A 67-year-old woman, Amaloor Pavam, underwent a rare medical procedure at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) to repair the damaged aortic valve of her heart without opening of the chest. The non-surgical procedure, called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), was performed by a team led by Dr. C. Rajiv, Professor of Cardiology, AIMS, Kochi. The team performed this procedure for the first time in Kerala.
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director of Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda has been invited as a Keynote Speaker to present his views on “Preventive and Therapeutic Implications of Vegetarian Diet in Traditional Indian Medicine” at VegMed 2016.
The MBA students from Class of 2016 of Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore presented their Business Research Projects (BRP) at the campus during the Research Day on 31 March 2016.
An expert in the field of fermentation technology and a Professor Emeritus from the M.S. University of Baroda, Dr. Avinash Shah, has spent the week of March 16, 2016, at Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT), teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Yadhu Raj, a BBM student of the Amrita School of Arts and Sciences in Amritapuri, brings laurels to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham yet again through his sheer hard work and dedication. He is selected as a member of Jr. Indian Team to represent the country at the Asian Power Lifting Championship scheduled to be held on 1st week of June’ 2016 at Udaipur.
“Interfacing PV Modules and Staircase Modulation Technique with Implementation of LC Filters”, a seminar by Mr. Roland Henron Patrao, Associate Software Engineer, Embedded Division, BOSCH & alumnus of Amrita school of Engineering (ASE), Bengaluru, was organized by IEEE PES & IAS student branch joint chapter of Amrita school of Engineering (ASE), Bengaluru, on April 1, 2016.
Dr. Sivasena Reddy, Assistant Professor (S.Gr.), Department of Civil Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, was invited by National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayat Raj (NIRD &PR), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to present a research paper on “Regionalization of Watersheds for Prediction of Runoff in Unguaged Basins Using Clustering Analysis, Geospatial Techniques and SWAT Model” at the National Seminar on Geoinformatics Application in Natural Resource Management (NSGANM-2016).
Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Assistant Professor (SG), Department of Civil Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, was invited by the President, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET), IIT Roorkee, to be a special invitee to the 184th Executive Committee Meeting of the ISET held on 2ndMarch 2016, at IIT Roorkee.
PhD Program in Ayurveda has been launched at Amrita School of Ayurveda. Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA) is overseeing the PhD program.
A three-day advertisement-cum-cinematography workshop was organized by the department of Visual Media and Communication, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, from March 26-28, 2016, for the post graduate students.
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