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We , here at the Indian Medical

Students Association are working

towards a common goal , the

pursuit of knowledge and the

application of knowledge in

practical fields.

It is in this pursuit of

knowledge that we organized,

KARMIC 2012. A conference

par excellence , a truly unique

experience which aimed tobridge the gap between the

recent advancements in

medical science and the

routine curriculum of medicaleducation.

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KARMIC 2012 was held at

Conclave Verde Vista (Kolkata),

a state of the art , exclusive

business club situated in the

suburbs of the city. It is the

first private club at Kolkata to

create a reputation around

dcor, cuisine and aesthetics.

Its personalized service

and warm hospitalitygave the delegates a

truly memorable

experience at KARMIC

2012.

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Organising Chairperson

Dr. Kalpajit Banik

Organising Secretary

Dr.Manosij Maity

Joint Organising Secretary

Anirban Dalui

Event Co-ordinatorArunava Ghosh

Scientific Committee

Dr. Pranab Chatterjee

Dr. Soumyadeep

Bhaumik

Tamoghna BiswasRajat Thawani

Core Executives

Prabhav Bhansaly

Debaditya Das

Deep Shekhar Das

Anshul Pande

Subhrajit Deb

Ankit Kumar Garg

Public Relations

Likhita KgAvantika Singh

Suranjana Banik

Ashwin Parihar

Neeraj Mangla

Media AdvisorsEdmond Fernandes

Suhas Allur

Sorab Gupta

Offsite Committee

Manish PrabhakarVikas Sud

Sajjad Mohammad

Seran Reddy

Chetan Mandelia

Aakash Doshi

Krishna A. AgarwalYamini Garg

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Workshop on Advanced MolecularLaboratory Skills and Outbreak

Management was organized at the

National Institute of Cholera and Enteri

Diseases ( ICMR ).Workshop on Biostatistics by Dr.

E.Venkata Rao , Associate Professor ,

I.M.S & SUM Hospital , Bhubaneswar

was organised at Calcutta Medical

College.Workshop on Emergency

Medicine and Trauma

Management was held at

Peerless Hospital and B.K Roy

Research Centre, Kolkata.

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Dr. Sunita Saxena

Director, Institute of Pathology , ICMR

Dr. Saxena , a world renown Pathologist and Director of

ICMRs Institute of Pathology, is a shining star in the field

of medical research. She has been associated with the

ICMR for the past 31 years and has done path breaking

work in the field of Cancer Biology. She is the winner of

many prestigious awards including the Novartis Oration

Award 2006 and K.C Basy Mullick Award for best

research work on esophageal cancer. She also has to her

credit numerous reputed grants and fellowships and has

been involved in conducting DNB and PhD examinations

since 1993. She is an enthusiastic medical writer who hasseveral publications in high impact international journals

and is also a part of the Reviewers Panel of several

journals including BMC Cancer, British Journal of Urology

and World Journal of Surgical Oncology.

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Dr. Samiran Panda

Scientist E, Epidemiology

National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR)

Dr. Samiran Panda , is a trained tropical medicinespecialist and has served as a clinician scientist for more

than 20 years. He has made a tremendous contribution in

the field of public health intervention in diarrheal and HIV

disease. He is a leader in the field of HIV prevention and

care in South Asia and has a keen interest in epidemiology

research , intervention design and evaluation of results.

Dr. Sekhar ChakrabortiScientist G, Director-in- Charge

National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Disease (ICMR)

Dr. Chakraborti is a well known name in the world of medical

research, whose outstanding work in the field of Virology andBacterial Genetics has won him international acclaim. He is the

recipient of several national and international awards, including

Special appreciation awards from NIAID and NIH, Prof SR Moitra

Award from Physiological Society of India, Prof JB Chatterjee

memorial gold medal from school of tropical medicine, Calcutta etc.

He was also awarded one patent on Recombinant Vaccinia Viruses

containing Human Retroviral genes with Dr. Bernard Moss at USA.

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Jolanda Lindenberg

PhD, Staff Member (Vitality and ageing), Leyden

Academy

Jolanda Lindenberg studied cultural anthropology at the

Radboud University Nijmegen where she graduated with a

thesis on identity issues in Malaysia. After a brief outing inqualitative research in addiction care, she continued to study

identity, group relations and social networks at the Max Planck

Institute for Social Anthropology. There, she focused on the

case of Belgium and completed her Ph.D. entitled 'negotiating

language and identity'. As a staff member at the Leyden

Academy on Vitality and Ageing she is mainly involved in the

research and teaching activities. Her contribution to the

current programme will concentrate on qualitative research

methods and social scientific issues in the study of ageing.

Dr. Arnab Gupta

Director, Cancer Centre Welfare Home and Research Institute

Dr. Gupta is a consultant surgical oncologist presently serving

as the Director of Cancer Centre Welfare home and Research

Institute. Apart from this Philanthropic Institute he is also

associated with other prestigious institutions of the country

including the Institute of Laparoscopic Surgery and ColumbiaAsia Hospital.

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Prof. M.A. Akbarsha

Prof. M.A. Akbarsha is currently Director and Chair of Mahatma

Gandhi-Doerenkamp Center (MGDC) for Alternatives to Use of

Animals in Life Science Education, and Gandhi-Gruber-

Doerenkamp Chair for Alternatives in Education and In Vitro

Toxicology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. The center

is fully supported by a grant from Doerenkamp-Zbinden

Foundation, Switzerland.

He spoke on 'Alternatives' to animals in anatomy, physiology &pharmacology laboratory courses in medical and biomedical

programs

Dr. Chaitanya Koduri

PETA India

He enlighted the students by carrying out a

Brain Storming Session on the use of

Alternatives to animals in medical research.

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Prof. TK Bose

Head,Forensic Medicine and Toxicology.

College of Medicine and JNM Hospital,

West Bengal University Of Health Sciences.

One of the most gifted speakers he spoke on the latest trends

and update on the undergraduate medical research in India.

Dr. Dipanjan Bandopadhyay

Prof of Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College

Prof Bandopadhyay spoke on the ethical aspects in

both clinical medicine and medical research.

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Poster Presentations

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Oral Sessions in progress !

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KARMIC 2013

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