Dr. Sapna Varma N. K., Professor & Head, Deaprtment of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Amrita School of Denstistry, Kochi, was an invited speaker at the International Orthodontic Conference held at Srilanka during February 5th-7th, 2016. Her topic of presentation was “The Role Orthodontists In Diagnosis and Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.”
Dr. Suranjana R., final-year postgraduate resident in Orthopaedics has won the best poster award at the recently held KOACON –2016 organized by Kerala Orthopaedic Association (KOA). The poster was titled ‘Unusual Case of Compressive Myelopathy.’ She was guided by Dr. Krishnakumar R., Consultant Spine Surgeon and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.
The Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru hosted the Biennial International Conference “2016 Power and Energy Systems: Towards Sustainable Energy” (PESTSE 2016), in association with IEEE Bangalore section and IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) – Bangalore Chapter, from January 21st – 23rd, 2016.
In the recently concluded 76th IAPM (Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists) Kerala Chapter Meeting, held on February 13, 2016 at Trivandrum Medical College, two out of the three prizes for the case and poster presentations were bagged by postgraduate students at the Department of Pathology, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi.
Dr. Neena Baby, Fellow in Pediatric Neurology, Amrita School of Medicine, won the best paper award for her paper titled “Efficacy, tolerability and seizure outcome of ketogenic diet in 74 children with Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy ” in the 17th Joint Annual Conference of Indian Epilepsy Association and Indian Epilepsy Society held at Visakhapatnam during February 12 – 14, 2016.
A research team from Amrita School of Biotechnology presented posters at the 56th Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India and International Symposium on “Emerging Discoveries in Microbiology” organized jointly by School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), Delhi from December 7-10, 2015.
Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine was honored with a visit by Shri. Rajiv Pratap Rudy, the honorable Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship & Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India, on 1st February 2016.
A technical seminar on “Excitation Controls-Automatic Voltage Regulators” by Arvind Gupta, AGM, OTS-Electrical, Adani Power Ltd, Ahmedabad, was conducted by IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter of Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru on January 20th, 2016.
IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Branch chapter at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized a Distinguished Lecture Program (DLP) on “Hardware-in-the-Loop Systems with Power Electronics- a Powerful Simulation Tool” by Dr. Ralph M Kennel, TU Munich on January 20, 2016.
Ms. Jayaleskhmi H., Vidhya Prakash and Suja Subhash represented Amrita School of Biotechnology and presented posters at the International Conference on New Horizons in Biotechnology 2015 (NHBT-2015) during November 22-25, 2015 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.