By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
07th October:- The Postgraduate Institute of
Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh celebrated the fifth Annual
Institute Research Day on 7th October 2017. Prof MC Misra,
Ex-Director AIIMS, New Delhi and presently Vice Chancellor of the Mahatma
Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Jaipur was the Chief
Guest and Prof Anil Koul, Director CSIR-IMTECH was the guest of honor.
The PGIMER, Chandigarh is one of the
apex medical institutions involved in medical research since 1963, both
nationally and internationally. Since inception, the Institute faculty has
published over 20,000 high quality research articles in various national and
international journals. Currently, the faculty of PGI publishes more than 1200
research papers every year.
In the Annual Research Day, the PGI
faculty showcased their best research papers. Around 190 exemplary research
papers were displayed by the faculty members. There was detailed interaction
between the PGI faculty and the distinguished guests regarding their published
research and the future plan and scope of the research.
Prof Jagat Ram, Director PGI, Prof
Rajesh Kumar, Dean (Academics) and Prof Digambar Behera, Dean (Research)
introduced the distinguished guests to the gathering. Prof Jagat Ram, Director,
PGI spoke about the rich research heritage of the Institute. He also elaborated
on various research activities, grants received and collaborations made by the
faculty of the Institute in the year gone by.
Prof MC Misra addressed the gathering
on a surgeon’s perspective on research and publications. He emphasized the need
for teamwork, mentorship and collaboration between different departments and
institutes. Prof Anil Koul articulated on the importance of translating basic
research to patient care by giving the example of bedaquiline, a novel drug
approved for the treatment of tuberculosis. He congratulated the PGI faculty
for being able to conduct good research hand in hand with high quality patient
care.
The three best published research
papers each in category of Assistant Professors (Medicine- Sahajal Dhooria,
Inderpaul Seghal, Tarundeep Singh; Paramedical- Sukhpal Kaur, Tulika Gupta,
Rekha Hans), Associate Professor (Medicine- Ravinder Khaiwal, Dipankar De, Jaya
Shukla; Surgery- S.S. Dhandapani, Nidhi Bhatia, Divya Jain; Paramedical- Ashish
Jain, Anjali Aggarwal, Balvinder Mohan), Additional Professor (Medicine- Rakesh
Kumar, Aman Sharma, Madhu Gupta, Sonu Goel; Surgery- Bhupesh Kumar, Jeetinder
Kaur Makkar, Ramandeep Virk; Paramedical- Shalmoli Bhattacharyya, Nusrat
Shafiq, Mini P. Singh) and Professor (Medicine- Kushaljit S. Sodhi, Ritesh
Agarwal, Sandeep Grover; Surgery- Neerja Bharti, Babita Ghai, Suman Arora;
Paramedical- MR Shivaprakash, Jyotdeep Kaur, Kusum Sharma) received awards in
this ceremony.