JIPMER innovation facilitation unit (JIFU), established in the first floor of JIPMER central library, was

inaugurated on 30th December 2015 at 10 AM by Dr. S.C. Parija, Director JIPMER and Prof (Mrs.) Anisa Bashher Khan, Vice chancellor of Pondicherry University.

Dr. Gladwin, Assistant Professor Anatomy and member secretary of JIFU welcomed the special invitees to the event. Dr. S.C. Parija, Director JIPMER presided over the function and highlighted the need for JIFU. In his inaugural speech he said it is important to translate innovative

Greeting from the new JIPMER News Desk.We are delighted to bring out the fifth issue of JIPMER news. All suggestions to improve JIPMER News are welcome

Veritas Curat

November–December 2015Volume 2, Issue 4

Thought for the Month

JIPMER News

The only way to do great work is to love

what you do–Steve Jobs

JIPMER Innovation Facilitation Unit (JIFU)

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The Lamp Lighting Ceremony for the 10th batch of B.Sc. Nursing students of College of Nursing,

JIPMER was held on 10.12.2015 at JIPMER Auditorium. Prof. Dr.  (Mrs). Vinitha Ravindran, Deputy Dean, College of Nursing, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore was the chief guest of the programme. The ceremony was presided by Dr. Subhash Chandra Parija, Director, JIPMER

emphasized the students to acquire skills to care for the patients with various diseases ranging from chronic illnesses to palliative care and involve them in research in the field of Nursing. Prof. Dr. J. Balachander, Medical Superintendent, JIPMER delivered the presidential address and motivated the nursing students to enhance their learning by observing patient care in the ward and include the patient guidance as part of their nursing care.

ideas into patient friendly commercial products. He stressed that the ultimate goal of JIFU is to develop patented health care products with JIPMER brand by 2017. The chief guest for the inaugural ceremony Prof  (Mrs) Anisa Bashher Khan, Vice chancellor of Pondicherry University congratulated Director Dr. S.C Parija for taking the initiative to set up JIFU. She expressed her willingness to collaborate with JIPMER to develop innovative health related products. Dr. Ramesh, Additional professor ENT and faculty incharge of St. John’s innovation center in Bangalore shared his experience on innovation and developing patented products. The inaugural ceremony was attended by the Dean and other senior faculties of JIPMER. Dr Kalayarasan, Assistant Professor Surgical

gastroenterology and member of JIFU delivered vote of thanks.

Lamp Lighting Ceremony for B.Sc. Nursing Students

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Few Photographs from Lamp Lighting Ceremony

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JIPMER Health Education Initiative

Under the leadership of Professor Dr. SC Parija, Director, JIPMER, a new initiative had been started to improve

public awareness on health and disease which would include a series of interactive programs conducted on a fortnightly basis. The programs will be in Tamil and are planned for every 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month between 3.30 and 5.00 PM.

The 12th,13th,14th and 15thsessions focused on “Dengue Prevention” “Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)-Threats and Treatments”, “HIV / AIDS” and “Hydrocele and Elephantiasis” respectively. These sessions

had active participation of 750 people including students from various schools and colleges, general public, patients, and staff.

Jipmer Striding Ahead...

Flood relief efforts by JIPMER

On behalf of JIPMER HELPING HANDS, a flood relief camp was organized by Department

of Pharmacology, JIPMER at Narumanam village, in Cuddalore district on 19th December 2015. Faculty, doctoral students and residents from departments of Pharmacology, Anatomy, PSM and Pediatrics were involved as volunteers. Nearly 200 families were provided with relief materials like bed sheet, towel, kitchen items and other necessary daily needs. Donations were received from various departments of JIPMER, around Rs.75,000 was spent for this camp.

Serving the Community and Fulfilling its Social Obligations – JIPMER and Community Health Initiatives

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A free Medical camp was conducted in Poothurai village in the Vanoor Taluk of Villupuram District by JIPMER.

Specialists from the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, General Medicine, ENT, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics and

Orthopaedics provided free treatment to the villagers. JIPMER also

conducted a medical camp along with Indian Coast Guard, Chennai at Bharaniputhur village in Kanchipuram

district.

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Planting of saplings of various fruit trees, medicinal plants and trees in JIPMER

campus

Dr. Shuji Shimizu, Director, Telemedicine Development Center of Asia (TEMDEC),

Kyushu University, Japan invited the Director of JIPMER to participate in the 9th Asia

Telemedicine Symposium-2015 in South Korea.

The department of Medical Oncology in collaboration

with Radiotherapy, Pediatric Surgery and Pediatrics organized

a childhood survivor meet on 14th November, 2015 at Nursing College, JIPMER

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Hall of Fame, JIPMER

JIPMER Nephrology team has been recognized as the largest volume center for CAPD program among the government sector in whole of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry for having performed:

“Free Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) for 57 patients since January 2011”

With excellent patient survival and very low infection rate.

I Row : Dr. Satish Haridasan, Dr. Sreejith Parameswaran and Dr. P. S. PriyamvadaII Row : Mr. Muthusivamani, Mr. Vinoth, Smt. Rajalakshmi, Mr. A. K. SaravananIII Row : Ms. Anuja, Ms. Arya, Ms. Velvizhi, Dr. Avinash Kumar Dubey, Ms. Anita, Ms. Anisha, Ms. Jiva,

Ms. Amitha, Mr. Kumaresan, Ms. Beulah, Ms. Ancy Davis, Mr. Arjun

Great appreciation for your commitment towards Service and Excellence!

Left to RightI Row : Dr Satish Haridasan, Dr Sreejith Parameswaran and Dr P S PriyamvadaII Row : Mr Muthusivamani, Mr Vinoth, Smt Rajalakshmi, Mr AK SaravananIII Row : Ms Anuja, Ms Arya, Ms. Velvizhi, Dr Avinash Kumar Dubey, Ms Anita, Ms Anisha,

Ms Jiva, Ms Amitha, Mr. Kumaresan, Ms Beulah, Ms Ancy Davis, Mr Arjun

Great Appreciation for Your Commitment TowardsService and Excellence!

MoU between JIPMER and Satya Special Schoolto establish an Early Intervention Centre in JIPMER. This centre would offer children with neurological and developmental disorders, the services of pediatricians and therapists, under one roof.

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New Patient Care Services

Dial Jipmer For Emergency Services 24 × 7 – 9047590563

JIPMER has developed 24X7 Help line in Casualty for patients requiring Emergency Tele-Consultations. To call JIPMER through skype Service the ID is “Casualty Desktop Telemedicine JIPMER” or “Casualty Mobile Telemedicine JIPMER”. Using this Skype Services patient can see the JIPMER Doctor and can talk to the doctor Live.

Inauguration of the IUI

Inauguration of the IUI (Intra Uterine Insemination services) on 11/12/2015 in WCH block of JIPMER

New Rehabilitation FacilitiesNew rehabilitation facilities including robotic motomed therapy, Captured cognitive battery and Action Research Arm test inaugurated by the Director, JIPMER on 21 Dec.2015 at Stroke recovery ward (148B, SSB) in connection with the National Brain awareness week celebrations.

Depatment of Surgical Oncology has Initiated Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) for Lung Cancer and successfully Completed VATS Right Upper lobectomy for Carcinoma right upper lobe in September.

Adding new Feathers: Augmentation in Academic services

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Inauguration of Computerized Lab reports

Inauguration of Computerized Lab reports

Conferences / CMEs / Workshops Organised at JIPMER

“3rd Ostomy day Celebration” on 7th November 2015, by Department of Surgical Gastroenterology

Felicitation of voluntary blood donors

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National Workshop on devel-oping an innovative MBBS curriculum at JIPMER between 27th and 29th of November, 2015.

JIPMER Quality Council’s, 2 day workshop on November 14th and 15th to sensitize the employees to the nuances and

process of accreditation.

1st national conference on Gastrointestinal nursing on 11th and 12th December 2015, JIPMER Academic center, by Department of Surgical Gastroenterology.

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‘Updates on COPD’ on 16.11.2015 by Department of Pulmonary Medicine.

Basic Vascular Surgical Skills Workshop 1 on 15th November 2015 by Department of Anatomy and Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery.

Nephrology update on critical care nephrology

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MICROCON 2015, the 39th National Conference of the Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM) organized from 25th – 29th November 2015.

Second anniversary of Deceased

(Cadaver) Donor transplantation

program and felicitation of

families of organ donors at JIPMER,

Puducherry

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Awards for Faculty and Residents

IABMS Award

Dr.Subhash Chandra Parija, Director-JIPMER was awarded “Dr.

SundaramSubramaniam Memorial Oration Award 2015” by Indian

Association of Biomedical Scientists (IABMS) for his contribution in the

field of medical sciences and research.

NAMS Award

Dr. Shashi Ahuja, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology Was conferred “Shyam Lal Saksena Memorial Award” for the year 2015 in recognition of the research paper entitled“Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness analysis in cases of papilledema using optical coherence tomography-A case-control study”. at the annual convocation of the National Academy by the Governor of Bihar on 17 th October,2015 at AIIMS, Patna.

Dr. Shashi Ahuja was awarded the “NAMS 2007 Amritsar Award” at the 55th Annual Conference held at Patna for best presentation.

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JIPMER faculty Attending as Resource persons in National / Regional / International Conferences / CMEs / Workshops

Dr. Debdatta Basu, Professor, Pathology attended 43rd Annual Conference of IAPM – Odisha Chapter at MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Brahmapur, Odisha on 12th and 13th September 2015 as an invited faculty.

Dr. Debdatta Basu was an invited speaker at (SMVSIPCON 2015) , held at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College, Puducherry .

Dr. Debdatta Basu delivered a talk on “Multiple Myeloma – diagnostic issues, then and now” in the 56th Annual Conference of ISHTM held at Bangalore.

Dr. Debdatta Basu presented a poster entitled “Immunohistochemistry as a diagnostic tool in acute leukemia with myelonecrosis” in the Annual Conference of IAPM held at Kochi, Kerala from 3rd to 6th December 2015.

Dr. N. Siddaraju, Professor, Pathology, spoke on “Role of urine cytology in high & low grade urothelial carcinomas and rare malignancies” in the 45th Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Cytologists (CYTOCON-2015) held at

Dr. Vinod Ashok Chaudhari, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, was awarded First Prize for Poster Presentation for “An Unusual Case of Thinner Intoxication” in TOXOCON-9, IX Annual conference of Indian Society of Toxicology, from 21.08.2015 to 23.08.2015 at Saveetha Medical College, Chennai.

Dr Ramesh Kumar R, Pediatrics, participated in the 8th Congress of World Society of Pediatric Infectious disease (WSPID) from 18-21 November 2015 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was also selected and awarded Fellowship to attend WSPID Research Fellowship workshop.

Dr. Adhisivam. B, Neonatology was awarded National Neonatology Forum (NNF) Social Neonatology Gold Medal for the research paper titled Postnatal counseling on exclusive breastfeeding using video – experience from a tertiary care teaching hospital, south India.

Dr. Hema S, Pathology, won the First Prize in the Best Poster Paper Award session in the National conference (APCON) 2015, held from 3rd to 6th December 2015 at Kochi, Kerala for the poster entitled ‘ Morphological Profile of Large Intestinal Neuronal Plexuses in perinatal autopsies and Hirschsprung Disease”

Dr. Gerard Marshall Raj, Dr. Rekha Priyadarshini and Dr. Indumathi, Pharmacology, won the first prize in the “Intermedical Postgraduate Quiz Programme” conducted by the Institute of Pharmacology, Madurai Medical College, Madurai on 20th November 2015. Dr. Nishanthi, Dr. Vimala and Dr. Umamaheswari, secured the third place, in same.

Dr. Gerard Marshall Raj, Dr. Rekha Priyadarshini and Dr. Indumathi, won the second prize in the “Pharmacology Quiz – 2015” conducted at the 48th Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society held at Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat on 18th and 19th December 2015.

Dr. Thiraviyam E, Radiotherapy, has won the prestigious Neil Joseph Fellowship for his thesis work in the 37th National Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROICON2015) at Lucknow

Dr. Keerthivasan G, Microbiology, won second prize in the quiz conducted during MICROCON-2015 – 39th Annual National congress of the Indian Association of Medical Microbiology on 29th November 2015

Mr. T. Yugendran, Ph.D. Scholar, Microbiology, has been awarded the prestigious Dr. K.B. Sharma Memorial Best Junior Research Paper award for the year 2015, during MICROCON 2015 –for standardizing the TaqMan probe based screening assay for antibiotic resistance genes.

Dr.Karthik Balachandran, Dr. Milind Patil and Dr.Ritesh Kumar, Endocrinology,won second prize in quiz competition conducted as part of 45th National Endocrine Society of India conference in Ahmedabad

Dr. Sai Krishna and Dr Turab. M, Medicine, won the first place in the Endocrinology quiz conducted at CMC Vellore.

S. Hema, final year Junior Resident won the best poster award at the 64th Annual Conference of IAPM at Kochi held in December 2015 for her poster entitled “Morphological profile of large intestinal neuronal plexuses in Perinatal autopsies and Hirschsprung disease”.

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Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun from 19th to 22nd November 2015.Dr. Rajesh NG,Associate professor, Pathology, spoke on “Sex cord/ gonad stromal tumors” at the Annual Conference of Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists (IAPM) held at Kochi, Kerala from 3rd to 6th December 2015.Dr. Rakhee Kar, Associate professor ,Pathology, presented a free paper entitled “Spectrum of Inherited bleeding disorders from a single tertiary care centre over six years and their diagnostic approach” at IAPM, Kochi.Dr. Pampa Ch Toi, Associate professor, Pathology, presented a poster entitled “ Histomorphological spectrum and immunohistochemical profile of ovarian neoplasms in a tertiary hospital in South India” at IAPM held at Kochi.Dr. Sree Rehka J, Assistant Professor, Pathology,presented an oral paper entitled “Pheohyphomycosis: a case series from South India”at IAPM held at Kochi, Kerala Dr. Vishnu Bhat, Neonatology, was convener for a workshop on Neuro developmental assessment and follow up of high risk Newborn & Therapeutic Hypothermia in Neocon 2015 (Bhubaneswar). He also delivered a lecture titled “Neuro-protective therapy-Where are we?” and chaired a session on Clinical Genetics in neonatologyDr. Sunil K Narayan, Neurology, gave talk at Hotel Accord, Puducherry on “Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Towards better case selection, shortened intervention interval & better compliance”Dr. Kadambari D, Surgery, delivered a lecture on “Choosing the right Breast cancer surgery for the right patient” in the 75th Annual conference of the Association of Surgeons of India (ASICON—2014) held at Gurgaon, Haryana from 17th to 20th December 2015Dr. Vikram Kate, Surgery, delivered a Guest Lecture on “An Introduction to(ERAS)” and Moderated a Panel Discussion on “ERAS-An Overview” in the National Conference on “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Nutrition for Surgeons 2015” organized by the SRM Institute of Medical Sciences, Chennai on 31st October & 1st November 2015.Dr. Vikram Kate, chaired a Guest Lecture on “Upper GI Endoscopy- Tips and Tricks” at “Endofeast 2015” organized by IGMCRI and the Association of Surgeons of India, Pondicherry on 14th November 2015. Dr. Vikram Kate, delivered Guest Lectures on “Helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcer disease”, “Enterocutaneous Fistula” and “How to write an abstract for a conference presentation” in the CME on Surgical Gastroenterology Update organized

by the Padmashree Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation’s Medical College & Hospital, Ahmednagar on 23rd November 2015. Dr. Vikram Kate, delivered guest lectures on “Translational gastrointestinal research; from bench-to-bedside, our experience” and “What and how of randomized controlled trials” at Government Medical College, Nagpur on 27th November 2015.Dr. Vikram Kate, Professor of Surgery, moderated a Symposium “Corrosive Strictures of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract –Therapeutic options for management” and a Panel Discussion on “Right Iliac Fossa Mass” in the ASICON—2014 held at Gurgaon, Haryana from 17th to 20th December Dr. G.K. Pal, Physiology, delivered a plenary lecture titled ‘Effect of yoga on cardiovascular risks attributed by sympathovagal imbalance in various clinical disorders’ in the Annual conference of the Physiological Society of India held at University colleges of Science & technology, University of Calcutta on 18th December 2015 and also delivered a plenary lecture titled ‘Yoga relaxation and pranayama practice in the management and prevention of diabetes’ in a Yoga symposium held in the 36th Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists (IABMS), Pondicherry University on 20th December 2015. Dr. G. S. Gaur, Physiology, delivered a guest lecture titled ’Scope of Physiologists in Exercise Research and Management of Lifestyle Disorders’ in a symposia on “Clinical Exercise Physiology” in APPICON 2015 conference held at AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan in November 2015.Dr. Parkash Chand, Anatomy, chaired a Scientific Session on 22nd November 2015 at National Conference of Anatomical Society of India “63rd NATCON” at King George’s Medical University, LucknowDr. Gowri Dorairajan, Obstetrics and Gynecology, was faculty for the operative workshop on 'Uro -Gynecology' and demonstrated complex surgeries on the 27th of November2015 at the 23rd annual conference of Madurai Obstetrics and Gynecology societyDr. Pradeep P Nair, Neurology, was Invited speaker at Pediatric Epilepsy Conference conducted by Sree chitra tirunal (SCTIMST), Trivandrum on 14 & 15 Nov.2015 and Delivered “Dr. Sreenivasan Endowment Oration” at Erode on “Selection of cases for epilepsy surgery” on 29 Nov.2015Dr. Ashutosh Mukherji, Radiotherapy, was Invited moderator for panel discussion on “Special situations in Cervical cancers” in Cervical Cancer Update CME 2015 at

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(MGMCRI), 12th December 2015 and was Invited faculty panellist at 37th Annual Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROICON) at Lucknow, 26th - 29th November 2015.Dr. K Gunaseelan,Radiotherapy, was Invited Speaker on “Palliative care in Gynecological cancers” in Cervical Cancer Update CME 2015 at (MGMCRI), Puducherry, 12th December 2015.Dr. Adhisivam, Neonatology, presented a research paper titled “Postnatal counseling on exclusive breastfeeding using video – experience from a tertiary care teaching hospital, south India” at Neocon 2015 (Bhubaneswar) Dr. Nishad, Neonatology, presented a research paper titled “Effect of a quality improvement initiative on neonatal mortality in the NICU” at Neocon 2015 (Bhubaneswar)Dr. Pravati Pal, Physiology, delivered a lecture titled ‘Energy dishomeostasis in diabetes’ in a CME on Diabetic Cardiomyopathy organized at IGMC, Puducherry on 3rd November 2015 and also delivered a lecture titled ‘Diabetes Mellitus : Current scenario’ in the 36th (IABMS), at Pondicherry.Dr. Vivek Kumar Sharma, Physiology, delivered a Guest lecture titled ‘Management of Lifestyle Disorders and mind body medicine’ in a symposium on “Clinical Exercise Physiology” in APPICON 2015 conference held at AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan on 26th November 2015 and also presented an oral paper titled ‘Endomorphic adolescents have poor heart rate variability than ectomorphic and mesomorphic adolescents’ in the same conference. Dr. Vivek Kumar Sharma, Physiology, presented an oral paper titled ‘Effect of structured physical activity on body

composition and heart rate variability in adolescent learners’ in an International conference ‘AFC medcon’ held from 30th November to 2nd December 2015.Dr. S. Velkumary, Physiology, delivered a lecture titled ’Yogasana & Suryanamaskar practice for the management of diabetes’ at the 36th (IABMS), Pondicherry University on 20th December 2015.Dr. Y. Dhanalakshmi, Phsyiology, delivered a lecture titled ’Classification and Etiology of Diabetes Mellitus’ at the 36th Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists (IABMS), Pondicherry University Dr. Basant Manjari Naik, Physiology, delivered a guest lecture titled ‘Experimental Excersice Physiology : From Animal Research to clinics’ in a symposia on “Clinical Exercise Physiology” in APPICON 2015 conference held at AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan on 26th November 2015.Dr. V. Gladwin, Anatomy, was invited as a Resource person for the “Workshop on Software for Scientific Research” at Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Puducherry on November 06th 2015.Dr. B. Abhishekh, Transfusion Medicine, was invited to deliver a guest lecture on “Counselling and risk management in donor screening and reactive donors” organized by Indian Red Cross Society, Karnataka State Branch on 26.11.2015 at Bangalore.Dr. Vinod Ashok Chaudhari, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, gave a talk on "Homicide by combination of ligature strangulation and smothering" in SIMLA 2015 conference, from 9th to 11th October 2015, at GMC, Goa.

Paper Publications from JIPMER Bidish Patel, Pampa Ch Toi, DebdattaBasu.Cat-scratch

disease with bulky lymphadenopathy. A case report. Pediatric infectious disease 2015; 7:47-9. (IF-2.723)

Mishra, Dorairajan G, Neelaiah S, Chinnakali P. Prevalence of abnormal Pap smear during pregnancy in a teaching hospital in South India. Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol. 2015;4:1296-9.(IF-NA)

Kodidela S, Pradhan SC, Dubashi B, Basu D. Influence of dihydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms rs408626 (-317A>G) and rs442767 (-680C>A) on the outcome of methotrexate-based maintenance therapy in South

Indian patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Eur J Clin Pharmacol DOI 10.1007/s00228-015-1930-z. Published online 03 September 2015 (IF 2.996).

Thummar V, Parasuman S, Basu D, Raveendran R. Evaluation of in vivo antitumor activity of cleistanthin B in Swiss albino mice. Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine (2015), http://dx.doi .org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2015.08.004. (IF 0.271)

Venkatachalam J, Vishnu PR, Muthu KT, Samuel AK, Singh  Z. Prevalence and determinants of systemic hypertension among 15-year and older respondents in

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a rural area of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu—a cross-sectional study. Int J Med Sci Public Health 2016; 5

Ashwani Kumar Sachdeva, Prasanth Penumadu. Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis with Broad ligament Fibroid: Masqueraders of Cancer in Synergy -; Indian Journal of Gynecologic Oncology; December 2015, 13:13

Sharma S, Tanigasalam V, Parameswaran N, Chandrasekaran V, Gulati R, Joseph NM, Chandrashekar L. Fulminant BCG Disease in a 7 Month Old Healthy Male Infant. J Trop Pediatr. 2015 Dec; 61(6): 474-7.

Prakash V, Parameswaran N, Biswal N. Early versus late enteral feeding in critically ill children: a randomized controlled trial. Intensive Care Med. 2015 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print].

Jain K, Gunasekaran D, Venkatesh C, Soundararajan P. Gripe Water Administration in Infants 1-6 months of Age-A Cross-sectional Study. J Clin Diagn Res. 2015 Nov; 9(11): SC06-8.

Venkatesh C, Srinivasan S. Snake bite: emulating the Indian model might help save thousands of lives. BMJ. 2015 Nov 25; 351: h6276.

Jagadeesh A, Krishnamurthy S, Mahadevan S. Kawasaki Disease in a 2-year-old Child with Dengue Fever. Indian J Pediatr. 2015 Nov 7. [Epub ahead of print]

Raj GM, Mathaiyan J. Carbimazole-induced dermatitis in Graves’ disease: dose dependent. World J Pharm Res 2015; 4(12): 1430-2.

Indumathy J, Pal P, Pal GK, Ananthanarayanan PH, Parija SC, Balachander J, Dutta TK. Decreased baroreflex sensitivity is linked to sympathovagal imbalance, body fat mass and altered cardiometabolic profile in pre-obesity and obesity. Metabolism 2015; 64: 1704-14.

Lakshmi R, Rajeswari V, Badhe AS, “Critically ill patients: Nursing practices on enteral feeding”, International Journal of Current Research. 2015; 7: Page No. 23221-23223.

Mathew N, Adhisivam B, Bhat BV. Clinical Profile and Outcome of Serratia Infection among Neonates. Indian J Pediatr. 2015 Nov 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26558917.

Dhas DB, Ashmi AH, Bhat BV, Kalaivani S, Parija SC. Comparison of genomic DNA methylation pattern among septic and non-septic newborns - An epigenome wide association study. Genom Data. 2014 Nov 15; 3: 36-40.

Dhas DB, Ashmi AH, Bhat BV, Kalaivani S, Parija SC, Banupriya N. Modified low cost SNP genotyping technique using cycle threshold (Ct) & melting temperature (Tm) values in allele specific real-time PCRIndian J Med Res 2015; 142: 555-562

Kingsley MK, Bhat BV. Current Challenges and Future Perspectives in Neonatal Sepsis Pediatric Infectious Disease 2015; 7: 41-46

Adhisivam B, Bhat BV. Gentle handling of fragile preterm for better outcome. Int J Adv Med Health Res 2015; 2: 77- 9.

Banupriya N, Bhat BV, Dhas DB, Nivedita M, Sridhar MG. Effect of Zinc Supplementation on Early Outcome of Neonatal Sepsis - A Randomized Controlled Trial

Jisme Mathew, Padmavathi Nagarajan and Vikas Menon, “The effect of Psychoeducation on knowledge, attitude and burden of caregivers of clients with Bipolar affective disorder”, International Journal of Current Research. 2015; Vol.7/Issue 12: Page No. 24285-24287

Padmavathi Nagarajan, Arathy J Pillai, Pavithra S, Sonia Susan Jacob, Unnikrishnan S V, Dr. Shivanand Kattimani, “Quality of life of Caregivers of Stroke patients by questionnaire method”, International Journal of Current Research. 2015; Vol.7/Issue 12: Page No. 24292-24293

Kattimani S, Sarkar S, Bharadwaj B, Shaik S, Menon V, Mehalingam V. Medical co-morbidity in alcohol dependence – does nicotine matter? Int J Emerg Ment Health 2015; 17(3): 616-19.

Sarkar S, Menon V. Development and validation of a scale to assess barriers to health care seeking among medical students. Med Sci Educ 2015; 25(4): 377-382. (Impact Factor - 1.800)

Menon V, Kattimani S, Sarkar S, Mathan K. Do personality traits such as impulsivity and hostility-aggressiveness predict severity of intent in attempted suicide? Findings from a record based study in South India. Indian J Psychol Med 2015; 37(4): 393-8.

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Bidding Farewell to Long-time Associates – Staff Superannuating from JIPMER in Nov–Dec 2015

JIPMER Family Wishes You Happy and Healhty Retired Life

Ms. Vijayalakshmi ThomasANS

Ms. Remani SasidharanAccounts Officer Gr II

Mr. A. BoopalanMRT

Mr. S. R. PachaiappanO.T. Technician

Ms. S. VasanthaSenior Dresser

Mr. V. TamilarassinSenior Cook

Dr. C. AdithanProfessor Sr. Scale

(Clinical Pharmacology)

Mr. G. AthimoolamAccounts Officer Gr II (Accounts Section)

Mr. R. NagalingamSenior Tailor (Linen Section)

Dr. S. GopalakrishnanProfessor Sr. Scale (ENT)

Dr Ajit Sahai Professor & Head, Biometrics&

Medical Informatics

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The newsletter team wishes to thank all the contributors for this issue of JIPMER newsletter. We request all heads of Departments, faculty, students, residents, and staff to contribute actively

to future issues of JIPMER newsletter by sending their inputs at jipmernews@gmail.com

…From the Editor’s Desk

PATRONDr. SC Parija, Director, JIPMER

COMMITTEE MEMBERSDr. DKS Subrahmanyam (Chairman)Prof. MedicineEmail: dkssubrahmanyam@gmail.comMobile: 9843132353

Dr N SiddarajuProf. PathologyEmail: rajusiddaraju@gmail.comMobile: 9944426595

Dr Rahul DhodapkarAssociate Prof. MicrobiologyEmail: rahuldhodapkar@gmail.comMobile: 9791933708

Dr Ashutosh MukerjiAssociate Prof. RadiotherapyEmail: dr_ashutoshmukherji@yahoo.co.inMobile: 9489146747

Dr Deepak AmalnathAssociate Prof. MedicineEmail: drdeepakmddm@yahoo.co.inMobile: 9442533124

ASSISTED BYDr C SivakumarPRO JIPMEREmail: projipmer@gmail.com9488510570

Mr. KM SelvakumarPress Manager JIPMERMobile: 9443799337

I wish to to welcome all our readers to this year-end issue of the JIPMER News Bulletin. In this edition of the JIPMER News Bulletin we present news about the various academic, community and

research activitiesconducted by JIPMER faculty, doctors and staff. I appreciate and thank everyone for the support I have received from my colleagues of the Editorial Board.

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