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| Therapeutic Area |
Chairperson |
Institution |
| Cardiology |
Dr. Upendra Kaul |
Fortis Escorts |
| Community Health |
Dr. Rajeev Gupta |
Fortis, Jaipur |
| Critical Care |
Dr. Amit Varma |
Fortis Escorts |
| Device related trials |
Prof Harpal Singh |
IIT, Delhi |
| Diagnostics |
Dr B R Das |
SRL |
| Gastroenterology |
Dr. Ashok V Chordiya |
Fortis Noida |
| Infectious Diseases |
Prof TD Chugh |
BL Kapoor |
| Metabolic Disorders |
Prof Anup Misra |
FHVK |
| Patient Safety |
Prof Usha Gupta |
Fortis, Noida |
| Problem Based clinical training |
Prof Kusum Verma |
SGRH |
| Renal |
Prof Vijay Kher |
FHVK |
| Rheumatology |
Prof Ashok Kumar |
Fortis VK |
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CARDIOLOGY
Dr. Upendra Kaul
Dr. Kaul is Director-Cardiology at Fortis Healthcare flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital. He is an MD Medicine (1975) and a DM Cardiology (1978) from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. His Post Graduation training in Interventional Cardiology was obtained in Australia under the aegis of the Australian Post Graduate Federation of Medicine in 1983-84. During his long and distinguished career as a Clinician, Researcher and Teacher, Dr. Kaul has held several coveted responsibilities.
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He has been on the faculty of G.B Pant Hospital, New Delhi, PGIMER, Chandigarh and was Professor of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He joins Fortis Healthcare after a very successful innings at Batra Hospital, New Delhi where he held the post of Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology.
Amongst the earliest pioneers in coronary interventions in India, Dr. Kaul introduced several new techniques in this discipline. He is an active member of several professional bodies, has participated in and conducted numerous live interventional cardiology demonstrations at National and International meets. He is on the faculty of several prestigious universities in the USA, Europe, Far East, China and Australia. Dr. Kaul ia a past President of the Cardiological Society of India and is currently the Vice President of the SAARC Cardiac Society. He is the recipient of the Dr. BC Roy Award for 'Developing Specialities' for the year 1999 and has more than 450 publications to his credit.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH
Dr. Rajeev Gupta
MBBS, MD, PhD (Community Medicine) Senior Consultant & HOD Internal Medicine Clinical Director Academics & Research Department of Internal Medicine
Dr. Rajeev Gupta is Senior Consultant & HOD Internal Medicine & Clinical Director Academics & Research.
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Dr. Gupta is MBBS (SPMC Bikaner) M.D (PGIMER Chandigarh) and PhD (Community Medicine, SMS, Jaipur). He has over three decades of rich experience in Internal Medicine.
His pioneering cardiovascular epidemiological studies attracted attention of many Indian and international investigators. The Indian Council of Medical Research conferred his team a national award in 1997. He is involved with various Scientific Researches like Epidemiological Research, Genetics and Stem-cell based Research.
He has been involved in many multisite clinical and epidemiological studies such as Women’s Health Project (AIIMS, Delhi), DEMAT Study (AIIMS), POLYCAP Study (St. John’s). He is associated with various committees such as ICMR, DST and MOH and multiple ethics committees.
He collaborates extensively with the University of Rajasthan (Departments of Statistics, Home Science, Botany and Zoology) and more than a dozen students have completed their PhD thesis under his guidance. His previous assignment was as Consultant Physician-Medicine and Preventive Cardiology K D Gupta Medical Centre Jaipur, HOD Medicine & Cardiology and Director Research, Monilek Hospital and Research Centre Jaipur; Professor of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Medical Sciences Jaipur.
Dr. Gupta has also been publishing a quarterly journal, South Asian Journal of Preventive Cardiology, for the last one decade.
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CRITICAL CARE
Dr. Amit Varma
Director Critical Care Medicine Fortis Healthcare Escorts
A specialist in Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Varma has been instrumental in setting up high-end speciality hospitals like Fortis Healthcare mohali and Fortis - Amritsar, Narayana Hrudayalaya and Manipal Heart Foundation in Bangalore and has also helped set up the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre.
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He completed his Residency, from the State University of New York and did his Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine and Neonatology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre and sub specialized in Cardiac Critical Care. He is a Visiting Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
He also functions as a Healthcare Consultant to the World Bank and the European Commission.
He is currently on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine and the Society for Paediatric Research and is a member of the Executive councils of the Paediatric Cardiac Society of India, Society for Critical Care Medicine (USA) and the Asian Paediatric Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology.
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DEVICE RELATED TRIALS
Prof Harpal Singh
Director Critical Care Medicine Fortis Healthcare Escorts
Dr. Harpal Singh is a Joint Professor at Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. He is a polymer technologist of international standing and is working in the area of polymeric biomaterials since last 25 years.
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He obtained his M.Sc. (Organic chemistry) from Kanpur University in 1978 and did his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Radiation Induced Polymers for Biomedical Application) form IIT Delhi in 1982. He joined as an Experimental Officer in JK Synthetics, Kota in 1982 but returned to IIT Delhi in 1983 due to his interest in academics and research in biomedical engineering. He became Assistance Professor in 1987, Associate Professor in 1997 and Professor in 2001 in Centre for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi. He also served as Head of the centre from 2003 to 2007.
Dr. Harpal Singh has two and half decades of research experience in the area of medical diagnostics, polymeric medical devices and implant materials, drug delivery systems, synthesis of nano and micro particles and their conjugation with biomolecules for various biomedical applications. He has more than 70 papers in peer reviewed national and international journals. He also has 10 patents and has given 4 technology transfer to industry. He has supervised 15 Ph.D and 12 M.Tech projects on synthesis and modification of polymers for biomedical and industrial application and 8 Ph. D. projects are under progress. He has completed 6 research projects and 30 consultancy projects sponsored by various government and private organization in biomedical, textile, adhesive, packaging and coating industries. Department of Biotechnology sponsored project on rapid detection of pathogenic bacteria and Lockheed Martin, USA sponsored project on development of multifunctional nanoparticles for cancer detection and treatment are in progress under his supervision.
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DIAGNOSTICS
Dr. B. R. Das
Dr. B R Das has been working as the Executive Director of Research and Technology; Head of Molecular Diagnostics and Mentor of Clinical Research Services at Super Religare Laboratories Ltd, Mumbai. He has worked as a Professor in Medical Biotechnology for nearly 25 years and has published more than 70 research papers in several reputed international journals.
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Several Ph.D. and post-doctoral Scientists have completed their research work in the field of clinical research under his guidance. He has handled more than 10 research grants independently as Principle Investigators. At SRL Religare R&D Division, a large number of clinical assays have been established using different advanced technologies under his dynamic leadership. His research work has been highly acclaimed in India and abroad. On the basis of which he has been honored with several prestigious awards such as the Best Young Scientist Award given by Indian National Science Academy, ISCA Young Scientist Award, MP Young Scientist Award, KI Memorial Award for promotion of Medicine Research in Japan, PSC Award for the Best Senior Scientist of the State of Orissa etc. He has also worked as Visiting Professor in Case Western Reserve University Hospital, Cleveland, USA and Kyoto Medical School, Japan. Besides, he has also been invited for different research assignments to Germany, UK, France, Greece, Italy, Spain etc. Main contribution of Dr. Das is to unravel questions pertaining to Clinical Research and then to translate the findings in form of Biomarkers and clinical assays to support the management of various diseases.
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GASTROENTEROLOGY
Dr. Ashok V Chordiya
Dr Ashok V Chordiya is presently Director at Fortis Hospital, Noida.
He was born and brought up at Jaipur where he completed his medical education from the prestigious SMS Medical College, starting in the year 1973. After getting an MD in Internal Medicine, he started his medical career in 1983 with the well known Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital at Jaipur where he worked till 1995.
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In April 1995, he shifted to Kota, the industrial capital of Rajasthan, and was actively involved in planning, setting up, recruitment and running of a hospital for JK Synthetics of the Singhania group. He joined Escorts Hospital and Research centre, Faridabad in January 1996 as Consultant Physician and became Medical Superintendent in January 2006.
In January 2007 he was transferred to Fortis Hospital, Mohali as Medical Director, where besides administrative responsibilities he was active in clinical work also and was involved in day to day care in Medical ICU. He subsequently took over as COO of the same Hospital in November 2007 and was transferred to Fortis Noida in February 2009. During this period at Mohali he put up the program for Mother & Child Health (‘Fortis Paalna’), Lifestyle Medicine (‘Clinic Rejuve’), Pain Clinic, reorganized joint replacement program to achieve a new high. He also brought up new Dental department, Department of Medical education (DOME) with DNB recognition in Cardiology, CTVS and General Surgery and also PGDCC.
He has received special training in Clinical Genetics (at AIIMS, New Delhi) and Gastroenterology (at Mumbai with Prof HG Desai, at Hyderabad with Prof Nageshwar Reddy and at the Middlesex Hospital, London with Prof Peter Salmon). He has more than 15 research publications in various medical journals and books along with several presentations of research work in various National and International fora in the country and abroad especially in the field of Gastroenterology and Pain and hospital management.
He has always been active in community outreach and awareness programmes related to public health including workshops on Life style and stress management. He took a team of doctors to Tamilnadu for medical relief work in the Tsunami devastated area of Nagapattinam in the year 2006. Disaster management being his forte, he also organized teams and relief work for victims of Orissa Cyclone as well as Barmer Floods.
He headed the Escorts Hospital Health Outreach Programme (E-Hope) and reorganized and rechristened the program in its present avatar which operates 7 satellite charitable clinics in rural areas and slums, organizes weekly free health camps (‘Swasthya Jhankar’) in rural areas and has operates a mobile hospital (‘Apna Aspatal’) for outreach diagnostic and treatment facility at the doorstep.
He is man of diverse interests and pursues bird watching, traveling, reading and writing as his hobbies. He is life member of IMA, IMA Academy of Medical Specialities, Bombay Natural History Society, National Geographic Society, Aravali Golf Club and International Association for the Study of Pain. He is also an active member of Rotary International and initiated ‘Hamaari Beti’ program in collaboration with Rotary and Fortis for the girl child.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Prof TD Chugh
Obtained MBBS (1956) and M.D. (1962) from Medical College, Amritsar. Worked as a Faculty member in Amritsar and Rohtak from 1962-1972. Appointed as Professor and Founder Chairman of the Department of Microbiology in Rohtak in April, 1972. In 1979, moved to Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait and was Professor and Chairman till 2004.
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He was Chairman of Hospital Infection Control Committee of the University Teaching Hospital from 1991-2003 in Kuwait. Worked as Sr. Consultant Sir Ganga Ram hospital 2004-2007. Currently working as Sr. Consultant BL Kapur hospital, Pusa Road, New Delhi since 2007.
Did distinguished work on antibacterial and antifungal drug resistance, hospital infections and pathogenesis of infective endocarditis. Published 237 research papers. First to describe in the world literature :
1. Bacteriocin plasmid of K.pneumoniae is located on autotransferable plasmid.
2. The adhesin of Staphylococcus epidermidis is lipoteichoic acid.
Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences (1987), Fellow of The Royal College of Pathologists, London (1987), Fellow of The New York Academy of Sciences (1992), Fellow of American Academy of Microbiologists (1995) and Fellow of International Medical Sciences Academy (2004). Awarded General Amir Chand Oration (2005) and Prof. K.L. Wig oration (2005). Appointed National Emeritus Professor of National Academy of Medical Sciences (India). |
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DIABETES & METABOLISM
Dr. (Prof) Anoop Misra
Dr. Misra is the Director, Diabetes and Metabolism at Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. He is a specialist in Diabetes, Obesity, Lipid Disorders and Metabolic Syndrome. He was professor at the prestigious AIIMS, New Delhi, a faculty at Dept. of Endocrinology at South Western Medical Center at Dallas, USA, and World Health Organization (WHO) fellow at Royal Free Hospital, UK.
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He is a WHO Expert Committee Member on Childhood Obesity and Obesity in Indians. He is member of several National Committees on Diabetes (India), and Diabetes Control Programme, DPR Korea.
Dr. Misra has received several prestigious decorations and awards including the Dr. B C Roy award for 2006. He has several new scientific findings to his credit, and is on the Editorial Boards of five international journals on diabetes. He has served as Personal Physician to two former Prime Ministers of India. |
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PATIENT SAFETY
Prof Usha Gupta
Dr. Usha Gupta is former professor & head of pharmacology Maulana Azad Medical College New Delhi. Presently she is working as senior consultant clinical pharmacology Fortis Hospital noida. She is honorary executive vise president of Delhi society for promotion of rational use of drugs (DSPRUD).
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She has received her training in clinical pharmacology from post graduate institute of medical education & research Chandigarh. She has published several research papers on clinical trials, pharmacokinetics, bioequivalence & adverse drug reactions in national & international journals. She is member of institutional ethics board in several institutes. She has conducted national training programmes on GCP & clinical research.
Dr. Gupta has a distinguished honor of working with World health organization (WHO) since 1997. She has served as member of "Expert committee for selection of essential medicine & use" in WHO Geneva. She is a chairperson of the committee for selection of essential medicines for government of NCT of Delhi. She has pioneered in the field of rational use of medicines in India & abroad. She has conducted several international training programmes on rational use of medicines in hospitals & community. |
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PROBLEM BASED CLINICAL TRAINING
Prof Kusum Verma
Dr. Kusum Verma, a renowned Cytopathologist, is presently Chairperson of Cytopathology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. She has made significant contributions to cytodiagnosis and has actively promoted Education and Research in the field of Cytopathology. Prior to her present appointment, she was Professor & Head of Pathology and Dean (Academic) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
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She obtained her postgraduation (MD-Pathology) from AIIMS and received training in Cytopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, U.S.A.; Kantonspittal , Zurich, Switzerland, and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. She was a faculty member in Pathology at AIIMS for 33 years. She has carried out research in various aspects of cytopathology and published over 260 papers in international and national journals. She has been on the editorial board of international cytopathology journals. She has trained a large number of Pathologists and technicians from India and neighbouring countries. She played a major role in setting up curriculum for training of cytotechnologists and starting a national examination for them.
Dr. Verma has received training in Medical Education Technology at Dundee, UK. She was member of adjunct faculty and chief of Centre for Medical Education & Technology (CMET) at AIIMS. She has also served as sub-Dean (4 years) and Dean (Academic) at AIIMS. Her forte in education is curriculum development and objectivisation of student assessment. Under her guidance, a large number of CME programmes for medical teachers from India and neighboring countries were conducted at AIIMS.
She is a member of International Academy of Cytology; British Society of Clinical Cytology and a fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences; and Indian College of Pathology. She has received a number of awards and delivered orations and guest lectures. She is serving on many committees set up by ICMR, DBT, NAMS etc. She also has expertise in Medical Ethics and Cancer Fpidemiology and was responsible for setting up population based cancer registry in Delhi. |
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NEPHROLOGY
Dr. Vijay Kher
Prof. Dr. Vijay Kher is head of the Nephrology division at Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. Dr. Kher is an eminent nephrologist with various national and international awards and assignments to his credit. He completed his DM (Nephro) from PGIMER, Chandigarh and has been spearheading nephrology departments at prestigious hospitals in Lucknow and Delhi for more than a decade.
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He has delivered more than 100 lectures and orations at National and International scientific forums and has been a DM & DNB Examiner. A team, with extensive experience in all spheres of nephrology, will assist Dr. Vijay Kher. The team will deliver the highest standards of renal services including all types of Dialysis, in a pleasant ambience. |
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RHEUMATOLOGY
Dr. Ashok Kumar
Dr. Ashok Kumar is Director & Head - Rheumatology at Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. Dr. Ashok has done MD (Medicine) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and FRCP from Royal College of Physicians, London. He brings with him a rich and varied experience of over 25 years. Prior to joining Fortis, Dr. Ashok was Professor of Medicine & Head Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology Service at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. His other assignment was with Oman Medical College, Oman.
He is the President of Indian Rheumatology Association (since October, 2007) and Delhi Rheumatology Association (since April 2008). He has been editor of Indian journal of Rheumatology from January, 06 to March, 09 and has also been an active participant in various medical conferences and workshops.
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