Dr. Usha Kiran was Executive Council member of Association of Cardiac Anaesthesia from 1996-97.
Dr. Usha Kiran is Vice president of PRAN.
Dr. S.C. Kale was Executive member of IACTA 2001 & 2003.
Dr. Neeta Saxena was president of IACTA in 2002.
Dr. Sandeep Chauhan is Associate Editor of the journal Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia and Associate Vice President of IACTA.
Dr. Poonam Malhotra Kapoor was the Executive Council Member of IACTA 2003-09 and is now the Treasurer of Indian Association of Cardiac Anaesthesia for the next three years 2009 to 2011 with the Head Office of IACTA at AIIMS. It functions by issuing newsletters of Association activities, recruiting new IACTA members and holding academic, scientific and financial aspects of the Association activities. She is also on the editorial board of the Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia and Journal of clinical Anaesthesia.
Dr. Minati Choudhury is on the editorial board of journal of clinical Anaesthesia and is the warden of the PG Girls Hostel of AIIMS.
Dr. Usha Kiran invited by Russia’s Traditional Institute of Medical Moscow for ‘Yoga and Medicine’ 1989.
60 Scientific papers presentation and invited lecture by the Department’s faculty in various International Conferences at USA, UK, Australia, Germany, Holland, Canada, Russia, Tashkand, Bangladesh.
Dr. Usha Kiran was invited as a guest speaker in Dhaka in 2003.
Training regarding Robotic Cardiac Surgery by the Surgeon and Anaesthetist from Austria.
Cardiac valve repair training programme conducted with the help of the senior surgeon (Dr. Carpentior) and Echocardiography team from France in March 2005.
Obituary of Prof. Nagarur Gopinath, founder & first chief of Cardiothoracic Sciences Center
Prof. Nagarur Gopinath
Prof. Nagarur Gopinath who established the dept of Cardiothoracic surgery at the AIIMS in 1964, passed away on Sunday,3rd june, 2007 at Bangalore. He was 84.
He began open heart surgery at the AIIMS in 1964, and began a training program in CTVS, leading to the M.Ch degree in 1966.He has trained a large number of students including half the faculty at the AIIMS. His students are now heading many of the departments in the country.He received the padma Shri from the govt. of India, and the wockhardt lifetime achievement award in 2004,and the lifetime achievement award from the Indian Association of cardiovascular-Thoracic surgeons in 2000.
Following his retirement in 1982 he continued to serve the AIIMS as Emeritus professor and contributed many monographs and papers on preventive aspects of heart disease. He is survived by Mrs. Gopinath, one daughter and two sons. The cardiothoracic centre will certainly feel the void left behind by Prof.Gopinath which will be difficult to fill.
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CARDIO THORACIC & NEURO SCIENCES CENTRE
Dr. Ashish Suri & Dr. Manmohan Singh, Deptt. Of Neurosurgery initiated and took interest in completing the task of renovation &restructuring of Doctors’ Duty Room in OT Complex.
2.Ms. Meenu Marwaha, MSSO, NS Centre has been awarded awarded Rashtriya Shram Award on the eve of International May Day2007 by Hon’ble Mr. Justice M.K. Sharma, Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on 1st May 2007.
Sh. OP Saini seen here being felicitated by both Chiefs. Sh. OP Saini worked as Accounts Officer at CN Centre for last 5 years and reverted to his parent department. Sh. NK Bajaj has taken over charge from Sh. OP Saini on 30th April, 2007.
Employee of the month
Patients coming to the Cardiothoracic and Cardiology OPDs were benefited from Sh. Piar Singh’s plan to improve patient registration. This has abolished the long queue that were a normal feature for many years. The benefit has been enormous for patients who do not have to suffer by standing for many hours in all weather conditions.
