Dr. Hisham Ahamed, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Project Lead at the Amrita Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, was an invited speaker at the International HCM Summit VI held from October 27 – 29, 2017, at Boston, USA, as an invited faculty. He spoke on the topic “HCM in the Developing World”. He was the only invited speaker from the South Asian region.
A three-day art camp, Chitrakala Kalari, organised by Kerala Lalithakala Academy was held at School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, from October 28-30, 2017.
Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore hosted the National Student Management Games (SMG) 2017, in association with AIMA (All India Management Association), from October 12th to 14th, 2017, at the Coimbatore campus.
The Department of English and Languages, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, organized a two-day National Seminar on ‘Singular Plural: Language and Culture in the Contemporary Context’ from October 26 – 27, 2017.
The 4th Amrita Anaesthesia Refresher Course 2017 (AARC), was conducted by the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, on 1st October, 2017, at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. Dr. Sanjeev K. Singh, Medical Superintendent, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, was the chief guest of the event.
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences was awarded the Kerala State Pollution Control Board’s (KSPCB) excellence award on 4th October, 2017, for its sustained efforts in pollution control and for initiatives in environment protection in the year 2016-17.
Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, hosted a talk by Mr. Nibu Parameswaran, Research Scholar, University of Tasmania, Australia on “Predictions of Hospitalization Due to Drug Reaction in Elderly Community Dwelling Patients” (The PADR-EC-Score), for Pharm D. & M. Pharm students, on October 12, 2017.
Honourable President of India Shri. Ram Nath Kovind was the chief Guest at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor’s 64th Birthday Celebrations on 8th October, 2017.
The Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, organized a seminar to mark the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sister Nivedita entitled the visionary -Sister Nivedita- A multifaceted genius par excellence, at the CIR Seminar Hall on October 12, 2017.
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, conducted India’s and Asia’s first upper arm double hand-transplant on Shreya Siddanagowda, a 19-year-old girl. Shreya, a chemical engineering student at Manipal Institute of Technology, lost both her hands in a road mishap last year.
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