By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 18th Feb, 2019:- Department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health
PGIMER, Chandigarh hosted a workshop on ‘Hands on demonstration for establishing validity of laboratory
based monitoring of behavior change strategies for tobacco cessation at Research Block-B, PGIMER, Chandigarh. The workshop was
sponsored by Medical Council of India (MCI). The aim of this workshop was to
provide knowledge and hand on
training on various methods for validation of outcomes for tobacco cessation,
thereby equip them in utilizing the gained knowledge effectively in various
public health and hospital settings. This workshop also amount to empower the participants to write
research proposals on biochemical assessments. There were more than 60
participants: Faculty, SRs, JRs, researchers, Msc. students, nurses from
various colleges and hospitals of Chandigarh.
Dr.Sonu Goel, Addl. Prof. Community Medicine & School of
Public Health gave the overview of the programme. Dr. Arvind Rajwanshi, Dean
(Research), PGIMER, Chandigarh and Dr. Amarjeet Singh,Prof. Dept. of Community
Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh gave the inaugural
address on the rising burden of Tobacco and importance of laboratory monitoring
of outcomes from various approaches for tobacco cessation.
Prof. D. Basu, Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh
highlighted the behavioral & pharmacological approaches for tobacco
cessation.
Panel discussion was conducted in which Dr. Roshan Verma,
Professor, Dept. of ENT, PGIMER Chandigarh, Dr. Sonu Goel, Addl. Professor, Dept. of
Community Medicine & School of Public Health and Dr. Arpit, Dept. of Oral Health and Science discussed on
the counselling needs for tobacco cessation in
tertiary care settings.
Prof. Anuradha Chakraborti, HOD, Dept. of Experimental Medicine
and Biotechnology, PGIMER, Chandigarh emphasized on importance of laboratory
based monitoring in Public Health Research.
Prof. Bikash Medhi, Dept. of Pharmacology, PGIMER, Chandigarh
emphasized on methods and biomarkers used for Nicotine assessment
Dr. Ajay Prakash,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, PGIMER, Chandigarh presented
on quantification of drugs through HPLC with hands on demonstration in
Central Sophisticated Instrumental Cell of PGIMER, Chandigarh
The whole workshopwss
linked to PhD work of Dr. Priyanka Dhawan and was sponsored by Medical
Council of India (MCI), Delhi.
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