Dr. Vidya Jha, Assistant Medical Administrator and Consultant/Asst. Professor, Cytogenetics, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, was awarded second prize for poster presentation on “Utilization Review and Sustaining Process Efficiency in MRI – Connecting the dots, the DMAIC Approach” at Safe and Sustainable Hospitals (SASH 2020) held at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi during February 21 - 23, 2020.

Dr. S. Sudhindran, Clinical Professor and Chief Transplant Surgeon, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Solid Organ Transplantation, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, has been awarded “The Distinguished Alumnus Award” by Trivandrum Medical College. 

Dr. Gopalakrishna Pillai M. (Professor and Head of the Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi), received the Prof. T. K. Raman Memorial Oration Award for presenting “Immune Mediated Disorders” at the 44th Annual  Conference of Association of Physicians of India, Kerala Chapter, held at Quilon, from January 18-19, 2020.

Prof. Prashant R. Nair (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus) has been selected as a Regional Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) of NITI Aayog. 

Recently Mr. Dominic Cummings, Chief Political Strategist for Mr. Boris Jhonson Prime Minister of United Kingdom wrote a blog suggesting the need to revamp the decision making strategies employed in UK. Primarily he focused on the need to explore and exploit state of the art tools and techniques from mathematics and physics. Mr. Cummings wants to create a set of experts consisting of Physicists, Mathematicians and Data Scientists to deal with the major social and economic issues of UK.