At the Annual Conference of the Kairali Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologists (KSOMP) at Muvattupuzha, Kerala, held January 28 – 29, 2017, the following postgraduate students from the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology & Microbiology, Amrita School of Dentistry, bagged the honors.
Amritasmitham, a three-day Coordinated School Health Program, was conducted at Eklavya Model Residential School, Pookode, Wayanad, from January 21-23, 2017.
The professors of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s research centers, AMMACHI Labs and AmritaCREATE, published book chapters in “Children and Sustainable Development – Ecological Education in a Globalized World”.
AmritaCREATE, a research initiative from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, organized a one-day workshop on Online Labs for School Lab Experiments at St. Stephen’s School, Togan, Punjab, on January 21, 2017. Twenty-five science teachers from twelve different schools attended the workshop.
A hands-on workshop on Pharmacokinetic Data Analysis, using Phoenix WinNonlin, was conducted at Amrita School of Pharmacy from January 9-10, 2017. The main goal of the workshop was to analyze pharmacokinetic data and to interpret PK parameters using the Phoenix WinNonlin software.
The 1,300-bed Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, based in Kerala, India, and Nepal’s Association of Non-Government Hospitals (ANGHOS), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for improving patient care and healthcare delivery systems at ANGHOS member institutes.
Cosmetically appealing heart surgery in children is increasingly becoming popular. It is now very possible for children with low-risk cardiac diseases to opt for cosmetic cardiac surgery and live the rest of their lives with a scar-free body, explained doctors attending a seminar on pediatric cardiology at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.
Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) organized a two day event called the “Biocrest 2017” on January 19-20, 2017. The International Symposium was on Microbial Pathogenesis.
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) have always been a source of concern in Kerala. Dr. K. N. Panicker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Medicine, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi and Chairman of Indian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases- An Amrita Initiative, represented the Asian continent at an international gathering, “Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases”, in London, recently.
The National Pharmacy Week celebrations 2016 by Amrita School of Pharmacy commenced from 21st November, 2016. The theme of this year’s pharmacy week as per Indian Pharmacy Association was “Pharmacists for a Healthy India; Role in Prevention and Management of Diabetes.”
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