Amrita’s research work has been selected as editor’s choice for the upcoming February 2018 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Archives of Disease in Childhood (Impact factor 3.27).
Dr. Pillay V. V., Professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, published his latest reference book on Toxicology.
Prof. K. R. Sundaram, Professor and Head of Biostatistics at Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, received the Smt. Ramrati Lalima Sahai Award for the year 2016 at its Thirty-fifth Annual National Conference, held on November 2-4, 2017.
Dr. V. V. Pillay, Professor and Head, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology and Chief of Poison Control Centre, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, has contributed chapters in the just released multi-author treatise on emergency medicine, titled, Textbook of Emergency and Trauma Care.
The Basket Ball Team (both girls and boys) of Amrita Health Sciences Campus, Kochi, emerged as the champions of Intercampus Basket Ball Tournament, which was held from 13th to 15th October 2017, at the Kochi Campus.
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.
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 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.
The Amrita Fertility Center, the Amrita Speciality Clinic at Thevara, Kochi, under Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, was inaugurated by K. J. Maxi, MLA, on 26th September, 2017.