th edition of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine 2017 Elsevier-published in Sept 2016, namely: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Rabies Rheumatic fever Neurocysticercosis Visceral Leishmaniasis Cholera Leptospirosis Clinical case study

Dr.K N Viswanathan, Professor of Internal Medicine, SSSMCRI has authored a chapter titled, “Foodborne Illness”: in Bope's Conn's Current Therapy 2017, Elsevierpublished in Dec 2016.

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Awards and Recognitions Awards

Prof.Vijayalakshmi, Department of Anesthesiology, received the “Lifetime achievement award” by ISA-Chennai on 16.10.2016.

Resource person Glad Mohesh M I., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology has delivered a lecture titled, “Influence of Tobacco on Heart” in the 3 days Zonal level Orientation programme for Youth Red Cross(YRC) volunteers and YRC programme officers” at Thiruvalluvar University, Serkkadu, Vellore conducted between 25th to 27th October 2016. Dr.KarthikaJayakumar, Vice Principal (Pre & Para clinical), Professor and Head in Department of Microbiology, SSMCRI, gave a guest lecture titled, “Profile Of Enteric Coccidian Infections In India” at the 10th National conference of Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology from 3 rd to 6th November 2016, JIPMER, Puducherry. On 5th December 2016, Dr.Semmal Syed Meerasa, Professor, HOD of Physiology delivered a special invited guest lecture titled, “Imparting Medical and Health Education to Arts and Science Students Using Ancient Indian Literature" at the Department of Linguistics, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli. Dr.K N Viswanathan, Professor of Internal Medicine, SSSMCRI was Invited speaker in TAPICON (Tamil Nadu

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API 12th annual conference) at Tuticorin on 24.07.2017 on "Bedside Medicine-a forgotten art?" and published in Clinical Medicine 2016 p 51-55. Dr.K N Viswanathan, Professor of Internal Medicine, SSSMCRI was Invited as External Expert for conducting Assured promotion- for Associate Professors of Medicine at JIPMER on 21st August, 2016.

Panelist/ Moderator/ Chairperson/ Judge in Scientific Events Dr.Naseem Noorunisa , Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, participated as chairperson in International conference titled – PATHSURGE 2016,organized by Sree Balaji Medical college and Hospital, Chrompet, held between 22nd to 24th of August 2016. Dr.Maduram A, Associate Professor of Pharmacology went as a resource person and judged the poster competition during the National conference on Medication Management and Safety held on 6th October 2016 at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai.

Dr.Swayamjothi, Prof and HOD, Department of Anatomy, chaired the scientific committee meeting held on 17.10.2016. Dr.Swayamjothi, Prof and HOD, Department of Anatomy, chaired the Ethical committee meeting on 27.10.2016. Dr.Jeyakumari Jeevan, Professor of Dermatology chaired a session on “Androgenetic alopecia Medical management” by Dr.Jayaraman MD.,DD., & “Non venereal Genital dermatoses” by Dr.Rajesh Rajagopalan in 20th Dermazone south & 7th Cuticon conference held on 7th October 2016 in Tiruchirapalli. Dr.Semmal Syed Meerasa, Professor, HOD of Physiology, chaired a session titled, “Modern Research 50

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in Indian Literature” at the “International Conference on Islamic Tamil Literature, Sri lanka” held from 11th to 13th December 2016 at Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dr.Jeyakumari jeevan, Professor of Dermatology chaired a session on “Atopic Dermatitis – Managing skin & Beyond” in International conference of Paediatric Dermatology held in Sree Balaji medical college, Chennai on 11th November 2016.

Examiner Dr.Valli, Associate professor, of ENT went as an external examiner for undergraduate MBBS ENT exam on 12, 15 & 16 December, 2016 at Chettinad Hospital And Research Institute (Chettinad University). Dr.K N Viswanathan, Professor of Internal Medicine, SSSMCRI was Invited as External Examiner in Medicine for SEGI University at Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (with the clinical campus at Sibu) from 9/10-13/10/2016.

Board member Dr.K N Viswanathan, Professor of Internal Medicine, SSSMCRI was invited to be the Advisory Board Member for the 9th edition of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine9th edition,2017-published in Sept 2016. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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▶▶ CONDUCTION OF SPECIAL LECTURES AND ACADEMICS EVENTS Guest Lecture on “Pharmacoeconomics” A Guest Lecture was organized by the Department of Community Medicine on ‘Pharmacoeconomics’ using the principle of 4Ds - Discuss-Discover-DevelopDisseminate, as per and to fulfill M.C.I. P.G Education Regulations 2000 (amended up to September 2016) on 18th October 2016. The session was attended by almost all post-graduate students from the para-clinical and the clinical departments. It was very well accepted by the audience and the post-graduate students were awarded with certificates of participation.

CME on the “Role of Nuclear Medicine in Thyroid Management”

Professor Dr.D.C.Mathangi, Professor of Physiology, Chettinad Medical College Hospitals and Research Institute, Chennai was the resource person. She shared her expertise in the use of Reference Manager Softwares like EndNote and Mendeley.

CME on “Psoriasis Department of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprosy conducted a CME on November 2nd, 2016 on the topic, “Psoriasis – Basic Essentials” at SSSMCRI. The resource person was Dr.Parimalam kumar, Professor

Dept. of Radiodiagnosis conducted a CME on the “Role of Nuclear Medicine in Thyroid Management” on 08.11.2016 on the occasion of Roentgen day celebrations at Seminar Hall 4th Floor Hospital Campus. The Speaker of the day was Dr.G.Sridhar, Senior Consultant and Nuclear Medicine Physician, Billroth Hospitals, Chennai.

CME on Anesthesia CME programme was conducted at SSSMCRI on 14 October 2016 by Department of Anesthesiology, in commemoration with “World Anesthesia Day.”

CME on ‘Recent trends in Management of CSOM’ Department of ENT at SSSMCRI conducted a CME on ‘Recent trends in Management of CSOM’ on 10.11.2016. The Speaker was Dr.Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor, SRM Medical College, Kattankulathur.

& Head, Department of DVL, Kilpauk Medical College and Goverment Royapettah Hospital, Chennai on account of world psoriasis day.

▶▶ Presentations in Scientific Events Mr.Glad Mohesh M I., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology has presented a Poster titled, “Low cost custom built experimental setup to investigate light

Guest lecture on “Reference Managers for Your Research” Department of Physiology, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & RI organized a faculty development programme titled, “Reference Managers for Your Research” on 26.11.2016. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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induced damages in retina of Zebrafish animal models” at the International Conference on Radiation Biology (ICRB 2016) conducted by SRM University, Kattankulathur between 9th to 11th November, 2016. Dr.Semmal Syed Meerasa, Professor, HOD of Physiology presented a research paper titled as “Imparting Medical and Health Education Using a 17th Century Tamil Literary Work, the Seeraappuraanam” at the “International Conference on Islamic Tamil Literature, Sri lanka” held from 11th to 13th December 2016 at Colombo, Sri Lanka

Dr.Sathialakshmi participated and presented a poster titled, ‘A study of sacral hiatus in human sacrum’ in 64th Annual conference of Anatomical society of India held at AIIMS, Jodhpur on 29.11.2016.

Sunilkumar.Jada, PhD scholar/ Tutor in Department of Microbiology, presented research paper on the topic’ Intestinal parasitic infections profile among tribal population of Kanchipuram, Chennai’ at the 10th National conference of Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology from 3rd to 6th November 2016, JIPMER, Puducherry. Dr. Lavakumar S, Assistant professor from the Department of Pharmacology attended a National conference on ‘Basic and Clinical pharmacology’ held between 8th and 9th October 2016 at Narayana Medical College and Research Institute, Nellore and presented a poster on ‘A study on evaluation on the level of drug compliance among the outpatients who are on a long term drug therapy in a tertiary care teaching hospital – a questionnaire based prospective study’

Dr.Kafeel Hussain participated and presented paper on ‘Distribution of C cells in Normal thyroid’ in 64th Annual conference of Anatomical society of India held at AIIMS, Jodhpur on 29.11.2016. Dr.Sunita Bharati participated and presented poster titled, ‘Study of Radiological pattern in feet of disabled leprosy patients attending tertiary care hospital’ in 64th Annual conference of Anatomical society of India held at AIIMS, Jodhpur on 29.11.2016. Dr.Swayamjothi, Prof and HOD, department of Anatomy presented a case on ‘Histopathological findings of tonsils in chronic tonsillitis’ in scientific society meet SSSMCRI on 27.10.2016. Scientific paper “Doctor’s Burnout – How To Prevent” was presented by Prof. V. Subramanian, HOD, SSSMC & RI during the Seventh Monthly Meet of Chennai Subchapter – Indian Radiological & Imaging association (TN & PY) at ACS Medical College on 02.10.2016 52

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▶▶ participation in sceintific events The faculty members from the department of Orthopaedics, participated in Indian Orthopaedic Association world record free surgery event on 23.10.2016. Dr.S.Vijayakumar from Dermatology attended the 20th Dermazone south & 7th Cuticon conference held on 7th, 8th & 9th October 2016 in Tiruchirapalli, Tamilnadu. He also attended International conference of Paediatric Dermatology held in Sree Balaji medical college,Chennai on 11th & 12th November 2016. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Department Of Orthopedics Faculty participated in Indian Orthopaedic association annual conference at Kochi held from 12th to 17th December 2016. Dr.SwayamJothi, Professor and HOD of Anatomy, attended 417th monthly CME programme of IMSA Tamilnadu chapter .Topic- Overview of viral epidemics physicians perspective by Dr R Muthuselvam Prof department of medicine, KMC on 9.10.2016. Dr.SwayamJothi Professor and HOD of Anatomy, attended CME programme of IMA Tamilnadu chapter. Topic – Venous diseases of the leg by Prof CMK Reddy, Presentation of interesting cases, X rays & operative clippings on 16.10.2016, attended CME programme IMSA TN chapter on Vascular surgery on 13.11.2016, attended CME conducted by Department of Dermatology SSSMCRI on Psoriasis Basic essentials by Dr Parimalamkumar HOD KMC on 02.11.2016, attended CME programme on Role of Nuclear medicine in Thyroid management by Dr G Sridhar senior consultant Billroth hospitals on 08.11.2016, attended CME conducted by internal medicine department on 16.11.2016, and she also attended CME conducted by IMA at Life line hospitals New Avadi road Kilpauk on 20.11.2016. Dr.S.Gurumani, Professor and HOD of ENT attended CME on ‘Airway management - an overview’ on 11.11.2016 organized by department of ENT at Chettinad Hospital And Research Institute. CME on Anesthesia by Dept. of Anesthesia attended by Prof. V. Subramanian, Radiology HOD at SSSMCRI, 4th floor lecture hall, Hospital block on 14.10.2016. Dr.S.Prasanna Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, attended as a delegate in the CME- “Neuro Virology” held on 05.11.2016 at Sri Ramachandra Medical college& Research Institute. Dr. V.Jayashree, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology attended as a delegate in the CME- “Neuro Virology” held on 05.11.2016 at Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute. Dr.NaseemNoorunisa, Professor of Pathology and Dr. R. Revathishree , Dr.P.Priyanka, Dr.Dineshkumar, Assistant Professors, Department of Pathology, participated in International CME on Update in Surgical Pathology on 14.10.2016, Madras Medical College. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Dr Shruti, Associate Professor, Dept of Ophthalmology & Dr Vijayalakshmi, Assistant Professor, Dept of OBG, SSSMCRI, attended one day sensitization programme on ATCOM module at CMC Vellore on 21st October 2016.

All the faculty of the Department of Anatomy, attended Faculty development programme on References Managers for your Research by Dr. D C Mathangi at SSSMC RI. Dr. Kalaivani, Dr. Raja, Dr. Geetha, Dr. Saurabh, Dr. Prateek, Dr. Karnabhoopathy, Dr. Muthukumar attended a session on “Mendely – Reference manager” organized by the Department of Physiology on 26.11.2016. Dr.Naseem Noorunisa , Professor of Pathology and Dr. R.Revathishree, Dr.Dineshkumar, Assistant Professors, Department of Pathology, Participated in “Reference Manager For Your Research, organized by Department of Physiology, at ShriSathyaSai Medical College And Research Institute on 26.11.2016. All the facult y of Anatomy attended FORENSIQUEST-2016 conducted by department of forensic medicine SSSMC RI on 18-10-2016. Dr.Swayamjothi, Prof and HOD department of anatomy participated in World anaesthesia day on 14.10.2016, and also participated in public awareness programme on World diabetes Day at SSSMCRI on 14.11.2016. Dr.Vinod.K, Dr.Mohamed Arif, Dr.Sheshadivya Krishna. Department of Anesthesiology, attended the CHETANCON 2016 on 15.10.2016 at Chennai. Dr.Dilipkumar.G, Dr.PranjaliKurehkar, Dr.Jagan, Department of Anesthesiology attended the Regional Anesthesia course at Back and pain centre, Chennai on 22nd & 23rd Oct 2016. Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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Dr. Lavakumar S, Assistant Professor from the Department of Pharmacology attended an International seminar on Endocrinological disorders on 3 rd November 2016 at MGMCRI, Puducherry. Dr.NaseemNoorunisa , Professor of Pathology and Dr. R.Revathishree, Dr.Dineshkumar, Assistant Professors, Department of Pathology, participated in CHETPATHCON 2016- Lymphoma update on 19.11.2016, at Chettinad Medical College and Research Institute. Dr.G.Srinivasan, Professor & HOD, DVL attended faculty development programme titled“Reference manager for your research” conducted by department of physiology, SSSMCRI on 26.11.2016. Mr.Ratchagan K, Department of Physiology participated at the Workshop on “simple cost effective portable experimentation in physiology” on 30th Nov 2016 conducted by the Department of Physiology at Saveetha medical college, Thandalamchennai Dr.Latha.R participated as a delegate for the SAARC workshop on “Techniques in Physiological Sciences” at AIIMS, New Delhi between 20th and 22nd December, 2016. Dr. Karthika Jayakumar, Professor and HOD of Microbiology, and Sunilkumar.Jada, PhD scholar/ Tutor in Department of Microbiology participated in 40th

Dr. A. M. Anusa, Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry, attended The IPSOCON 2016, the 49th Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society – South Zone Branch held at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Chennai from 14th to 16th October 2016.

▶▶ CURRICULAR INNOVATIONS Innovations in Teaching and learning Dr. Vijay Kautilya D, participated as a resource person during the Three day Orientation programme organized by the Medical Education unit as a resource person and delivered a guest lecture on ‘Ethics in medical practice’ held from October 3rd to 5th 2016. A session was conducted by Dr. Dipayan Deb Barman on English language vocabulary, and comprehension skills for 1st Year MBBS students on 18.10.2016. A meeting was held in Anatomy Library SSSMC RI by Prof J Anbalagan and Prof S.S Rajasekar from MGMCRI, regarding the Blue print agenda and discussion about integrated teaching module on 25.11.2016. Dr.Karthika Jayakumar, participated as Resource person and gave inaugural address on Mentor Mentee system and VP speech in orientation programme for 1st year 2016 batch students from 17 to19th Oct 2016.

▶▶ UG NEWS Awards Under the guidance of Sunilkumar.Jada, PhD scholar/ Tutor , 2nd MBBS students, JerrinCinthiya.K, Silvia Antony raj, Pratikshia.K got 3rd prize in experimental modals, in PEQUENOQUES-16, K.A.P Viswanathan Government Medical College, Trichy held on 7th October 2016.

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Student Enrichment Programs 17th Orientation program was conducted to I MBBS Students on 19.10.2016 by the Department of Anatomy. Microbiology department conducted a Quiz on 15.12.2016 for V semester students. Raja and Rajan won the first prize and Ashwini and Rabeensa won the second prize. Prizes were distributed by Dr. KarthikaJayakumar, Prof & HOD & other colleagues, Dept of Microbiology. Departmental quiz competition (Forensiquest 2016) was conducted for the fifth semester Medical Students on by Dr. Dipayan Deb Barman, Assistant Professor on 18.10.2016 by the Department of Forensic Medicine. A seminar for 3rd Semester students was conducted by Dr. Dipayan Deb Barman on 21.10.2016.The Students named Mr. BaskaraAsmathRaja.r, Mr.MaxtonSam.W, Miss.MubeenFathima .A, Miss. Ragashree C.M had presented their respective topics in this seminar. A seminar for 5th Semester students was conducted by Dr. Dipayan Deb Barman on 25-10-2016.The Students named Mr. Akshaylal.E.S, Miss Venkatanagalakshmi.L, Miss Leena.V had presented their respective topics in this seminar. Dr. Dipayan Deb Barman had conducted two sessions of integrated teaching for 5th semester students with Dr. C.K.Singh, Radiology department MGMC&RI at the department of Radiodiagnosis, SSSMC&RI on 17th & 24th November 2016.

World AIDS Day - Poster Competition Department of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprosy conducted a poster competition on AIDS awareness for undergraduate students on December 1st 2016 on account of world AIDS day.

▶▶ POST-GRADUATE ACTIVITIES Dr. SahayaSonaThresa and Dr. IndraBala, postgraduate students from the Department of Community Medicine attended a two days CME held between 22.10.2016 & 23.10.2016 on “Post-graduation Refresher Course” organized by the Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore.

Roentgen Day Celebrations

Dr. Sona (final year postgraduate), Dr. Indra Bala & Dr. Seetharaman (first year postgraduate), Department of Community Medicine attended a session on “Mendely – Reference manager” organized by the Department of Physiology on 26.11.2016.

Roentgen Day Celebrations saw many competitions for BSc RIT students were conducted namely, Students Speech, Poster presentations, Radiological Dumb Charades, Students dance and finally Prize distribution was done in the presence of CRRIs and faculties of Department of Radiodiagnosis at Radiology Department on 08.11.2016

Dr. IndraBala, first year post-graduate student from the Department of Community Medicine was selected for the “Certificate Course in Research Methodology and Biostatistics for Medical Professionals” by the National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai. It was a 10 days course held from 13th to 23rd Dec 2016. Dr. Pushkar Chaudhary, first year post graduate , Department of Pathology, participated as a delegate in the “Autopsy Workshop - 2016” conducted by the Department of Pathology, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore on 7th and 8th October 2016.

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Dr.Syed Ahmed Hussain, Second year post graduate, Dr. Senthil.N Ganesh and Dr.Pushkarchaudhary, first year post graduates, Department of Pathology, Participated in CHETPATHCON 2016- Lymphoma update on 19.11.2016 at Chettinad Medical College & Research Institute.

mental health, namely signs and symptoms of mental health problems, psychiatric counseling and behavioural therapy. Participants were also explained about the stigma prevailing around mental illness and the importance of mental health in attaining the perfect health.

Dr.Syed Ahmed Hussain, Second year post graduate, Dr. Senthil .N Ganesh and Dr.Pushkar chaudhary, Dr.Shubra Sharma, first year post graduates, Department of Pathology, participated in “Reference Manager For Your Research, organized by Department of Physiology, SSSMCRI on 26.11.2016.

Theme: “Make Handwashing a Habit”

Department of Pulmonary Medicine organized ‘World Diabetic Day’ and a talk on Diabetic Lung was presented by MD General Medicine PG. Dr. RoopakVisakan Raja, Post Graduate of ENT, attended CME on ‘Airway management - an overview’ on 11.11.2016 organized by department of ENT at Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, a CME on ‘Sleep disordered breathing – a medical and surgical overview’ on 9.12.2016 organized by the Department of ENT and Pulmonary Medicine at MGMCRI, Puducherry and a CME on ‘Head and Neck Surgery update’ on 11th December 2016 organized by the Department of ENT at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institue.

▶▶ OUT REACH ACTIVITIES Outreach Camps In the quarter of October - December 2016, the Department of Community Medicine in coordination with specialists from various clinical departments, and paramedical staffs conducted 38 outreach camps at Guduvancherry, Anbagam (Pananagattupakkam), Mullipakkam, and Manambathi. Department of Psychiatry Organized Camps at Anbagam, A center for Mentally Challenged.

World Mental Health Day – 10.10.2016 Theme: “Psychological first aid” World Mental Health day was observed at Sembakkam RHTC on October 10th 2016 by the Department of Community Medicine. A health talk using charts was organized for the welfare of the patients attending the centre. The health talk was delivered by the interns posted at RHTC, under the guidance of Dr. Muthukumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and the Medical Officer and covered various areas pertaining to 56

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Global Handwashing Day was observed in Thiruporur UHTC on 13th October 2016 by the Department of Community Medicine. A health talk was organized for the welfare of the patients attending the centre and also the health care personnel in the center. The health talk was delivered by the CRRIs’ posted in the centre, under the guidance of Dr. Gopinath.T.T, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, and the Medical Officer. Patients and health personnel were sensitized regarding the importance of handwashing in preventing the acquisition of infection.

World Diabetes Day – 14.11.2016 Theme: “Eyes on diabetes” World Diabetes day was observed at Sembakkam RHTC on November 14th 2016 by the Department of Community Medicine. The session consisted of a role play and a health talk for the benefit of the patients attending the centre. The role play was performed by the interns and highlighted the importance of treatment compliance in the management of diabetes mellitus and the significance of periodic blood sugar estimation. Further, a health talk was given using charts and the beneficiaries were oriented about the symptoms of diabetes, complication of uncontrolled diabetes, and importance of dietary and lifestyle modifications in the care of diabetic patients. The entire session was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Muthukumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and the Medical Officer. Finally, the program ended with an interactive session, in which Dr. Muthukumar clarified participant’s doubts and queries regarding diabetes. World Diabetes Day was also observed in Thiruporur UHTC on 14th November by the Department of Community Medicine. A health talk and a role play was organized for the welfare of the patients attending the centre by the CRRIs’ posted in the centre, under the guidance of Dr. Gopinath.T.T, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and the Medical Officer. In addition, a special screening program for diabetes was conducted, under which five new cases were detected. Simultaneously, health personnel were educated about the necessity to take measures to prevent the onset of diabetes. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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World Aids Day – 01.12.2016 Theme: “Hands up for HIV prevention” World AIDS day was observed at Sembakkam RHTC on December 1st 2016 by the Department of Community Medicine. A health talk using charts and posters was given by the CRRIs’ posted at RHTC. Awareness regarding the stigma prevailing around the disease, treatment and diagnostic facility available were explained to the participants under the guidance of Dr. Muthukumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and the Medical Officer. The participants were also sensitized about the risk factors of AIDS and safe sex practices. Participants then clarified their doubts and queries regarding HIV/AIDS in an interactive session which followed the health talk. A similar sort of session was also observed at Thiruporur UHTC on 1st December by the Department of Community Medicine. A health talk was given by the

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CRRIs’ regarding the importance of prevention measures to prevent the acquisition of infection. Dr. Gopinath.T.T, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, and the Medical Officer were present for the session. The Department Activities of Microbiology, The global hand washing week- “HAND WASHING AND HAND HYGIENE WEEK” was celebrated on 19.10.2016 with poster & video presentations by staff nurses, lectures by DrKarthika Jayakumar (Prof & HOD Microbiology), on ‘Nosocomial infections’, Dr V Jayashree (Assistant Prof Microbiology) on ‘Universal safety precautions’, Dr S Prasanna (Assistant Prof Microbiology) on ‘Antimicrobial resistance & spread in health carepersona’ and later prizes were distributed in presence of DMS, Radiology HOD & Dermatology HOD. Judges for poster presentation were Dr.Sundaramurthy Prof & HOD TBCD &Dr. G. Sridhar Associate Prof Microbiology & for video presentation it was Dr.Srinivasan, Prof & HOD Dermatology & Dr.G.Sridhar, Associate Prof Microbiology.

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Dental sciences ▶▶ FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS Publications Hiremath A, Murugaboopathy V, Ankola AV, Hebbal M, Mohandoss S, Pastay P. Prevalence of Dental Caries Among Primary School Children of India. A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2016 Oct, Vol-10(10): 47-50. M.Vikneshan, A.V. Ankola, Anand Hiremath, Mamata Hebbal, Suganya M, Functional foods and its role in improving oral health. Journal of Scientific Dentistry, 2016;6(1):13-19. Aparna K, Vezhavendhan N, Pramodhini. Prevalence of candida species in chronic debilitating patients with oral candidiasis – a pilot study. International journal of contemporary medical research 2015;2(1):32 -38. Mathew A, Nagachandran KS, Vijayalakshmi D. Stress and displacement pattern Evaluation using two different palatal expanders in unilateral cleft lip and palate: A three dimensional finite element analysis. Prog Orthod 2016; 17:38-48. Krishnapriya, Sathyanarayanan Ramanujam, V Suresh. Knowledge and awareness about hand hygiene practices among dental students of dental college, puducherry: A cross sectional study. International Journal of Current Research 2016;8(11): Jananni M, Sivaramakrishnan M, Mahendra M. Mouth the mirror of lungs – Where does the connection lie?. Front. Med. 2016; 10(4): 405 – 9.

Anjana Yogesh, Latha M, Saravana Balaji M D, Premlal K R, Vinod Mony, Sengottuvelu S. Wound healing activity of Monoterpene rich Origanum majorana on experimentally induced wound in rats. International Journal of Phytopharmacology. 2016; 7 (4): 233 – 236. Latha M, Premlal K R, Paranthaman T, Ashish Vijay Jain. Effect of Azadirachta indica Stem Bark Extract on Carious Lesions in Deciduous teeth. Sch. J. Dent. Sci. 2016; 3 (10): 284 – 286.

▶▶ ACADEMIC INITIATIVES Guest Lecture Dr.P. S. Manoharan, Prof and Head, Dept of Prosthodontics gave a guest lecture titled “Geriatic considerations in denture patients” at Raja Muthiah Dental College, Annamalai University, Chidambaram on the event of World Geriatic Day on 1.10.16. Dr.Carounanidy Usha, Dean, and Head department of conservative dentistry and endodontics - on External Consultancy to AB shetty memorial institute of dental sciences, for annual academic audit on 23.11.16 to 24.11.16 in Deralakatte. Dr.Mithunjith, Senior lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics - Presented a guest lecture on “Digital dental photography-with Live demo and hands on” in Dr.K.M.Venkatachalam Oration in IDA Madurai on 27.11.16.

Anjana Yogesh, Latha M, Saravana Balaji M D, Premlal K R, Vinod Mony, Sivaprakash V. Anti-Diarrhoeal Activity of Ethanolic Leaf Extract of Kedrostis foetidissima in Mice. International Journal of Pharmacology & Toxicology. 2016; 6(2): 94 - 96. Umamaheswari G, Suganya R, Sivaramakrishnan M, Vidyalakshmi S. Oral Lichen Planus – A Case Report with Current Trends. International Journal of Applied Sciences. 2016; 5(1): 6 -17. 58

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Dr. Saravanakumar Prof. & HOD, Dept. of Periodontology, delivered an IDA Guest Lecture on “Perio for All” at Thiruvarur on18.12.16.

Officiation as Chairperson Dr. Saravanakumar Prof. & Head, Dept. of Periodontology went as a PG examiner to JKKN Dental college and hospital, Komarapalayam, Tamil Nadu on 3.11.16 and 4.11.16. Dr. Vineela Katam Reddy, Reader, Dept. of Periodontology, chaired a scientific session in the International College of Dentists, Conference and Convocation 2016 held at Hyaat Regency Chennai, conducted by Tagore dental college on 17.12.16 and 18.12.16.

congress of Oral implantologists (ICOI), U.S.A, in the international conference, World conference of Oral implantologists (WCOI) held in NewDelhi between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr. Praveen Rajesh, Senior Lecturer, Department of Conservative dentistry and Endodontics was awarded best oral presentation for the poster titled “Comparative evaluation of NSAIDs vs corticosteroids on post – operative pain: A double-blind randomized control pain.” in Roots Summit, 2016 held in Dubai between 30.11.16 and 3.12.16.

Awards/ Recognition: “IGIDS - NSS unit” has been selected has one of the ten best NSS unit in Pondicherry state by Pondicherry NSS Cell. Dr. Sanguida.A, Reader, Dept. of Paedodontics & Preventive Dentistry completed the Post Graduate Diploma in Yoga Therapy from CYTER, MGMCRI on 9.11.16. Dr. Sivasenthil, Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, obtained Diplomate World congress for Oral Implantology (DWCOI) at 10th World congress for Oral Implantology & AAID Global Conference, New Delhi between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr. Balaji. J, Senior lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, obtained Diplomate World congress for Oral Implantology (DWCOI) at 10th World congress for Oral Implantology & AAID Global Conference, New Delhi between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr. Mithunjith, Senior Lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics was awarded fellowship and Masters in Implantology by International

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Presentation in Conference/ CDE: Dr. Balaji. J, Senior lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, presented a paper “Rejuvinating the quality of life of patients using Dental implants- Case report” at 10th World congress for Oral Implantology & AAID Global Conference, New Delhi between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr. Sivasenthil, Reader Department of Prosthodontics, presented a paper “Functional and esthetic reconstruction with prosthesis using dental implants- case report” at 10th World congress for Oral Implantology & AAID Global Conference, New Delhi between 11.11.16 and 13.11.16. Dr. Shivasakthy. M, Reader Department of Prosthodontics, presented a poster titled “Reliability of internal assessment performance in identification of students needing additional curricular support (SNACS) in B.D.S-A retrospective Study” at MEDUCON 2016 held at JIPMER on 13.11.16 and 14.11.16.

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participated in the conference on “MEDUCON” conducted by Dept. of medical education and alumni association of national teacher training center by on 14.10.16.at JIPMER. Dr. Saravanakumar, Prof & HOD, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Vineela Katam Reddy, Reader, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Karthikeyan, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Sakthi Devi, Senior lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Priyadharshini, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, attended CDE program “CORE” conducted by the Dept. of Oral Medicine and Radiology on 17.10.16 at Indira Gandhi institute of dental sciences. Dr Anoop Mathew, Dr Aniruddh, Dr Vijaykumar, Dr Aravinth, Senior lecturers, Dept of Orthodontics attended the “CORE 2016” CDE program held on 17.10.16 at Indira Gandhi Dental College, Puducherry.

Dr. Balaji. J Senior lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, presented a paper “Full mouth rehabilitation using dental implants - case series” at 44th Indian Prosthodontic Society Conference, Mumbai between 1.12.16 and 4.12.16. Professor Dr.Vishwanath Rangdhol, Head, Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology attended National Conference organized by Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology at Kanyakumari on 16.12.16 and presented a paper on “Integrated teaching modules- Our experience.”

Participation in Conference /CDE: Dr Anoop Mathew, Dr Aniruddh, Dr Aravinth Senior lecturers Dept of Orthodontics attended the “Laser Atelier” CDE program held on 26.09.16 at Indira Gandhi Dental College, Puducherry Dr. Saravanakumar, Prof & HOD, and Dr. Sakthi Devi, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology attended the “Interns Orientation Program” on 5.10.16 at Indira Gandhi institute of Dental sciences. Dr. Saravanakumar Prof. & HOD, Dept. of Periodontology, and Dr. Pratebha Balu, Professor, Dept. of Periodontology attended CIDRF workshop “Clinical Genomics and Bioinformatics on 14.10.16 at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute. Dr. Jananni, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology and Dr. Sakthi Devi Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology 60

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Karthikeyan, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Sakthi Devi Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Priyadharshini, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology participated in the guest lecture On “Surgical considerations in implant placement in the esthetic zone” conducted by SAF on 02.11.16 at Indira Gandhi institute of dental sciences. All faculty of IGIDS attended “Dr. Rafiauddin Ahmed Internal Oration programme” conducted by SAF and DEU on 04.11.16 at Indira Gandhi institute of Dental sciences. Dr. Sivasenthil, Reader, Dr. Rajkumar, Senior Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics attended CDE on “Be Aware, Be Prepared, Be ready” Medical Emergencies in Dentistry at Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Saveetha University, Chennai on 09.11.16. Dr.Geena Mary, Tutor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics attended CDE program on “Be aware, Be prepared, Be ready” Medical emergencies in Dentistry in Saveetha Dental College, Chennai held on 09.11.16 Dr.Mithunjith, senior lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics attended an international conference “World conference of Oral implantologists (WCOI) held in NewDelhi from 11.11.16 to 13.11.16. Dr. Shivasakthy. M, Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, attended preconference workshop on “Research in medical education” at MEDUCON 2016 held at JIPMER on 13.11.16 and 14.11.16. Dr. Kirthiga M, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry participated in the Cochrane Review Completion Workshop from 14.11.16 to 18.11.16.

Cochrane- South Asia’s “Review Completion workshop” held in Christian Medical College, Vellore from 14.11.16 to 18.11.16. Dr Prathima G S, Prof and Head, Dept of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry attended two days intensive course on Direct gold foil restorations with hands-on and clinical patient work on 20.11.16 at Indian academy of gold foil operators Chennai. Dr. Selvabalaji A, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry participated in a camp for special children (Rainbow Foundation, Vanrapet) organized by Guild Association, IGIDS in association with Rotary Club, on 22.11.16. All faculty of IGIDS attended the Clinical Society meet held by the Dept. Orthodontics on 29.11.16 at Indira Gandhi institute of dental sciences. Dr. Vineela Katam Reddy Reader, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Karthikeyan, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology contributed voluntarily in the Blood Donation program conducted by SBV Blood Donors Club RRC? on the occasion of “AIDS day” on 01.12.16. Dr Prathima G S, Prof and Head, Dr Kayalvizhi, Prof, Dr Sanguida, Reader, Dr Suganya M, Dr Ramesh V, Dr Selvabalaji A, Dr Kirthiga M, Senior lecturer, Dept of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry attended an International CDE Program on “Infant Oral Health Care - the untold story” organized by Department of Public Health Dentistry on the 23.12.16 at IGIDS, Pondicherry. Dr. Saravanakumar Prof. & HOD, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Pratebha Balu, Professor, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Vineela Katam Reddy, Reader, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Jananni, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Karthikeyan, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology Dr. Sakthi Devi, Senior lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, Dr. Priyadharshini, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Periodontology, attended an International CDE program on “Infant Oral Health Care- The Untold Story” conducted by the Dept. of Public Health Dentistry and SAF, IGIDS on 23.12.16.

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▶▶ ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 5.10.16 Interns Orientation Program The SAF,IGIDS organized the Intern orientation programme for the CRRI batch 2016-17 on 5th October, 2016 and was attended by the Vice principals (Dr.Saravanakumar and Dr.Shanthadevy), faculty members and the interns. An introduction lecture on “SPICES” model for assessment of interns was delivered by Dr.Manoharan,Dept of Prosthodontics. The orientation towards clinical assessment and practice and the scope of dentistry were briefed upon. Dr.Annie Sharon (Passed out alumni Batch 2015-16) was honoured for conducting research survey in Neyveli Lignite Corporation on “Oral health status for coal mine workers”.

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Topic for presentations were ‘Do’s and Dont’s of a successful Oral Medicine Practice” & “Entrepreneurship in Maxillofacial Radiology” with Dr Srinivas K, Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, Orissa and Dr. Vinod Kumar AR, Proprietor and Chief Radiologist, 3D Digital Diagnostic Dental Centre, Bangalore respectively. The program was attended by 120 registrants including faculty, private practitioners, postgraduates and CRRI from various dental institutions of Pondicherry and Tamilnadu. A poster competition was also conducted during CORE 2016. A total of ten posters in undergraduate and post graduate categories were displayed and judged by the guest speakers. Two prizes separately for UG and PG categories were given. The prizes for the poster competition and certificate of appreciation were awarded to the winners and the delegates by the Guest speakers. The following were the prize winners for the poster competition. PG Category: Dr. Sowmya H, Meenakshi Ammal Dental College, Chennai won first prize for paper titled CBCT: A paradigm shift for clinical dentistry – evaluation of maxillary molars and surrounding structures; Dr. Nandhini G, Meenakshi Ammal Dental College, Chennai won the second prize for paper titled “Evaluation of variability of styloid process – CBCT study.”

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examination”; Ms. Shameemunisha and Ms. Sandhiya, IGIDS won the second prize for poster titled “Child abuse and neglect – Greater the knowledge greater the responsibility to diagnose”.

24.10.16 First BDS Induction Program The induction program for the 11th batch (2016-17) BDS students was held on 24th October 2016 at lecture hall, College Block, MGMCRI. Vice Chancellor, SBV Prof. K.R.Sethuraman, & Dr. Ananthakrishnan Dean, R&AHS, SBV graced the occasion. All first year students and their parents attended the program. The program began with welcome address by Dr. Jananni, Senior Lecturer, Periodontics, IGIDS followed by college prayer & lighting of kuthuvilaku by the dignitaries, parents and students. Dean, IGIDS Dr.Carounanidy Usha addressed the gathering and gave an overview of the BDS course. Dr. Saravanakumar.R, Vice Principal, IGIDS (Academics) briefed the audience about the academic details. This was followed by an introduction of the various welfare committees for first year students by Dr. Santhadevy. A, Vice Principal IGIDS (Students’ welfare). Dr. Shivasakthy, Co-ordinator, Dental Education Unit, IGIDS introduced the learning support details provided for 1st year students at IGIDS. Students’ Cousellor, SBV Mrs. Josephine addressed the gathering. This was followed by felicitation by Dr.Ananthakrishnan, Dean, R&AHS, SBV. This was followed by a lecture by Prof. K.R.Sethuraman on “Excellence In Education”. One parent who is also a Dentist by Profession expressed her views & this was followed by a speech by Dr.Preethi.V, alumni IGIDS who shared her experiences in IGIDS. The program ended with high tea.

25.10.2016- Clinical Society Meeting. The Clinical society committee of IGIDS conducted the clinical society programme to discuss various research studies. The meeting started at 02.45 pm, the audience comprised of third years, final years, interns, Post graduates and faculties of IGIDS. The meeting was attended by our Principal, Prof. Dr. Carounanidy Usha, Vice Principal, Prof. Dr. R. Saravana Kumar and Prof. Dr. Santhadevi.The session was moderated by Dr. Vikneshan (Reader, Department Community Dentistry). There were three presentations on the topic, 1. Oral health status of industrial coal mine workers- A cross-sectional study- Dr.Annie Sharon.2.Oral health programs for coal minersA prototype- Miss Nivetha (Final Year BDS). 3. Prevelance of tobacco consumption and perception of tobacco use among high school students- Mr Fahad (CRRI). The sessions were open for discussion at the end of each presentation. Certificates were presented to the participants at the end of the presentations by Principal Prof. Dr. Carounanidy Usha. Feedback forms were collected for all the speakers.

31.10.16 Commemoration of National Unity Day On 31.10.16, Rashtriya Ektadivas (National Unity Day), which is commemorated for the birth anniversary of Sardhar Vallabhai Patel in IGIDS campus. Dr. ShanthaDevi (Vice-Principal, Student affairs) and Dr.Saravana Kumar, Vice-principal (Academics), were present. Dr.Shantha Devy conveyed the agenda to the students. A pledge was taken by the students. Dr. Rajkumar read the pledge and the students repeated it after him. Faculty, Post graduates, Interns and Final year’s students participated. On 5.11.16 in commemoration of the birthday of Sardhar Vallabhai Patel an elocution competition was held in IGIDS campus for the students and was judged by Dr. M. Shivasakthy, Reader, Dept. of Prosthodontics and Dr.Jannani, Lecturer, Dept of Periodontics. The topic for elocution was “National Unity vs. Aspiration of states”. The undergraduates and postgraduates participated in the competition with a total of 18 participants. The competition commenced at 11am within the campus annex block. The first year students were the audience. The program concluded at 1pm. The first prize medal was given to Priyanka (IIIyr.), the second prize medal was given to Roshan (Iyr.) the third prize certificate was given to Dr. ShouvikMalakar (PG).

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zone” on 2nd November 2016. The introduction to the session was given by Dr.Aniruddh, Secretary, SAF. The resource person was Dr. Kavitha Pol Nalavade, Associate professor and guide in the department of periodontology at Dr. G.D.Pol foundations Y.M.T Dental College, Kharghar, Maharashtra. The lecture aimed at teaching advanced techniques for placement of implants in the aesthetic zone. It was attended by the Dean IGIDS, Post graduate students and faculty of the Departments under Implant board, IGIDS. Dr.Kavitha spoke on the basic principles and design of dental implants to be placed in the aesthetic zone. She also briefed about the smile designing, periodontal considerations and current trends in implant placement. The certificate of appreciation was presented to the speaker by Dr.Pratibha, Professor, Department of Periodontology, Member, Implant board, IGIDS.

founding the first dental college in the country in Calcutta, establishment of Indian dental journal and Bengal dental association were listed. The felicitation address was given by Dr.Sethuraman, Vice chancellor, SBV University. The introduction for the guest speaker for the oration, Prof. N.Ananthakrishnan was given by Dr.P.S.Manoharan, Prof&Head, Department of Prosthodontics, IGIDS. The achievements of Prof.N.Ananthakrishnan in the field of Surgical Gasteroenterology and his contributions to medical education and post graduate training were briefed to the audience after which the Orator medallion was bestowed upon him by the Dean, IGIDS. The Dr.R.Ahmed oration was then delivered by Dr.Ananthakrishnan on Professionalism. His speech stressed the importance of professionalism among medical and dental fraternity, the methods of obtaining feedback on professional behavior and enlightened the audience with real life scenarios and examples. After the oration, the citation for Dr. Ananthakrishnan was recited to the audience by Dr. Vineela Reddy, Member secretary, SAF and the citation was presented to Dr.Ananthakrishnan with a standing ovation from the audience. The Vote of thanks was delivered by Dr.Shivasakthy, Member secretary, DEU. The oration program ended with the college anthem and high tea.

04.11.16 Annual Internal Oration The Annual Dr. R. Ahmed Internal Oration, IGIDS was conducted on 4th November, 2016 organized by SAF&DEU, IGIDS. The program started with the invocation of prayer song. This was followed by the lighting of the Kuthuvilakku by the honourable dignitaries, Prof.K.R.Sethuraman,Vice Chancellor, Prof. N.Ananthakrishnan, Dean, Research &AHS, Dr.Ravishankar, Dean, MGMCRI and Prof.Dr.Carounanidy Usha, Dean, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, SBV University. Introduction of the Dr.R.Ahmed Internal Oration was rendered by the Dean, IGIDS. The immense contributions of Dr.R.Ahmed to the field of dentistry in India such as 64

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14.11.16 - Commemoration of Childrens Day In commemoration of children’s day (Nov14th) there was a photographic competition held for all undergraduate and postgraduate students under the theme ‘SMILING POTRAIT OF CHILDREN’ conducted by Department SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry. The judge for the program was Dr Praveen (Dept of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics). The total number of participants for the program were 14. 1st and 2nd prizes and certificates were awarded to the best photographs for the students by on 17.11.16 during the General Body Meeting. The winners were Dr Santhiya, CRRI and Vishnupriya, III year UG student.

28.11.2016. - Clinical Society Meeting The Clinical society committee of IGIDS conducted the clinical society programme to discuss various research studies. The meeting started at 02.30 pm, the audience comprised of third years, final years, interns, Post graduates and faculties of IGIDS. The meeting was attended by our Vice Principal, Prof. Dr. R. Saravana Kumar and Prof. Dr. Santhadevi. The session was moderated by Dr. Anoop Mathew (Senior Lecturer, Department of orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopeadics). There were five presentations on the topic, 1. Retainers in orthodontics- Miss Sanjana Sathyan. (Intern). 2. Video demonstration on fabrication of fixed retainer-A case report- Miss Sandhya Jothi. (Intern). 3. Evaluation of reliability in landmark identification between manual and computerized method-A cephalometric in-vitro studyDr K Geetha (IIIrd Year Post Graduate). 4. Friction vs Frictionless mechanics for orthodontic space closure- Two case reports-Dr Arya Jayavarma (IInd Year Post Graduate). 5. Treatment of skeletal class II malocclusion using two different treatment modalities- A comparative case reportDr Eunice John (IInd Year Post Graduate). The sessions were open for discussion at the end of each presentation. Certificates were presented to the participants at the end of the presentations by Vice Principal, Prof. Dr. Santhadevi. Feedback forms were collected for all the speakers.

01.12.16 Commemoration of World Aids Day On the occasion of World AIDS Day on 1.12.16, Department of Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute in collaboration with Department of Public Health Dentistry, IGIDS and Department of Community Health Nursing, KGNC had conducted Quiz, Poster competition, Slogan writing competition and short video message competition.

01.12.16 C ommemoration of World Aids Day by RRC On the occasion of World AIDS Day on 1.12.16, Red Ribbon Club, IGIDS organized a Poster competition on AIDS awareness and Voluntary blood donation. An introduction to the program was given by SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Dr. M. Shivasakthy, Program Organizer, RRC followed by a talk on this year theme by Dr. Shouvik, Postgraduate, Dept of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics. The event was judged by Dr. Suresh V, Professor and Dr. Nithin Jude, Senior lecturer, Dept of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery in which 45 students participated. On the same day Dr. Sivasankari, Treasurer, RRC led the Voluntary blood donation program in Blood Bank, SBV. 20 members volunteered for blood donation.

20.12.16 to 30.12.16 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; International Student Observership Program 5 dental students and 1 faculty from University of IOWA participated in this program from 20th December to 30th December 2016. The Department of Public Health Dentistry, IGIDS, SBVU in association with Department of preventive & Community Dentistry, College of Dentistry, University of IOWA,USA, organized maiden students exchange program ISOP from 20.12.16 to 29.12.16. For this program 1 Faculty, 1 PG, 4 UG have participated from COD, University of IOWA, USA in ISOP. Various outreach activities were organized by team PHD for this program. The following are the brief outline of activities and programs done. DAY 1: 20.12.2016 Tuesday: Introduction and Orientation of the Students to Hospital Service; DAY2: 21.12.2016 Wednesday - Door To Door Oral Cancer Screening at Kuttiyankuppam Village, Cuddalore District. DAY 3: 22.12.2016 Thursday - Oral Health Program For Hearing And Speech Impaired At Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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Vela Special School, Villupuram. DAY 4: 23.12.2016 Friday – Continuing Dental Education program – Infant Oral Health care – The Untold Story. DAY 5: 24.12.2016 Saturday – Comprehensive oral health program at Sultanpet, Pondicherry. DAY 6: 26.12.16 Monday – Oral health program for Transgenders at SCOHD Cuddalore. DAY 7: 27.12.2016 Tuesday – School Oral Health Program for Special Children at Sathya Special School, Pondicherry. DAY8: 28.12.16 Wednesday – Comprehensive oral health program Nuduvirapattu, Cuddalore. DAY9: 29.12.16 Thursday The visiting international Students presented their portfolio and reflection on the program, Honorable Vice Chancellor of SBV and Dean Faculty of dentistry awarded the certificates to the international students.

23.12.16 - International CDE Program International CDE program was conducted Infant Oral Health Care – “The Untold Story” on 23.12.16, Topic 1: Paradigm Shift: Infant Oral Health Care- Primary Prevention by Arthur J. Nowak, Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, Fellow Pediatric Oral Health Research and Policy Center American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Topic 2: Dental Public Health Programs and Interventions - A Look at Best Practices in Iowa by Dr. Nyla Balakrishnan, Resident, Dental Public Health, Department of Preventive & Community Dentistry University of Iowa College of Dentistry & Dental Clinics. The program was attended by PG and UG students of various colleges of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

▶▶ OUTREACH ACTIVITIES Free Denture Camp The Department of Prosthodontics, Indira Gandhi Institute of dental Sciences, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth and Indian Prosthodontic Society, Tamilnadu Chapter, conducted the Marathon Free Denture Camp at Veerangipuram, Kandatchipuram Tk, Villupuram Dt. during the period

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October - November 2016. Around 48 completely and partially edentulous patients were screened for rehabilitation and treatment procedures for replacement of teeth were performed for 13 completely edentulous patients and 17 partially edentulous patients to receive complete and partial dentures on 07.10.16. All the materials, human resources including transportation were provided from the university. The second part took care of the final delivery of removable partial dentures and interim procedures in complete dentures like border moulding and jaw relations were carried out on 25th of October 2016. In the third part of the camp on 11th of November 2016, the doctors and post graduates delivered all the complete dentures and addressed symptoms of the removable partial dentures. The patients were benefitted in accessing high end treatment at their doorstep. Dr. Manoharan, Dr. Rajkumar, Dr, Ali, Dr. Balaji, Faculty, Department of Prosthodontics along with second year and third year postgraduates and 12 interns participated in the camp.

School, Kuttiyankuppam. The program inaugurated by Dr. SanthaDevi, Vice Principal, IGIDS and village president, Dr. Ramu, NSS Program officer conducted the program. The main aim of this NSS Campaign was to remove plastic waste and house hold waste in and around school campus. Instructed the school student, and Created awareness among village, about cleanliness and its importance and about prevention of communicable diseases. Recommended the village president to place dust bin in suitable area where dust accumulation is more. Oral health program was conducted to create awareness and to emphasis the important of clean mouth. In this program oral health screening, treatment like scaling, extraction and restoration were done for 152 beneficiaries and 200 treatments were delivered.

Oral Pathology NSS Swach Bharat Campaign The NSS unit of Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences organized one day Swach Bharath Campaign and oral health program in “Government Middle School” at Kuttiyankuppam village along with department of Public Health Dentistry on 6.11.2016 Sunday at 10.00 am. This swatch bharath campaign was to emphasize the importance of plastic free environment in Government Middle

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The Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology has conducted a Camp at Kuttiyankuppam village on 06.11.16 along with faculties – Dr. Santha Devy, Professor & Head, Dr. Prem Lal, Reader, Dr. Sivaramakrishnan, Senior Lecturer, Dr. Suganya. R, Senior Lecturer, III year post graduate students - Dr. Aroumougam, Dr. Satheesh Kumar, Dr. Uma Maheswari. G, I year post graduate students Dr. Chitra. N and Dr. Muthukumaran. R and Interns posted - Ms. Krishnendu. M.C., Ms. Kiruthika. K.S. to screen for potentially malignant disorders in oral cavity.

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National Toothbrushing Day Team Public health dentistry has organised a “National tooth Brushing day program for special children” at Sri Siva Sakthi Mentally Challenged Special School, Cuddalore on 07.11.16. In this program tooth brushing demonstration and videos were displayed to the special children and they were educated about the important of tooth brushing. Oral health screening and treatment were provided to 50 Special children. Dental health packs containing toothpaste and tooth brush were distributed to all the beneficiaries. Dental health education aid “Tooth brushing stickers was donated to the school.

Prizes were distributed to the best drawing in each standard by Dr Suganya. In addition, an oral health education talk was delivered by Dr. Suganya, following with oral health kits were distributed to all the students.

Oral Health Program for Drivers and Security Personnel of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth Inauguration of “Oral Health Program for Drivers and Security Personnel of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth” on 22.11.16. The program was inaugurated by Vice Principle Students affair Dr.Santhadevi and First case sheet for drivers and security guards was given by dental hospital Superintendent Dr.Sathyanarayanan.

Treatment Camp Organized by Alumni The Alumni’s of IGIDS - Guild Alumni Association conducted a Comprehensive Oral Health treatment camp for adults and children with special needs on 22.11.16 to provide basic Oral Hygiene care in association with Rotatory Club of Pondicherry Aurocity in Rainbow Fundation, Puducherry. The camp program started with inaugural address by Rotatory Club Asst. Governor RTN.

Pedodontics In accordance with children’s day celebration on 14.11.16, a drawing competition was held in Udavi Karangal Orphanage, Ariyankuppam for children aged 9-14 years by Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry.

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Vanaja Vaithianathan. The treatment for the special need children and adults was done after the inaugural program. 14 Alumni’s along with 2 Senior Faculties of IGIDS had done 22 scaling, 20 filling and one extraction for 28 patients.

Report on Chettinad Oral Health Program-2016 For the fourth consecutive year, a team of 30 consists of 4 Faculties, 21 interns and 5 Paramedical staffs conducted this program from 28th November 2016 to 30th November 2016 at various places of Sivagangai District. Day 1: 28.11.2016 – The program was organized by Vallal Mena Hospital at Rani Mahal, Puliyal Village, Devakottai. Day 2: 29.11.16 – Nattarasan Kottai Nagarathar Sangam organized a Comprehensive Oral Health Camp at Nagarathar Kalyana Mahal, Nattarasan Kottai, Sivangangai District. Day 3: 30-11-2016 – The third day program was organized by Arputha foundation at M.V. Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Muthupattinam, Karaikudi.

▶▶ LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS Appointments Dr. Senkutvan R.S, Prof and Head, Dept of Orthodontics -2.11.2016

▶▶ STUDENT AND ALUMNI Post Graduate News Awards Dr Abhishiek, II year postgraduate student, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry has been given permission for the patent of the toothbrush under Indian Registered Patent Agent, registration number: IN/PA 1477 Dr. Shouvik, IIIrd Year Post Graduates, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics Participated National Unity Day and Got 3rd Prize in Elocution Competition on 05.11.16 in IGIDS. Dr Yoga Sivakumar, III year Post Graduate student got the best paper award at National Level Paper Presentation contest on MAKE IN INDIA organised by The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Govt of Indiafor presenting a paper titled “Artificial Neural Network –One step ahead in saving human race from cancer” held at Sathyabama University, Chennai, on 19.11.16.

The salient features of the program were Comprehensive Oral Health Screening was done; Pallative, Emergency and Primary Care like Scaling, Restoration and Extraction were done to the entire beneficiary of the program; Dental Health packs containing tooth brush and tooth paste were distributed; Oral health education , awareness and donation of health education aid were done in the program. The program was well covered by local Newspaper and Media. In this program, a total of 1554 General Public and School Children were screened for various Oral Health related problems in 3 days in 3 places including 264 Extractions, 699 Restorations and 626 Scaling were done to the beneficiaries. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Dr.Kavya, Dr Dhanraj and Dr Juhi, 1st year Post-graduates in Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, attended National Conference organized by Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology at Kanyakumari from 15.12.2016 to 17.12.2016 .Dr Juhi won the best paper award for paper titled “Sarcomatoid Carcinoma- A rare case report” and Dr Kavya won the best paper award for paper titled, “Effect of 1% clotrimazole and 0.1% Tea Tree oil on patients with candiasis - A comparative study.” Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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Conference” held between 3.11.16 and 6.11.16 at 2016 Grand Hyatt, Goa. III year post graduate students Dr. Aroumougam, Dr. Satheesh Kumar, Dr. Uma Maheswari.G and I year post graduate students Dr. Chitra. N and Dr. Muthukumaran. R from the department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology have participated in the Department camp at Kuttiyankuppam village on 06.11.16.

Presentations and Participations Dr.V.T.Arun Varghese, II year postgraduate, Department of Periodontology, Dr.B.Na.Vinoth Kumar, I year postgraduate, Department of Periodontology, attended CDE programme CORE’16 conducted by Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, IGIDS, Puducherry on 17.10.16.

III year post graduate students Dr. Aroumougam, Dr. Satheesh Kumar, Dr. Uma Maheswari. G from the department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology have participated in the “VIII Interactive Slide Seminar” organised by the department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology at the faculty of Dental Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University held on 12.11.16 and presented a paper on - Dr. Aroumougam – “Chondromyxoid Fibroma – A Case Report”; Dr. Satheesh Kumar – “Lymphoma A case Report”; Dr. Uma Maheswari.G – “Congenital Granular Cell Epulis – A Case Report”

III year post graduate students Dr. Aroumougam, Dr. Satheesh Kumar, Dr. Uma Maheswari. G from the department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology have participated in the Continuing Dental Education Programme “CORE 2016” at Indira Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of dental Sciences organised by the Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, IGIDS on 17.10.16.

I year post graduate student Dr. Chitra. N from the department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology has participated in the MGMCRI Camp at Virudhachalam – Sathakudal on 19.11.16.

III year post graduate students Dr. Satheesh Kumar, Dr. Uma Maheswari. G and I year post graduate student Dr. Chitra from the department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology have participated in the Role Play Sessions on “Communication skills for Clinical Practice” under SBV-AHEAD on 20.10.16.

I year post graduate students Dr. Chitra. N and Dr. Muthukumaran. R from the department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology have attended the external posting in the Department of General at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, SBV University from 12.12.16 to 19.12.16.

I year post graduate students Dr. Chitra. N and Dr. Muthukumaran. R from the department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology have attended the external posting in the Department of General Microbiology at Mahatama Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, SBV University from 24.10.16 to 3.11.16.

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Awards Undergraduate students of IGIDS had actively participated in Slogan writing competition and short video message competition organized by MGMCRI on World AIDS Day, 1.12.16. In Slogan writing competition First prize was secured by Ms. Sona Priyanka, First BDS and Second prize was secured by Mr.Rahul, Third BDS. Undergraduate students of IGIDS had actively participated in poster competition organized by Red Ribbon Club, IGIDS on World AIDS Day, 01.12.16. First prize was secured by Ms. Manju, III BDS, Second prize was secured by Ms. Kavya, I BDS, Ms. Preethi Epsibah, IV BDS and third prize was secured by Ms. Amritha and Ms. Sarika of II BDS SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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nursing college ▶▶ RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Anitha.B, Annie Annal.M. Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme (STP) on Knowledge Regarding Zika Fever among Staff Nurses in MGMCRI, at Puducherry. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016; 10(3):16-18. Bamalakshmi.V. Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme On knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls regarding Breast Self-Examination in Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering And Technology (RGCET) Puducherry. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016; 10(3):28-32. Beniya Elizabeth Rani. R, Prabavathy. S. A comparative study to assess the level of stress, coping strategies and quality of life of institutionalized and non institutionalized elderly residing at Puducherry. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016; 10(3): 22-27. Geetha.C. Fight Obesity –Healthy Weight-Healthy lives. International Journal of Applied Research 2016; 2 (10):672-675. Gayathri S, Prabavathy S. Upholding Dignity in Mental Health Care Practice. Health Action Journal. Oct 2016; 29 (10): 15-16. Jayanthi K, Prabavathy S. Cultural Competence for Mental Health. Health Action Journal. Oct 2016; 29(10): 28-29. Jayasri J, Prabavathy S. Quality in Mental Health Care Services. Health Action Journal. Oct 2016; 29(10): 30-32. Jayasri J, Gayathri S. Case Report on Plummer Vinson Syndrome. International Journal of Nursing Education. Oct to Dec 2016; 8(4): 167-169. Jayanthi K, Suganya R, Suganya S, Sumathi P. The Effectiveness Of Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Based Discharge Counseling on Patient Satisfaction Among Patients in Selected Wards at MGMCRI, Puducherry. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016; 10(3):37-41. 71

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Kripa Angeline.A,Anbhu M ,Renuka .K. Effectiveness of Helfer Skin Tap Technique on Pain During IM Injection. International Journal of Nursing Science Practice and Research. 2016;2(2): 41-51. Lavanya.S, , Anitha.B Comparative study to assess the knowledge on pregnancy induced hypertension among cases and control antenatal mothers attending antenatal OPD at MGMCRI ,Puducherry. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016; 10(3):42-45. Renuka K, Manopriya. V. Effectiveness of informational module on knowledge regarding estrogen dominance in urban school. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016; 10(3):9-12. Sherin Nithya.S, Ruma Shanthini. Assess the impact of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding home management on prevention of Dengue. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016;10(3):13-15. Sumathy. P, Geetha. C, Rajeswari. S. Effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding newborn care and danger signs of new born among the Postnatal Mothers in Kirumampakkam PHC, Puducherry. Pondicherry Journal of Nursing. Sep-Dec 2016; 10(3):16-18.

▶▶ ACADEMIC INITIATIVES RECOGNITIONS Dr. Renuka.K, Principal, HOD, Medical Surgical Nursing, deliberated on “Cancer Connection And Correction In Lifestyle” in 7th National Conference organized by Department of Medical Surgical Nursing in association with ICMR, on the theme Breaking Bad News To Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing “- Exploring New Horizons” held on 12 .10.2016. Mrs.Kripa Angeline.A, Asso.Prof. Dept Medical Surgical Nursing, deliberated in skill session Hands on Training – Stomal Therapy in 7th National Conference organized by Department of Medical Surgical Nursing in association with ICMR, on the theme Breaking Bad News To Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing “- Exploring New Horizons” held on 12 .10.2016.

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Dr. Renuka.K, Principal, HOD, Medical Surgical Nursing, deliberated on IV- Cannulation as Resource speaker in State Level Workshop on “Hands on drill for Nursing procedures” in Sri Manakular Vinayagar College of Nursing, Kalitheertthalkoppam, Puducherry on 23.11.16. Dr.Renuka.K Principal, HOD, Medical Surgical Nursing was as a Resource Person in a National Seminar Co-sponsored by ICMR, organized by RAPSBUN, School Of Nursing, Shillong, and deliberated on “Child Abuse – Physical Abuse In Children And Its Ill Effects Along With Corporal Punishment” held on 02.12.2016 .

Nursing Research organized by College of Nursing, PIMS on 7.10.2016.

Chairperson Prof.Sumathy.P, Department of Child Health Nursing, Prof.M. Annie Annal, HOD, Dept of OBG Nursing, Mrs.Kripa Angeline.A, Asso.Prof. Dept Medical Surgical Nursing chaired the scientific session on 7th National Conference organized by Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, in association with ICMR,on the theme Breaking Bad News to Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing “ Exploring New Horizons” held on 12 .10.2016.

▶▶ SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Mrs.R.Jayanthi ,Asst.Prof. Biochemistry, , spoke on, “Clinical sensitivity and specificity of HOMA-IRA study on Insulin resistance in overweight and obese patients with type II Diabetes Mellitus” in 43rd National Conference of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBICON 2016) at Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru on 14.12.16.The following faculty members from KGNC presented a paper and poster in 7th National conference on “Breaking News to Rehabilitation Oncology Nursing exploring New Horizons” on 12.10.16 organized by Dept. of Medical Surgical Nursing, KGNC.

▶▶ OFFICIATING IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES IN ACADEMIC / SCIENTIFIC EVENTS. Examiner Prof.Sumathy.P, Department of Child Health Nursing was appointed as PG examiner at Rani Meyyammai College of Nursing, Annamalai University, on 25.10. 2016 Prof. M. Annie Annal, HOD, Department of OBG Nursing, was appointed as a practical examiner for II year M.Sc N (OBG) and dissertation evaluation at PSG College of Nursing Coimbatore on 8 & 9th November 2016. Dr.Renuka.K Principal,HOD, Medical Surgical Nursing, was appointed as a PG examiner to Mohamed Sathak AJ College Of Nursing ,Chennai ,from 14.11.16 to 16.11.16.

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Mrs.B.Anitha, Lecturer, Dept of OBG Nursing, spoke on, “A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Zika Fever Among Staff Nurses” in MGMCRI, at Puducherry & won best paper award Mrs. Geetha.C ,Asso.Prof- Dept. of Child Health Nursing, spoke on, “Childhood Cancer”. Mrs. Aruna Devi.M, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Community Health Nursing, spoke on, “Home Cancer Services Door to Door Approaches”. Mrs. Bamalakshmi.V, Asso. Prof, Dept. of Community Health Nursing, spoke on, “Strategies on Community Based Palliative Care” & Exhibited A Poster On “Community Palliative Care” Mrs. Elavarasi .R, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Community Health Nursing, spoke on, “Cancer Nutrition & Rehabilitation” Mrs. Gayathri S, Tutor. Dept. of Mental Health Nursing, spoke on, “Effect of Cancer on Mental Health”. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Mrs. Jayanthi K, Asst. Prof. Dept. of Mental Health Nursing, spoke on “Psychological Wellbeing and Palliative Care”. Mrs. Jayasri J, Tutor. Dept. of Mental Health Nursing spoke on “Herbal Therapies in Cancer Prevention and Treatment”. Mrs S. Lavanya, Asst Prof, Dept. of OBG Nursing, spoke on “Effectiveness of Ice Pack Application Vs Hot Application on Labour Pain Perception among Primi Gravid Women during First Stage of Labour”. Mrs. Rajeswari.S, Asso.Prof, Dept. of Child Health Nursing, spoke on, “Clinical guidelines on pain management for child with cancer”. Mr.Z.Ramaprabhu, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Community Health Nursing, spoke on, “Vitamin C – The Magic Bullet”. Mrs. Sherin Nithya.S, Asst Prof Dept. of Child Health Nursing, spoke on, “Complementary therapy for children with cancer” & won best paper award Ms. Suganya.V, Tutor, Dept. of Child Health Nursing, spoke on, ‘Impact on Patients underwent Chemotherapy’

Research Methodology and Bioststistics JIPMER college of Nursing on 25 & 26th October 2016. Mrs S. Lavanya, Asst. Prof, Ms.B.Anitha, Lecturer, Dept of OBG Nursing and Mrs.Kowsalya Asst.lecturer, Dept. of Nursing Foundation participated in yoga practical session commemoration in 6th foundation day focusing on the theme of yoga in nursing education organized by department of CYTER MGMCRI, which was held on 02.11.16 in CYTER, MGMCRI. All faculty of KGNC Participated in Symposium on “Is CPR The only Pathway for End of Life in Critical Care Unit” organized by Critical Care Medicine And Palliative Care on 2.12.2016 at D2 Conference Hall, MGMCRI.

▶▶ SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC FORUM Department of Mental Health Nursing organized a SAF meeting on 16.11.16, focusing on “Dignity in Mental Health-Psychological First Aid for all”. Mrs.Prabhavathy S, Asso.Prof, HOD, Department of Mental Health Nursing, KGNC gave a lucid talk on “Role of Nurse in Psychological First Aid”, Dr.Avudaiappan, Asst.Prof, Dept of Psychiatry, MGMCRI the guest speaker of the day deliberated on “Dignity in Mental Health-Psychological First Aid for all”.

Mrs. Sudha. K.S, Dept. of Child Health Nursing, spoke on, “Prioritized Needs & Suggested Quality Cancer Care”. Mrs. Subakeerthi.V, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Community Health Nursing, spoke on, “Cancer Awareness Communitythe Road to better Health” and exhibited poster on same topic. Mrs.R.Uma Maheswari , Asst Prof, Dept of OBG, spoke on “Nursing Effectiveness of Deep Breathing Exercise on Menopausal Symptoms among Women”.

▶▶ SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPATIONS All faculty of KGNC Participated in 7th National conference on “Breaking News to Rehabilitation Oncology Nursing exploring New Horizons” on 12.10.16 organized by Dept. of Medical Surgical Nursing, KGNC.

Department of OBG Nursing organized a Scientific and Academic Forum meeting on 28.11.2016 focusing on the theme “Identification and Management of MalPresentations and Mal Positions.” IV year B.Sc (N)

Mrs.Nirmala, Tutor, Dept. of Medical Surgical Nursing, Mrs. Rajeswari.S, Asso. Prof Dept. of Child Health Nursing, and Mrs. Aruna Devi.M, Asst. Prof Dept. of Community Health Nursing participated in Workshop on SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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students participated in the quiz competition. Dr. Aswini Asst. Prof, Dept of OBG, MGMCRI gave an enlightening talk on obstetrical management of Malpresentation and Malposition. Ms. Nanthini.S IV year B.Sc (N) student presented a case on Breech presentation.

Awareness Programme - 21.10.16 Dept. of Community Health Nursing conducted an awareness programme regarding “Prevention & Control of Dengue” at Dr.Ambedkar Hr.Sec.School, Kirumampakkam

▶▶ NURSING EDUCATION UNIT Nursing Education Unit & Internal Quality Assurance Cell jointly organized a follow up workshop on “Problem Based Questioning” which was conducted on 21.10.16 at MEU, I - Floor, SBV. The Resource Speaker Prof. B. V. Adkoli,

Head, Health Professions Education, SBV headed the skill session on formulating Problem Based Questioning the faculty members of KGNC who were grouped. The session concluded with a group discussion, wherein queries were clarified according to their specialties.

▶▶ INNOVATIONS Learning Journal Club Mrs. Jayanthi K, Asst. Prof. Dept. of Mental Health Nursing, spoke on, “Psychodrama” on 19.10.16. Mrs.Kowsalya, Tutor, spoke on, “Mirrror Therapy –Stroke” on 19.10.16. Ms. Veronica A, B.Sc (N) IV year student, spoke on, “Case Report on Preterm” on 25.11.16. Ms.Durga Z, B.Sc (N) IV year student, spoke on, “Lotus Birth” on 25.11.16.

▶▶ OUT REACH PROGRAMS Mass Cooking Demonstration-04.10.16 Dept. of Community Health Nursing conducted a Mass Cooking demonstration focusing on “Prevention & Control of Diabetes Mellitus”, on 04.10.16 from 10.30 to 12.00 noon at Adingapet. Towards the end of the programme queries from public were clarified. 74

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on 21.10.2016. Ms.R.Kayalvizhi & Mr.M.Sasikumar B.Sc IV year students gave a talk on, ‘How to Prevent & Control Dengue’.

World Diabetes Day - 15.11.16 In commemoration of World diabetes day Department of Medical Surgical Nursing organized awareness programme on 15.11.2016 at Anganwadi in Pillaiyarkuppam. The objective of the programme was to highlight the theme “Eyes on Diabetes”. Mrs.Nandhini.M, Lecturer gave a Video Assisted Health talk on “Over View of Diabetes Mellitus”, which was very informative for the public

Newborn Week Celebration – 15th ‑ 21st November‑2016 In commemoration of New born week, Department of Child Health Nursing, KGNC organized a series of activities from 15th to 21st Nov 2016. Poetry competition on the theme ‘New Born’ both in Tamil & English was organized for UG &PG Students on15.11.16. A total 32 students showcased their Poetic talents by penning down their thoughts, and feelings about new born. On 16.11.16, students exhibited their artistic ability in the form of Posters on the theme ‘New Born care’. On 17.11.16, a Healthy baby contest was conducted in three categories namely, 0-6 months, 7 months to 1 year and 1 to 2 years. Children were evaluated based on a structured evaluation proforma and from each category the first place were SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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presbyopia, squint, allergic conjunctivitis and 11 were referred to MGMC&RI for further high level treatment like cataract extraction, squint correction etc. Camp was supported by 5 doctors, technician, Mrs.ArunaDevi, Asst. Prof, KGNC & 7 B.Sc (N) final year students.

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awarded with crown and sash ribbon. Eight consolation prizes were given to the children at Pillayarkupampet, Puducherry. Interactive session was organized at post natal ward at MGMC &RI by M.Sc. Nursing I year, Dept. of Child Health Nursing speciality students on 18.11.16. Discussion focused on breast feeding, Importance of maintaining thermo regulation, Immunization, Treatment of minor ailments and Maintenance of good personal hygiene by mothers. It was a very interesting interactive session and mothers found it to be very beneficial. Feedback were collected from beneficiaries and evaluated. 93 % of the beneficiaries rated the programme as highly informative and interactive.

Eye Camp - 02.11.2016 Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College joining hands with Lions club of Puducherry Excellence & Dept of Ophthalmology, MGMC&RI organized an eye camp in the village C.N Palayam, Cuddalore district adopted by MGMC&RI. Nearly 60 people were identified with various visual disorders such as immature senile cataract,

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NSS unit of Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College is been identified as one of the “Best Performing unit” in the list of top ten colleges in Puducherry as per the assessment done by Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, Govt.of.India. The Chronicle team registers its heartfelt congratulation.

Red Ribbon Club (RRC) In commemoration of World AIDS day on 01.12.16, RRC of KGNC in collaboration with Department of Community Medicine ,MGMCRI, organized various competitions like poster competition, slogan writing and Short video Message, wherein our nursing students participated enthusiastically in all the competitions and won many prizes. On 02.12.16, RRC volunteers of KGNC participated & donated blood in Voluntary Blood Donation program at Blood Bank, MGMCRI. On 03.12.16, RRC Volunteers (45 students) and NSS volunteers of KGNC participated in Bicycle Rally regarding Public Awareness Programme related to HIV/AIDS at Puducherry. On 04.12.16, Mrs.Anitha.B, Lecturer accompanied with, B.Sc(N) III year students Ms.Mary Catherin.D.E, & Ms. Rajam.P gave a Health Talk on ‘Prevention of Venereal diseases for transgender community’ at SCHOD Society, Pudupalayam, Cuddalore. On 05.12.16, Ms. Sajini Merin

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Debate on the theme of “Media and Family Influence on Present Day Adolescents - Are they positive or negative towards prevention of HIV/AIDS?”. Moderator Prof. Ambujam, DVL, MGMCRI graced the programme by her moderation & valuable information followed by Valediction in which certificates were distributed for the winners and participants.

Youth Red Cross Youth Red Cross volunteeers with Advisor participated in Inter State Youth Red Cross Training Camp for Boys on 19.10.2016 to 24.10.2016 was held at Laxmi Bhavan, Dharamsala, Sri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board, Panchakula. Four students from final year B.Sc(Nursing) and one male counselor attended various interactive class sessions by the experts of concerned field for one week scheduled and Acquired adequate knowledge regarding First Aid, Disaster management, HIV & AIDS etc. Students enthusiastically participated in skill session about C.P.R & Bandages & demonstrated their skills to the participants. They bagged the First prize in spoon Race. On 22.10.2016 students checked, monitored Blood Pressure for all the counselors and students of various states.

Mathew.S, Tutor of KGNC, accompanied by B.Sc(N) IV year student. Ms.Sowmiya B.Sc IV year student gave a Health talk on “Prevention of HIV through Parentchild Transmission” for Ante-natal mothers at Antenatal OPD, MGMCRI. Simultaneously Lucky Draw and Video – Show Programme was conducted on the topic regarding Awareness on HIV/AIDS at Dr.Ambedkar. Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Pudupalayam, Puducherry on 07.12.16, Skit on the theme of Exploring the relationship between HIV/AIDS and Alcoholism was showcased in Bharat Matha De-Addiction Centre, Ariyankuppam. III year B.Sc(N) students enthusiastically participated in the skit. On 09.12.16, the RRC activities concluded with 76

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▶▶ STUDENTS AND ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS Awards for Extra/ Co-Curricular Activities Ms.Mary Catherin D E ,B.Sc(N) III year received first Prize and Ms. Raichal Rajan, B.Sc(N) I year received Second Prize in English Elocution held on 03.11.16 in commemoration of National Unity Day, KGNC. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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Mr. Arunraj, B.Sc(N) III year received first Prize and Ms. Kayalvizhi, B.Sc(N) IV year received Second Prize in Tamil Elocution held on 03.11.16 in commemoration of National Unity Day, KGNC. Mr. Prathap R, Mr. Venkatraj M, Mr. Promoth M and Mr. Kalaiselvan B IV yr BSc(N), participated YRC camp in Chandigarh while Mr. Prathap R, received I place in Spoon Rac. Ms.Amal Suzanne.Y III rd year B.Sc(N) student won the 3rd prize and in short video message in world AIDS day on 1.12.16 organized by RRC of KGNC in collaboration with Department of Community Medicine, MGMCRI . Ms.Mary Catherin.D.E, Mr.Hemachandran.S, Mr.Kathiravan.K and Mr.Manikandan.S got the 2nd prize message in world AIDS day on 1.12.16 organized by RRC of KGNC in collaboration with Department of Community Medicine, MGMCRI.

▶▶ PG student Mr.Surendran.S.R M. Sc(N) I year student won the 3rd Prize for the competition ‘Message’ in world AIDS day on 1.12.16 organized by RRC of KGNC in collaboration with Department of Community Medicine, MGMCRI. Mr.Mahesh .S M.Sc(N)I year student won the 3rd prize in poster competition in ‘slogan writing message’ in world AIDS day on 1.12.16 organized by RRC of KGNC in collaboration with Department of Community Medicine, MGMCRI. Mr.Mahesh.S M.Sc. (N) I year student presented a poster titled “Alternative therapies for cancer patients” and won the I place in 7th National Conference organized by Department of Medical Surgical Nursing in association with ICMR, on the theme Breaking Bad News to Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing “- Exploring New Horizons” held on 12.10.2016. Mrs.Nandhini.D M.Sc. (N) I year student presented a poster titled “Breast Cancer” and won the II place in 7th National Conference organized by Department of Medical Surgical Nursing in association with ICMR, on the theme Breaking Bad News To Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing “Exploring New Horizons” held on 12 .10.2016. All M.Sc. (N) I year students participated in National conference on “Understanding Complexities And Evolving SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

Towards A Better Direction In Emergency Poly Trauma Care” at Indirani College of Nursing, Puducherry from 23.11.2016 to 24.11.2016.

▶▶ IQAC 7th National Conference - 12.10.2016 In today’s changing climate, oncology nurses work much more closely with a diverse team of healthcare professionals and having an intimate knowledge of cancer and the treatment process has become even more important. With this objective Department Medical Surgical Nursing took a long leap to join hands with its prideful sponsorship from Indian Council Medical Research (ICMR) to organize the 7th National Conference on Breaking Bad News to Rehabilitation “Oncology Nursing” – Exploring New Horizons on 12.10.16 at Ground Floor Lecture Hall, MGMCRI. The inaugural session commenced with a warm welcome accorded by Mrs.Kripa Angeline A, Associate Professor KGNC. Our honorable Vice-Chancellor, SBV, Prof. K. R. Sethuraman, rendered the Presidential Address followed by Dr. Renuka . K Principal KGNC, who gave a brief note on the need of the theme and conference logo. Dr. K.S. Reddy, Radiation Oncologist, MGMCRI, delivered the key note address. The Chief Guest, Ms. Radha Saini, Fellow, UICC GENEVA released the conference souvenir and delivered the inaugural address. Dr. A R Srinivasan, Registrar, SBV, felicitated the gathering. The galaxy of eminent speakers in the field of Palliative medicine from north to south across the Nation namely Dr. Asoke Chackalakal Mathew, Faculty in Palliative Medicine, Lakshmi Sundaravadanan Hospital, Chennai, Mrs. Alice Stella Verginia. K.J, National Faculty IAPC Pain & Palliative Care, Calicut Medical College, Prof. Sathyanarayana. T.E Principal, Kidwai Memorial College of Nursing Bangalore, Dr. Mallika Tiruvadanan, Faculty in Palliative Medicine, Lakshmi Sundaravadanan Hospital, Chennai, Ms. Radha Saini, Fellow UICC Geneva Dr. Renuka.K Principal, KGNC, Ms.Anu Savio Thelly, Nurse Consultant, Palliative medicine MGMCRI, deliberated on the importance of high- quality communication process in breaking bad news to cancer patients, Caring for cancer pain with compassion, Quality living with cancer through palliative care, Care of patients with radiation therapy, Occupational health hazards in oncology settings, Integration Of Alternative Therapies of Cancer Care and Cancer Connection and Correction in Lifestyle. The most awaited hour of the conference was Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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skill session on stomal therapy by Mrs. Geethakumari. B.S Entero Stomal Therapist, Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, and by Mrs. A. Kripa Angeline. The conference attracted a large number of delegates from various parts of the state who attended the conference with great zeal and enthusiasm. The day culminated with the valedictory session.

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Hypertension. The list of speakers were, R.Shobana, Dept. of Physiology, MGMCRI, Mrs.Anitha B, Asst. Prof, Dept of OBG, KGNC, Mr.Sabari Anandh, Tutor, Dept of Pharmacology, MGMCRI, Ms.Amrutha Ratna, PG II year, Dept of OBG, MGMCRI, Mrs. Lavanya S, Asst. Prof, Dept of OBG. KGNC, Dr.Rajavigneshwari, Tutor, Dept of Pathology, MGMCRI, Mrs.Jayanthi, Asst. Prof, Dept of Biochemistry, KGNC. The programme was very

A LEAP AHEAD Mrs.Bamalakshmi.V, Mrs.Subakeerthi.V have undertaken the research on “Identification and Exploration of the Needs for Health Care among Initial Defaults of Tuberculosis Treatment in Selected Area, Puducherry”, funded by “Tuberculosis Association of India”.

World Mental Health Day - 10.10.16 In commemoration of World Mental Health Day, Dept. of Mental Health Nursing, KGNC organized Yoga performed for 15 minutes for creating positive vibration Skit, Dance and singing program in SH Hospital.

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informative and students gained adequate information regarding all aspect of Pregnancy induced Hypertension.

Government Collaboration Our faculty Mrs. A. Kalpana, Sr. Asst & Mrs. R. Kousalya, Tutor deputed as a Coach and Asst. Coach respectively for Puducherry girls team for the 25th Mini Nationals Volley Ball Championship held at Madhya Pradesh, Murena from 16.11.16 – 25.11.16

The Integrated Teaching Programme was organized by Department of OBG on the theme of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension on 26.10.2016 in first floor lecture hall, KGNC. Faculty members from various departments dealt the different aspects of Pregnancy Induced

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Science College, Melugavu, Kerala, Holy Family Institute of Nursing, Mudalakulam, Kerala, St.Thomas U.P. School, Pyankulam, Kerala, St.Ritha’s High School, Pyankulam, Kerala. III year B.Sc (N) students were posted in Sacred Heart Hospital, Pyankulam at Kerala for their Mental Health postings, they conducted the intercollegiate cultural fest for the audience of Kerala. Cultural programmes include group dance, Solo dance, solo song, group song, mime and orchestral performance, were organized by Mrs. Jayanthi.K, Asst.Professor & Mr.Divagar.S, Tutor KGNC & Mr.Joseph Mathew, Secretary Mother & Child Foundation, Pyankulam.

DMS, MGMC&RI, Faculty members of KGNC and Doctors from Paediatric Department made their gracious presence. During the skit on “Prevention and Management of Dengue” enacted by III Year B.Sc. Nursing Students. The students transformed themselves as Mosquitoes, and in a very humorous way & conveyed the causes, mode of transmission, source of breeding, clinical manifestations, management and prevention. Followed by this, Cinematic songs with the lyrics focusing on personal hygiene were staged, in the form of dance. It enthralled the entire audience. Around 35 parents with their children attended the programme, and they thoroughly enjoyed both the programmes, and also cleared all their doubts. Thus, Children’s Day celebration ended up with great joy and happiness. Feedback was collected from the parents and evaluated. 95 % of the parents elicited that the programme was highly, informative, interesting and excellent and one parent stated that, she has never seen a program of this kind and it was very enjoyable as well as informative.

EK Bharat Shreshta Bharat- Action Report - NOV 2016 As per the direction of MHRD, UGC and Our ViceChancellor, Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College has organized intercollegiate cultural festival on 20.11.16 between 3-5 pm at Mother and Child foundation, Mylakombu, Pyankulam, Kerala where the students from other colleges participated which is as follows: St.Joseph College, Moolamatum, Kerala, Henry Belkal Arts and SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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▶▶ LAMP LIGHTING CEREMONY Lamp Lighting Ceremony of KGNC for the XIV batch B.Sc. (N) students was held on 15.12.2016 at MGMCRI campus. The programme commenced with the procession by dignitaries and the budding nightingales. Ms. S.Sherin Nithya, Asst.Prof, KGNC, mastered the Volume 10 Issue 4 Oct - Dec 2016

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▶▶ NOVATO FISETA 30.11. 2016 II year B.sc Nursing students accorded a warm welcome to their juniors on fresher’s day, on 30.11.12 at I-floor lecture hall KGNC .mind blowing cultural events was staged with variety of games the new buds of KGNC were made elated with special gift. Motivational speech was delivered by Prof. Dr.Renuka.K, Principal, KGNC.Health screening and vaccination for Hepatitis-B for I- year B.Sc Nursing students was conducted from 23.11.2016 to 24.11.2016. ceremony. Dr.K.Renuka, Principal, KGNC welcomed the august audience. The hall illumined with the lighting of kuthuvilaku lit by Prof. K. R. Sethuraman, Vice-chancellor, SBV, Prof. Dr. R. Danasu, Principal, Sri Manakula Vinayagar College of Nursing, Puducherry, Prof.M.Ravi Shankar Dean, SBV, Dr. K. Renuka, Principal, KGNC, Dr. Nirmal Coumare. V, Medical Superintendent, MGMCRI, Mrs. Amir Alikhan Asmath, Nursing Superintendent, MGMCRI. The motivational presidential address was delivered by Prof. K. R. Sethuraman, ViceChancellor, SBV, Prof.M.Ravishankar, Dean, MGMCRI delivered THE felicitation. Dr.V.Nirmal Coumare, MS, MGMCRI delivered the special message. Mrs.Kripa Angeline.A, Associate Professor & Ms.Anbhu.M, Lecturer, KGNC highlighted the significance of lamp lighting through a visual treat tabloo. The compassionate leaders of nursing passed the light from the Nightingale’s lamp to the budding nurses. The programme traversed further by a prayer and dedication hymn sung by the students. Mrs.Amir Alikhan Asmath fore-worded the pledge and the students recited it. The chief guest address was given by Dr. R. Danasu, Principal SMVCON, Puducherry. Prof. M. Annie Annal, HOD, Dept.of OBG, KGNC, rendered the Vote of thanks. 80

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▶▶ AYUDHA POOJA CELEBRATION The Ayudha Pooja was celebrated on 06.10.16 at 3 pm in Library, KGNC. Principal Dr. Renuka K, and all the faculty members and students participated & invoked the blessings of Lord Saraswathi.

▶▶ CHRISTMAS DAY AND NEW YEAR CELEBRATION The Christmas Day and New Year Celebration was celebrated on 16.12.16 in KGNC. Principal Dr. Renuka K, and all the faculty members and students were enjoyed and passed their wishes to one another.

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have been enrolled in the second batch. Ten candidates have joined M.Phil Course and seven scholars from SBV campus are working on PhD related to education in their respective specialties.

▶▶ CENTER FOR YOGA THERAPY EDUCATION & RESEARCH Importance of Cyter Under the benevolent leadership of our Hon Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modiji, himself a practicing Yogi, the Government of India and its Ministry of Health & Family Welfare are currently promoting Yoga and other indigenous systems of health strongly through Ministry of AYUSH. It is a matter of pride that our Deputy Director, Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani is serving on Scientific Advisory Committee of Central Council for Research in Yoga & Naturopathy (CCRYN) and the AYUSH National Committee of Experts for International Day of Yoga Celebrations and Yoga for Diabetes Program.

Yoga Therapy Regular Yoga therapy consultations and sessions are offered at CYTER from 9 am to 1 pm every day. Individualised and group Yoga therapy sessions are being conducted for various medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, musculoskeletal and psychiatric disorders with excellent feedback from participants. Yoga consultations are offered daily as part of Health Check packages of Master Heath Check-up and general sessions for faculty, staff and students of SBVU from 6 to 7am and 4.30 to 5.30pm every day. Year

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a modern medical university. Inspired by the success of this course, and to provide a new pathway for the aspiring healers across health profession, we have started credit based program of Certificate Coursesin Yoga Therapyand M. Phil Yoga Therapy leading to PhD in Yoga therapy. The major highlight of the new programs is adoption of Credit Based Choice System (CBCS) recommended by the NAAC and UGC as a major reform in higher education. As a corollary to this system, a competency based approach has been proposed for these programs. Currently 3 students are undergoing the certificate program (CFYT), 11 the PGDYT and 2 have enrolled for the MPhil in Yoga Therapy. Our students include Medical doctors, dental and nursing professionals, physiotherapists, pharmacists, physical educators and Yoga instructors from India and France. CYTER has recently been accorded status of MEMBER SCHOOL of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF YOGA THERAPISTS (USA), and we are proud that CYTER is the first University based Yoga Therapy School in India to receive this prestigious membership. Provisional certificates were distributed on 9 November 2016 for eight students of the PGDYT course (201516) on their successful completion of the course. The certificate distribution ceremony was presided by Prof N Ananthakrishnan, Dean Research and AHS in the presence of Registrar Prof AR Srinivasan and Deputy Registrar Sri Joseph Naresh. Faculty and students of CYTER were present on the occasion. Four students have also completed the Certificate in Foundations of Yoga (CFY) course during this quarter.

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Yoga Research and Publications CYTER has published 54 papers and 21 abstracts on immediate, short and long term, health enhancing benefits of such training and therapeutic programmes. CYTER’s virtual presence on the net has been receiving many SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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favourable reviews and more than sixty educational videos made by the CYTER team are available on www.youtube. com/user/CYTER2010. CYTER’s FACEBOOK page at www.facebook.com/cyter.mgmcri has 1650 followers and is very interactive with articles and Yoga titbits and regular updates.

Publications in this quarter: A. Compilations: yy “ Yoga Practical Notes”- compiled and edited by Dayanidy G and Bhavanani AB. CYTER, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth. 2 Nov 2016. B. Published papers : yy Bhavanani AB. Mental Health and Wellbeing through Yoga. Jacobs Journal of Yoga and Natural Medicine. 2016; 1 (1): 004. C. Published abstracts (2): yy Bhavanani AB. Mental Health and Wellbeing through Yoga. Book of abstracts. 6th InSPA International Conference & 3rd International Conference of the Department of Applied Psychology of Pondicherry University. 13-15 October 2016. yy

havanani AB. Enhancing Management B of Type 2 Diabetes through Yoga. Souvenir of CME on ‘Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes Mellitus’, organized by Dept of Biochemistry, MGMCRI, Pondicherry on 10 November 2016.

the first year MBBS Students of SSSMCRI, SBV on 18th October 2016. Dr.Ananda gave a presentation on “Mental Health and Wellbeing through Yoga” during 6th InSPA International Conference and 3rd International Conference of the Department of Applied Psychology of Pondicherry University as part of the plenary session at Convention Centre of the Pondicherry University on 15th Oct 2016.

Outreach Programmes and Events Dr Ananda was invited Guest Speaker for “Mental health Day” celebrations of Dept of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University on 11 Oct 2016. CYTER conducted Three days interactive Yoga sessions as Orientation program for the first year BDS students of IGIDS starts on 19.10.2016 Dr.Meena gave a presentation on “Mental Health and Wellbeing in Silver Citizens through Yoga” during 6thInSPA International Conference and 3rd International Conference of the Department of Applied Psychology of Pondicherry University at HRDC of the Academic Staff College at Pondicherry University on 14th Oct 2016. CYTER team of DrAnanda, DrMeena and Sri Dayanidy G were invited to present the Orientation Program for SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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The 6th Foundation Day of CYTER, the Centre for Yoga Therapy, Education & Research in Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry was celebrated at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute on Tuesday, 2nd November 2016.

Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani who proposed the vote of thanks. Staff and students of KGNC and CYTER gave a special performance that included poetry, singing, dancing and demonstrations of advanced Yogasana to mark the occasion. A book on «Yoga Practical Notes” compiled and edited by Sri G Dayanidy, Lecturer at CYTER was released on the occasion that was graced by attendees from MGMC&RI, KGNC, CMTER, ICYER at Ananda Ashram, Yoganjali Natyalayam and Pondicherry Yogasana

The theme of this year’s celebration was “Introducing Yoga in Nursing Education” and was presided over by the Vice Chancellor of SBV, Prof KR Sethuraman in the presence of Prof N Ananthakrishnan, Dean Allied Health Sciences and Prof AR Srinivasan, Registrar SBV. Dr K Renuka, Dean Nursing Faculty and Principal Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College gave the thematic address highlighting innovations in nursing curriculum at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth that for the first time anywhere have included Yoga Therapy in the BSc Nursing curriculum with students receiving 90 hours of Yoga Therapy training through CYTER during their 3 year course. Prof KR Sethuraman reminded nursing students of their vital role in healthcare as the primary caregivers for patients and stressed the importance of Yoga in their personal and professional life. Prof N Ananthakrishnan, Prof AR Srinivasan, Yogacharini Vijaya from Gitananda Yoga Society of Berlin, Germany and Prof VN Mahalakshmi, Vice Principal MGMC&RI offered felicitations. CYTER’s Director Prof Madanmohan welcomed the guests for the celebrations that were coordinated by Dr.Meena Ramanathan and the CYTER Team led by Dr. 84

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Dr.Ananda was an invited expert for consultative meeting chaired by Secretary AYUSH at the Ministry of AYUSH, Govt of India on 18.11.2016 to firm the views for articulating during the Inter-Governmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (IGC-ICH) held 28 November to 2 December 2016 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to defend India’s interest for inscription of “Yoga” in Representative List of the UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage. On 1 December 2016, Yoga was inscribed in the UNESCO’s list of ICH. Dr Ananda was an invited Resource Person for Capacity Building Workshop at WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine (Yoga), MDNIY, Delhi from 28th - 30th November, 2016. His presentations on “Role of Yoga in Chronic Lung Disorders” were well appreciated by professionals who participated from all over India. He also attended EC meeting of Indian Yoga Association on 27.12.2016 at MDNIY. Dr.Ananda was a resource person for the CME on “Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes Mellitus”, organized by Dept of Biochemistry, MGMCRI on 10th Nov 2016. He was also an invited panelist for the panel discussion held in the afternoon session of the CME. SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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CYTER faculty and students participated actively in the Yoga Sports Championship 2016 organised by Pondicherry Yogasana Association on 12 & 13 November 2016 at SubalakshmiMahal. Dr.Meena was invited to conduct a workshop on “Yoga Awareness & Yoga Therapy” to the Deaf & Dumb Students a special School for the CWSN Students under the Control of the Social Welfare Department, Karaikal, Government

of Puducherry organized by Pearl- Academy of Yoga and Cultural Arts on 24th November 2016. 25 students with Visual and Hearing impairment participated and enjoyed doing the practices thoroughly, which was well taken and appreciated by all present.

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Austrian Government and the other partner hospitals and companies with a grant size of 1.75 million Euros. During the function, Dr. Karl Ennsfellner, CEO and Dr. Gerhard Tucek, Head of Therapeutic Sciences of the Josef Russel Center for Personalized Music Therapy signed a Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of IMC Krems and Vice Chancellor Dr. KR Sethuraman and Dean Dr. N Ananthakrishnan signed on behalf of SBV. The MoU was for collaboration between the two institutes for the PhD course in Music therapy. VC, Prof. Sethuraman, indicated that this collaborative doctoral program in music therapy will stimulate innovative academic dialogue between researchers, experts, students and music therapy practitioners for the benefit of patients. Registrar, Dr. Vellore AR Srinivasan released the service contract for this collaborative doctoral program. This MOU aims at long term collaboration to promote novel methods in the form of music therapy as a salutogenic approach. The Center for Music Therapy Education and Research of SBV will accept Ph.D. research scholars from the IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria. Both the universities are keen on taking forward this collaboration beyond music therapy to other areas such as exchange of undergraduate scholars, observership for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of music therapy and collaboration in nursing education besides research.

MOU for a collaborative Ph.D. program with the IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria Known for its focus towards salutogenesis in medical sciences and for its innovative and pioneering work in introducing music therapy in to medical care, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, has entered into an MoU for a collaborative doctoral program in music therapy with the IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria one of the Austria’s leading international universities of Applied Sciences, a world leader in many aspects such as business, health and life sciences. A delegation from SBV headed by the Vice Chancellor Dr. KR Sethuraman along with Dr. N. Ananthakrishnan, Dean, Research and Allied Health Sciences, Dr. Vellore A R Srinivasan, Registrar and Dr. Sumathy Director, Center for Music Therapy Education and Research, SBV were invited by the IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria during the inaugural ceremony of the Josef Russel Center for Personalized music therapy set up by the SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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MEETS - “Musically Express your Emotions & Thoughts for Success” The CMTER team in collaboration with the Department of Physiology, MGMCRI conducted a structured music therapy program “MEETS” to the fresh medical entrants of Mahatma Gandhi Medical College with a goal to improve their focus of attention, motivation and selfesteem levels and evaluate their learning attitude. 228 I year MBBS students participated in the program on 05.10.2016. The music therapy activities conducted by the faculty of CMTER included 1) Rhythmic Improvisation with musical instruments to enhances focus of attention and concentration. 2) Song writing & group singing to improve self-expression, socialization, coordination and team work. 3) Relaxation training with music to restore calmness and balance. Feedback regarding the subjective feelings evoked was obtained from all the participants. 88% liked the session very much, 84% felt the content very useful and 82% of them wished to have similar sessions regularly in future. Regarding the impact of the sessions, 12% of the total participants reported improvement in their communication, 18 % felt it helped to develop selfexpression 24% perceived improvement in their attention & focus, whereas 44 % gave the feedback that it relieved their stress. A similar program was conducted for freshers in Sri SathyaSai Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai and nurses enrolled for the bachelor’s degree program in nursing in Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College as a part of the induction program. The program was also very well received by the students of both the colleges.

Overseas Academic Presentations Dr. SumathySundar, Director, CMTER delivered a key note address on “Music Therapy: Bridging Traditions and Science” during the Asian Music Therapy Congress held between November 18-20, 2016 at Taipei, Taiwan.

▶▶ ‘KUDOS’ Overseas Clinical Observership Program Miss Luana Cuenca Olegario from Spain was an observer at CMTER during the period 07.11.2016 to 18.11.2016. To Quote her from her feed back given “I thank you sincerely for making it easier for me to attend the observership program at CMTER at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and being able to see how you are working and developing different kinds of music therapy techniques, activities, songs and resources you applied to several clinical areas. I think that you, and your working team with Bhuvana, Kala and Anandi are doing a very important work by helping patients with music therapy services, co-operating positively and informing the professional staff from the hospital about the benefits of the music therapy for different needs and purposes to the patients, etc. and I would like to congratulate you for all your work and for spreading and bringing music therapy to a hospital in a scientific clinical context. Although two weeks was very short time for me of staying for the program, I found that the Hospital and the College are very advanced and well-equipped modern organization and it was an interesting experience for me, for learning and knowing better about the music therapy work you carry out there from another culture. I wish I could had stayed longer, but at least I was able to have an idea about the music therapy services you offer, the research work you are doing and all the organization system from the center, etc.”

Publications Sumathy S, Parmar PN. Effect of Musical Cakra Activation Manoeuvreon Body Temperature: An Explorative Study. Ancient Science of Life 2016; 36:3-5 Indian Classical Music : An objective sluice in the realms of Mind- Body Medicine, Srinivasan.AR. Annals of SBV. 2016; 5(2). Musicogenetics: A new specialty on horizon? Sumathy S, Parmar PN. Annals of SBV. 2016; 5(2) Music therapy: Bridging traditional healing system and modern science. Sumathy S, Parmar MN. Annals of SBV. 2016; 5(2)

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Research facility (ciDrf) ▶▶ SMALL ANIMAL RESEARCH FACILITY Under the proficiency and blessings of the SBECPT, Bhoomi Pooja for the developing Small Animal Research Facility named “Center for Animal Research, Training and Services (CAReTS)” was performed at the building site (opposite to SBV auditorium) from 09.00 am - 10.30 am on Monday, December 05, 2016. This infrastructure development project is a joint venture of CIDRF-SBECPT and Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India entitled “Small Animal Research Facility For Preclinical Studies and Services”. Bhoomi Pooja was performed, and attended by the

Dr. Balanehru Subramanian (Dy. Director, CIDRF), Dr.Srinivasan (Registrar), Mr.Suresh Babu (SBV Project Manager), Co-Investigators & Staff of CAReTs, CIDRF Staff and Research Scholars. On this occasion, the building floor plans (Ground, 1st and 2nd floors) for the Small Animal Research Facility were displayed to invoke the blessings of the almighty. This event marked the beginning of preclinical research paradigm in this campus, which can be utilized by research scholars and staff of SBV, and other Institutions in this region. Dr. Balanehru Subramanian, Deputy Director is the Principal Investigator of the project.

▶▶ PUBLICATIONS Ganesan S, Vikneswaran G, Reddy KC, Subrahmanyam DK, Adithan C. A Survey on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacovigilance towards Adverse drug reactions reporting among Doctors and Nurses in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India. J Young Pharmacists. 2016;8:471-6. Rajesh D, Muthukumar S, Saibaba G, Siva D, Akbarsha MA, Gulyz B, Padmanabhan P and Archunan G, Structural elucidation of estrus urinary lipocalin protein (EULP) and evaluating binding affinity of with pheromones using molecular docking and fluorescence study Sci. Rep. Oct 26;6:35900. doi: 10.1038/srep35900. Saibaba G, Rajesh D, Muthukumar S, Sathiyanarayanan G, Padmanabhan P, Akbarsha MA, Gulyás B, Archunan G. Proteomic analysis of human saliva: An approach to find the marker protein for ovulation. Reproductive Biology. 2016;16:287-94.

Prof.K.R.Sethuraman (Vice Chancellor), Prof.Ravishankar (Dean - Academics), Prof.N.Ananthakrishnan (Dean Research & AHS), Prof.C.Adithan (Director, CIDRF),

▶▶ PATENTS Seven provisional patent applications were submitted to the Chennai Patent Office during October 2016.

Title of the Provisional Patent

Inventors

Bio-Larvicide for the control of dengue vector from marine algae.

Dr.Agieshkumar.B and Dr.Mangayarkarasi

A formulation of bioactive compounds present in Coriander sativum to prevent cataractogenesis

Dr.Anitha T.S

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Title of the Provisional Patent

Inventors

Method and material for biological fluid sample collection, transport and storage

Dr.Benet Bosco Dhas, Dr.Padmavathi P

Marine Substitute for bone resorption by Halimeda macroloba

Dr.Veni Subramanyam, Dr.Mangaiyarkarasi

Protein therapeutic approach for Retinoschisis, an inherited retinal degenerative disease.

Dr.A.Jayamuruga Pandian, CIDRF; Dr.K.Suresh Babu, Pondicherry University.

To develop a nanoparticle encrusted cleaning device

Dr.PoojaPratheesh, Dr.PratheeshRavindran

Development of a novel liquid removal system for cell culture

Dr. Sam Vijay Kumar J

Prof. C. Adithan, Director, CIDRF contributed a chapter

in the book entitled Pharmacologists of India, published by Vallabh

Prakashan. Delhi. First Edition, 2017. P146-151). He shared his experience of forty years of his pharmacological research.

▶▶ HONOURS AND RECOGNITIONS

genome analysis” during the conference on Genetic and genome analysis for novel therapeutics on 20th Dec 2016. Dr.Benet Bosco Dhas conducted a hands-on session on “Genome informatics and big data” during the conference on Modernization in Bioinformatics & Big Data held at the dept. of computer applications.

▶▶ WORKSHOPS Basic and Applied Bioinformatics for Clinical Genomics

Prof. C. Adithan, Director, CIDRF was appointed External Examiner and Chairman, Board of Examiners to conduct supplementary examination for DM (Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics) at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad on 21st October, 2016. Prof. C. Adithan, Director, CIDRF adjudicated a PhD thesis entitled, “Regulatory T Cell Deficiency” submitted at Osmania University, Hyderabad. Prof. C. Adithan, Director, CIDRF participated in the CME titled, “Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes Mellitus” at MGMCRI on 10th November, 2016. Dr.Pandian was invited to be a panelist in the CME entitled ‘Translational Medicine in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes mellitus’ organized by Dept of Biochemistry, MGMCRI on 10th November, 2016. Dr.Benet Bosco Dhas was invited to deliver a talk entitled “Web based computational tools for comprehensive 88

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A one day hands-on workshop was organized by Dr. D. Benet Bosco Dhas, Scientist, CIDRF entitled “Basic and Applied Bioinformatics for Clinical Genomics” on 14th October, 2016. The workshop was intended to give hands-on training in genome bioinformatics for interested health professionals, students and research scholars of SBV and other Institutes. The workshop had 31 participants registered from various institutes in and around Puducherry & Chennai. Dr. Basant K Tiwary, Associate Professor, Centre for Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry has been invited as the Chief Guest. The program was honoured by the guest lectures delivered by Dr. Nanda Kumar Yellapu, Scientist-C, VCRC, Puducherry and Dr. Krishna Kumar, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmacy Practice, CL Baid Metha College of Pharmacy, Chennai.

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National Hands-on Workshop on Real Time PCR in Biomedical Research CIDRF organized a three days “National Hands-on Workshop on Advanced Methods in Real Time PCR techniques in Biomedical Research” from December 8-10, 2016. The workshop was organized by Dr. Pooja Pratheesh, Scientist, CIDRF. The workshop was attended by twenty

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participants selected from states all over India like Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala among others. The workshop covered all the advanced techniques related to Real Time PCR like Gene expression analysis, Gene quantification and Pathogen detection, SNP analysis, microRNA expression analysis and Genome informatics. The workshop was inaugurated by SBV Vice Chancellor Dr. K. Sethuraman in the presence of dignitaries like Dr. N. Ananthakrishnan, Dr. M. Ravishankar, Dr. Srinivasan, Dr. C. Adithan and the invited guest faculty. The workshop had thematic lecture by the experts from the institutes of national importance as well as CIDRF faculty including Dr. Pooja Pratheesh, Dr. Benet Bosco Dhas, Ms. Preethi S. and Ms. Akshayavardhani A. On the first day Dr. Suresh Kumar Rayala from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai delivered the keynote address on the topic “Bridging bench to bedside: Real Time PCR”. The second day saw Dr. Ravi Nagalingam Sundaresan from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore discuss about “MIQE Guidelines and their importance for the design of a reliable Real Time PCR assay.” The third day was dedicated to the Genome informatics and Dr. Vinod Scaria from CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi was invited to deliver a talk on “Personal Genome to Personalized Medicine”. The hands-on training was aptly supported by QIAGEN (Chennai), Roche (Chennai), Helini Biomolecules (Chennai), Synergy Scientific (Chennai), Biocorporals (Chennai), National Scientific Suppliers (Pondicherry), Priority Life sciences (Coimbatore) among others. The evening of 2nd worshop day was marked by the get-together organized at Club Mahindra Beach Resort, Pondicherry which provided ample opportunity for the researchers, faculty and invited speakers to interact on an informal note. The valedictory function on 10th December was presided over by Prof. G. Subramanian, Advisor, CIDRF who, along with Dr. VinodScaria gave away the certificates to the participants. CIDRF received glowing feedback for this endeavor and we look forward to organize many such workshops in future for the benefit of students and faculty alike.

Dr. Suresh Kumar Rayala, IIT-M, Chennai, delivered a talk on, ‘Real Time PCR in Cancer Diagnostics: Bridging bench to bedside’ on 8.12.12 Dr. Ravi Nagalingam Sundaresan, IISc, Bangalore, delivered a talk on, ‘MIQE guidelines and their importance for the design of a reliable real time PCR assay’ on 9th December, 2016. Dr.Vinod Scaria, CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi, delivered a talk on, ‘Personal Genomes to Precision Medicine’ on 10th December 2016.

Participation and Presentations in Conferences Dr.Sam Vijay Kumar J, Scientist, CIDRF attended the 7th International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer organized by International center for Stem Cells, Cancer and Biotechnology, held from 21st Oct to 23rd Oct, 2016 at Goa. He delivered an oral presentation entitled, “Colostrum is a better source of stem cells than breast milk.”

▶▶ INVITED TALKS CIDRF was visited by the following eminent scientists who also delivered talks in the campus. Dr.Rajagopal Krishnamoorthy, Ex-Director (INSERM), France, delivered a talk on, ‘Genetics of psycho-somatic disease’ on 14th November, 2016. 90

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Ms.Preethi Sreedharan, Ph.D Scholar, CIDRF, presented a poster entitled “Cytotoxic effect of Cerium oxide nanoparticles on U251 cells under different Physico-chemical environment” at the CUSAT and NUS joint International Conference on Biotechnology and Neuroscience (CUSBAN 2016) organized by Cochin SBV v MGMCRI v SSSMCRI v IGIDS v KGNC v AHS v CIDRF

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University of Science and Technology, Kochi (Kerala) from 19th to 21st Dec, 2016

▶▶ CAPACITY BUILDING Ms.K.Rajalakshmi (M.Sc., Biochemistry) and Ms.S.Suganya (M.Sc., Medical Biochemistry) joined as lab technicians at CIDRF on November 28th, 2016. Ms.A.Senthamizhselvi (M.Com., Corporate Secretaryship) has joined CIDRF as accounts assistant and store keeper on November 11th, 2016. The following members have been appointed as staffs under the “Center for Animal Research, Training and Services (CAReTS)”, DBT sponsored research project. Dr.B.Udayakumari as Senior Research Fellow. Mr.S.K.S.Sarvana Kathikeyan as Senior Research Fellow. Mr.Vipin Sharma as Senior Research Fellow. Mr.K.Ramkumar as Lab Technician. Ms.Deivanayaki B as Lab Technician.

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Mr.A.Candassamy as Lab Attendant. Mr.R.Ravikumar a Lab Attendant.

▶▶ MoUs

Memoranda of Understanding are on the line with three collaborating institutes/firms to further research at CIDRF vis-à-vis , Strand Biosciences, Bangalore, Annamalai University and KL University

▶▶ GREEN CAMPUS INITIATIVE The members of Academic Council of SBV namely SP.Thyagarajan, Prof.G.Subramanian, Prof. KR.Sethuraman, Prof.N.Ananthkrishnan, Prof.M.Ravis hankar,Prof.C.Adithan, Prof.Nirmal Coumare, Prof.AR Srinivasan, Dr.MR.Prashanth, Vice Chairman, Mrs.Asha Suresh Babu & Special invitees, participated in the tree plantation ceremony that was conducted by SBV in order to promote the green campus initiative on 22nd December, 2016.

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