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.
Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi announces the results of First Professional MBBS Degree Examinations Examination August 2017.
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi, successfully conducted an open-heart surgery for a group of ten young children from Uganda, including one boy and nine girls, suffering from congenital heart disease.
Prof.(Dr.) Bhaskaran Pillai, Professor and Head, Medical Physics & Radiation Safety, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, has been elected as Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
The Radiation Oncology Department at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences(AIMS), Kochi recently conducted Amrita Annual High Precision Radiation Therapy Workshop and CME on from June 30- July 2, 2017.
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