Dr. Balu Vaidyanathan, Professor, Pediatric Cardiology, and Dr. Balaganesh Karmegaraj, Post DM Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, represented the Fetal Cardiology Division, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, in the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) at Seville, Spain held from May 15 – 18, 2019.
Dr. Rajeshwari P. N., Associate Professor, Department of Shalya Tantra, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, presented a scientific paper at the 5th World Congress on Traditional and Complimentary Medicine (TraditionalMed 2019), held at Osaka, Japan, from May 20-21, 2019.
The national Virtual Laboratories project of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, along with IIT Delhi; IIT Bombay; IIT Kanpur; IIT Kharagpur and others, has been enhancing the laboratory education of students online for more than a decade.
Amrita School of Dentistry has been ranked 17th among the Dental Colleges in India, and 8th among the Private Dental Colleges in the country, as per the INDIA TODAY survey of the BEST 40 DENTAL COLLEGES of the nation released on May 20, 2019.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with King’s College London (KCL) for potential multidisciplinary collaborative opportunities in academics and research.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The British Geological Survey (BGS) of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation.
Dr. P. R. Janci Rani, Assistant Professor, Food Nutrition and Health Education Center, Coimbatore campus, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been appointed as a ‘Roster Nutrition Consultant’ for four consecutive years (2018-2022) by UNICEF-India. She will join hands in meeting the prime objectives of the National Nutrition Mission.
Dr. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Center for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA), School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, gave a plenary lecture at the “SAFIC National Seminar on Prenatal Education: Ancient Indian Perspective”, held at Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Vishwa Mahavidyalaya, Kancheepuram, India from April 11-12, 2019.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was awarded the eight rank with 59.22 scores in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings 2019 for best universities in India on April 8, 2019.
Dr. Ravi Varma, Professor Emeritus, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, and Dr. Beena Varma, Professor and HOD, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, School of Dentistry, Amrita Health Sciences, Kochi, received the Indian Dental Association (IDA) Excellence Award 2019 for their contribution to the field of Dentistry.