Visitors:

Shri. C. Sreenivas, Chairman of Shri Sathya Sai Health & Education Trust, Whitefield Bangalore visited the Centre on 9th March 2012

Participation in Meetings / Conference / Symposia:

Dr. B.C. Harinath

• Delivered lecture on ‘Holistic Healthcare – the future of global medicine’ at cme on Health Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium, SOBSICON – 2012,  Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences,  HIHT University, Dehradun during January 27-29, 2012 
• Guest lecture titled “Yoga Way of Living (YOGism) for Better Health & Personality Development” delivered by Dr. Ranjan Choudhari (Dr. B.C. Harinath & Dr. Ranjan Choudhari)  in National Conference on Yoga for Holistic Personality Development, National Yoga Week – 2012 at Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, New Delhi during February 12-14, 2012. 

Dr. Satish Kumar

• Attended the 23rd Annual DBT’s BTISnet Coordinators Meeting held at SMVD University, Katra, Jammu during February 3-4, 2012.

• Mr. Lingaraja Jena presented a poster on ‘Effect of Single Amino Acid Mutation in 31 mutated proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and H37Ra – a Bioinformatics study’ in the National Symposium on Bioinformatics: Challenges in the Post-Genomic Era at  Bioinformatics Centre, School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, Jammu on 2nd Feb 2012.

• Ms. Vidya Bhomle presented poster on ‘in silico analysis of E6 and E7 proteins of 21 Human papillomavirus strains’  in the National Symposium on Bioinformatics: Challenges in the Post-Genomic Era at  Bioinformatics Centre, School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, Jammu on 2nd Feb 2012.

Awards and Recognition:

• Dr. B.C. Harinath

Prof. M.C. Nath Memorial Lecture: “elisa based immunodiagnostics for detection and monitoring of Filaria and Tuberculosis – Four decades of research” delivered at, University Department of Biochemistry, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur,   January 10, 2012.

• Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad Yadav received Travel Fellowship Award from Federation of Immunological Societies of South Oceania and Fellowship award from Indian Immunological Society at FIMSA Conference held at New Delhi during March 14-17, 2012.

Research Publications:

• Waghmare JE, Deshmukh PR, Waghmare PJ. Determination of Sex from the Shaft and Tuberosity of Radius - A Multivariate Discriminant Function Analysis.  Biomedical Research 2012; 23 (1): 115-118.
• Sunil K Singh, Kalyan Goswami,  Richa D Sharma,  Maryada VR Reddy, Debabrata Dash. Novel microfilaricidal activity of nanosilver. Int Journal of Nanomedicine 2012:7 1023–1030.

Arogyadham

• Two days ‘Breathe Life‘ workshop was organized at Arogyadham during January 28-29,  2012  comprising three inter-related sessions namely Stress management, Communication Skills and Emotional Intelligence.

Dr. Ranjan Choudhari, Asst. Prof., Dept Community Medicine briefed about the sessions and lead the workshop. Importance of Good Communication and how to cultivate and improve the communication skills were taught.
How to improve the ability to perceive emotions, to use emotions, and to handle any critical situation were taught to build strong emotional intelligence. Active involvement of participants was observed with Brainstorming sessions, simple playful role plays, Liberating exercises that are easily integrated in daily life. One hour practical Yoga session for stress management with breathing and relaxation techniques and Meditation were taught for the participants.  Importance of diet was told and Natural snacks and health drinks were provided.  About 22 participants attended and got benefitted.
Dr. A. M. Mehendale, Head, Dept of Community Medicine, Dr. Anupma Gupta Professor, Dept of  Pathology, Dr. Suman Pande,  Dr. Shilpa Saxena, Mrs. Pohane and Dr. T. Karthickeyan were actively involved in making the workshop successful. 

• Yoga Evening on First Wednesday of every month was organized on 1st February, 2012  at Arogyadham. It was well attended with about 36 participants. Importance of Yoga was briefed and practical session of special Yogic techniques for the management of  Back pain (Lumbago) was taught and followed by Light Dinner.

Dr. T. Karthickeyan, Naturopathy & Yoga Specialist, gave lecture on “Management of Computer related health problems through Naturopathy and Yoga”. Practical yogic asanas and Pranayama were taught for the same.
Dr. Ranjan Choudhari, Asst. Prof. of Community Medicine briefed about the Importance of meditation and stress management. Practical meditation was also conducted.
Dr. Anupama Gupta, Professor of Pathology gave tips to manage stress in simple way to keep oneself healthy and stress free in life.
Dr. B.C. Harinath, Director, JBTDRC & Coordinator, Arogyadham addressed the participants and briefed about the need for proper lifestyle and posture to avoid health problems and professional hazards.
 Healthy nutritious lunch was served and Holistic living books and participant certificates were given. The students enjoyed the day and the chief conveyed appreciation.      

HERBAL GARDEN
Work of the wasteland development of about 220 acres behind Medical Institute was started on October 2nd 2002 and developed into Arogyadham with Herbal Garden (Aonla – Medicinal plants), with the help of Jain Charities through JISL. Water is brought by a 5-6 Km pipeline from Pawnar river. Presently medicinal plants such as Aonla (22000), Ritha (50), Karanj (103), Neem (292) in addition to Ashoka (155), Custard apple (105) plants are grown by drip irrigation.