An International Public Health Conference was held at AIMS November 2-3, 2018, which brought together dozens of experts from the government, NGOs, global health bodies and the corporate world to discuss the challenges facing public health in India.
An ‘International Conference on Antibiotic Stewardship and Infectious Diseases,’ was held at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, from October 27-28, 2018.
A team of 12 surgeons of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (Amrita Hospital), Kochi campus, removed a huge tumour, weighing a whopping five kilos and measuring 20 x 15 x 10 cm, from 45-year-old Majeed in a surgery that lasted 12 hours.
Dr. Smita Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi, was awarded the prestigious degree of Fellow of European Board of Nuclear Medicine (FEBNM), after successfully clearing the European Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Examination held in October 2018 in Dusseldorf, Germany under the evaluation of European Union of Medical Specialists / European Board of Nuclear Medicine(UEMS/EBNM).
Highlighting the need to have spirituality in daily life, Dr. Sivakumar V., Faculty & Coordinator in Research/Genomics, Department of Health System Research, Amrita Health Sciences Campus, Kochi, delivered a talk titled "Psycho-Spiritual Model of Reality and its Healing Potential", at the 10th annual conference of Science and Non Duality (SAND18 US) from October 24-28, 2018, held at San Jose, California, USA.
Dr. Nisha Bhavani, Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, received the prestigious Dr. Eapen Samuel Memorial Award for the year 2017-18, instituted by the IMA Academy of Medical Specialities, Kerala State Chapter.
Dr. K. N. Panicker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Chair of Indian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from September 24- 26, 2018, on an invitation from NTD NGO Network to participate in the 9th NTD NGO Network (NNN) Annual Conference.
A donor-recipient meet, involving families of organ-donors and recipients of the organ donation and their families, was conducted at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on September 17, 2018. The Kerala State Health Minister Smt. K. K. Shailaja presided over the function.
Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi announces the results of First Professional MBBS Degree Examination August 2018.
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center, Kochi, is in the process of setting up a homograft bank that will be the second such bank to preserve aorta and pulmonary arteries from deceased donors in Kerala.
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center at Kochi campus provided medical relief camps to the flood-affected areas in Kuttanadu of Alappuzha district, Kerala, on August 1, 2018.
The Department of Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, organized “Amrita Heart Failure Update” – a practical guide to the management of heart failure on July 22, 2018.
