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Health varsity honours 3 doctors

By Our Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA Feb. 13. The N.T.R. University of Health Sciences conferred the Doctor of Science on three eminent physicians and senior medical teachers at its seventh annual convocation here on Thursday. The Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences' Kakarla Subba Rao, former director of Medical Education, C.M. Habibullah and former vice-chancellor of the Health University, Lingam Suryanarayana, were conferred the honorary degree by Andhra Pradesh Governor and Chancellor of the University, Surjit Singh Barnala, at the convocation function held at the Tummalapalli Kalakshetram.

Dr Subba Rao and Dr Habibullah are recipients of the Padmasree award.

Dr Subba Rao, a radiologist, has presented more than 400 scientific papers in national and international conferences and published more than 250 articles in medical journals. He also conducted over 400 continuing medical education (CME) programmes. He was chairman of the Indian College of Radiology and Imaging from 1993 to 1998. He is a fellow of Royal College of Radiologists, UK, Amercian College of International Physicians and American College of Radiology.

Dr Habibullah, a gastroenterologist, has published 101 research papers in medical journals and presented 223 papers at various national and international conferences. He has contributed chapters in five medical text books. He has been conferred several awards for his research in gastroenterology including the Kharazmi International Award on Medical Research from the Government of Iran in 1996.

Dr Suryanaryana, professor of surgery, was vice-chancellor of the Health University from 1988 to 1994. He worked as principal of Guntur Medical College for a decade and later as principal of the Andhra Medical College at Visakhapatnam.

N.T.R Health University Vice-Chancellor, G Sham Sunder, in his report said the academic senate had approved the introduction of M.D. in emergency medicine and M.Sc. in pre- and para-medical sciences like anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and microbiology.

He said the State Government granted a budget of Rs 12.65 lakhs under plan and Rs 128 lakhs under non-plan grant for the university for 2002-2003.

The university executive council had created pension reserve fund and an initial amount of Rs 50 lakhs has been deposited in Pension Reserve Found.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences director, Pradeep Kumar Dave, delivering the convocational address on `the relevance of medical education for overall health cares' said at the conceptual level medical education should be directly influenced by the health needs of the country and should respond to its challenges.

He said the field of medical education had also been touched by the climate of reforms in the country. There was a major paradigm shift at the conceptual level with a shift of emphasis from disease orientation to community orientation.

Dr Dave said the revolution in the information technology had resulted in dramatic changes in teaching. Multimedia presentations and computer simulation were very effective for presenting bio-medical information in an illustrative manner.

The field of Tele-medicine too had opened up unlimited possibilities in terms of delivery of health care and exchange of healthcare information across distances using telecommunication technology.

About cutting edge technology, Dr Dave highlighted the use of `virtual reality and visualisation'. NASA had pioneered the use of three-dimensional reconstruction and virtual environment technologies to train surgeons in planning complex procedures in re-constructive and plastic surgery.

With this technology a medical student would be able to dissect a human body, perform a surgical operation on a simulated patient, or give post operative advice to a patient living a long distance away through computer simulation. This was not a fantasy, or, a science fiction story, he said and added that it would soon become a reality in India.

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