Dr. Hisham Ahamed, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Project Lead at the Amrita Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, underwent Advanced Cardiovascular MRI Training, with a focus on the imaging of cardiomyopathies, ischemic heart disease, cardio-oncology and heart failure and transplantation over the period of two weeks at the prestigious cardiac imaging program at the Heart Center, Red Cross Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal, during November 1-15, 2019.
Dr. Sivakumar V., faculty member and coordinator in Research/Genomics, Department of Health System Research, Amrita Health Sciences Campus, Kochi, attended the 11th Annual Conference of Science and Non-Duality (SAND19 US) from October 23-27, 2019, held at San Jose, California, USA. The highlight of this year’s program was the talk and panel discussion by Swami Sarvapriyananda, of the Vedanta Society of New York and currently at the Harvard School of Divinity.
Among neglected tropical diseases, lymphatic filariasis remains dominant due to its disabling and disfiguring manifestations. One of the disturbing features of this disease is that the majority of the diseased are in their advanced old age and are the poorest of the poor.
Dr. Tinku Joseph (Consultant Interventional Pulmonologist, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences) was invited to deliver guest lectures on (a) Rigid Bronchoscopy (b) Airway Stenting in TE Fistula and (c) Role of Cryobiopsy in ILD, at the 5th Annual Scientific Meeting of Malaysian Association of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology (MABIP), held during October 18-20, 2019, at Malaysia.
On November 11, 2019, the Kerala State Renewable Energy Award in the category of Research and Innovation was presented to the Kochi campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, by Kerala Chief Minister Mr. Pinnarayi Vijayan on behalf of ANERT, the Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technologies, at a function held in Trivandrum.
To raise awareness towards preserving the balance of nature, Amrita School of Pharmacy observed ‘World Nature Day’ on October 3, 2019.
The United Nations has observed 15th October as World Students’ Day every year from 2010 on the birthday of the Missile Man of India – Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has observed September 25 as World Pharmacist Day every year since 2009. The theme for this year’s World Pharmacist Day was, “Safe and Effective Medicines for All”.
The 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi was observed in October 2019 at Amrita School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Sony Vijayan, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce and Management, of Amrita School of Arts and Sciences was invited as Speaker at World Maritime Conference 2019. The conference was hosted by China Institute of Navigation and Shanghai Maritime University in Shanghai.
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