tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51319194257916557912024-03-19T13:52:23.328+05:30Journey of a Non-Clinical DoctorChronicles of eminent non-clinical doctors, non-clinical roles, and the associated challenges.Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-57980964748954557292022-05-15T16:30:00.008+05:302022-08-19T19:22:16.087+05:30Dr. Owsei Temkin: A Legendary Medical Historian<h1>Dr. Owsei Temkin: A Medical Historian Par Excellence</h1><p>Medical historians study the history of medicine. They also look at medicine, diseases, and health care in the context of cultural and social constructs at that point of time in history. Physicians who choose careers as medical historians are often people with deep interests in the humanities. </p><p>In this article, we bring to you the journey of Dr. Owsei Temkin, a distinguished physician, and medical historian, who is included as one of the founding fathers of the history of medicine (as a formal academic discipline) together with other notable medical historians of his time, including Dr. Henry Siegrist, and Dr. Karl Sudhoff. </p><p>Dr. Owsei Temkin worked at the world's first non-English Institute of History of Medicine at the Leipzig University in Germany as well as at the world's first English-speaking Institute of History of Medicine at the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America. His works on the history of medicine are popular even today among the learners of medical history worldwide.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWxtzpH0KnUq0HjBH9VQoRSuqMlxeUSNRn4isFvvl66WX22VZI67Y_9roWp124oDRL3b230wFrHemUMD4yXN-eojb_90bmQ9pIa3Aw-YKBeKq9jA0Hwe9ILk-C-zL2mNGFiZG8uRXjy0N8-xA8OcHM1zkKe1si4mHuh7U_TNpGykxa4g7nRWrzkCp/s393/Oswei_Temkin%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dr. Owsei Temkin" border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="297" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWxtzpH0KnUq0HjBH9VQoRSuqMlxeUSNRn4isFvvl66WX22VZI67Y_9roWp124oDRL3b230wFrHemUMD4yXN-eojb_90bmQ9pIa3Aw-YKBeKq9jA0Hwe9ILk-C-zL2mNGFiZG8uRXjy0N8-xA8OcHM1zkKe1si4mHuh7U_TNpGykxa4g7nRWrzkCp/w151-h200/Oswei_Temkin%201.jpg" title="Owsei Temkin Medical Historian" width="151" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Potrait of Dr. Owsei Temkin<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: Yousuf Karsh, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h2>Qualifications and Early Life of Dr. Owsei Temkin</h2><p>Dr. Owsei Temkin was born in 1902 into a Jewish family in Minsk, present-day Belarus, and then Russia. the family, including him, had to move to Leipzig, Germany for safety when he was only 3 years old. However, within a few years, the anti-Jewish sentiment increased in Germany as well. By that time, the young Owsei Temkin had completed his medical education at the University of Leipzig and developed a strong like for the academic subject of medical history. </p><p>Dr. Owsei Temkin had completed his MD under Dr. Siegrist at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1927. The growing anti-Jewish sentiment and destiny moved him along with Dr. Siegrist to the distant lands of the United States of America where they joined the newly established Institute for the History of Medicine at the John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Dr. William H Welch, the then Director of the John Hopkins University, was the main force behind the recruitment of both Dr. Temkin and Dr. Siegrist at the Institute for the History of Medicine. <i> </i></p><h2>Professional Career of Dr. Owsei Temkin</h2><div>Dr. Owsei Temkin had a long tenure at the Institute for the History of Medicine, John Hopkins University, which began in 1932 as an associate and later continued as a professor, followed by his appointment as William H. Welch Professor, and finally as the Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine in 1958. Later, He was also appointed as a professor of the history of medicine in the Johns Hopkins Department of Science. He was accorded the status of Emeritus Professor in 1968. All through his tenure at the John Hopkins University, he was loved by medical students for brilliantly exposing them to complex issues of medical humanities, philosophy, and medical history. </div><div><br /></div><div>Dr. Owsei Temkin served as the editor of the <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine</i> for a long duration from 1948 to 1968. He also assumed the Presidency of the American Association for the History of Medicine between 1958 and 1960. In addition, he was elected to the National Academy of Science between 1978 and 1982. He was also elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also accorded with the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize for his phenomenal contributions as a medical historian. In addition, he was awarded a rare scholarship by the American Council of Learned Societies.</div><div><br /></div><div>After 1982, Dr. Owsei Temkin had to limit his professional associations because of his age and illnesses. Nevertheless, he remained very active for another 20 years through his written works till the very last of his long life of 99 years. His last written work was published shortly after his death in 2002.</div><h2>Seminal Works of Dr. Owsei Temkin</h2><p>Dr. Owsei Temkin published in every decade between the 1920s and 2000, which is simply unmatchable in not only medical academics but in all domains of knowledge. In this exceptionally long academic career, he examined the history of medicine across several lenses spanning from ancient to the modern history of medicine and from non-clinical to clinical disciplines. </p><p>In a Memoriam, Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg described him as a "humanist and amateur seeker of meaning rather than that of disciplinary status." Dr. Rosenberg and Dr. Vivian Nutton have highlighted that Dr. Owsei Temkin could read and interpret at least twelve written languages, including several classical languages, such as Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. As a historian, he made excellent use of his language skills while interpreting historical documents and manuscripts. </p><p>The seminal works of Dr. Owsei Temkin include <i>The Falling Sickness </i>(1945), a treatise on the medical history of epilepsy; Surgery and the Rise of Modern Medical Thought (1951), a commentary on the historical aspects of the development of surgery as a distinct medical specialty; <i>Galenism </i>(1973), a reflection on the evolution of medical philosophy; <i>The Double Face of Janus</i> (1977), an autobiographical account of his early scientific endeavors in medical history; <i>Hippocrates in a World of Pagans & Christians</i> (1991), a historical examination of the amalgamation of the Hippocratic ideas in later societies; <i>On Second Thought</i> (2002), another autobiographical collection of his most interesting papers.</p><h2>Legacy of Dr. Owsei Temkin</h2><p>Dr. Owsei Temkin had a robust influence on the professionalization of the field of the history of medicine. His students and his students' students have institutionalized this discipline deep into the academic world of medical history. </p><p>His long stints as the Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine and the Editor of the <i>Bulletin of the History of Medicine </i>had left an unforgettable stamp on the subject of medical history. His excellence in this field and his over a seven-decade-long career as an eminent medical historian have put him into an unparalleled league of experts in medical humanities. </p><h2>Selected Quotes from Dr. Owsei Tamkin's Works </h2><div><blockquote>"Modern Physics boastfully or plaintively speaks of the meaningless universe. But there is no meaningless universe in medicine. Human beings are not satisfied with viewing health and disease as matters of mere chance separable from their lives.”</blockquote><blockquote>"I was asked to state my field of study. “Medicine and philosophy,” I said. My reply was not acceptable; only one school (Facultät) could be chosen, and so I declared for medicine. It would satisfy my interest in science, particularly human biology, while eventually enabling me to make a living in a useful manner. . . As an alien, I could not count on becoming a teacher at a Gymnasium or university, and there was no other possibility of supporting myself in philosophy or history, which had also attracted me since boyhood."</blockquote><blockquote>"Disease is not simply either the one or the other. Rather it will be thought of as the circumstances require. The circumstances are represented by the patient, the physician, the public health man, the medical scientist, the pharmaceutical industry, society at large, and last but not least the disease itself"</blockquote><blockquote>"Health and disease have been subjects of religious and philosophical meditation, and as metaphors they are to be found in politics, science, and literature. . . Man has speculated over the meaning of his disease for himself and for his community. Medicine is not only a science and an art; it is also a mode of looking at man with compassionate objectivity. Why turn elsewhere to contemplate man’s moral nature?"</blockquote><blockquote> <br /></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div><h3><b>References and Suggested Reading</b></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://portraitcollection.jhmi.edu/portraits/owsei-temkin" target="_blank">Owsei Temkin: 1902-2002</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/428966?journalCode=isis" target="_blank">Eloge: Owsei Temkin, 1902–2002</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/46363" target="_blank">What Is Disease?: In Memory of Owsei Temkin</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/temkin-owsei.pdf" target="_blank">National Academy of Sciences, Owsei Temkin 1902–2002, A Biographical Memoir</a></span></div><div>5. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44447690" target="_blank">Temkin's Times and Ours: An Appreciation of Owsei Temkin</a></div><div>6. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1044768/" target="_blank">Owsei Temkin 1902-2002.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">About the author</span></h3><p><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></p><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">Disclaimer</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span></div><div><h4><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/09/DrJamesBlack.html">Nobel Laureate & Drug Discovery Champion: Dr. James Black</a></span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/12/RalphSteinman.html">Nobel Laureate & Acclaimed Immunologist: Dr. Ralph M. Steinman</a></span><br /><span face="">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2022/02/Archie-Cochrane-EBM.html">Dr. Archibald Leman Cochrane: Father of Evidence-Based Medicine</a></span></span></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-37076268593377193532022-02-23T21:37:00.013+05:302023-01-21T11:27:34.295+05:30Dr. Archie Cochrane: Pioneer of Evidence-Based Medicine<h1 style="text-align: left;">Dr. Archie Cochrane: A Guiding Light in Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine</h1><p>In this article, we bring to you the journey of Dr. Archibald L. Cochrane, popularly known as Dr. Archie Cochrane. Dr. Archie Cochrane was a Scottish/British physician and epidemiologist. Dr. Archie Cochrane is best known for advancing the science of epidemiology and rallying behind epidemiological studies like randomized controlled trials and cohort studies, which are the pillars of evidence-based medicine. </p><p>For his contributions to the science of epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, Dr. Cochrane is often credited as one of the fathers of evidence-based medicine, along with Dr. David Sackett from Canada and Dr. Alvan Feinstein from the United States who also made seminal contributions to advancing evidence-based medicine.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSpA1Kp3Bb1u302rsdpQFiAOvAX3jfnRl_g4m4LiZzgEGF_VoqWwNFEYB9ZNSx2stMVx4IbgcOeB67XpcM2f3am5DIGasEpCKNRJjqUI27Cqo0PpJkG-vepaiKKeBMGHDBb3zn0pvcx_E2t9pR462zw3263f1jFZ0XaCpaSq0Zms5pq88xGwxveG5t=s228" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dr. Archibald Leman Cochrane" border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSpA1Kp3Bb1u302rsdpQFiAOvAX3jfnRl_g4m4LiZzgEGF_VoqWwNFEYB9ZNSx2stMVx4IbgcOeB67XpcM2f3am5DIGasEpCKNRJjqUI27Cqo0PpJkG-vepaiKKeBMGHDBb3zn0pvcx_E2t9pR462zw3263f1jFZ0XaCpaSq0Zms5pq88xGwxveG5t=s16000" title="Dr. Archie Cochrane" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Archiebald Leman Cochrane<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: Cardiff University Library, Cochrane Archive, University Hospital Llandough</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h2>Qualifications and Early Life of Dr. Archie Cochrane</h2><p>Dr. Cochrane had a truly unconventional medical career from the very beginning. His medical education that started in 1931 had several interruptions, some of which were due to his illnesses, while others were of his own making when he chose to volunteer in the areas affected by the Spanish Civil War. He finally graduated from medical school in 1938. </p><p>Dr. Cochrane had another close encounter with the war in his early career. He was serving as a captain in the Royal Army when he was imprisoned by the Germans during the second world war. He later continued his medical practice serving as a prisoner of war in the German-occupied areas between 1941 and 1945. It was there – right in the middle of the second world war – that he did his first amateur clinical trial on other inmates. </p><p>Dr. Cochrane later received military honors (MBE) from the Royal Army for rendering his services to the prisoners of war. This also led him to land up with a Rockefeller Fellowship in preventive medicine. Realizing the limitations of curative medicine, he had developed a keen interest in preventive medicine. This fellowship exposed him to some of the best public health academic institutes of his time, namely the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK and the Henry Phipps Clinic in the US, which is associated with the John Hopkins University. </p><p>During his stay at the LSHTM, while studying for his diploma in public health, he was heavily influenced by Dr. Autin Hill, a pioneer in medical statistics and randomized clinical trials. This was a major influence that remained with him throughout his life as he advocated the use of RCTs to evaluate the utility of clinical and healthcare interventions through the prism of the RCTs and other epidemiological studies. <i> </i></p><h2>Professional Career of Dr. Archie Cochrane</h2><div>After specializing in public health preventive medicine, and epidemiology, Dr. Cochrane worked with the Medical Research Council for almost a decade. He was attached to the pneumoconiosis research unit and investigated the medical conditions of the coal workers, which laid the foundation of his academic career. He was then appointed as a Professor at the then Welsh Medical School, now Cardiff University Medical School. Cardiff University Medical School continues to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Cochrane through various initiatives.</div><div><br /></div><div>After almost a decade, he was promoted as the Director of the Epidemiology Reserach Unit of the Medical Research Council. It was during his tenure as the Director of the Epidemiology Unit of the MRC that Dr. Cochrane produced nearly all of his seminal works. He also instilled the culture of conducting RCTs at this unit for medical, surgical, and public health interventions, which was taken to far greater heights by his successors. </div><div><br /></div><div>Recognizing his contributions, he was selected as the first President of the Faculty of Community Medicine. He also received several international fellowships and honorary doctorates from reputed institutions from across the world. </div><h2>Seminal Works of Dr. Archie Cochrane</h2><p><i>Validation of Screening Procedures </i>can be considered as the first seminal work of Dr. Cochrane that received widespread recognition. In this paper, he proposed that not all screening tests should be routinely advocated. He categorized the then available screening tests into three groups based on the medical and economic evidence for their routine use: Acceptable; Limited use, and Unacceptable. This analysis based on the medical and economic efficiency and effectiveness of individual tests introduced a new and never-ending debate into the utility of the specific health care interventions in the publically financed healthcare systems. This objective view of medical interventions later shaped the movement of Evidence-Based Medicine. </p><p>Based on the success of his paper on the validation of medical screening, Dr. Cochrane was commissioned by the Nuffield Trust to write his reflections on the performance of the UK's National Health Service. The output of this Fellowship is known as <i>Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services. </i>This book focuses on the role of RCTs in public health and medicine and the concepts of efficiency and effectiveness. This book remains a seminal and landmark work for the learners of public health worldwide. </p><p>Another landmark work of Dr. Cochrane is a paper entitled <i>Health service 'input' and mortality 'output' in developed countries. </i>This paper examined the effect of health care resources on mortality in industrialized nations. This paper raised important questions about the inefficient allocation of medical resources in the US. This is still relevant and a must-read for all students of public health. </p><p>Another extremely important work of Dr. Cochrane, though less popular as compared to the rest of his works, is the long-term cohort study of the Rhondda Fach cohort of coal mine workers. The Rhondda Fach cohort study investigated the cause of progressive fibrosis in the coal workers for over 30 years. This was one of the first projects of Dr. Cochrane during his employment with the Medical Research Council. Although he is unequivocally associated with popularizing and emphasizing the RCTs, he understood their limitations very well and was thus very fond of cohort studies spanning decades, which can be considered the second-best epidemiological evidence after the RCTs. </p><p><i>One Man's Medicine: An Autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane </i>is a self-authored biography by Dr. Cochrane. This biographical work is still being published by Cardiff University and is available on their website along with many other useful resources penned by Dr. Cochrane. </p><h2>Dr. Archie Cochrane's Influence on Evidence-Based Medicine</h2><p>Evidence-based medicine might have never gained the momentum that it could achieve if it was not for legendary epidemiologists like Dr. Archie Cochrane. In recognition of his contributions, Dr. Cochrane has been often credited as the Father of Evidence-Based Medicine. </p><p>Cochrane Trust, which is the leading and largest organization behind the advancement of the evidence-based medicine movement has been formed in his name and is proud to be associated with his name. The Cochrane Trust and Library have taken the next steps recommended by Dr. Archi Cochrane and advocated the use of rigorous systematic reviews and meta-analyses (<i>Cochrane Reviews</i>) to guide the selection of efficient and effective treatments by clinicians and policy-makers. </p><p>Dr. Cochrane received a CBE honor from the British Government for his pioneering contributions to the fields of medicine, epidemiology, and public health. He remains an unmatched inspiration for countless learners of public health and medicine worldwide. </p><h2>Selected Quotes from Dr. Archie Cochrane's Works </h2><div>Dr. Cochrane's writings clearly reflected his thoughts. Excellent clarity is the first trait that can be recognized in all of his works. Dr. Cochrane's works have another common trait of readability, which is a rarity in academic writing. If I would state that his writings are as simple as novels targeting high school children, it would not be an understatement. Here, I present to you a few quotes from his works to show you his excellent writing skills as well as the strength of his character. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>An excerpt from his seminal work on medical screening (<i>Validation of Screening Procedures</i>, 1971).</div><div><blockquote>We believe there is an ethical difference between everyday medical practice and screening. If a patient asks a medical practitioner for help, the doctor does the best he can. He is not responsible for defects in medical knowledge. If, however, the practitioner initiates screening procedures he is in a very different situation. He should, in our view, have conclusive evidence that screening can alter the natural history of disease in a significant proportion of those screened.</blockquote><p>Excerpts from his seminal work on NHS (<i>Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services</i>, 1972)</p><p></p><blockquote>I felt in this book I may have been too critical of my colleagues for whom I actually have the greatest admiration and affection........... What other profession encourages publications about its error, and experimental investigations into the effects of their actions?</blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote>This is my first, and probably, my last book, although I have published the usual number of scientific papers. In these, I would like to think I have made some contributions to the reduction of bias in medical measurements.</blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote>I once asked a worker at crematorium, who had a curiously contented look on his face, what he found so satisfying about his work. He replied that what fascinated him was the way in which so much went in and so little came out. I thought of advising him to get a job in the NHS, it might have increased his job satisfaction but decided against it.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote>It appears in general, it is Catholicism, Communism, and underdevelopment that appear to be against RCTs. In underdeveloped countries, it can be understood, but what have Communism and Catholicism against RCTs? </blockquote><p>Excerpts from his seminal work on the association between health care and mortality in industrialized countries (<i>Health service 'input' and mortality 'output' in developed countries</i>)</p><p></p><blockquote>We believe that the results outlined in the next section are both interesting and amusing, and we make no apology for the necessarily subjective nature of some stages in our analysis.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote>We think that there are so many possible
sources of error in this sort of data, and so
many pitfalls in interpretation, that a slavish
adherence to significance testing, if relevant,
would give our results a spurious and perhaps
misleading aura of precision. </blockquote><p></p><blockquote>We do not claim that any of the associations are causal, although in one or two cases this hypothesis is attractive.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote>In general, however, we must admit defeat and leave it to others to extricate doctors from their unhappy position.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote>We believe that one overall conclusion may
be drawn from this study. It is that health
service factors are relatively unimportant in
explaining the differences in mortality between
our 18 developed countries. </blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div></div><h3><b>References and Suggested Reading</b></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867052/" target="_blank">Archibald Cochrane (1909–1988): the father of evidence-based medicine</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://community.cochrane.org/archie-cochrane-name-behind-cochrane" target="_blank">Archie Cochrane: the name behind Cochrane</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/effectiveness-and-efficiency-random-reflections-on-health-services" target="_blank">Effectiveness and efficiency: Random reflections on health services</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/libraries/our-collections/one-mans-medicine-an-autobiography-of-professor-archie-cochrane" target="_blank">One Man’s Medicine: An Autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane</a></span></div><div>5. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Cochrane">Archie Cochrane</a></div><div>6. <a href="https://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/archie-cochrane-1909-1988/" target="_blank">Chalmers I (2006). Archie Cochrane (1909-1988).</a></div><div>7. <a href="https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article-abstract/27/1/3/264744" target="_blank">Validation of Screening Procedures</a></div><div>8. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1060897/" target="_blank">Health service 'input' and mortality 'output' in developed countries</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">About the author</span></h3><p><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></p><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">Disclaimer</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span></div><div><h4><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/09/DrJamesBlack.html">Nobel Laureate & Drug Discovery Champion: Dr. James Black</a></span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/12/RalphSteinman.html">Nobel Laureate & Acclaimed Immunologist: Dr. Ralph M. Steinman</a></span><br /><span face="">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-omesh-kumar-bharti-codeveloper-of.html">Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti's Crusade Against Rabies</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2022/05/Owsei-Temskin-Medical-Historian.html">Dr. Owsei Temkin: A Legendary Medical Historian</a></span></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-40511002345595219952022-01-29T14:18:00.010+05:302023-01-21T11:31:13.828+05:30Dr. Chandrakant Pandav: Public Health Champion<h1 style="text-align: left;">Dr. C. S. Pandav: A Champion of Public Health</h1><p style="text-align: left;">In this article, we present to you the professional journey of Dr. Chandrakant Sambhaji. Pandav, an eminent medical teacher, nutritionist, epidemiologist, health economist, and community physician from India. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-oTnkp0sWme6eGw1TVewYUr37LWwSj3x0qtEbS7g-khFIza6IhGSaSDCA77RfRhTaFW2M30T5gqEfqoSDbyWXOcz_wLfZjhl4EWI4fT6HgFAEJ1R9OwyV9hgiUCx6ZXs_m76fbVFjzq05nE0UomPHWvWvGMsgLA63VtA9Xw3GfKXbt_wSInGfgUf8=s512" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dr. C. S. Pandav" border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="512" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-oTnkp0sWme6eGw1TVewYUr37LWwSj3x0qtEbS7g-khFIza6IhGSaSDCA77RfRhTaFW2M30T5gqEfqoSDbyWXOcz_wLfZjhl4EWI4fT6HgFAEJ1R9OwyV9hgiUCx6ZXs_m76fbVFjzq05nE0UomPHWvWvGMsgLA63VtA9Xw3GfKXbt_wSInGfgUf8=w320-h262" title="Dr. Chandrakant S. Pandav" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. C. S. Pandav<br />Image Credit: Rajya Sabha TV</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2>Who is Dr. C. S. Pandav?</h2><p>Dr. C. S. Pandav is best known for his contributions to the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders in India. He is an international authority in the prevention and control of iodine deficiency disorders and is famously known as the Iodine Man of India due to his major role in the universal adoption of iodized salt. </p><p>While the iodine deficiency disorder control program existed in India since the 1950s, it remained a subnational program restricted to the Himalayan and surrounding regions. Dr. Pandav's work demonstrated that iodine deficiency was a national problem. Thus, it was shown that there was a need for universal salt iodization throughout India. </p><p>He is a public health champion and has also immensely contributed to the recent improvements in maternal and child nutrition/health in India through his involvement in the National Nutrition Mission.</p><br /><h2>Qualifications of Dr. C. S. Pandav</h2><p>Dr. C. S. Pandav remained attached to highly prestigious academic institutions throughout his career. His medical education journey started with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences from where he did his MBBS and MD in community medicine. He received additional qualifications in nutrition and health economics from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and McMaster University, Canada, respectively. </p><p>He continued to work at AIIMS, New Delhi, and retired as professor and head of community medicine. He is considered a distinguished and respected public health expert. He has been a former President of the two largest organizations of Indian public health professionals, the Indian Public Health Association, and the Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine. He was also a founding member of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders.</p><p><br /></p><h2>Contributions of Dr. C. S. Pandav</h2><p>While working at the AIIMS, Dr. Pandav conducted numerous studies on iodine deficiency disorders. These included studies on their epidemiology, modeling, and the economics of their elimination. His findings heavily guided the planners and policy-makers on developing and modifying the strategies of iodine deficiency disorder elimination programs. Moreover, with his expertise, he guided more than 60 developing countries in executing their iodine deficiency control programs. It was due to his efforts and those of like-minded researchers that India introduced a universal salt iodization program in 1986, which was later endorsed by the WHO globally.</p><p>After retiring from AIIMS, Dr. Pandav worked with the newly constituted agencies under the National Nutrition Misson (<i>Poshan Abhiyan</i>) and supported the policy-making process for several nutrition-related programs of the Govt. of India. </p><p>He has edited several books related to public health and has hundreds of journal articles to his name. For his academic, research, and advisory contributions to the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders in India, he is often credited as being the Iodine Man of India. As a recognition for his contributions to the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders, he was conferred with the prestigious <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/search/label/Padma%20Awardee" target="_blank">Padma Shri</a> award for his enormous contributions to Indian public health and medicine in 2021. </p><p><br /></p><h2>Legacy of Dr. C. S. Pandav</h2><p>Young doctors can learn a lot from the legacy of Dr. C. S. Pandav. Apart from solutions to nutritional and public health problems, a common theme in the publications and interviews of Dr. Chandrakan S. Pandav is gratitude to his mentors and <i>gurus </i>for instilling in him the values that contributed to his successes. For example, he often remembers and thanks to his academic and professional mentors, Dr. Vulimiri Ramalingaswamy and Dr. Basil Hetzel, two legendary nutritionists and medical scientists, in his publications and interviews. He even credits his mentors for inspiring him to become a community physician and nutritionist rather than a neurosurgeon, which he originally planned to. </p><p>While acknowledging professional mentors is a common trait in most eminent non-clinical doctors, only a few of them acknowledge publically their source of spiritual inspiration. Dr. C. S. Pandav has frequently emphasized the importance of spiritual <i>gurus</i>, such as Swami Vivekananda, Gurunanak Dev Ji, and Guruji in his writings and interviews. In addition, in his writings and interviews, he has also freely appreciated the role of the political executive, prime minister Narendra Modi, in public health programs. In his interviews, he often emphasizes that young doctors must work on the arts of developing professional partnerships and inculcating the art of listening and empathy. </p><p><br /></p><h3><b>References and Suggested Reading</b></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments_17_5_16/ccm/CSPANDAV_21_6_12.HTM" target="_blank">Dr. Chandrakant S. Pandav (M.B.B.S., M.D., M.Sc., FNAMS, FIAPSM, FIPHA)</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818611/" target="_blank">Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) control in India</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA4mE1Ajsbs" target="_blank">Eureka : Dr Chandrakant S Pandav</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="https://www.ign.org/qa-with-chandrakant-pandav.htm" target="_blank">A Q&A with "The Iodine Man of India", Dr. Chandrakant Pandav</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">5. <a href="https://horizons.tatatrusts.org/2019/march/chandrakant-pandav-national-nutrition-mission.html" target="_blank">Our doctors need to be taught the skill of listening</a> </span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">6. <a href="https://www.gurujimaharaj.com/satsang-en/cspandav.htm" target="_blank">Guru Kripa</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">7. <a href="https://www.doublehelical.com/?p=4836" target="_blank">Public Health Champion</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">About the author</span></h3><p><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></p><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">Disclaimer</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span></div><div><h4><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-coluthur-gopalans-journey.html">Nutritionist Par Excellence: Dr. Coluthur Gopalan</a></span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-omesh-kumar-bharti-codeveloper-of.html">Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti's Crusade Against Rabies</a></span><br /><span face="">3. </span></span><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-suniti-solomon.html">India's Crusader For People With HIV: Dr. Suniti Solomon</a></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-63334916096127101002021-12-09T11:12:00.015+05:302023-01-21T11:31:41.066+05:30Dr. Ralph Steinman: Pioneer of Dendritic Cell Research<h1 style="text-align: left;">Dr. Ralph M. Steinman: Nobel Laureate Who Discovered Dendritic Cells & Pioneered Basic and Translational Dendritic Cell Research </h1><p>In this article, we capture the professional journey of Dr. Ralph M. Steinman, a physician, immunologist, and cell biologist who described the existence of dendritic cells in 1973. Dr. Steinman was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of dendritic cells and contributions to dendritic cell research both basic and translational. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Who was Dr. Ralph M. Steinman?</h2><p>Dr. Ralph Steinman was a Canadian physician who specialized as an immunologist and cell biologist. His ground-breaking basic research on the identification, purification, and extraction of dendritic cells was conducted at Rockefeller University in the US. Being a physician, he later advanced his research into the development of dendritic cell therapy, which was targeted at cancers, transplant rejection, and autoimmune diseases, all of which are mediated by immune processes. </p><p>Only a few individuals can pursue both basic and applied research on their discoveries in their professional careers. Dr. Steinman was one such stalwart in Immunology who accomplished this difficult feat. He could do so because he was a physician, whereas many scientists doing basic research are non-physicians and they have to work together with physicians for converting their basic science findings into clinical research. </p><p>Moreover, he was able to successfully apply the dendritic cell therapy on himself later in his life as a patient with pancreatic cancer. He also has another rare feat to his name. By the time his Nobel Prize was announced in 2011, he had died only three days back and the news of his death had not been circulated widely. The Nobel Prize is only awarded to living individuals but the case of Dr. Steinman was considered as a special case and his prize was still awarded despite his death. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVLAeSzz3T5u3KT2Pqa0HRRPXedj87le1ml0ku6CiTBQ8_Y8zaxuwjW7zK26IpDbm2lodA-cZ7oQrN92PFHZiwrT-gWc2hqHukmwCeJ4ujxZpOUHDDTXMOo8E4oDrzb20gmu2Hd8RgovLw7xbve4_PyEhav6ZjPh3EZckcB7Fw4B0fsdR9lATXLEL5=s615" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nobel Laureate Dr. Ralph Steinman" border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="455" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVLAeSzz3T5u3KT2Pqa0HRRPXedj87le1ml0ku6CiTBQ8_Y8zaxuwjW7zK26IpDbm2lodA-cZ7oQrN92PFHZiwrT-gWc2hqHukmwCeJ4ujxZpOUHDDTXMOo8E4oDrzb20gmu2Hd8RgovLw7xbve4_PyEhav6ZjPh3EZckcB7Fw4B0fsdR9lATXLEL5=w237-h320" title="Dr. Ralph M. Steinman" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. Ralph M. Steinman. <br />Image Credit: National Academy of Sciences, USA</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Qualifications of Dr. Ralph Steinman</h2><p>Dr. Ralph Steinman was born in Quebec and completed his Science degree from McGill University. He received his medical qualification (MD) from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was strongly attracted to the science of immunology and cell biology and decided to pursue a non-clinical career in a research laboratory at Rockefeller University under the mentorship of Dr. Cohn and Hirsch, two of the greatest immunologists and cell biologists of that time. He began his career as a postdoctoral fellow and went on to become the Director of the laboratory. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Contributions of Dr. Ralph Steinman</h2><p>For four decades, Dr. Ralph Steinman steered dendritic cell research with complete devotion and perfection, which included comprehensive research right from their identification to the development of anticancer therapy based on dendritic cells. Dendritic cell therapy is a type of immunotherapy, which offers hope to patients non-responsive to the conventional cancer treatments of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy. </p><p>Dr. Steinman's research laid the foundation for a greater understanding of the phenomenon of antigen presentation. Dendritic cells were recognized at the center of this phenomenon and recognized as the strongest modulators of adaptive immune responses and T cells. The recognition of dendritic cells contributed to our understanding of practically every immune disease, including transplant rejection, HIV, and autoimmune diseases. So, Dr. Steinman by discovering and pioneering Dendritic Cells research in effect laid the foundation of a very important basic and applied specialty in immunology. </p><p>He had approximately 450 scientific papers to his name. He was a scientific advisor to some of the most prestigious organizations in the domain of immunology, such as the Campbell Family Institute of Breast Cancer Research, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for Immunology Research, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, RIKEN Center for Allergy and Immunology Research, and CHAVI Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">A Commentary on the Landmark Paper by Dr. Ralph Steinman on the Discovery of the Dendritic Cells</h2><div><div>Dr. Steinman shared his discovery of the dendritic cells through a 1973 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2139237/pdf/1142.pdf" target="_blank">paper </a>in the <i>Journal of Experimental Medicine</i> entitled “Identification of a novel cell type in peripheral lymphoid organs of mice. I. Morphology, quantitation, tissue distribution.”</div><div><br /></div><div>In this paper, Dr. Steinman published phase-contrast and electron microscopy images of dendritic cells, which were identified from the peripheral lymphoid organs of mice, including the spleen. Consistent with the technology available in the 1970s, the dendritic cells were distinguished from other hematopoietic cells purely on the basis of morphological criteria and staining techniques alongside the tendencies of tissue distribution. </div><div><br /></div><div>Based on the minute morphological dis-similarities of the dendritic cells from the reticular cells, they were proposed to be unique cells. However, considering the commonalities between the two cells, Dr. Steinman assumed them to be related to the reticular cells and believed them to be the antigen-presenting cells of the peripheral lymphoid system.</div><div><br /></div><div>Reading this landmark paper in full can make you realize the genius of Dr. Steinman. Each line of this masterpiece discloses his love for detail and clarity of thought process. He was sharing with the world an important immunological discovery but nowhere in his writing were there any grandiose claims.</div><div><br /></div><div>Whereas all figures were meticulously prepared, in particular, Figure 6 of this article showed beautiful time-lapse phase-contrast micrographs of a dendritic cell at 1-minute intervals to show their unique movements. The results of his experiments were so extensively and authoritatively described that there was very little remaining to be discussed in the discussion. Reading the paper made the author feel that this paper was certainly ahead of its time. The author opines that this paper is not only a scientific but also a literary masterpiece. </div></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Legacy of Dr. Ralph Steinman</h2><p>His contributions were recognized by the scientific community with innumerable awards, including the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 2011. Other notable awards conferred to Dr. Steinman included Friedrich-Sasse Prize, Emil von Behring Prize, Robert Koch Prize, Rudolf Virchow Medal, Coley Medal, Gairdner Foundation International Award, Albert Lasker Award, Albany Medical Prize, and A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine.</p><p>In his honor, the Ralph M. Steinman Center for Cancer Vaccines was established at the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Texas. The Steinman Family Foundation, a charitable foundation in his name created by his family continues to support the careers of young scientists and science education. Dr. Steinman's works continue to inspire generations of immunologists to discover newer vaccines and treatments targeting several immunological processes.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>References and Suggested Reading</b></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2011/steinman/biographical/" target="_blank">The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/108/52/20871" target="_blank">Ralph M. Steinman: A man, a microscope, a cell, and so much more</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://ascb.org/files/0801profile.pdf" target="_blank">ASCB Profile: Ralph M. Steinman</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="https://www.aai.org/About/History/Notable-Members/Nobel-Laureates/RalphMSteinman" target="_blank">The American Association of Immunologists: Ralph M. Steinman</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">5. <a href="https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(11)01434-6" target="_blank">Ralph M. Steinman 1943–2011</a></span></div><div>6. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2139237/pdf/1142.pdf" target="_blank">Identification of a novel cell type in peripheral lymphoid organs of mice. I. Morphology, quantitation, tissue distribution</a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b>About the author</b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></p><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/09/DrJamesBlack.html">Nobel Laureate & Drug Discovery Champion: Dr. James Black</a></span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2020/08/ImmunologistIndiraNath.html">Famous Immunologist: Dr. Indira Nath</a></span><br /><span face="">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/10/autar-singh-paintal-explorer-human-body.html">Revolutionary Physiologist: Dr. Autar Singh Paintal</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2022/02/Archie-Cochrane-EBM.html">Archibald Leman Cochrane: Father of Evidence-Based Medicine</a></span></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-41415664544235933642021-09-23T19:14:00.029+05:302022-08-19T19:29:05.549+05:30Dr. James Black: Nobel Laureate & Drug Discovery Champion<h1 style="text-align: left;">Dr. James Black – A Champion of Drug Discovery</h1><div>In this article, you will find information about Dr. James Black, a famous pharmacologist, and Nobel Laureate. </div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Who was Dr. James Black? </h2><p style="text-align: left;">Sir James Black was a Scottish Physician. He was one of the pioneers of analytical pharmacology, the science of determining the mechanism of actions of drugs. He also championed medicinal chemistry, which is the basic science of new drug discovery. He excelled at building new active molecules, that are similar to the structure of a naturally occurring chemical, which is implicated in a disease. For "his discoveries of important principles for drug treatment," he received the Noble Prize for Medicine in 1988. He was also awarded the UK's highest honor, the Order of Merit in 2000.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Major Scientific Contributions of Dr. James Black</h2><p style="text-align: left;">Dr. Black was the inventor of two important drugs, namely, propranolol (the first beta-blocker developed by Dr. Black in the 1960s) and cimetidine (the first H-2 receptor blocker developed by Dr. Black in the 1970s). Both propranolol and cimetidine targeted new pathways and turned out to be blockbuster molecules that transformed the practices of cardiology and gastroenterology, respectively. </p><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaEubAIee-G18sm1Lz2pGDq1rCIgwSBjzfDxtgyWwl2dLIc-hFeeZKEIUy0LVLx3hiy5LDQsyn0HMjzHRlofus4OXfYv33aXYpFh9sZArQSl3Osb7sPNkCMGPS77FEhsqvGqPAMmN-Bk/s696/black-13401-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Sir James Whyte Black" border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="464" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaEubAIee-G18sm1Lz2pGDq1rCIgwSBjzfDxtgyWwl2dLIc-hFeeZKEIUy0LVLx3hiy5LDQsyn0HMjzHRlofus4OXfYv33aXYpFh9sZArQSl3Osb7sPNkCMGPS77FEhsqvGqPAMmN-Bk/w213-h320/black-13401-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" title="Dr. James Black" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dr. James Black<br />Image Credit: Nobel Foundation</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Qualifications of Dr. James black</h2><p>Though he mastered both analytical pharmacology and medicinal chemistry more than did many of his contemporary physicians, Dr. Black did not receive formal qualifications in these specialties or any other specialized research training after receiving his basic medical training. Dr. Black received his medical qualification from the University of St. Andrews. After he was diagnosed with osteoclastoma, a bone tumor, he received radiotherapy and remained partly disabled for the rest of his life. He was no more interested in clinical practice and instead chose to be a teacher and researcher in physiology. Then, he developed a keen interest in cardiovascular physiology and analytical pharmacology during his laboratory experiments over the next few years.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Professional Life of Dr. James Black</h2><p>Impressed by his work, Dr. Black was granted research funding by a pharma company to identify and develop new agents that can selectively inhibit the effects of adrenaline on the heart in patients with angina. In a short span of time, he was successful at developing propranolol, the first in its class of beta-blockers. Later, he received research funding from another pharma company to develop a new agent reducing acid production in the stomach of patients with peptic ulcers. He was successful again and developed cimetidine, the first in its class of H-2 blockers. </p><p>After these discoveries, he continued to teach and advance the specialties of analytical pharmacology and medicinal chemistry at distinguished institutions, such as the University College of London and King's College, London. He also founded the James Black Foundation, an independent research group. The last assignment in his professional career was that of the Chancellor of the University of Dundee. He loved his students and was an excellent mentor to them. His legacy continues to inspire the medical and scientific community. Meanwhile, his inventions have continued to touch and save the lives of millions of patients worldwide. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Drug Discovery Methods of Dr. James Black and His Team</h2><p style="text-align: left;">Dr. James Black and his colleagues were masters of several methods of analytical pharmacology and medicinal chemistry. These methods included: i) employing highly sensitive and specific bioassays to assess the activity of different ligands acting at specific receptors, such as beta (adrenaline) receptors, and gastrin (histamine) receptors ii) synthesizing unique ligands based on the principle of deriving a receptor antagonist from a partial agonist of that receptor; this approach involved the formation of several intermediary molecules between a partial agonist and an antagonist, iii) analyzing and plotting dose-response curves of the ligands using complex regression models and statistical methods, which are integral to molecular modeling iv) defining ligand-receptor interactions and variations across tissues and species to form explanatory theories about their findings.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Dr. James Black extensively elucidated these methods in depth in one of his written works:<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8725380/" target="_blank"> A Personal View of Pharmacology</a>. This work of Dr. James Black can be considered a masterpiece on the subjects of analytical pharmacology and medicinal chemistry. In this work and in his <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2569237/" target="_blank">other writings</a>, Dr. James Black highlighted that these methods were manual and experimental and required rigorous work in the laboratories, unlike the modern drug-discovery methods that are based on the use of computers (high-throughput screening). </p><p style="text-align: left;">Nevertheless, he predicted that of all the methods used by their team, the bioassays perfected by his team and the methods of molecular modeling would remain relevant and integral to drug discovery despite the computing advances in drug discovery.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>References and Suggested Readings:</b></h2><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/black/facts/" target="_blank">Sir James W. Black</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/4641292a" target="_blank">Pharmacologist who changed the face of medicine</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC325477/" target="_blank">Sir James Black and propranolol. The role of the basic sciences in the history of cardiovascular pharmacology</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2019.0047" target="_blank">Sir James Whyte Black </a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">5. <a href="https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/sir-james-blacks-nobel-prize-medal/" target="_blank">Sir James Black's Nobel Prize medal</a></span></div><div>6. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8725380/" target="_blank">A Personal View of Pharmacology</a></div><div>7. <a href="file:///C:/Users/Lenovo/Downloads/science.2569237.pdf" target="_blank">Drugs From Emasculated Hormones: The Principle of Syntopic Antagonism</a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b><br /></b></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b>About the Author of this Article</b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></p><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/12/RalphSteinman.html">Nobel Laureate & Acclaimed Immunologist: Dr. Ralph M. Steinman </a> </span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2020/08/ImmunologistIndiraNath.html">Famous Immunologist: Dr. Indira Nath</a></span><br /><span face="">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/10/autar-singh-paintal-explorer-human-body.html">Revolutionary Physiologist: Dr. Autar Singh Paintal</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2022/02/Archie-Cochrane-EBM.html">Dr. Archibald Leman Cochrane: Father of Evidence-Based Medicine</a></span></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-35859834523891714262021-04-22T14:04:00.028+05:302022-08-19T19:32:04.776+05:30Dr. Damodaran M. Vasudevan: Eminent Medical Educationist <h1 style="text-align: left;">Dr. D. M. Vasudevan – An Eminent Medical Educationist and Author</h1><div>In this article, you will find information about Dr. D. M. Vasudevan, a celebrated medical educationist from India.</div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Who is Dr. D. M. Vasudevan?</h2><p>Dr. (Prof.) Damodaran M. Vasudevan is an eminent medical biochemist and immunologist. He is a renowned and respected medical teacher (B. C. Roy awardee, 1992) and is considered a distinguished leader in medical education in India. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Major Contributions of Dr. D. M. Vasudevan</h2><p>The textbook of medical biochemistry authored by him originally in English has been translated into Spanish and Russian, and it has been a major commercial and academic success story in all three languages, selling a total of over half a million copies. This puts him into a unique position among Indian medical authors as very few of such works have been translated into foreign languages and are widely read in non-English speaking countries. </p><p>Though he has published over 250 papers and has an h-index of around 40, many of his researches on coconut oil have broken many long-held myths related to its health effects, especially regarding the high attributed risk of coronary artery disease. He has accomplished several such scientific successes in his professional journey of over five decades encompassing the intersections of biochemistry and immunology.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9bSXvfJxuAIcqdqJBQrvFIoINIPltNCb72p5dNdqgqvhWAFT88iMcDeMQiLGwDBG8_f71VOdvprAoOnTdAEJasWRo-uuZQR47B-7WmWPavvMJq3Sk4BUuOk2cEaw15oeyIusDCk_UJcc/s260/dmvasudevan.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Prof. (Dr.) Damodaran M. Vasudevan" border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9bSXvfJxuAIcqdqJBQrvFIoINIPltNCb72p5dNdqgqvhWAFT88iMcDeMQiLGwDBG8_f71VOdvprAoOnTdAEJasWRo-uuZQR47B-7WmWPavvMJq3Sk4BUuOk2cEaw15oeyIusDCk_UJcc/s16000/dmvasudevan.jpg" title="Dr. D. M. Vasudevan" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: www.amrita.edu</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;">Positions Held by Dr. D. M. Vasudevan</h2><p>Prof. D. M. Vasudevan has reached several high offices in the administration of medical education as well as the biochemistry profession, including Principal, Government Medical College, Thrissur; Founding Dean, Sikkim Manipal University; Dean of Medicine, and Head of Research, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham; Founder Director-Research, Jubilee Center for Medical Research; Vice President, Indian Immunological Society; and President, Indian Association of Clinical Biochemists of India. He continues to serve as the Technical and Research Director of an Indian company (AGAPPE), which manufactures biochemistry-related equipment and reagents and supplies them across the globe. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Qualifications of Dr. D. M. Vasudevan</h2><p>Prof. D. M. Vasudevan received his MBBS from the University of Kerela, his MD in Biochemistry from AIIMS, New Delhi, and his post-doctoral qualification from the Swiss Cancer Institute. He has also received several fellowships from prestigious national and international agencies. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Legacy of Dr. D. M. Vasudevan</h2><p>Prof. D. M. Vasudevan tirelessly continues to guide young medical students in learning biochemistry, a subject often perceived as dry, difficult, and uninteresting by the majority of medical students, and he often breaks these myths through his lectures. He strives to motivate them in adopting biochemistry as a professional career choice through his inspiring professional endeavors. </p><p><b><br /></b></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>References and Suggested Readings:</b></h2><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/dmvasudevan" target="_blank">Dr. Damodaran Vasudevan; Head: PG Programs and Research, School of Medicine, Kochi</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://www.longdom.org/author-profile/damodaran-m-vasudevan-43771" target="_blank">Damodaran M Vasudevan</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BfnA3C4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate" target="_blank">DM Vasudevan</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l_v8pYrjHE" target="_blank">National Webinar on Biochemistry for Medical Students by Dr. DM Vasudevan</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">5. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuGFTD4onXU" target="_blank">Celebrating 50 Years Of Prof. Dr. D M VASUDEVAN'S Academic Career</a></span></div><div>6. <a href="https://www.jmmcri.org/research.php" target="_blank">About Jubilee Centre for Medical Research</a></div><div>7. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5zgV8saHg8" target="_blank">Prof. Dr. D. M. Vasudevan (Technical Director - R&D) celebrating 10 years of service with Agappe</a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b>About the Author</b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></p><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/02/eminent-medical-educationist-dr-lalitha.html">Eminent Medical Educationist: Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran</a></span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/01/DrMCVaidyaHLA.html">Pioneer of HLA Technology in India: Dr. Mahesh Chandra Vaidya</a></span><br /><span face="">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2020/10/UshaLuthraEminentCytopathologist.html">India's Warrior Against Cervical and Oral Cancers: Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra</a></span></span></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-48284702913996682672021-02-13T15:50:00.012+05:302022-08-19T19:34:37.026+05:30Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran: Eminent Medical Educationist<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span>Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran – A Renowned Medical Educationist</span></h1><p style="text-align: left;"><span>In this article, you will find details about Late Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran. She was a highly regarded medical teacher and administrator from India. </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who was Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran?</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran was a pharmacologist and medical teacher. She is considered an eminent medical educationist and has several firsts to her name in the domain of medical education in India. </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Major Achievements and Contributions of Dr. Laitha Kameswaran</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1988, Dr. Kameswaran was appointed as the first vice-chancellor of </span>The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University<span style="font-family: inherit;">, which was newly formed in line with the recommendations of the Bajaj Committee, which aimed to reform medical education in India. With the successful demonstration of the model of a state health university, Dr. Kamesawarn paved the way for the development of several such universities in India.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before that, she was the first woman to be appointed the Dean of the prestigious Madras Medical College, the first woman Director of Medical Education in Tamilnadu, and probably among the first few woman awardees of Dr. B.C.Roy Award for eminent medical teachers (1983).</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDsZJzeHIXN0-yrIx-3uuC9SzZGkg8qoNbirHQh6dngxsF58YCFjzioCNJ6nLDuUdxUnaRgKE4ACvK0_OJlYp7UEBYK7ZllCZIgudLhCvci6i_RVVFuoR4z5oFVd2d7s2LYDoajgrEf-w/s266/vc1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Late Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran" border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="266" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDsZJzeHIXN0-yrIx-3uuC9SzZGkg8qoNbirHQh6dngxsF58YCFjzioCNJ6nLDuUdxUnaRgKE4ACvK0_OJlYp7UEBYK7ZllCZIgudLhCvci6i_RVVFuoR4z5oFVd2d7s2LYDoajgrEf-w/w200-h200/vc1.jpg" title="Prof. Lalitha Kameswaran" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran. Image Credit: https://www.tnmgrmu.ac.in/</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;">Qualifications of Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran </h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Kameswaran completed her medical graduation from Stanley Medical College and her Doctorate from the University of London. She served as a professor of pharmacology at Madurai and Madras Medical Colleges. She was considered an inspiring medical teacher by many of her students, and one of the most well-known of her students is Dr. V Mohan, a diabetologist from Chennai. In his account of his professional journey, Dr. Mohan counted her as a pillar of support and described how Dr. Kameswaran encouraged him to pursue medical research.</span></p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Positions Held by Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Kameswaran was a highly-respected pharmacologist and was elected as the President of the Indian Pharmacological Society. She was also nominated to the executive committee of the Medical Council of India as well as the Tamilnadu State Planning Commission because of her zeal for transforming medical education. </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Legacy of Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Kameswaran was born to a Tamil scholar, Somasundara Bharati, and was married to </span>Dr. S. Kameswaran, <span style="font-family: inherit;">a renowned ENT surgeon of his time and a Padma Awardee. Their son, who is also a renowned ENT surgeon and a Padma Awardee too, continues their legacy forward through the Madras ENT Research Foundation.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">References and Suggested Readings</span></b></h2><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://www.tnmgrmu.ac.in/index.php/vice-chancellor/past-vice-chancellor/1st-vc.html" target="_blank">Dr.(Tmt.) Lalitha Kameswaran - 1st VC</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="http://www.stanleymedicalcollege.in/eminent-persons" target="_blank">Institution History: Eminent Persons</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6058504/" target="_blank">My 40-year journey in diabetes research: The power of collaboration</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="http://pcdandiya.com/trust/orations/" target="_blank">Prof. Lalitha Kameswaran, VC, MGR Medical University, Chennai</a> </span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">5. <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/first-woman-v-c-of-mgr-medical-varsity-dead/articleshow/29300627.cms" target="_blank">First woman V-C of MGR medical varsity dead</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b>About the Author</b></span></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></div><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-coluthur-gopalans-journey.html">Nutritionist Par Excellence: Dr. Coluthur Gopalan</a></span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/04/D-M-Vasudevan-Eminent-Teacher.html">Eminent Medical Educationist: Dr. Damodaran M. Vasudevan</a></span><br /><span face="">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/01/DrMCVaidyaHLA.html">Pioneer of HLA Technology in India: Dr. Mahesh Chandra Vaidya</a></span></span></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-34760987102424315782021-01-15T16:19:00.014+05:302022-08-19T19:36:21.935+05:30Dr. Mahesh Chandra Vaidya: HLA Technology Pioneer in India<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span>Dr. Mahesh Chandra Vaidya – A Pioneer of HLA Technology in India </span></h2><div><span>In this article, you will find the details on Dr. M. C. Vaidya. He is a towering personality in the domain of HLA technology. He is considered a pioneer of this field in India. </span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who was Dr. M.C. Vaidya?</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Late Dr. Mahesh Chandra Vaidya, more famously known as Professor M.C. Vaidya, was an Anatomist who further specialized in Immunology and pioneered the use of (Human Leukocyte Antigen) HLA technology in India at the country's first HLA laboratory in All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAzfy9pCGvNVEwqpx7UdwlHxZ_ZufVlMT3sl510ij2wmfDyJD7b8dygrzETSXcq7-wUtx0xqUSl6KYBJ-bDd1ziUMTvVC1PYLWdcMZSigHTGnscJbhXv7n5dDDsPwoInVZPoz9oIP6lps/s239/m+c+vaidya.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Late Dr. M. C. Vaidya" border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="211" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAzfy9pCGvNVEwqpx7UdwlHxZ_ZufVlMT3sl510ij2wmfDyJD7b8dygrzETSXcq7-wUtx0xqUSl6KYBJ-bDd1ziUMTvVC1PYLWdcMZSigHTGnscJbhXv7n5dDDsPwoInVZPoz9oIP6lps/w177-h200/m+c+vaidya.jpg" title="Dr. M. C. Vaidya" width="177" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: AIIMS, New Delhi</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Major Contributions of Dr. M. C. Vaidya</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anatomists study the structure and parts of the body and their variations. At his lab, Dr. Vaidya studied the minute anatomical (genetic) differences among humans that affect the risk of development of many diseases. His efforts culminated in an improved understanding of many diseases prevalent in India which were uncommon in the western world, such as leprosy, rheumatic heart disease, etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moreover, his HLA lab initiated support to organ transplant programs all across India. Because of this HLA support, the chances of success of the organ transplant procedure improve many times, and the risk of transplant rejection is minimized. Furthermore, he, at his laboratory, trained and nurtured many professionals who continue to be the leaders of transplant immunology services and research in India.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Qualifications of Dr. M. C. Vaidya</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Vaidya belonged to a humble background and completed his M.B.B.S. from Medical College, Nagpur. He pursued his M.D. and Ph.D. in anatomy from AIIMS. His post-doctoral work led him to move to the University of Oxford and the National Institute of Medical Research, United Kingdom. </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tenure of Dr. M. C. Vaidya at AIIMS, New Delhi</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Following his return from the UK, he started to teach at AIIMS and conducted many new experiments related to immunology. One of the specialized areas of immunology that was picking up at that time was the application of HLA technology. W</span>hile being attached to the anatomy department, <span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Vaidya pioneered and oversaw the development of the HLA lab in the AIIMS as a special unit of the anatomy department. This unit eventually developed into a full-fledged department of transplant immunology, led by a bright disciple of Dr. Vaidya. </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Legacy of Dr. M. C. Vaidya</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Vaidya received fellowships, memberships, awards, and organizational responsibilities from several scientific societies and organizations from the fields of anatomy and immunology and was considered a humble and respected professional. He contributed to the disciplines even after retirement from AIIMS by working in the private sector for several years. </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">References and Suggested Readings</span></b></h2><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="http://anatomy.aiims.ac.in/index.php?option=com_myjspace&view=see&pagename=M_C_Vaidya&Itemid=101" target="_blank">Prof Mahesh Chandra Vaidya (1930-2018)</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="http://jshi.umin.ac.jp/jounals/file/MHC08-1_kaigailabo.pdf" target="_blank">MHC, Vol 8, No.1</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.CIR.80.2.335" target="_blank">HLA-DR/DQ antigens and reactivity to B cell alloantigen D8/17 in Indian patients with rheumatic heart disease.</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b>About the Author</b></span></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></div><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""> </span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""><br /></span><span face="">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/12/RalphSteinman.html">Nobel Laureate & Acclaimed Immunologist: Dr. Ralph M. Steinman</a></span><br /><span face="">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2020/08/ImmunologistIndiraNath.html">Famous Immunologist: Dr. Indira Nath</a></span><br /><span face="">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2020/10/UshaLuthraEminentCytopathologist.html">Warrior Against Cervical and Oral Cancers: Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra</a></span></span></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-84643518576663925062020-10-28T14:06:00.013+05:302022-08-19T19:38:15.137+05:30Dr. Usha Luthra: Warrior Against Cervical & Oral Cancers<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">India's Warrior Against Cervical & Oral Cancers: Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">In this post, you will read about Dr. Usha Luthra. She is a renowned cytopathologist from India excelling in the diagnosis of oral and cervical cancers.</span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who is Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra?</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Usha Luthra is an eminent cytopathologist. A cytopathologist specializes in diagnosing diseases by examining human cells obtained from scrapings, body secretions, and fluids. Dr. Luthra is best known for her contributions to the fight against cervical and oral cancer in India.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5anOoBAuDo9akcdfpZXE1IFvJqINYxcP4hdmHW6dpISmsubyW49drgNnzb8Xfyua6dTLlj4zOSwL2VjpzA9c424IykRBpQMsZwFBLgf6SM1OTG0Fbow79u7-9RYh9de52d4mzIld7Y9w/s140/N77-0414.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra" border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5anOoBAuDo9akcdfpZXE1IFvJqINYxcP4hdmHW6dpISmsubyW49drgNnzb8Xfyua6dTLlj4zOSwL2VjpzA9c424IykRBpQMsZwFBLgf6SM1OTG0Fbow79u7-9RYh9de52d4mzIld7Y9w/s16000/N77-0414.jpg" title="Dr. Usha Luthra" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: Indian National Science Academy<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Qualifications of Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Luthra obtained her medical education from the Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, and Sarojini Naidu Medical College in Agra. She specialized in cytopathology at Harvard University, International Academy of Cytology, and International Board of Cytopathologists, USA, and also completed a Ph.D. in cytopathology at Agra. She also completed several advanced international certifications in cytopathologic techniques later in her career. She spent her initial years as a medical teacher and professor and later on moved into the profile of a researcher by joining the Indian Council of Medical Research, wherein she rose to become the Additional Director-General.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra's Efforts Against Cancer</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Luthra utilized all her specialty knowledge and skills to wage a war against cervical and oral cancers, which were the most common cancers troubling Indian patients. Her contributions ranged from establishing specialized diagnostic units; developing screening programs; conducting cancer registries; founding and directing a specialty cancer research institute, now known as National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida; conducting original research works, especially on the cancer biology of the human papillomavirus; training and development of a generation of cytopathologists, and technicians, and promoting the advancement of cytopathology science and methods in India. </span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Professional Achievements of Dr. Usha Kehar Luthra</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In her fight against cervical and oral cancers, she frequently collaborated with several institutions, such as the World Health Organization, Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, Kidwai Memorial Cancer Institute, Planning Commission of India, Ministry of Health and its Institutes. Her role as the warrior against cervical and oral cancer was widely recognized in the form of several awards, the most notable being the <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/search/label/Padma%20Awardee" target="_blank">Padma Shri </a>Award in Medicine from the Government of India in 1992. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Post-retirement from public service, she continued her journey by joining as a faculty member at Kuwait University and contributed as an honorary advisor to the Indian Council of Medical Research. </span></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">References and Suggested Readings</span></b></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="http://www.gmcmec.gov.in/frameset/cytopathologists-in-india.pdf" target="_blank">Eminent Cytopathologists in India, Page 75-83</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N77-0414" target="_blank">Indian National Science Academy: Professor UK Luthra</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://nbtindia.gov.in/writereaddata/freebooks/pdf/Women%20Scientists%20in%20India.pdf" target="_blank">Women Scientists in India, Page 231-233</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b>About the Author</b></span></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researches as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></div><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face=""></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""> </span><span face=""><b> </b></span><br /><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span></span><span face=""><br /></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></h3><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. </span><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2020/08/ImmunologistIndiraNath.html">Famous Immunologist: Dr. Indira Nath</a></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. </span><span face=""><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-suniti-solomon.html">India's Crusader For People With HIV: Dr. Suniti Solomon</a></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. </span></span><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/02/eminent-medical-educationist-dr-lalitha.html">Eminent Medical Educationist: Dr. Lalitha Kameswaran</a></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-30924455972428991132020-08-21T16:13:00.016+05:302022-08-19T19:39:16.128+05:30Dr. Indira Nath: Famous Immunologist and Leprosy Researcher<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span>Dr. Indira Nath – Famous Indian Immunology Expert on Leprosy</span></h1><div><span>In this article, you will find professional information about Late Dr. Indira Nath. She was an Indian immunologist who excelled in immunological research on Leprosy. She recently died in Oct 2021. </span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who was Dr. Indira Nath?</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Late Dr. Indira Nath was an immunologist and is considered one of the pioneers of immunology in India. Immunologists study the role of the immune system in human health and diseases. While many immunologists prefer to study cancers and autoimmune conditions, in contrast, Dr. Indira Nath chose to study the immunology of Leprosy, a neglected tropical disease that had a considerable disease burden and social stigma in India. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktkjMUEe83tH5NnQm8ycw4E4WBhaKxGKM6A5x5nGER2hDChSQ3cWS24wkKCcaQ07mfW9Ms0c7LW2SZFLd24nlR-Q918eGPZ-fctYnXmg5hg4aSkyyY2I8E5Fx6TFbxBqZkXJsQADfLcg/s169/Indira.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Dr. Indira Nath" border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktkjMUEe83tH5NnQm8ycw4E4WBhaKxGKM6A5x5nGER2hDChSQ3cWS24wkKCcaQ07mfW9Ms0c7LW2SZFLd24nlR-Q918eGPZ-fctYnXmg5hg4aSkyyY2I8E5Fx6TFbxBqZkXJsQADfLcg/s16000/Indira.png" title="Dr. Indira Nath" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Image Credit: World Science Forum<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Qualifications of Dr. Indira Nath</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Indira Nath completed her medical education, MBBS, and MD, from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, and specialized in immunology from the United Kingdom as a Nuffield fellow. She returned to India and joined her alma mater where she continued the rest of the journey till formal retirement. Meanwhile, Dr. Nath also oversaw the establishment of a new department of biotechnology at AIIMS in which she served as the founding head and further advanced her new-age research on the immunology of leprosy. However, even two decades after retirement she was still active in immunological research as several scientific organizations continued to fund her works, some of which also included international assignments.</span><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Indira Nath's Fight Against Leprosy</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Through her numerous immunological experiments on leprosy bacteria, patients, and immune cells, such as macrophages and T cells, Dr. Nath was able to explain how the improper functioning of the immune system and T cells influenced the development of severe forms of leprosy and the response to antibacterial treatment. She has also been credited with the sequencing of the LSR2 gene in leprosy-causing bacteria. Her research also guided experiments on experimental immunotherapy treatments and candidate vaccines for leprosy. Her research fetched her national as well as international recognition as an expert on the immunology of leprosy, and therefore, she was also able to advise the governments on the strategies adopted in leprosy control programs.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Other Notable Contributions of Dr. Indira Nath</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Besides her contributions to leprosy, she was also recognized for excellence in research ethics and global health in her over five decades-long career and involves herself in various global health activities. </span><span>For her research and contributions, she was awarded the prestigious <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/search/label/Padma%20Awardee" target="_blank">Padma Shri</a> and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards by the Government of India. The Government of France also awarded her with the civilian award of Chevalier Ordre National du Merite. She was also honored with the L’Oreal UNESCO Award for Women in Science and the Cochrane Research Award for her excellence.</span></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">References and Suggested Reading</span></b></h2><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://worldscienceforum.org/speakers/nath-indira-18390">Professor Indira Nath</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0602-545.pdf?origin=ppub" target="_blank">Indira Nath</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/archive/treating-leprosy-with-a-new-mindset/40530/">Treating leprosy with a new mindset</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/34339/1/SR%2053%286%29%2048-50.pdf" target="_blank">In Conversation: Indira Nath</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">5. <a href="https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol54B_1988_4_Art01.pdf" target="_blank">Immunological Unresponsiveness and its Reversal in Lepromatous Leprosy</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">6. <a href="https://www.emjreviews.com/dermatology/article/immunopathogenesis-of-leprosy-a-model-for-t-cell-anergy/">Immunopathogenesis of Leprosy: A Model for T Cell Anergy</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">7. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ni1208-1319.pdf?origin=ppub" target="_blank">Immunology in India: an emerging story</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">8. <a href="https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-abstract/18/16/4935/1081324?redirectedFrom=PDF" target="_blank">Nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence of Mycobacterium leprae gene showing homology to bacterial atp operon</a></span></div><div>9. <a href="https://twitter.com/PrinSciAdvGoI/status/1453072394189369345">https://twitter.com/PrinSciAdvGoI/status/1453072394189369345</a></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b style="font-size: medium;">About the Author</b></span></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researchers as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/" style="font-size: medium;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></div><div><span><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><b>Posts Recommended For You</b></span></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/10/sibte-hasan-zaidi-eminent-toxicologist.html">Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi: Distinguished Toxicologist</a> </span><br /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/10/autar-singh-paintal-explorer-human-body.html">The Revolutionary Physiologist: Dr. Autar Singh Paintal</a></span><br /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2020/08/DrSNDeDicovererCholeraToxin.html">Discoverer of Cholera Enterotoxin: Dr. Sambhu Nath De</a></span></span></div></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-75231443581646320992020-08-10T14:54:00.011+05:302022-08-19T19:40:09.559+05:30Dr. Sambhu Nath De: Discoverer of Cholera Enterotoxin<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: x-large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Dr. Sambhu Nath De – Bacteriologist Who Discovered Cholera Enterotoxin </span></h1><div><span lang="" style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 16px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">In this article, you will find details about Late Dr. S. N. De. He is famous worldwide for his discovery of cholera toxin.</span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Who was Dr. S. N. De?</span></h2><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Dr. Sambhu Nath De was a bacteriologist. Bacteriologists study bacteria linked with human diseases and help understand the bacteria-disease relationship. This knowledge is then used by other scientists to develop better treatments and vaccines. </span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Dr. S.N. De is best known for his discovery of the toxin produced by <i>Vibrio Cholerae</i>, the bacteria that causes Cholera, which caused many pandemics and killed millions. His path-breaking discovery changed the long-held scientific outlook on cholera and its treatment, shifting the focus to preventing and treating dehydration rather than antibiotics. </span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLTB8PiHUkvxKVkUmj5gLes3HP5Uvid_dHP0eWGZdJfRXTIx3h_IyDx6-XGBjWnqcGysCcbH0rYCm5h3Pgh1LVZengbpR8o5233oYHemT5e8kw2eCdaVkwnH_YybvkEIHn3Y_AqdUMsPE/s278/De.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dr. Sambhu Nath De" border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLTB8PiHUkvxKVkUmj5gLes3HP5Uvid_dHP0eWGZdJfRXTIx3h_IyDx6-XGBjWnqcGysCcbH0rYCm5h3Pgh1LVZengbpR8o5233oYHemT5e8kw2eCdaVkwnH_YybvkEIHn3Y_AqdUMsPE/s16000/De.png" title="Dr. S. N. De" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Image Credit: A Sen and J K Sarkar
</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Qualifications of Dr. S. N. De</h2><div>Like many other Indian medical researchers of the 1950s, Dr. S. N. De also had a humble background, and but for various scholarships, it would have been impossible for him to complete his medical education from the Calcutta medical college. He had interested in neglected tropical diseases and completed a diploma in tropical medicine before embarking on a research-driven career that took him to London to complete his Ph.D. He returned to Calcutta after his Ph.D. and joined another medical college in a teaching cum research position where he would continue his journey till retirement.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Dr. S. N. De's Fight Against Cholera</h2><div>Through his experiments, Dr. S.N. De was able to produce the first successful animal model to study cholera. He demonstrated that cholera was the result of a toxin, and unlike most bacterial toxins, the toxin of <i>Vibrio Cholerae </i>was not an endotoxin that is absorbed into the blood. Instead, he found that the toxin remained in the intestine and acted locally on the epithelial cells blocking the absorption of water. His findings were truly revolutionary and challenged the almost dogmatic beliefs regarding endotoxins that were long-held and were proposed by legendary bacteriologists of that time such as Robert Koch. His findings were published in the most prestigious journals and underwent critical review before ultimately getting accepted by the global scientific community. His discovery caused a paradigm shift in bacteriology as well as the clinical management of cholera that now shifted to preventing and correcting dehydration.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Dr. S. N. De's Candidature for the Nobel Prize</h2><div>For this contribution to the advancement of our understanding of cholera, Dr. S. N. De was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize by none other than the famous American bacterial-genetics specialist Dr. J. Lederberg, who also penned an article on the impact of Dr. De's experiments and findings in which he acknowledged his contribution toward breaking the dogma surrounding the existence of endotoxin of <i>Vibrio Cholerae. </i>Although Dr. De missed the Nobel prize, he was invited by the Nobel committee as a speaker in the <span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px;">Nobel Symposium on Cholera and Related Diarrhoeas</span>. </div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Delayed Professional Recognition of Dr. S. N. De's Efforts Against Cholera</h2><div>In an article, Dr. JP Craig another eminent American medical scientist credited him for his approach to shun the conventional experimental methods and adopt an organ-tissue-cell-based approach in bacteriological research. According to another tribute to him by researchers from the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, the success of oral rehydration therapy that has been described as one of the most important medical advances was a direct outcome of Dr. De's discovery of cholera enterotoxin.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, the contributions of Dr. De were not recognized by the Indian scientific community during his lifetime. It was only after his death that his contributions were appreciated in India that too after an article in his appreciation was authored by none other than Dr. Eugene Garfield, the information scientist who created the bibliometrics such as science citation index. In that article, Dr. Garfield noted that Dr. De did not receive any major scientific awards and was never elected to any of the Indian science academies and could be identified as a typical case of delayed recognition. Many of the tributes to Dr. De continue to address him as an unsung hero of Indian medical science. </div><div><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></b></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">References and Suggested Readings</b></h2><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24093510?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank">S. N. De: Regicide of Reigning Dogma</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">2. <a href="https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/017/10/0943-0954" target="_blank">Life and Work of Sambhu Nath De</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24093512?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank">S. N. De: An Appreciation</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">4. <a href="http://www.ijpmonline.org/article.asp?issn=0377-4929;year=2015;volume=58;issue=1;spage=134;epage=136;aulast=Dutta" target="_blank">Tribute: Dr. Sambhu Nath De: One of the Greatest Indian Scientists</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">5. <a href="https://www.thebetterindia.com/198411/indian-nobel-prize-scientists-cholera-toxin-sambhu-nath-de/" target="_blank">Refused a Nobel, This Unsung Indian Scientist’s Research Saved Millions of Lives</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">6. <a href="http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v9p103y1986.pdf" target="_blank">Mapping Cholera Research and the Impact of Shambu Nath De of Calcutta</a></span></div><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><b style="font-size: medium;">About the </b></span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Author</b></h3><div><span lang="" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Naval Asija is a licensed MBBS Physician from India. MBBS is the equivalent of the MD degree offered by international medical schools. He is based in Delhi, India, and works as a medical writer, editor, and consultant. He supports medical researches as an author's editor, medical communication companies involved in medico-marketing activities, and medical technology companies in improving their products. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn Profile: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/" style="font-size: medium;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face=""><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;"></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="" lang="" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3><span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""><br /></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: medium;">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2021/09/DrJamesBlack.html">Nobel Laureate & Drug Discovery Champion: Dr. James Black</a> </span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/10/autar-singh-paintal-explorer-human-body.html">The Revolutionary Physiologist: Dr. Autar Singh Paintal</a></span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span face="" style="font-size: medium;">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-coluthur-gopalans-journey.html">Dr. Coluthur Gopalan: Nutritionist Par Excellence</a> </span><br style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium;" /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: "times new roman"; width: 474px;"><tbody><tr height="20"></tr></tbody></table></div>Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-21533079052447027972019-10-16T18:38:00.018+05:302022-08-19T19:41:57.303+05:30Dr. Autar Singh Paintal: A Revolutionary Physiologist<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Dr. Autar Singh Paintal – A Revolutionary Indian Physiologist</span></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">In this article, you will find information about Dr. A. S. Paintal, a physiologist par excellence.</span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Who was Dr. A. S. Paintal?</span></span></h2><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Late Dr. Autar Singh Paintal was a human physiologist. Human physiologists study the functioning of the human body and its parts. Human physiologists help in understanding the normal processes of the human body. Their work forms the foundation of medical sciences. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Dr. Autar Singh Paintal is best known for his breakthrough studies and discoveries that added a new dimension, to the </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">methods adopted by </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">medical science for studying lung diseases, heart diseases, and neurological diseases.</span></span></p>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvOgqJyX-kyX_VZp0e8QEV28OdVIQXHg-Dt8nitkgGkpg25mVmB3I8un1CVPT7cuVRiJrOo8kXMbe68E_bvlN_nwoBPxA7WlzQRJoJvWX5YIS5LLsHDLUGEZnPu7MdTkjmvDSucEw65_U/s1600/Pntl.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Founder of J receptors Dr. A. S. Paintal" border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="254" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvOgqJyX-kyX_VZp0e8QEV28OdVIQXHg-Dt8nitkgGkpg25mVmB3I8un1CVPT7cuVRiJrOo8kXMbe68E_bvlN_nwoBPxA7WlzQRJoJvWX5YIS5LLsHDLUGEZnPu7MdTkjmvDSucEw65_U/w200-h166/Pntl.png" title="Dr. Autar Singh Paintal" width="200" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Image Credit: https://www.ias.ac.in</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h2><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Qualifications and Early Works of Dr. A. S. Paintal</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">He was among the toppers from his MBBS batch during his studies at the King George Medical College, Lucknow. Everybody expected him to opt for a clinical specialty, but he loved science and research much more than clinical medicine, and against popular advice, he ultimately decided to pursue his MD in Physiology. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">During his MD thesis, he created new electronic instruments by himself to study electrical resistance of the skin, and developed a scoring system to identify Psychotic patients using his techniques. This system later came to be known as Paintal-Index and was widely used by the Psychiatrists. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">He was awarded Rockefeller Fellowship to further study, and he joined a Ph.D. program in electrophysiology at Edinburgh. Once again he built his own electronic equipment to study and also devised a new dissection technique to study deep nerve fibers that supply lungs and heart. </span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Dr. A. S. Paintal's Professional Success</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Dr. Paintal ultimately succeeded at building a new method for the identification of the terminal portion of a single nerve fiber called "receptor" and describing its features. This method of identifying and studying receptors helped him to find multiple breakthroughs in medical science and provided answers to many unanswered questions of human physiology. </span></p>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Using this method, he discovered the "J" receptors in the lungs, "Atrial-B" receptors and "V<span style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 30.4px; top: 689.15px; transform: scaleX(1.25129);">entricular Pressure" receptors in the heart, "Gastric-stretch" receptors in the stomach, "M</span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 30.4px; top: 711.55px; transform: scaleX(1.23725);">ucosal-Mechano" receptors in the intestines, and "Pressure-Pain" receptors in the muscles</span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 30.4px; top: 711.55px; transform: scaleX(1.23725);">.</span></span><br />
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Positions and Awards Held by Dr. A. S. Paintal</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">These discoveries and his various other studies about other nerve fibers and receptors earned him an unparalleled reputation as a scientist across the globe, and even beyond the confines of physiology and the medical community. He was recognized as a distinguished scientist and was elected as the President of the Indian National Science Academy and Indian Science Congress Association. He also founded the Society of Scientific Values, a body aimed at promoting ethics and integrity in science, among the first of its kind in the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">He
held high administrative and leadership positions during his journey.
Some of those were the Director of VP Chest Institute, New Delhi, The principal of University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and the Director-General of Indian Council of Medical Research, </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">In coordination with Govt of India, he founded a department at VPCI to investigate breathlessness and respiratory problems in soldiers posted at high altitudes. He holds the distinction of holding the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second-highest civilian award for rendering exceptional and distinguished service to society. He remains the only non-clinical doctor among the 10 odd medical doctors who have received this honor. Besides Padma Vibhushan, he was bestowed with multiple international and national awards, fellowships, and honorary degrees. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 30.4px; top: 389.15px; transform: scaleX(1.25691);">"Perfection must be encouraged</span><span style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 30.4px; top: 411.75px; transform: scaleX(1.27398);"> and rewarded" - </span></i><span style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 30.4px; top: 411.75px; transform: scaleX(1.27398);">A famous quote by Dr. A.S. Paintal.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Do you feel inspired by his journey? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><b><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References and Further Readings</span></span></span></b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1.</span> <a href="https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jbsc/031/05/0513-0524" target="_blank">Adventures in physiology: The times and life of Autar S Paintal (1925–2004)</a><br />2. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18543474" target="_blank">Autar Singh Paintal: 24 September 1925 - 21 December 2004</a><br />3. <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F0-387-31311-7_1" target="_blank">A Tribute To Professor Autar Singh Paintal (1925-2004)</a><br />4. <a href="https://www.ijpp.com/IJPP%20archives/2005_49_2/247-250.pdf" target="_blank">Autar Singh Paintal (1925–2004)</a><br />5. <a href="http://www.neurologyindia.com/article.asp?issn=0028-3886;year=2018;volume=66;issue=2;spage=301;epage=303;aulast=Tandon" target="_blank">Founders of Indian Neurosciences: Professor Autar Singh Paintal and Professor Darab Kersasp Dastur</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">6. <a href="http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/?Field=Medicine&Award=Padma%20Vibhushan">http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/?Field=Medicine&Award=Padma%20Vibhushan</a> </span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Views expressed are personal</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 10/16/2019 06:30 PM</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project and the National Polio Surveillance Project. The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">1. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/10/sibte-hasan-zaidi-eminent-toxicologist.html">Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi: Distinguished Toxicologist</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">2. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/09/estimates-of-non-clinical-job-opportunities-india-doctors.html">Estimates of Non-Clinical Job Opportunities for Indian Doctors</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">3. <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-coluthur-gopalans-journey.html">Dr. Coluthur Gopalan: Nutritionist Par Excellence</a> </span><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 474px;"><tbody>
<tr height="20"><td height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 356pt;" width="474"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-88345400350597256142019-10-11T17:20:00.016+05:302022-08-19T19:44:13.087+05:30Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi: A Distinguished Toxicologist<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi – India's Most Distinguished Toxicologist</span></span></span></span></h1><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">In this article, you will read about Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi, a legendary figure in the domain of Toxicology. For his contributions to the development of the specialty of toxicology in India, he has been often credited as the father of Indian toxicology.</span></span></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Who was Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi?</span></span></span></span></h2><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Late Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi was a medical toxicologist. A medical toxicologist studies the effects of toxins or poisonous chemicals on people's health and diseases.</span></span></span></span></p>
<a name='more'></a><br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi is best known for his experiments that described the effects of silica, coal dust, asbestos, synthetic dyes, and heavy metals on the human body, and their role in diseases, such as silicosis and coal worker's pneumoconiosis. He was also instrumental in founding several institutions related to industrial toxicology and occupational health in the South East Asian region.</span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg70zyICjlhtpDbSDQbGXdNteW3mimGVRm-kj54rm92E7ryCj5QxHafNg1dpdgJlzNYzCnpT34Rhm9DCo6FtsohRmQfmyjRZN0d98r6kqauxpu58gl9qFIdKrU7c3GNhn_ra20y6JHnOVM/s1600/ProfSHZaidi.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Prof S H Zaidi" border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="251" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg70zyICjlhtpDbSDQbGXdNteW3mimGVRm-kj54rm92E7ryCj5QxHafNg1dpdgJlzNYzCnpT34Rhm9DCo6FtsohRmQfmyjRZN0d98r6kqauxpu58gl9qFIdKrU7c3GNhn_ra20y6JHnOVM/s200/ProfSHZaidi.jpg" title="Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi" width="155" /></a></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Image Credit: http://iitrindia.org</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Qualifications of Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi</span></span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Dr. Zaidi completed his graduate medical education from Lucknow's prestigious King George Medical College, and his post-graduation and doctorate degrees from the University of London. During his Ph.D., he developed an interest in lung diseases of the coal miners, and produced similar experimental lung illness in animals, after injecting them with coal dust, which led the foundation of his glorious future career in toxicology.</span></span></span></span></p>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Profesional Life of Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi</span></span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Dr. Zaidi returned to India and headed the experimental medicine division at the Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow. There, he founded the Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, which is now known as the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research. His leadership of the Institute for a period of 13 years led to the global recognition of the institute as a center of excellence in the field of occupational health. His
relationship with the government of India also continued after retirement
in the form of "Advisor" to ministries of railways, environment, and
health. </span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Legacy of Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi</span></span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Following his retirement from government service, he also worked for multiple UN agencies, such as WHO, ILO, UNDP, and UNEP in various technical capacities. While working in his UN assignments, </span></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">he was successful</span></span> at starting centers for toxicology research in Burma, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. He was also successful at introducing several new international courses in toxicology. </span></span></span></span></p>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">He published over 100 scientific papers that summarized his experiments and were published in reputed international journals. He closely coordinated his research with the international scientific community, especially with scientists from the USA, UK, Venezuela, and Germany. Through his experiments, he strengthened the global knowledge base of the effects of a range of toxins on the body, resulting in the promotion of numerous preventive and legislative actions. This knowledge base has immensely contributed to the specialty of industrial medicine and occupational health, impacting the lives of millions of industrial workers and their families. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Recognition and Awards Conferred to Dr. Sibte Hasan Zaidi</span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">His contributions to medical science and society have been recognized in the form of multiple awards that he received and through an oration in his name, at the institute that he founded. In recognition of his contribution, the government of India awarded him with the prestigious Padma Shri and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards. He was also awarded a Lifetime Achievement award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association. </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">His legacy is taken forward by two subsequent generations of medical researchers, i.e. his children and grandchildren. </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Do you feel inspired by his journey? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">References and Further Readings</span></b></span></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">1. <a href="http://iitrindia.org/En/former_directors.aspx" target="_blank">Major Contributions of Professor S.H. Zaidi</a><br />2. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibte_Hasan_Zaidi" target="_blank">Sibte Hasan Zaidi</a><br />3. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095122/http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/news/157405/biopeople" target="_blank">Dr Zaidi passes away</a><br />4. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150601235949/http://www.iitrindia.org/pdf/iitr_toxresbulletin28(1).pdf" target="_blank">Prof. S.H. Zaidi Former Director, Passes Away</a><br />5. <a href="http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=290" target="_blank">Dr Sibte Hassan Zaidi</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Views expressed are personal</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been
writing/blogging full time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project and National Polio Surveillance Project. He can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and
privacy policy. For full details you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 10/11/2019 06:00 PM</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">
</span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-mahdi-hasan-polymath-who-loved.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Celebrated Anatomist: Mahdi Hasan</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></li>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">
</span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/mastering-science-and-scientific-methods.html" target="_blank">The Challenge of Mastering Medical Science</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">
</span></span>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/working-with-diverse-teams-and.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Challenge of Diversity in Non-Clinical Careers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-42455813780710661642019-09-23T18:37:00.017+05:302022-08-19T19:45:25.053+05:30Estimates of Non-Clinical Job Opportunities in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Estimates of Non-Clinical Job Opportunities for Indian Physicians</span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The total number of non-clinical job opportunities for MBBS physicians in India is approximately 60,000. In this article, you will find their further break-up based on role.</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br /></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4cQNrQVNAmQDhMOcyofdc58LtBorDl_RP1Rmp4rB6ZGQUzD-OTMN1zS-FKl1k2oHu56I2-pM-PJhjRsJQ3jV7ClKY71ZWF-yTOPuiAe9kjnYnmDoalZaH2HxrxI2vD3z8gbMY7oZQvw/s1600/accountant-1238598_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="non clinical jobs in india" border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4cQNrQVNAmQDhMOcyofdc58LtBorDl_RP1Rmp4rB6ZGQUzD-OTMN1zS-FKl1k2oHu56I2-pM-PJhjRsJQ3jV7ClKY71ZWF-yTOPuiAe9kjnYnmDoalZaH2HxrxI2vD3z8gbMY7oZQvw/s320/accountant-1238598_640.jpg" title="Non clinical jobs for doctors in india" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Image by Robert-Owen-Wahl </span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">These
opportunities can be grouped into the “traditional” and the “newer” types. The number
of traditional non-clinical opportunities could be three times of the newer
ones. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span><i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font>The work profile of these non-clinical opportunities was
discussed in the article “Non-Clinical Opportunities for Physicians In India”
published at nonclinicaldoctors.com. The article can be accessed by clicking
<a href="http://www.nonclinicaldoctors.com/medical-career-strategies/non-clinical-opportunities-for-physicians-in-india?fbclid=IwAR1FhG46Yoo6AJmTnKhPxYBGFQXxNdHP0wn_Q0-4IQHF2jAaJlEoDqRZEn8" target="_blank">here</a>.</font></span></i></span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Traditional Non-Clinical Job Opportunities </b></span></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Medical Teacher</b></span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">India has over
450 medical colleges that produce medical graduates of modern medicine. Each
such college has the departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry,
Pathology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine, and Preventive and
Social Medicine which primarily consists of Physician-medical teachers, with
each such college employing around 75 such physicians. Besides the medical
colleges, physicians are additionally employed by standalone dental colleges, nursing colleges, and paramedical colleges. Thus, there
may be over thirty-five thousand physicians engaged in teaching basic
sciences to medical students.</span></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>Chief Medical Officer</b></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">They may also
be known as the Civil-Surgeon/Health-Officer. Currently, each administrative district of India has around
10 to 20 physicians engaged in solely administering the government-administered
health programs. Given the fact that there are over 600 such districts in
India, the number of physicians engaged in administering health programs may exceed
ten thousand. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Medical Scientist</b></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Over 25 ICMR institutes are dedicated to biomedical research and a similar number of Non-ICMR institutes
dedicated to healthcare research employ several hundreds of doctors in the role of a medical scientist. Each such institute commonly employs five to 10 physicians. </span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Newer Non-Clinical Opportunities </b></span></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Medical Diagnostics</b></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Over five
thousand physicians provide radiology services and almost a similar number of
pathologists, microbiologists, medical biochemists put together, providing lab services, thus, resulting in a total number of over ten thousand diagnosis experts. While many of these personnel work
in the premises of hospitals, the recent trends follow that these are only rarely
attached to the hospital as a business unit and mostly work as independent
entities.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Hospital Administration</b></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">These physician
executives usually have a hospital administration qualification or a
general MBA from a business school. Each hospital brings an opportunity for at
least two to five physicians in the role of a hospital administrator<b> </b>popularly
known as the medical superintendent. Given that India has over 500 large
privately owned hospitals having greater than 100 beds, there may be over two
thousand hospital administrator<b> </b>physicians.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices</b></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Each
company may require two to five such positions and given that there are around
400 such successful pharma companies. The number of physicians working in these
two roles in India may be up over two thousand. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Information Technology</b></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There are
about 100 odd companies/startups which offer jobs in different healthcare IT segments, such as,
hospital information systems, artificial intelligence, literature review,
data enrichment services, clinical data management, drug discovery, etc. The
number of physicians working in these companies in India may be about one
thousand. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Insurance</b></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">With over 30
companies dealing with health insurance products and a similar number of TPAs,
Trusts, etc. the insurance industry employs, probably, a few hundred of Indian physicians with two-three physicians working in each organization on average.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Consulting (NGOs/Business)</b></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hundred-odd Indian physicians work as healthcare consultants, with a select few
of them working independently. </span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>P.S.</b> Many of the non-clinical opportunities in India
accept the bachelor’s degree (MBBS) as an entry requirement, but for maximizing career growth and professional satisfaction, a master’s degree (MD/MS) in the
select specialty is preferable. By and large, very few non-clinical careers
demand the physician to hold a doctorate (DM/MCh).</span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Do you agree with the estimates of the numbers of non-clinical doctors in India? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 09/23/2019 07:30 PM</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></span></h4></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. </span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTkZnEFSbfBB5NljCX1AACV83VJlBt_7SMinByAjEIBnM7zNQHWCXHqQU3w4Y1o5MhTC_-GI7wqCeTKBA0fgZvA9cuAsq1rKIz3qoFJJKGevpcTZgCN6dp2IaUZnio90VOU-XgIzkd8s/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTkZnEFSbfBB5NljCX1AACV83VJlBt_7SMinByAjEIBnM7zNQHWCXHqQU3w4Y1o5MhTC_-GI7wqCeTKBA0fgZvA9cuAsq1rKIz3qoFJJKGevpcTZgCN6dp2IaUZnio90VOU-XgIzkd8s/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></h4></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The work profile of these non-clinical opportunities was
discussed in the article “Non-Clinical Opportunities for Physicians In India”
published at nonclinicaldoctors.com. The article can be accessed by clicking
<a href="http://www.nonclinicaldoctors.com/medical-career-strategies/non-clinical-opportunities-for-physicians-in-india?fbclid=IwAR1FhG46Yoo6AJmTnKhPxYBGFQXxNdHP0wn_Q0-4IQHF2jAaJlEoDqRZEn8" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></i></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/why-does-society-need-non-clinical.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5 Reasons Why Society Needs Non-Clinical Doctors</span></a></span></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/a-typical-day-as-medical-specialist.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What You Must Know About Non-Clinical Careers in IT</span></a></span></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-ranjit-roy-chaudhurys-journey_25.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Distinguished Physician Scientist: Dr. Ranjit Roy Chaudhury</span></a></span></span></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-1585302078477008472019-08-27T16:25:00.017+05:302022-08-19T19:46:39.445+05:30Dr. Mahdi Hasan: A Celebrated Anatomist<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Mahdi Hasan – A Celebrated Indian Anatomist</span></span></span></h1><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this article, you will read about Dr. Mahdi Hasan. He was a celebrated anatomist and a true polymath who loved teaching anatomy.</span></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who was Dr. Mahdi Hasan?</span></span></span></h2><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Mahdi Hasan was an Anatomist. </span></span></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Anatomists study the structure of the human body by dissecting it and using specialized techniques such as embalming (preserving the dead body) and microscopy. Dr. Mahdi Hasan was globally recognized for his teaching skills in clinically oriented anatomy as well as for his specialized research </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">in the field of brain research that was </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">conducted by using an electron microscopy technique. </span></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmftq3AUaAQQKZ-cDfGgx_7liQjXGje3TV2b11UjT4W1HAFg6ERP3RyQyrnTUhzIPHeRTp7hJW-8vNlxuIL93ffMNkknmX44V-q_aUASpbmwgcUR8EVK5pQiVcd-9XCIY9anJ-THs5Bzw/s1600/mh.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mahdi hasan anatomist" border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="270" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmftq3AUaAQQKZ-cDfGgx_7liQjXGje3TV2b11UjT4W1HAFg6ERP3RyQyrnTUhzIPHeRTp7hJW-8vNlxuIL93ffMNkknmX44V-q_aUASpbmwgcUR8EVK5pQiVcd-9XCIY9anJ-THs5Bzw/s200/mh.png" title="Dr. Mahdi Hasan" width="200" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: http://medind.nic.in</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h2><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Mahdi Hasan - A Polymath</span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Mahdi Hasan was a true polymath, and he assumed multiple roles in his professional career. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He became the Dean of Studies, Dean of Student Welfare, Principal of Medical College, Chief Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, Director of Brain Research Center at Aligarh Muslim University. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He was an advisor to the WHO, and Govt. of India, a </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">member of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, a member of the </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bajaj Committee on National Educational Policy for Health Sciences. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He was the examiner of the German language at both the Jawahar Lal Nehru University and AMU. He was the </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Founder Director of Era University and President of several scientific societies. He was a distinguished book author who contributed to multiple books and published six books on his own. And above all, he was </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">an internationally renowned teacher of Anatomy, which is a rare feat.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">His original research published in over a hundred papers in the fields of neuroanatomy and neurotoxicity established him as a medical scientist of international repute. He was awarded fellowships and scientific awards from a large number of prestigious organizations. </span></span></span></span></p>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Qualifications of Dr. Mahdi Hasan</span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He completed both his MBBS and MS (Anatomy) from King George Medical College, Lucknow, where he displayed not only academic excellence but, also excellence in sports, being the best student sportsman of the year. For his academic excellence, he was offered specialization in orthopedics, which he declined as he loved teaching and didn't wish to put it on the back burner. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Soon after completing his specialization in Anatomy, he joined AMU, and shortly he was selected for the </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD). He learned electron microscopy from his mentor in Germany along with the German language. He was offered German citizenship which he declined for his love of India. After his return to India, he demonstrated his leadership in both of these skills.</span></span></span></p>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recognition of Dr. Mahdi Hasan's Professional Life</span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Mahdi Hasan was an eminent medical teacher of his time and was a visiting professor or guest lecturer to a large number of international universities. His contribution was recognized by the Medical Council of India through the award of Dr. B. C. Roy Award. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Govt. of India awarded him the prestigious Padma Shri Award in acknowledgment of his contributions to India's healthcare, medical education, and medical science spanning over five decades. He has also been awarded the Lifetime Achievement award by the anatomical society of India. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Mahdi Hasan was married to </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15.8333px; left: 520.001px; top: 1048.17px; transform: scaleX(0.983532);">an Urdu Scholar, Mrs. Abida Mahdi, who died within a month of his death. His legacy is being taken forward by his son Dr. </span>Abbas Ali Mahdi, who is a renowned medical biochemist and currently the vice-chancellor of Era University. </span></span></span></p>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Do you feel inspired by his journey? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></span></span>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References and Further Readings</span></span></span></h2>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1. <a href="https://asiindia.in/files/MahdiHasanBooks.pdf" target="_blank">Padma Shree Dr. Mahdi Hasan</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2. <a href="https://www.ikbooks.com/author-details/mahdihasan/307" target="_blank">Mahdi Hasan</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3. <a href="http://archive.nmji.in/archives/Volume-26/Issue-2/Obituary-Mahdi-Hasan.pdf" target="_blank">Obituary Mahdi Hasan (21 March 1936–12 January 2013)</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">4. <a href="http://medind.nic.in/jae/t13/i1/jaet13i1p93.pdf" target="_blank">Obituary In Memoriam Padmashree Prof. Dr. Mahdi Hasan - A Stalwart of Anatomy</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5. <a href="http://aligarhmovement.com/aligarians/Prof_Mehdi_Hasan/A_tribute_to_Father_of_Anatomy" target="_blank">A tribute to Father of Anatomy Prof. Mahdi Hasan (1936-2013)</a> </span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Views expressed are personal</span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 09/01/2019 10:30 AM</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-coluthur-gopalans-journey.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Coluthur Gopalan: Nutritionist Par Excellence</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/mastering-science-and-scientific-methods.html" target="_blank">The Challenge of Mastering Medical Science</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/working-with-diverse-teams-and.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Challenge of Diversity in Non-Clinical Careers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></li>
</ol>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 474px;"><tbody>
<tr height="20"><td height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 356pt;" width="474"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 474px;"><tbody>
<tr height="20"><td height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 356pt;" width="474"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-50411751380824311122019-08-26T18:16:00.012+05:302022-07-20T11:50:56.509+05:30The Challenge of Mastering Medical Science <h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mastering Medical Science - A Shifting Goalpost</span></span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Four decades</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> spent in their professional life may turn out to be insufficient for many non-clinical MBBS/MD doctors in their quest to fully master medical science. </span></span></p>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Though, with hard work and the presence of the right professional mentor (guru), it is possible.</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mastering medical sciences are particularly difficult due to its ever-expanding nature and less exposure to scientific methods in the curriculum of </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">medical courses. Working along with non-medico medical scientists can help </span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">the non-clinical doctors i</span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">n improving their scientific acumen and the spirit of scientific inquiry. </span></span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Ever-Expanding Nature of Medical Science</span></span></h2>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDmW6SMWKN4SEhOYw4K5yDWl4gyXggIy52OdfpfFiVWcVFA-lfOPQonGBWLNYWXGfipTpL5U4fWXqh5LCKv56w4uMtzp9zZrQp9B4mlNqG1KVdZoJvGTNcF5ywxQExD9HG-VFgqPdLMk/s1600/shield-229112_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Learning Medical Science" border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDmW6SMWKN4SEhOYw4K5yDWl4gyXggIy52OdfpfFiVWcVFA-lfOPQonGBWLNYWXGfipTpL5U4fWXqh5LCKv56w4uMtzp9zZrQp9B4mlNqG1KVdZoJvGTNcF5ywxQExD9HG-VFgqPdLMk/w200-h150/shield-229112_640.jpg" title="Mastering Medical Science" width="200" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Gerd Altmann from Pixabay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Medical sciences by nature are vast and seem to be endless. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If one analyzes the growth of medical science in the last forty years in relation to a professional who started his/her journey forty years back, one could probably find that if the professional didn't upgrade himself/herself then he/she would be irrelevant now.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Just to keep pace with changes in medical science takes huge efforts at the end of professionals. Just imagine the efforts required to advance and master medical science. Mastering medical science is by no means a small task. </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The challenge is only getting bigger in the light of a globally connected world with more number of scientific publications being published than ever! </span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Limited Exposure to Scientific Methods in Medical Courses</span></span></h2>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxzV3BJrfeMHqtzNGzyLVZJ77W6idLe8IkQruldDjipQEXEUXLMSSNNE1_mzU7Udu4pvO9hQAHw1VEAKVYoBA-UZoZw2JHiOR_3Cn3aZacSIX34_zMEVFsfIg9livhTyLaB2cwixzGPo/s1600/books-1245690_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Medical training" border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxzV3BJrfeMHqtzNGzyLVZJ77W6idLe8IkQruldDjipQEXEUXLMSSNNE1_mzU7Udu4pvO9hQAHw1VEAKVYoBA-UZoZw2JHiOR_3Cn3aZacSIX34_zMEVFsfIg9livhTyLaB2cwixzGPo/s200/books-1245690_640.jpg" title="Life in the medical school" width="200" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Free-Photos from Pixabay
</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Graduate medical courses like the British MBBS system or the American MDs are typically designed to produce clinicians.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The designers of these medical courses direct all resources to produce clinically relevant or clinically oriented content. Even the human anatomy has the mandatory section of "clinical importance" Scientific departments in a medical college or medical school take pride in calling them clinical, pre-clinical or para-clinical rather than addressing them as "non-clinical" which is many times seen as something having a lesser value. The medical graduates are not familiarized with the basic skills of medical writing and scientific methods. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Post Graduate courses or the British MD system and American Residency system fare somewhat better at introducing the spirit of science and imparting scientific skills. Here also the focus is more on the core activities of the department like dissection, lab work, or teaching, and mastering "science" seems a lesser goal.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The real introduction to medical science starts only after obtaining a formal doctorate. This sad state when the "Doctor" is exposed to only a little science is not comparable across any other scientific stream.</span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Challenges Emerging From Working with Non-medico Scientists</span></span></h2>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr89BJhRgpCrWHKvTVurJQ9VdUpHWRUpL_E9gVgn12FX2U4IH919QI5GCIOqhpvzv523Km7FzwQplVppV25JbC7zFbhN_xLRnL9tA8Xy9ZH10XKn0wP2xTW8Tfelq6LPVZJRD6IB1TODM/s1600/people-3152585_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr89BJhRgpCrWHKvTVurJQ9VdUpHWRUpL_E9gVgn12FX2U4IH919QI5GCIOqhpvzv523Km7FzwQplVppV25JbC7zFbhN_xLRnL9tA8Xy9ZH10XKn0wP2xTW8Tfelq6LPVZJRD6IB1TODM/s200/people-3152585_640.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">rawpixel from Pixabay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Non-medico, medical scientists can be found in almost every medical college or research institute. These are people who have done graduation, post-graduation, and a doctorate in basic sciences like microbiology, physiology, statistics, etc. They work in teams along with the medico non-clinical doctor. </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Since these people are not medical doctors they may not be the expert about the clinical relevance, but they are much more trained in scientific inquiry and methods. In a healthy work culture, both of these can complement each other and work as a team with the common goal of the advancement of clinically relevant medical science. </span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Optimizing Medical Science by Working with the Right Institution and Mentor </span></span></h2>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBAF_TBUZAtLQRY5NZ6azKnQiCeaw_bOSbFS9g8Ei7mCaRIL8pI2ilMA5mK-THIwuw_b1cB8c8uwwrp7W_JImd8Ow-_MZPWOH4zJzd5gJcTxRJzsaXlehE3reaFp7Duur7MqYOhBnTb0/s1600/elephant-2380009_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mentoring" border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="640" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBAF_TBUZAtLQRY5NZ6azKnQiCeaw_bOSbFS9g8Ei7mCaRIL8pI2ilMA5mK-THIwuw_b1cB8c8uwwrp7W_JImd8Ow-_MZPWOH4zJzd5gJcTxRJzsaXlehE3reaFp7Duur7MqYOhBnTb0/s200/elephant-2380009_640.jpg" title="Need of a Guru" width="200" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Jonny Lindner ay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<p style="text-align: left;">Many times, learning a new scientific method or technique may be feasible only at a different institution that may even be located far away in a different continent. The non-clinical doctor who wants to master science would be often traveling across seven seas to learn a new concept/technique to stay in a different culture. </p>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It is said that Guru is more important than God in order of precedence as it is the guru who introduces us to God. </span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Similarly, the right mentor or lack of it can make or break careers. Most successful non-clinical always venerate their mentors even long after they are gone forever. The role of a good mentor in professional life is not to be undervalued. </span></span><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Getting Recognized as an Expert and Its After-effects</span></span></h2>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqJQey6PAxVGh5k-kONMoLFj41RvZZDj_LbM3nQRBryxFBz_OZqDzNm4HJa4hK4Jh1ghHhOqQLEVSLUFslv5v59gfbkvb1f9eoJR75DJhXE0C45NktOnxGJUyiGh0yXauioZYs3hX7ks/s1600/download-1002802_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqJQey6PAxVGh5k-kONMoLFj41RvZZDj_LbM3nQRBryxFBz_OZqDzNm4HJa4hK4Jh1ghHhOqQLEVSLUFslv5v59gfbkvb1f9eoJR75DJhXE0C45NktOnxGJUyiGh0yXauioZYs3hX7ks/s200/download-1002802_640.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Image by: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm vertical">Peggy und Marco</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Even with the right mindset, team, and mentor, getting recognized as a master of medical science is not easy. It requires lots of hard work to really master medical science or be a part of it. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">One would need to be focused enough to identify one's interests and see whether the current set of his/her team and mentors is the right fit. One has to find meaningful original scientific questions and find their solutions. The solutions that are proposed, need to be presented to the scientific community for further debate and discussion. The process has to repeat endlessly until the person develops a mastery of the subject. Presenting your original thoughts for peer review and accepting their criticism has to be learned over time, so as to be considered worthy of the title of the "expert"</span></span><br /><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Once one reaches the professional heights of an expert, life takes a fast forward to newer challenges. One of them is the ability to mentor others. Secondly, the expert should be able to provide answers or hypotheses to the most complex prevailing scientific problems. The expert has to also look after various new scientific engagements and partnerships formed as a result of his expertise. The policymakers, as well as the media, expect the expert to provide immediate ready solutions to broader public policy challenges.</span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence"</i> - Abigail Adams</span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did you get a pulse of the challenges faced by a non-clinical doctor? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 08/26/2019 07:30 PM</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. </span></span></span></span><br /><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-mahdi-hasan-polymath-who-loved.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Celebrated Anatomist: Mahdi Hasan</span></a></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/why-does-society-need-non-clinical.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Why Does Society Need Non-Clinical Doctors?</span></a></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/working-with-diverse-teams-and.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Challenge of Diversity in Non-Clinical Careers</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-53772886768367482742019-08-22T19:11:00.016+05:302022-08-19T19:48:23.604+05:30Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti's Crusade Against Rabies<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti – The Co-Developer of a Low-Cost Anti-Rabies Regimen</span></h1><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this article, you will read about the professional life of Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti, a renowned epidemiologist from India. Dr. Bharti is credited for the development of a novel anti-rabies regimen.</span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who is Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti?</span></h2><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti is an Epidemiologist.<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Along with his research partners, Dr. Omesh steered the development of a </span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">low-cost </span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">anti-rabies regimen.</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">An epidemiologist is a physician who is employed to study, prevent, and control epidemics or disease outbreaks. </span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_lNqwOI010ae-fVrZed2fTY1yZn8eW1WKBobqA1rDrq3sNbgOCSzphDgDi-wCHzfKer-PhxBfCiP_mj4fGwLUps_MY4V1XfV9IrFtD1n_3krgLAZblbCXJOb99GVfd_ej1Gd_jxUH-k/s1600/Omesh-visa-photo-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Omesh Kumar Bharti" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_lNqwOI010ae-fVrZed2fTY1yZn8eW1WKBobqA1rDrq3sNbgOCSzphDgDi-wCHzfKer-PhxBfCiP_mj4fGwLUps_MY4V1XfV9IrFtD1n_3krgLAZblbCXJOb99GVfd_ej1Gd_jxUH-k/s200/Omesh-visa-photo-1.jpg" title="Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: http://www.she-india.org</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">High Cost of Rabies Vaccine - A Barrier in Anti-Rabies Programs</span></span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Rabies
which spreads through dog bites and other forms of animal exposure is a
rare human disease without a cure, but ironically, rabies is completely preventable. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To prevent rabies the patient requires a set of vaccines. One of those vaccines has a very high cost. The previous </span></span>expert guidelines recommended the dose of that vaccine as per the body weight of the patient. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti's Contributions to Rabies Control</span></span></h2><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Omesh along with his research partners planned and conducted a huge study to determine a new regimen based on the number and size of animal bites instead of the body weight. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Their study showed that the new regimen was equally effective as well as safer than the expert guidelines as the patient was exposed only to one-tenth of the original dose. These findings were later accepted by the expert bodies and the new WHO recommendations citing these studies recommended the new regimen.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The implication of their research was that now for the same amount of money spent; ten times the original patients could receive the vaccine. The study and its continuous advocacy at various scientific and administrative forums took him more than a decade to finally see the change in expert recommendations.</span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">High costs of healthcare and inflation in healthcare costs are one of the biggest problems with modern medicine and it limits the universal availability of medical care. In this scenario, any intervention which reduces the cost of an established treatment is welcome, but with the rider that it should be at least equally medically effective. To cross this barrier, it requires high-quality scientific studies to prove that the cheaper version is not less effective and the health of people is not being risked to save money. Also, commercial interests may favor the already established higher-cost treatment. Dr. Bharti's team crossed all these hurdles to make low-cost preventive treatment for rabies a reality.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">His contributions to the further scientific advancement of rabies vaccination do not stop with the development of the low-cost regime. His fight to eliminate human deaths due to rabies continues in the form of many other studies with his team and collaborators.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Other Notable Professional Contributions of Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Other than his famous contribution to the fight against rabies, he has silently made notable contributions as an epidemiologist in the areas of blood donation, ambulance services management, disease surveillance, maternal health, snakebite management, and polio eradication. He is also active through NGOs like Snakebite Healing and Education Society, Himachal Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Lok Kalyan Samiti, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, etc.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He did his MBBS
from the Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, and completed his higher
studies in epidemiology and public health at the National Institute of Epidemiology and National Institute of Health and Family Welfare. The government</span> of India has recently awarded him with Padma Shri in order to appreciate his contributions to India's healthcare.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span><br />
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Prevention is better than cure</i> - Desiderius Erasmus</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure</i> - Henry de Bracton</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Do you feel inspired by his journey? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References and Further Reading</span></span></span></h2>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1. <a href="http://www.she-india.org/team/dr-omesh-kumar-bharti/" target="_blank">Padma Shri (Dr.) Omesh Kumar Bharti</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964710/" target="_blank">Local infiltration of rabies immunoglobulins without systemic intramuscular administration: An alternative cost effective approach for passive immunization against rabies</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3. <a href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/jan/27/a-doctor-who-made-rabies-treatment-cheap-1930508.html" target="_blank">This Himachal Pradesh doctor made rabies treatment cheap</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">4. <a href="https://www.thestatesman.com/features/life-saving-initiative-1502587915.html" target="_blank">A life-saving initiative</a></span></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5. <a href="http://www.ijcm.org.in/article.asp?issn=0970-0218;year=2017;volume=42;issue=4;spage=248;epage=249;aulast=Bharti" target="_blank">"Scratches/Abrasions without bleeding” cause rabies: A 7 years rabies death review from medical college Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India</a> </span></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Views expressed are personal</span></i></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM</span></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/a-typical-day-as-field-epidemiologist.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">All You Need To Know About Field Epidemiologists</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/oh-you-dont-treat-patients.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Oh! You Don't Treat Patients!</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-ranjit-roy-chaudhurys-journey_25.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Distinguished Physician Scientist: Dr. Ranjit Roy Chaudhury</span></a></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-39764663199359084532019-08-19T16:27:00.013+05:302021-11-21T13:11:25.605+05:30All You Need to Know About Field Epidemiologists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Typical Day As A Field Epidemiologist In A Disease Surveillance Program</span></span></h1><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this article, you will find information about the role and responsibilities of an epidemiologist based in the field. You will be also able to understand a typical workday of the field epidemiologist and the associated challenges.</span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What Does an Epidemiologist Do?</span></span></h2><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Surveillance is a word related to policing or intelligence gathering and refers to a close watch or scrutiny of anything. An epidemiologist is a physician who is employed to study, prevent, and control epidemics or disease outbreaks.</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU6m_wJa9BXzGhHjoQb2i5rT0zHip83zMsq_phNd16jBqZQEzbzgUVf7R9XIU37UiJGzD5yd8ILgnXpUGewjZ1j31-N0lNE1WrwLJDNYg5tHnCc8IdelC5X93_x5CYbXnHOOV0oyoB6DU/s1600/surveillance-2616771_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Surveillance" border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU6m_wJa9BXzGhHjoQb2i5rT0zHip83zMsq_phNd16jBqZQEzbzgUVf7R9XIU37UiJGzD5yd8ILgnXpUGewjZ1j31-N0lNE1WrwLJDNYg5tHnCc8IdelC5X93_x5CYbXnHOOV0oyoB6DU/s400/surveillance-2616771_640.jpg" title="Disease Surveillance" width="400" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">StockSnap from Pixabay</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">MBBS/MD Epidemiologists can work with different types of health organizations and in various capacities.</span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Work Profile of a Field Epidemiologist</span></span></h2></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The field-based epidemiologist works at the periphery, generally at the office of the district chief medical/health officer, where the epidemiologist investigates suspected disease outbreaks and epidemics and suggests remedial measures for their prevention and control in the district. A district is the fundamental administrative unit in India.</span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Surveillance - Collecting Information</b></span></span></h3></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Obtaining information for disease surveillance is one of the core responsibilities of the field epidemiologist. The surveillance is carried out by the epidemiologist for both the pre-defined and known health problems, such as Malaria, Typhoid, Dengue, and Diarrhea as well as for the unforeseen problems leading to a sudden spurt of deaths or disability in his area of jurisdiction, such as Ebola, Encephalitis and Swine Flu. The surveillance program could be an integrated program focusing on multiple diseases or a specialized one, for example, only focusing on Flood, Polio, or Cancer. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The epidemiologist also unevenly obtains information from local media outlets and the newspapers/periodicals published in the territory. Sometimes epidemiologists may receive medical information from political leaders, NGOs, school teachers, postmen, or any layperson from the society. These sources may often provide more rumors but rarely these are the only and the first source of an outbreak. <br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzneKD24NyzOROxKt8cSKdsbAupctCDT7Q7V8UpnETB6gbnpuc-Sbvgg6bWS3n3fD43O5654C72k5eijEVateRkfYGuN1-RGbjFoKjAQjySWhg1zfXQM-YGviaZmDX3FsWFYdX0fFnCbY/s1600/questions-2245264_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Six honest men" border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="640" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzneKD24NyzOROxKt8cSKdsbAupctCDT7Q7V8UpnETB6gbnpuc-Sbvgg6bWS3n3fD43O5654C72k5eijEVateRkfYGuN1-RGbjFoKjAQjySWhg1zfXQM-YGviaZmDX3FsWFYdX0fFnCbY/s400/questions-2245264_640.jpg" title="Epidemiology" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Gerd Altman </span><span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">from Pixabay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Team of a Field Epidemiologist</span></span></h3></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The epidemiologist usually heads a small team of 10 to 30 health workers/surveyors and their 2 to 3 supervisors. These numbers may vary from district to district but one fact remains the same throughout that these people are the eyes and ears of the epidemiologist when it comes to actively receiving and verifying information related to suspected cases and outbreaks. The epidemiologist also receives periodic passive information reports from the designated reporting units, who are the formal and informal healthcare providers in the territory. </span></span><br /><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Epidemiologist - The Go-to Source of Information in a Crisis</span></span></h3></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The epidemiologist doesn't only obtain information from these sources. The epidemiologist is also the trusted source of <b>disseminating information</b>, who is looked upon by everybody during an outbreak. </span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNTEkm378ZynruHT-DiB4NZ6ojmxTG-mdu1YES2QhZNV4P9RKGt-03dWHP0CTRcJW5lumO3GVyfsQk3jCteln101C4L3OhApe9xiffVxfRYPFj157anaPviuiCCw8JhqCfYoK57XvnOMw/s1600/beach-1851083_640%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Information" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNTEkm378ZynruHT-DiB4NZ6ojmxTG-mdu1YES2QhZNV4P9RKGt-03dWHP0CTRcJW5lumO3GVyfsQk3jCteln101C4L3OhApe9xiffVxfRYPFj157anaPviuiCCw8JhqCfYoK57XvnOMw/s200/beach-1851083_640%25281%2529.jpg" title="Disseminating Information" width="200" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="attribution_field hide-sm vertical">Image by Pexels from Pixabay
</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div>An epidemiologist supplies the information about the status of the spread and containment of the outbreak and the availability of remedial measures. The epidemiologist coordinates the information with those higher-ups in the hierarchy of health departments as well as the district administration. The epidemiologist may be the most sought-after person in the district during an outbreak. The epidemiologist may also be trusted to oversee health education activities during the outbreak, although it is the responsibility of the communication department. Be it a global pandemic of swine flu or a local food poisoning or the monsoon-related higher frequencies of diseases, the epidemiologist is always on his toes coordinating with other health officials to the relief of people.</div><div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;">Outbreak Investigation - The Testing Time for Epidemiologist's Acumen</h2></div><div><br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIb2ElhPFS3LEVuvvu1tyqIDi7TU2WTLyrXFlTXBxaU2Lp6RKieYi9tpTdgd_we9vpXZUK72-jVbF5E4Hkk-1xOPIpfoCPH9vzTjOWVIbjPE6LZI-VMWpYoiI0tFuZKKd-odlGi8-3vgM/s1600/district-210976_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Outbreak" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIb2ElhPFS3LEVuvvu1tyqIDi7TU2WTLyrXFlTXBxaU2Lp6RKieYi9tpTdgd_we9vpXZUK72-jVbF5E4Hkk-1xOPIpfoCPH9vzTjOWVIbjPE6LZI-VMWpYoiI0tFuZKKd-odlGi8-3vgM/s200/district-210976_640.jpg" title="Epidemic" width="200" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="attribution_field hide-sm vertical">
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div>The epidemiologist spends lots of time in field-based activities like investigating reported outbreaks, taking specimen samples of water, food, mosquito larvae, etc. from the environment and blood, throat swab, stool samples, etc. from the patient, surveying households for active case hunt, meeting public representatives, inspecting health center and their readiness for managing outbreaks, inspecting mosquito control spray, distributing chlorine tablets, fever tablets, ORS supplies, etc. </div><div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So, he/she may usually be provided a utility vehicle with the services of a driver and an administrative secretariat in his office with a control room. This also acts as the epidemiologist's meeting room for his daily and weekly meetings with executives or as the training center while he is conducting a workshop for health officers from his jurisdiction. This also serves as the data center which houses documented reports received from reporting units and the rumor registry.</span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Other Career Options As an Epidemiologist</b></span></span></h2></div><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Other positions </b>where the epidemiologists could work are: </span></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The office of State/National level health officers, where they supervise the work of district-level epidemiologists and help in the formulation of policies and programs.</span></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Multilateral organizations or NGOs, where they work as consultants and help in monitoring, and evaluating health programs, and tracking the progress of government initiatives.</span></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Teaching and training institutions, where they do academic, research work, and conduct training for the workforce.</span></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hospitals, where they take care of infection control programs etc. and support the research team.</span></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Consulting companies, which advise governments on health programs as interdisciplinary team members. They may sometimes also practice as independent healthcare consultants.</span></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Challenges of Working As a Field Epidemiologist</span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Working as a field-based epidemiologist brings with it a few unique challenges that may not be seen in the above positions. These unique challenges may even cause burnout among epidemiologists. </span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8Uj2JEdGrsev4erh-4d90XaBKkklVctzEx1aEiM37y99WimfO-PUOyE60342WklKSXzQoSdkNuNjXXMWN0DNBUyHh0iBKt0q0F-YAEgrTqq1bH2Y0-tB2KIRYG_OOlfvGBVYhpmqXDE/s1600/adult-1850268_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="stress" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8Uj2JEdGrsev4erh-4d90XaBKkklVctzEx1aEiM37y99WimfO-PUOyE60342WklKSXzQoSdkNuNjXXMWN0DNBUyHh0iBKt0q0F-YAEgrTqq1bH2Y0-tB2KIRYG_OOlfvGBVYhpmqXDE/s320/adult-1850268_640.jpg" title="Burnout" width="212" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="attribution_field hide-sm vertical">
Image by Pexels from Pixabay
</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Helplessness: This is a result of many operating factors, i.e. being alone in the field, not receiving support from the other departments, a hostile community, and vested interests, lack of guidelines or delay in their availability, stretched finances and other resources. </span></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanklessness: Prevention is better than cure, but the one who cures people gets all the credit and the one who prevents may never even be thanked; he/she may be just seen as doing his/her job. One would in the least probability receive a big award or honor for service to public health as compared to a cardiologist. On the other hand, one error in managing the epidemic could land you in problems. </span></span></li>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Job Insecurity: Many times surveillance programs are temporary and funded by donor agencies. In such cases, the contractual nature of the job may cause the build-up of insecurity about the career. Will my job stay? Will I get relocated? Will the project funding continue? Will the support staff be laid off? These kinds of questions would be raised many times to the epidemiologist by the team members. </span></span></li>
</ul>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Epidemiology is in large part a collection of methods for finding things out on the basis of scant evidence, and this by its nature is difficult. </i>-Alex Broadbent</span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did you get a pulse of the work profile of a field-based epidemiologist? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project and the National Polio Surveillance Project. </span></span></span></span><br /><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTkZnEFSbfBB5NljCX1AACV83VJlBt_7SMinByAjEIBnM7zNQHWCXHqQU3w4Y1o5MhTC_-GI7wqCeTKBA0fgZvA9cuAsq1rKIz3qoFJJKGevpcTZgCN6dp2IaUZnio90VOU-XgIzkd8s/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTkZnEFSbfBB5NljCX1AACV83VJlBt_7SMinByAjEIBnM7zNQHWCXHqQU3w4Y1o5MhTC_-GI7wqCeTKBA0fgZvA9cuAsq1rKIz3qoFJJKGevpcTZgCN6dp2IaUZnio90VOU-XgIzkd8s/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-omesh-kumar-bharti-codeveloper-of.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti's Crusade Against Rabies</span></a></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/if-you-were-clinician-you-would-have.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Financial Challenges in Non-Clinical Careers</span></a></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-ranjit-roy-chaudhurys-journey_25.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Distinguished Physician Scientist: Dr. Ranjit Roy Chaudhury</span></a></span></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-3103756989670849982019-08-17T13:44:00.016+05:302022-08-19T19:50:37.974+05:30Dr. Harsh Mahajan: A Renowned Radiologist <h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Front Runner of Modern Imaging Techniques in India: Dr. Harsh Mahajan</span></span></span></span></h1><div><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this article, you will read about Dr. Harsh Mahajan's professional journey. You will find out how he transformed the diagnostic radiology field in India.</span></span></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who is Dr. Harsh Mahajan?</span></span></span></span></h2><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Harsh Mahajan is a radiologist. </span></span></span></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A radiologist deals with radiation-based imaging of the human body. With the use of sophisticated techniques like X Rays, Magnetic Resonance, Positron Emission, Gamma Rays, Ultrasonic waves, etc. they help clinicians in diagnosing the nature of diseases and measuring their extent/severity in the body.</span></span></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4JdgNBhRmBVDniuhWnEZSzAz0rbRbsKCojVd4K3SoIMeyk9wTbUm9_dT-3dMoa-zm6F4HYUSFCrQpbgfIZbYCOuFI8c8OntEJPBq7rnXKD7SFaNkNAGuuZka9d5VLML25lvWs_IgBug/s1600/mh.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dr. Mahajan (Mahajan Imaging)" border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="203" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4JdgNBhRmBVDniuhWnEZSzAz0rbRbsKCojVd4K3SoIMeyk9wTbUm9_dT-3dMoa-zm6F4HYUSFCrQpbgfIZbYCOuFI8c8OntEJPBq7rnXKD7SFaNkNAGuuZka9d5VLML25lvWs_IgBug/w195-h200/mh.png" title="Dr. Harsh Mahajan" width="195" /></a></span></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image Credit: http://www.mahajanimaging.com</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Qualifications of Dr. Harsh Mahajan</span></span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Harsh Mahajan wanted to pursue an MD in internal medicine but, destiny had other plans. Falling short of a few ranks in the postgraduate entrance examination, he chose a career in radiology, his second preference.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He received his medical education from prestigious institutes, namely, the Maulana Azad Medical College and PGIMER Chandigarh. Following his MD from PGI, he was awarded the Rotary International Foundation Scholarship which enabled him to train in advanced radiology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in the U.S.A. There he was exposed to the most advanced radiology technique of that time, the MRI. He joined as a faculty in the same department after his scholarship term and stayed there for over a year. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Harsh Mahajan on The Frontlines of Indian Radiology</span></span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He returned to India to work with the goal of advancing radiology services in India. He thought of joining a government apex institute that had an MRI machine. Once again, destiny had other plans. There was no vacancy available for the next couple of years in that institute and he had to work in other hospitals. This kept him away from MRI but wasn't able to reduce his interest in the technique. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He thought of opening an MRI center on his own. Being from a humble background he could not do it alone. He found an investor in the form of a family friend but was still short of funds as the cost of an MRI machine is very high. He applied for a bank loan which took a couple of years to be approved. He waited patiently and finally opened the first privately owned MRI center in India, owning the fourth MRI machine in the country.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From there he never looked back and expanded in terms of scale as well in bringing other modern radio-logical techniques to the Indian market. Through his brand "Mahajan Imaging" Today he boasts of seven such centers that are equipped with the most modern and diverse radiological techniques employing over 400 people. He also holds many global records for performing the highest number of scans per machine. He pioneered the use of PET-CT, CB-CT, CT-Angiography, 3-D Mammography, DEXA, SPECT, Silent MRI, and functional MRI in the Indian market. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Legacy of Dr. Harsh Mahajan</span></span></span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Mahajan has performed thousands of such scans free of cost for poor patients referred by government hospitals spread all across northern India. Two of his centers were established in government hospitals following the Public-Private Partnership model. He serves as an honorary physician to the President of India and he has been awarded the Padma Shri by Govt. of India in recognition of his contribution to India's healthcare.</span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Besides being a medical and managing director for his centers, he is active in high-end radiological research in collaboration with institutes like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as in the training of next-generation radiologists both from India and other Asian countries. </span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He has also been the President of the Indian Association of Radiologists and an active member on the advisory boards of several other national and international organizations in the domain of healthcare and social work. He is a well-renowned speaker in the field of healthcare and has delivered hundreds of lectures on MRI.</span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <i> </i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>"You change before you have to"</i> - Jack Welch (Dr. Mahajan's preferred quotation)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Do you feel inspired by his journey? Feel free to share your views.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">References and Further Readings</span></span></span></span></h2>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1. <a href="http://www.mahajanimaging.com/about-mahajan.html" target="_blank">Dr. Harsh Mahajan, MD Founder & Chief Radiologist</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2. <a href="https://deemagclinic.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/interview-dr-harsh-mahajan/" target="_blank">Interview- Dr Harsh Mahajan</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3. <a href="https://ehealth.eletsonline.com/2011/06/radiology-is-the-backbone-of-healthcare-industry-dr-harsh-mahajan-medical-and-managing-director/" target="_blank">“Radiology is the backbone of healthcare industry” : Dr Harsh Mahajan, Medical and Managing Director</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">4. <a href="https://www.indiamedicaltimes.com/2014/02/25/delhi-gets-asias-first-silent-mri-system/" target="_blank">Delhi gets Asia’s first ‘Silent’ MRI system</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5. <a href="https://healthcare.siliconindia.com/vendor/mahajan-imaging-patientcentric-innovators-revolutionizing-the-medical-imaging-paradigm-cid-2986.html" target="_blank">Mahajan Imaging: Patient-Centric Innovators Revolutionizing the Medical Imaging Paradigm</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Views expressed are personal</span></i></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM</span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></span></div>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-arvind-lals-journey_2.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Revolutionary Pathologist: Dr. Arvind Lal</span></a></span></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/if-you-were-clinician-you-would-have.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Financial Challenges in Non-Clinical Careers</span></a></span></span></li>
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
<span face="verdana, sans-serif">
</span>
</span>
<li><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><span face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-suniti-solomon.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Suniti Solomon: India's Crusader For HIV Positive People</span></a></span></span></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-68286866410140093312019-08-14T16:11:00.012+05:302021-11-21T13:08:38.909+05:30The Challenge of Diversity in Non-Clinical Careers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Diversity-Related Challenges Faced in Non-Clinical Careers</span></h1><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Many non-clinical MBBS/MD doctors work with teams of people who resemble very little with them in education, training, and may have completely unrelated skill sets. Quite often, they may be the only doctor in their team or perhaps the only doctor in their organization.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0de2GbojVI4l6p6LO7zTn7JC-6Y9EeD4G2qmMPRFfhRrAT7Cy3bUevGPoyMgN1JY3qhlG8fV-ZBoyMMUX0I92gzAgIhnePSZfDpizImLuMOGYKTZ3V9lhEb1nJseB_b8L0fjp8bW9MAg/s1600/handshake-2009195_640.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="teamwork" border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="640" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0de2GbojVI4l6p6LO7zTn7JC-6Y9EeD4G2qmMPRFfhRrAT7Cy3bUevGPoyMgN1JY3qhlG8fV-ZBoyMMUX0I92gzAgIhnePSZfDpizImLuMOGYKTZ3V9lhEb1nJseB_b8L0fjp8bW9MAg/s640/handshake-2009195_640.png" title="Diverse teams" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">John Hain from Pixabay</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Working with diverse teams and environments produces many operational challenges in the profession of non-clinical doctors. Some of the important challenges are described below: </span></div>
<div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Non-Clinical Doctor - A Lone Warrior</b></span></h2>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0MJitJ7pAgudRj6tFPEDeYuPntcuBz7T84cnCv8W0yrRW7KmKw6tawtZn6TDjsy3gAFoGnFw6C3sUg6p7Vws5iUhqq4pr2BAyl4TxK0IW9-h3vp-hHet5TyrdlBBJSkH-_dRMIvpKtw/s1600/alone-2666433_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Working Alone" border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0MJitJ7pAgudRj6tFPEDeYuPntcuBz7T84cnCv8W0yrRW7KmKw6tawtZn6TDjsy3gAFoGnFw6C3sUg6p7Vws5iUhqq4pr2BAyl4TxK0IW9-h3vp-hHet5TyrdlBBJSkH-_dRMIvpKtw/s200/alone-2666433_640.jpg" title="Loneliness" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Grae Dickason
</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For somebody who is used to being around doctors transitioning to a new culture can lead to a lonely feeling. If not loneliness lack of community to associate with can be experienced, especially when there are pre-existing communities of people with different qualifications and work profiles. For somebody accustomed to being around doctors, mixing with nondoctor peers could be difficult and there may be permanent invisible walls that the physician may need to break to be a part of the team.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Unclear Career Paths in Non-Clinical Roles</b></span></h2>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaR8eE-lCQeMJKE3D7nkLexQ8BlftTFEoglvzJCNSMvrAT_XqCDq3so4BY_1ITCGznsR401bMhewRTjVFbFii1uS9G3QRDJIAbtilLIjaNXH0FWln6Evw5cckHiyntP12AK5OvEhsmc4/s1600/career-3386334_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Career growth" border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="640" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaR8eE-lCQeMJKE3D7nkLexQ8BlftTFEoglvzJCNSMvrAT_XqCDq3so4BY_1ITCGznsR401bMhewRTjVFbFii1uS9G3QRDJIAbtilLIjaNXH0FWln6Evw5cckHiyntP12AK5OvEhsmc4/s200/career-3386334_640.jpg" title="Career Graph" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Mohamed Hassan</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In many organizations, the cadres and career graphs for doctors may not be well defined, unlike other employees. The physician may feel that he was hired at a junior level or role than his qualification leading to dissatisfaction. There may be the opposite case also, when the physician though younger in age may be hired at the middle or senior level in the organization generating resistance among other employees.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Diverse Teams in Non-Clinical Roles</b></span></h2>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbvrpsMBENKTvfLIANuZ13UpcJpLktdM9JfhPbHVVX0q9HRRvcC78UpPn5kO566kevbPtXLJKrDNYlzWOeyrQJPq31Nred0XGAtH6I5u6cg0eLB84I311xFdMqVRXf-dX_Nff7Ed1lB4/s1600/light-bulbs-1125016_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="differences" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbvrpsMBENKTvfLIANuZ13UpcJpLktdM9JfhPbHVVX0q9HRRvcC78UpPn5kO566kevbPtXLJKrDNYlzWOeyrQJPq31Nred0XGAtH6I5u6cg0eLB84I311xFdMqVRXf-dX_Nff7Ed1lB4/s200/light-bulbs-1125016_640.jpg" title="Non medico subordinates and bosses" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Colin Behrens</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The physician may be leading or managing paramedical people, administrative employees, and sometimes totally unrelated positions like an office peon. Those people may not fully appreciate the job and responsibilities of their boss. They may compare him to former nondoctor bosses or to a clinician whom they know. They may try to judge the clinical acumen of the non-clinical doctor and question his competency. They may ask for favors like a second opinion, prescription, or a medical certificate from their boss not fully realizing the non-clinical nature of his work.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>A Non-Medical Boss - The Worst Nightmare of a Non-Clinical Doctor</b></span></h2>
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There may be a case that the boss has never worked with a physician before. On the contrary, there can also be cases when the boss has worked with multiple physicians before but he could not get along with them due to ego issues. Both these situations will present several challenges for the non-clinical doctor. For a non-clinical doctor, it may take much longer to establish a healthy work relationship with a non-medico boss. The boss may not be fully aware of the technicalities of the job and may hate medical jargon. The boss may expect oversimplification of the outputs produced by the physician's ordinary tasks. The boss may not use the prefix of "doctor" while addressing the physician which he/she may be so used to.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The Fast Pace of Change in Non-Clinical Roles</b></span></h2>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLqt77Hmf4G91rWwANEEql6h71iIh_oklmnjDIMg7VsCtx8MP5YRAbFu0tVFgj-w5wjA9Qqwb0X3ON4JVA4Bku9Op4M3KpoNgRxZZJJTztyNPwzX04JoPxfo3s5qrNhf9KD89k3N-Syg/s1600/change-948024_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Multitasking" border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLqt77Hmf4G91rWwANEEql6h71iIh_oklmnjDIMg7VsCtx8MP5YRAbFu0tVFgj-w5wjA9Qqwb0X3ON4JVA4Bku9Op4M3KpoNgRxZZJJTztyNPwzX04JoPxfo3s5qrNhf9KD89k3N-Syg/s200/change-948024_640.jpg" title="Frequent change" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Gerd Altmann</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The non-clinical doctor may be frequently reassigned new tasks with time and due to project needs. Multitasking and working with newer teams may be demanded by the job more often than expected. There may be back to square one position several times. The physician may be transferred across roles or geographical places or products. The team may see conflicts and have unrealistic expectations of work or compensation which the physician would have to manage.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <b><br /></b></span><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Business Travel - A Lifestyle Associated with Non-Clinical Roles</b></span></h2>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfyU2k-38-onsyjJ226qfFIonFg26tVOYfvak1P1sYHuqBY8Eoa9BL2D2lsI9SKteh_m8X6MM8b2_1ripa7O5ApcM5euZ0a0DSRZICWj4sAlntM0KdKMZziLh9lKVJrkmdFEuPq6u6Imk/s1600/passport-2733068_640.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Travel" border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="640" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfyU2k-38-onsyjJ226qfFIonFg26tVOYfvak1P1sYHuqBY8Eoa9BL2D2lsI9SKteh_m8X6MM8b2_1ripa7O5ApcM5euZ0a0DSRZICWj4sAlntM0KdKMZziLh9lKVJrkmdFEuPq6u6Imk/s200/passport-2733068_640.jpg" title="Frequent Travel" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Rudy and Peter Skitterians</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For many non-clinical roles, travel is an important variable to be considered by the physician. While occasional travel for conferences or meetings may be a standard protocol for most senior positions, some positions may have high local, national, or international travel requirements. People who have medical or personal problems may find it difficult to meet such obligations. With travel, the challenges of living in multiple physical environments do arise. Speaking newer languages, eating newer foods, meeting new people every day can be equally draining for some while pleasing for others. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">While not every operational challenge can be eliminated, with time and experience, one can overcome these challenges by believing in yourself, your team, and the organization. While everybody onboard has to contribute to making their journey smoother, a lot depends on the value system, social and communication skills of the non-clinical doctor that how much the team will respect him while he is around and miss him after he has left the organization.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did you get a pulse of the work profile of a non-clinical doctor? Feel free to share your views.</span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM</span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. </span></span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/a-typical-day-as-medical-specialist.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What You Must Know About Non-Clinical Careers in IT</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/a-medical-affairs-physicians-typical.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Medical Affairs Physician's Typical Workday</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-harsh-mahajan-front-runner-of-modern.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Renowned Radiologist: Dr. Harsh Mahajan</span></a></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-9347736680629924772019-08-12T18:20:00.017+05:302022-07-25T19:23:15.425+05:30What You Need to Know About Medical Affairs Physicians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Medical Affairs Role: All You Need to Know</span></h1><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this article, you will read about the professional requirements of a doctor working in the Medical Affairs department of a pharmaceutical company. You will also find details of the daily routine of a Medical Affairs physician. This article can help you decide whether or not you are suitable for a Medical Affairs role in a pharmaceutical company.</span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Departmentation of Physician Jobs in a Pharma Company</span></h2><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In most pharma companies that are into the business of selling drugs,
there is a clear differentiation of the job of MBBS/MD physicians into two main
domains, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The <b>regulatory affairs physician</b> is directly responsible for all technical issues pertaining to the regulator and government. Their core responsibilities are dealing with new product approval and complying with regulatory rules for existing products which often continue for many years. Since pharma companies sell their products across international borders, each product has to be individually registered with each country's regulator. Thus, the <b>regulatory affairs physician is the nodal point of information exchange between the company and the regulators.</b></span></li>
</ul>
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The <b>medical affairs physician</b> is directly responsible for all issues pertaining to the market, customers, and consumers. Pharma products work in a competitive business environment and have to meet the expectations of the prescriber as well as the consumer. Prescriber refers to the clinician who writes the prescription and the consumer refers to the patient who takes the drug. The core responsibility of the medical affairs physician is to ensure that the right information reaches the prescriber and the patients through the company's medical representatives, promotional materials, pack inserts, and patient information leaflets. Additional responsibilities of the medical affairs physician are to understand the needs of the product's prescribers and consumers and ensure that the policymakers of the company understand these requirements. Thus, the <b>medical affairs physician is the nodal point of information exchange between the company and its customers.</b></span> </li>
</ul>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Medical Affairs - A Medical Marketing (Non-Sales) Role</span></h2></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pharma companies sell drugs in the form of commercial products. The medical affairs physician works with the marketing and sales teams of the pharma company for the commercial and scientific success of the product.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCfuda7Xp1mkJJ5cXU4yihoyHLDcoe8Zq460ghnxanpNjmu8tQf4SWoSfTCNWBOK2rIAkMKoRtt-Zqu1Uxm1_ASzKfQV9zBJdnPKg0x0RqBgq0ccdNReKSmJxo9ZUpirgN3u_73rCxkrc/s1600/pills-3768919_640.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Medical affairs" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="339" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCfuda7Xp1mkJJ5cXU4yihoyHLDcoe8Zq460ghnxanpNjmu8tQf4SWoSfTCNWBOK2rIAkMKoRtt-Zqu1Uxm1_ASzKfQV9zBJdnPKg0x0RqBgq0ccdNReKSmJxo9ZUpirgN3u_73rCxkrc/s200/pills-3768919_640.png" title="Medicomarketing" width="105" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm vertical">Gordon Johnson from Pixabay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><br />
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But, the
medical affairs physician doesn't have any direct sales targets,
and he/she is not a glorified sales representative. The goals of the medical affairs physician are just not limited to the commercial/financial success of the product. The responsibility of the medical affairs physician is much more than just helping the marketing and sales teams in crunching their targeted market shares and sales figures.</span></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Medical Affairs as the Medical Advisor</span></h2></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The medical affairs physician is the <b>chief medical advisor</b> for the company as well as the <b>chief scientific officer.</b> The medical affairs physician is the knowledge leader for the company, prescribers as well as the patients. All of these look up to the medical affairs physician for
deriving the right knowledge about the product.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The medical affairs physician is supposed to be the best expert in therapy areas in which the company operates and solves everyone's queries and guides people through providing them helpful information. The physician should not only know the medical information about the own company's products but also the competitor products in the respective therapy area. For example, if the own company is selling insulin-based products for diabetics, the physician should be a knowledgeable leader not only in the insulin segment but also in oral hypoglycemic drugs as well as the experimental therapies. The physician should be well aware of the history of the development of their product and should be able to foresee the near and long-term future of their products.</span><br />
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21j8JwmkuYV2GZ7kpr152PKpyKE8gawgi2xRp7JpJrgUjyc2dsTjzjb5BoeNwenQUixAdBncYQkjfFaiNy3o9Ok3mpPJyUxGpVc31wGGatV3jUlSiBPc9CwpLR_JijSDVTZ8lTBqXGjU/s1600/pharmacy-3087599_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pharma" border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21j8JwmkuYV2GZ7kpr152PKpyKE8gawgi2xRp7JpJrgUjyc2dsTjzjb5BoeNwenQUixAdBncYQkjfFaiNy3o9Ok3mpPJyUxGpVc31wGGatV3jUlSiBPc9CwpLR_JijSDVTZ8lTBqXGjU/s320/pharmacy-3087599_640.jpg" title="Patient interests" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md" style="font-size: x-small;">
Image by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pixabay
</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Medical Affairs - A Repository of Knowledge</span></h2></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Though the clinician is the best judge for the individual patient's treatment decisions, the medical affairs physician should be well equipped with the information to deal with every possible medical query that the treating physician seeks about the usage or nonusage of the product; which a medical representative can never match up.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The medical affairs physician serves as a repository of the knowledge related to not only the benefits of the product but also the risks involved. Sometimes, "when and where not to use a drug" may be more important </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">than the details of the usage of the product so as </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">to safeguard the value of the brand name. The medical affairs physician thus serves as <b>the trustee for both the company's as well as the patient/consumer's interest</b>. </span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Typical Workday of a Medical Affairs Physician</span></h2>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A medical affairs physician has to conduct multiple activities as a part of his job. Most of the time, the department is organized in the manner that it is headed by the senior-most physicians who have the final say from the department and the junior ones being in charge of specific products.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For each product, there is a set of ongoing activities for which the physician in charge has to coordinate with sales, marketing, training, and legal compliance departments. Their common day to day activities are:</span><br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Conducting technical training for newly hired sales representatives, and the preparation and updating of training materials for new hires. </span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Preparation of presentations for CME sessions, workshops, and similar medico-marketing activities to be conducted by speakers representing the company.</span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Conduct planned medico-marketing sessions like CME sessions, workshops, etc as a speaker/representative from the company.</span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Participation in scientific conferences, industry meetings related to the product.</span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Meetings with Key Opinion Leaders, who are the highly respected doctors related to the specialty of the products with the purpose of building rapport, understanding their opinions about the product and its competitors, and understanding their needs. </span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Replying to queries received from clinicians and products within the expected time frame and to the best of his/her knowledge.</span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Working with the marketing team in the development of the marketing strategy.</span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Developing the library/repository of medical knowledge related to the product including all the pre-clinical, clinical, and experimental studies.</span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Approving the medical communication used in promotional material for accuracy and to ensure that only right and complete information is transmitted.</span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Coordinating with regulatory affairs about the pharmaco-vigilance aspects.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">These days most of their work is conducted through the use of computers, email, and projection technology. The medical affairs physician has to be well versed in their use.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Desired Attributes in a Medical Affairs Physician</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The physician is expected to be a good trainer, meticulous knowledge leader, a good team worker, and a presenter/representative of the company at multiple external as well as internal scientific forums and finally somebody who has to balance science with business skills.</span><br />
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did you get a pulse of the work profile of a medical affairs physician? Feel free to share your views.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. </span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-arvind-lals-journey_2.html" target="_blank">Revolutionary Pathologist: Dr. Arvind Lal</a></span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/why-does-society-need-non-clinical.html" target="_blank">Why Does Society Need Non-Clinical Doctors?</a></span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-harsh-mahajan-front-runner-of-modern.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Renowned Radiologist: Dr. Harsh Mahajan</span></a></span></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-62489318815793355142019-08-09T16:39:00.013+05:302021-12-13T13:36:19.232+05:30Financial Challenges in Non-Clinical Careers<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If You Were A Clinician, You Could Have Made Twice The Money!</span></h1><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this article, you will read about the financial challenges associated with non-clinical careers. This article can help you in deciding what to expect from a non-clinical career and whether you should choose a non-clinical career or not.</span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Income Disparity in The Medical Profession - Clinical Versus Non-Clinical </span></h2><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Clinicians get paid much more than non-clinical MBBS/MD doctors, especially in the private sector. The wage gap among the different types of doctors is a social reality.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI902fBRW1YbkL1SambTSJiCW9qwMk14tuRV8xKAPDopZsk1H5-ozZruOfnlrcOf_PehQdXG5JlkBqiPJ8B6Yll4AsyzDltwUQFqVaQ6gLsLJ4pXgAXciff2gurXp6bcIjbEmMgzA1XTI/s1600/credit-squeeze-522549_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Salary of non clinical doctors" border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="640" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI902fBRW1YbkL1SambTSJiCW9qwMk14tuRV8xKAPDopZsk1H5-ozZruOfnlrcOf_PehQdXG5JlkBqiPJ8B6Yll4AsyzDltwUQFqVaQ6gLsLJ4pXgAXciff2gurXp6bcIjbEmMgzA1XTI/s200/credit-squeeze-522549_640.jpg" title="Wage gap among doctors" width="200" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Steve Buissinne from Pixabay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Society usually assigns more value to clinical work which is seen as a direct effort for saving lives. On the other hand services of non-clinical doctors are seen as the back end work and an indirect contribution towards saving lives.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Even among the clinicians, primary care doctors/general practitioners do get paid much less than specialists. Among the specialists, surgeons mostly get paid a lot more than physicians. A non-clinical doctor earning more than the specialist physician or the surgeon is an exception rather than the norm.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Income Disparity Within Non-Clinical Roles</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Even among the non-clinical jobs, the wages for teaching jobs are generally lower than those offered by the industry.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Even those who work in the industry would have a lot of variation in their wages, with the senior and management roles being paid disproportionately higher than the junior or technical roles. Roles having client-facing work, significant travel, and work of commercial nature are usually better paid than just desk jobs or roles purely related to in-house activities like training.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Possible Personal Effects of Lower Income in Non-Clinical Roles</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">his reality of earning lower wages than their clinician friends would be faced by non-clinical doctors many times in their lives. For those who love to compare their salaries with their friends and family, the non-clinical setup would often produce disappointing results and at times significant discomfort. If earning money is the sole priority for making a career
choice, then the non-clinical specialty would not be the right choice. </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The sooner the non-clinical doctor accepts this reality, the higher the professional satisfaction he/she may derive from work, otherwise continuous sulking has got the huge power to diminish careers.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ideal Reasons To Choose a Non-Clinical Career</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The most successful non-clinical doctors were, and are never driven by money. They are driven by their love for science, research, teaching, public policy, prevention, etc.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Some of them may be moved by life events such as by drought to become a nutritionist or their conscientiousness to become a pioneer in a scientific discipline or by the sheer sight of a homeless person to open an NGO in their service. See the section on <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/search/label/Journey%20of%20famous%20non%20clinical%20doctors" target="_blank">Journey of famous non-clinical doctors</a></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sometimes life circumstances dictate people's career choices. Non-clinical jobs are highly accommodating and offer space for physicians who are disabled due to medical reasons or struggling with personal problems. Non-clinical roles also offer flexibility to work from home and avoid shift duties, which is especially helpful for doctors who have dependents to be taken care of. Non-clinical roles may also turn out a better choice for individuals who are more inclined to be spiritual. </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>"Money and materialistic possessions mean nothing without joy, peace, and love. We were made to serve people, not serve things." - </i><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fd/80/87/fd8087916f9e905ca96af529a21b5422.jpg" target="_blank">The Spiritual Diva</a><i> </i></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br /></i></span>
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did you get a pulse of the challenges faced by non-clinical doctors? Feel free to share your views.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and </span><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Terms of </span>Use</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/oh-you-dont-treat-patients.html" target="_blank">Social Disapproval - A Side Effect of Non-Clinical Careers</a></span></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/mastering-science-and-scientific-methods.html" target="_blank">The Challenge of Mastering Medical Science</a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/working-with-diverse-teams-and.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Challenge of Diversity in Non-Clinical Careers</span></a></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-25789952183110797342019-08-08T18:13:00.016+05:302021-12-13T13:34:18.063+05:30Social Disapproval - A Side Effect of Non-Clinical Careers<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Social Disapproval - A Side Effect of Non-Clinical Careers</span></h1><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Coping with social disapproval for not being a clinician is one of the biggest challenges faced by non-clinical doctors in their personal lives. In this article, you will find out why physicians in non-clinical careers need to cope with social disapproval and how they can address this challenge.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbvx2eXgLNmOmGQKmBXoN4pzao2kNrvWe2wtsLsAA4vROjh0lU-c9lFPNupzrJ1xmuv6uL05FU2YYfi8g5jh6R_rGiOnjbLDWNbgrqDDtXunwevJ442i-QqMplu_j2KFTwQBvlqpKSvU/s1600/signs-1172211_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Challenges faced by non-clinical doctors" border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="640" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbvx2eXgLNmOmGQKmBXoN4pzao2kNrvWe2wtsLsAA4vROjh0lU-c9lFPNupzrJ1xmuv6uL05FU2YYfi8g5jh6R_rGiOnjbLDWNbgrqDDtXunwevJ442i-QqMplu_j2KFTwQBvlqpKSvU/w320-h230/signs-1172211_640.jpg" title="Social disapproval, the biggest personal challenge" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image credit: John Hain from Pixabay</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Why don't you see patients doctor XYZ?</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you are a non-clinical MBBS/MD doctor, this question will be posted to you over a thousand times in your life. If you cannot cope with this question, you will likely have a very hard time in your personal and professional life.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This question would be posed to you by your neighbors, relatives, colleagues those who are superior as well as your subordinates, acquaintances, parents of your child's friends, his school teacher, and every other person who has some business with you, and occasionally even by strangers. </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This question would surprise you in business meetings, job interviews, family functions, parent-teacher meetings at your child's school, training programs, client calls, air travel or train travel, or in situations whenever you least expect it.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Family's Disapproval - The Biggest Personal Challenge in Non-Clinical Careers</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The situation can get really difficult if you have immediate family members who resent your career choice. Their displeasure with your decision will likely be expressed multiple times, and you would have to learn to live with it. This can be particularly stressful at difficult
points of your career when things are moving at a slower pace.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQvN7ja0Pn-uKzR-HXYQM2NPpDJvPjTdtx42VoBIcQd4FwSiilhxXzBjI4UIqMnmTxxQ46ME8qrE6lA7wceeLIn86HDPgIEGKHQ5bsinOS-TYlB2Z5-1DklxHOgyQGdj2v1ofKZ1ua_H4/s1600/dislike-2961955_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="challenges faced by non-clinical doctors" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQvN7ja0Pn-uKzR-HXYQM2NPpDJvPjTdtx42VoBIcQd4FwSiilhxXzBjI4UIqMnmTxxQ46ME8qrE6lA7wceeLIn86HDPgIEGKHQ5bsinOS-TYlB2Z5-1DklxHOgyQGdj2v1ofKZ1ua_H4/s320/dislike-2961955_640.jpg" title="Social disapproval and resentment" width="213" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm vertical">Rickey123 from Pixabay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The resentment is the highest at the beginning of the journey straight after graduating from medical school when the expectations are at their peak. There is some waxing and waning in the initial few years but eventually, it declines once the non-clinical doctor meets success in his chosen profession.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This struggle on the personal front has also been reported by many non-clinical doctors who later on turned out to be national and international figures and eminent professionals. See the section on <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/search/label/Journey%20of%20famous%20non%20clinical%20doctors" target="_blank">Journey of famous non-clinical doctors</a></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Coping Strategies For Social Disapproval Associated with Non-Clinical Careers</span></h2></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Certainly, there would be a point of time when one would be thinking: Why do you care? It is my life after all! But eventually one would realize that you have chosen a road that is less traveled and this is naturally supposed to arouse a lot of curiosity in people's minds. They might not be always judging you though this may sometimes be a reality. One would need to accept that sometimes people are insensitive to what we may feel about it, and at other times, they may themselves be in a state of anxiety due to the myriad number of reasons beyond our control.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Always being
defensive to these questions might not be a great idea, nor is withdrawing from family functions. One may need to maintain positivity, avoid overthinking, develop a thicker skin, and be prepared to answer this question even when woken up from deep sleep! Of course, these things are easier said than done.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>"Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns"</i> - Tehyi Hsieh</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did you get a pulse of the challenges faced by non-clinical doctors? Feel free to share your views.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 09/04/2019 11:30 AM</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different
organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd.,
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease
Surveillance Project, and the National Polio Surveillance Project. The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/if-you-were-clinician-you-would-have.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Financial Challenges in Non-Clinical Careers</span></a></li>
<li><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/mastering-science-and-scientific-methods.html" target="_blank">The Challenge of Mastering Medical Science</a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/why-does-society-need-non-clinical.html" target=""><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5 Reasons Why Society Needs Non-Clinical Doctors</span></a></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-2362061464289985112019-08-07T19:26:00.012+05:302021-12-13T13:35:47.949+05:30What You Must Know About Non-Clinical Careers in IT<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Typical Workday Of The Physician In A Healthcare IT Company</span></h1><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In this article, you will read about the role and responsibilities of a physician working in an information technology company. You will find out details on how physicians can successfully carve a niche for themselves in the IT industry. </span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Unique Aspects of a Med-Tech Physician Job</span></h2><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">An MBBS/MD physician/medical specialist in a med-tech company would never need a stethoscope. Instead, he/she would have to be content with a laptop. The exact nature of the workday would depend on their role.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Healthcare IT and BPO companies employ MBBS/MD doctors/physicians for multiple roles. These are mainly of two types, technical and managerial, with many positions having a significant overlap of both managerial as well as technical functions. These kinds of overlapping roles especially occur in cases of startup organizations and smaller companies, which cannot afford multiple dedicated specialists.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmjyUFSAt7d2NMWvslebX_9eX5NDELzcZMSPt067or0C1iVWntQZCk4aJtRfwPwoL5fjNWtcSjSOoxYkbUE0AiEu70gGOIP5guhiApqoEp_15xBSSRrLVtaEUyrmr3Aq7NxO2cv5yziM/s1600/computer-3343887_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="IT jobs for Physicians" border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="640" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmjyUFSAt7d2NMWvslebX_9eX5NDELzcZMSPt067or0C1iVWntQZCk4aJtRfwPwoL5fjNWtcSjSOoxYkbUE0AiEu70gGOIP5guhiApqoEp_15xBSSRrLVtaEUyrmr3Aq7NxO2cv5yziM/s320/computer-3343887_640.jpg" title="Doctors in IT companies" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image Credit: <span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md">Image by rawpixel from Pixabay</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In larger companies with established business processes and customers, the physician is usually hired to support one of the specialized teams or units, namely, production, product development, training, quality, and project management teams. The names of these teams do indicate the specific nature of tasks that it will primarily concentrate on. Let us examine these functions in a slightly detailed manner.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Role of the Physician in the Product Development Team</span></h2>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Every IT or BPO company is built around a product or service to its customers. Product development is a continuous never-ending process and even
continues across product life cycles as old products become redundant and
get replaced by newer products.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Med-tech companies build a product-centered around specific parts of the healthcare system. For example, some companies may build products related to medical records in a hospital while others may build products related to billing and payments. Some companies may build products for the government or regulator while others may concentrate on building products for the patients or consumers. The large med tech companies may have a large number of products catering to different segments of the healthcare system. </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The role of the physician who is part of the product team is to make the product fit for its customers and guide the development of newer products for addressing the unmet needs of customers. To correctly assess the needs of customers, the product team's medical specialist has to align himself with the market needs and customer needs. He has to closely guide the engineering team which is responsible for building the product, its user interface, and back-end work so that the customer experience of using the service is rewarding. </span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibbSzrgadADNxwEsesq_j9Pyf0LNB2PTcO1HlrW_J6MnWGmrlyGX7P8JDwTeZvUlijGYI3pzsBipuXNVoeX1RqSnBjRbXQP_Jc_QIaTd-t2mvSxkTr_045qGw8JDhF8PJ_AgQ5xBz8EiQ/s1600/motivation-3242296_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="product" border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="640" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibbSzrgadADNxwEsesq_j9Pyf0LNB2PTcO1HlrW_J6MnWGmrlyGX7P8JDwTeZvUlijGYI3pzsBipuXNVoeX1RqSnBjRbXQP_Jc_QIaTd-t2mvSxkTr_045qGw8JDhF8PJ_AgQ5xBz8EiQ/s320/motivation-3242296_640.jpg" title="Product development" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md" style="font-size: x-small;">
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A lot of medical specialists' time is engaged in building medical databases that categorize and capture the medical information by the users. The medical specialist has also to align with computing technologies like artificial intelligence and integrated workflows and testing of products and identifying bugs or errors in the software before it is released to the customer. The product medical specialist perhaps works most closely with multiple IT teams than in all other roles combined. Thus, often the medical specialist would be interacting with the higher management of the company and current or prospective customers. </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
The Role of the Physician in the Training Team</span></h2>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Training is a very demanding role in med-tech companies that are carrying out knowledge-based processes such as medical coding, billing, underwriting, insurance pre-authorization, literature search services, etc. These services are highly dependent on a workforce consisting mainly of paramedical graduates. To provide high-quality service the workforce requires extensive training and their programs may run into several months before they actually join the production team.</span><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrC4qw1pRgUKkVvbCmyAOZyxU11EMx5_3v_IaHVaqLN0zEuZHtmHodRl5oirRyAtT_VAyVNNMLCKoaspPvX6DkRheuJR3vLQnWJU6Hs47WLM9XJIDFvH0YsE39kocHAHJO8MwEVNH3ag/s1600/business-3694993_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="coaching" border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="640" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrC4qw1pRgUKkVvbCmyAOZyxU11EMx5_3v_IaHVaqLN0zEuZHtmHodRl5oirRyAtT_VAyVNNMLCKoaspPvX6DkRheuJR3vLQnWJU6Hs47WLM9XJIDFvH0YsE39kocHAHJO8MwEVNH3ag/s320/business-3694993_640.jpg" title="Training" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Credit: Pixabay</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The medical specialist who joins the training team is directly responsible for converting freshers who are mostly just out of their colleges into productive employees who can be trusted to directly send the work to the customer. The job involves besides the actual conduct of training sessions to wide-ranging activities such as identifying the training needs of employees, preparing the curriculum, training manual, training aids, and scheme for evaluation of the trainees and certification. Trainees usually enter the system in batches and exit from the program after their successful completion of the training. The medical specialist acts as their mentor, trainer as well as a manager. The medical specialist has to closely work with the production team as well as the human resource and quality teams.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Role of the Physician in the Production Team</span></h2>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The medical specialist working on the roles of the production team is a full-time manager who leads a team of certified paramedical employees working independently to produce daily, weekly and monthly targets of work which is billed to the customer. The medical specialist is also their help-desk for all sorts of queries. This is perhaps the most demanding type of work in terms of daily schedules and has the usual challenges of team and operations management. Understanding the challenge, usually, the companies do have well-defined incentive structures for compensating the team and the medical specialist. The medical team and their manager are also accountable for the quality of the work and customer feedback/quality team's feedback.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Role of the Physician in the Quality Team</span></h2>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The quality team is responsible for developing a quality assurance program for the service and measuring the quality of the end product/service from the perspective of the customer. For this purpose, the team would conduct systematic audits on predefined as well as random samples of work and try to find deviations from the process. The errors or lack of errors are usually documented as daily, weekly, and monthly reports which are circulated internally as well as with the client. On the basis of their feedback certain lots of work could be rejected or reworked as well as the people responsible could be penalized or reprimanded. This team is a form of check and balance for the production system.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The medical specialist has to carry out all the above activities of the program and do the work meticulously and diligently. The medical specialist works in close coordination with the customer.</span><br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5sybXHKEegwJ5B4CnfXMTRUPpvQgHSIB3y7Ar8AcsP8oSL59AiDDvShtG_XICilwyIAjRJMY-dZpJPXEZASCFAJa2Td6IgYAoKgVuSHB4TntVaaMX55hx1csLAeXMuCmFedRk0vbbH8/s1600/triangle-3145433_640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Business" border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="640" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5sybXHKEegwJ5B4CnfXMTRUPpvQgHSIB3y7Ar8AcsP8oSL59AiDDvShtG_XICilwyIAjRJMY-dZpJPXEZASCFAJa2Td6IgYAoKgVuSHB4TntVaaMX55hx1csLAeXMuCmFedRk0vbbH8/s320/triangle-3145433_640.jpg" title="Production, Quality & Project Management" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="attribution_field hide-sm hide-md" style="font-size: x-small;">
Image by Dirk Wouters from Pixabay
</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Role of the Physician in the Project Management Team</span></h2>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The project management team is the overall revenue function or the profit and loss function of the process. The team ensures that customers remain happy as well as the project remains well coordinated among all the teams and meets the profit goals of the business. The medical specialist leading the project management function has to develop a high business sense and work most closely with the COO/CEO of the company. The medical specialist approves all the major decisions taken by the above teams and is responsible for charting out the growth path of the project. </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The medical specialist in charge of project management is a very responsible and high-stress job with the title of Medical Director or similar nature. Though it comes with these challenges it is considered a senior management position and is highly rewarded and looked upon as one of the highest positions that physicians usually climb up to in med-tech companies. The position would usually require frequent international business travel and high-quality networking, presentation, and communication skills as clients of IT companies as well as their teams are located in multiple locations spanning across countries and continents. </span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Few medical directors who learn and display phenomenal business skills will climb up further as CEO or Board of Directors of the company. Few of them with an entrepreneurial mindset will go on to open their own med-tech companies.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Did you get a pulse of a med-tech physician's journey? Feel free to share your views.</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM</span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Author Profile</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi-based non-clinical doctor having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has been writing/blogging full-time on health issues. In the past, he has worked for a decade in healthcare, in different organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd., Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd., National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Integrated Disease Surveillance Project, and National Polio Surveillance Project. The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span><br />
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ydKyPbfftFujTN4qhqOWVaaHToAPTEDeNXMHQ2bmfEHAtm_Q5Qt3GZ31MwP8drdvgLxTqI6TJDxWxOl2OWKBx1FCyEEgyEtsGqPJogl_rkjD-Erb9WsYGOaEDHbWEr3np7y-y3nKrAk/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></span></div>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by clicking the links: <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/oh-you-dont-treat-patients.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Social Disapproval - A Side Effect of Non-Clinical Careers</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/a-medical-affairs-physicians-typical.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Medical Affairs Physician's Typical Workday</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/why-does-society-need-non-clinical.html" target=""><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5 Reasons Why Society Needs Non-Clinical Doctors</span></a></li>
</ol>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5131919425791655791.post-33079818575396508432019-08-03T15:22:00.018+05:302022-08-19T19:52:03.155+05:30Dr. Suniti Solomon: India's Crusader For People With HIV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">India's Crusader For People With HIV: Dr. Suniti Solomon</span></span></h1><div><span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In this article, you will find information about the journey of Dr. Suniti Solomon, the famous microbiologist from India whose contributions to the care of HIV-affected people are unparalled.</span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who was Dr. Suniti Solomon?</span></span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Suniti Solomon was a medical microbiologist. </span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Medical microbiologists deal with the identification of microbes like bacteria, viruses, and fungi from the human body. They help clinicians in
identifying the pathogenic microbes responsible for causing illnesses and also
in the selection of the right drugs which can kill those microbes.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Suniti Solomon is best known for identifying the first case of HIV in India in 1986, and thereafter, for her services in the care of people affected with HIV-AIDS.</span></span></p>
<a name='more'></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody></tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijeLd8FDvv3-BiT16Ow5hrwOhYdTJ16rMRIEFZt4cgqky8fEWlmwj-de62ftDc8WhQSitHKlzPkZ9XiA1od5fH-27RvckQdzmp8OUB_-A67bYGvmBLaIWL6GSjkzhp0Xps2sg7jvvcv8s/s1600/Dr_Suniti_Solomon.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dr. Suniti HIV AIDS" border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="599" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijeLd8FDvv3-BiT16Ow5hrwOhYdTJ16rMRIEFZt4cgqky8fEWlmwj-de62ftDc8WhQSitHKlzPkZ9XiA1od5fH-27RvckQdzmp8OUB_-A67bYGvmBLaIWL6GSjkzhp0Xps2sg7jvvcv8s/s200/Dr_Suniti_Solomon.jpg" title="Dr. Suniti Solomon" width="200" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Image Credit: https://yrgcare.org</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody></tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Qualifications and Early Professional Life of Dr. Suniti Solomon</span></span></h2></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There was a point in time when after her MBBS she was staying in London with her husband, but they felt their services were needed more in India and returned for a purpose. </span></span></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr.Suniti had a long relationship with </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">the Madras Medical College. She did </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">her MBBS as well as MD in Microbiology from MMC, and then, rose to the rank of professor of Microbiology in the same institute. </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Suniti Solomon as a Crusader Against HIV-AIDS</span></span></h2></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In the 1980s, when the whole world was bothered by the HIV epidemic, Dr. Suniti was also keenly interested in the HIV virus and its questionable existence in India. She guided one of her students to collect blood samples from sex workers in Chennai and identified six positive cases. Thus rang the alarm bells of HIV in India. </span></span></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">She faced stiff resistance from the society about her work and findings but she was successful at holding her grounds and, thus, the first and the biggest Indian activist for the cause of </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">prevention and treatment of </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">HIV was born.</span></span></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In 1993, she </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">took voluntary retirement from her Alma mater and devoted her full time and efforts to establish the first</span></span> dedicated, non-profit institution for HIV patients in India, that is known as the "Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education" and in short, "YRG Care" </span></span></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">With her team at YRG care, she pioneered many important interventions that were endorsed by the National AIDS Control Organization and were later absorbed into the National AIDS Control Program. </span></span></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The center developed into one-stop-shop for people living with HIV and their families providing them advanced medical as well as social services, including the famous matchmaking services for people living with HIV. Its matchmaking services were captured in the award-winning documentary "Lovesick" </span></span></p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The center also collaborated with the National Institutes of Health, USA for high-end research on HIV including clinical trials for new drugs. The center has over 350 publications in the field. After Dr. Sumiti's demise, her son Dr. Sunil Solomon takes her legacy forward. </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recognition and Honors Received by Dr. Suniti Solomon</span></span></h2></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">She was highly popular and almost every important scientific body present in the HIV domain wanted to work with her. She was on boards and advisory committees of multiple such national and international organizations such as </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">National Technical Team on Women and AIDS, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Indian Council for Medical Research, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">National AIDS Research Institute, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">She received her fair share of scientific awards but what distinguishes her are the public service awards, the notable ones being, the Padma Shri from Govt. of India, the Mother Teresa Memorial Award, and the </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sivananda Eminent Citizen Award.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">She is frequently credited for the success of the AIDS control program in India and is remembered as the torchbearer of the fight against HIV-AIDS. Obituaries in her memory makes references to </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">her simplicity, enquiring mind, compassion, and her desire to do what was good.
</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"Look, you have to listen to their stories and you wouldn’t say the same thing" (Her statement on linking immorality with HIV)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Do you feel inspired by her journey? Feel free to share
your views.</i></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
References and Further Readings</span></span></span></span></h2></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1. <a href="https://yrgcare.org/paying-tribute-to-late-dr-suniti-solomon-on-her-78th-birth-anniversary/" target="_blank">Paying tribute to Late Dr. Suniti Solomon on her 78th birth anniversary: A PlexusMD Exclusive</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">2. <a href="https://ijme.in/articles/dr-suniti-solomon-1939-2015/?galley=html" target="_blank">OBITUARY Dr Suniti Solomon (1939-2015)</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">3. <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)00772-2/fulltext" target="_blank">OBITUARY Suniti Solomon</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">4. <a href="https://www.croiconference.org/memoriam-and-tribute-dr-suniti-solomon" target="_blank">In Memoriam and Tribute to Dr Suniti Solomon</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">5. <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/journey-dr-suniti-solomon-who-receives-padma-treating-india-s-first-aids-patients-56284" target="_blank">Journey of Dr Suniti Solomon, who receives a Padma for treating India's first AIDS patients</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br />
<br />
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Views expressed are personal</i><br />
<br />
Last Updated On 08/22/2019 07:30 PM<br />
<br />
<br />
</span></span></span></span></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Author Profile</span></b></span></span></span></span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Dr. Naval Asija is a New Delhi based non-clinical doctor
having health administration postgraduate training. Since 2018, he has
been writing/blogging full time on health issues. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">In the past, he has worked for a decade in
healthcare, in different organizations, namely Innodata India Pvt. Ltd.,
Win-Medicare Pvt. Ltd., National Institute of Health and Family Welfare,
Integrated Disease Surveillance Project and National Polio Surveillance
Project. </span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The author can be contacted through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/navalasija/</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<b> </b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s1600/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="journey of a non clinical doctor" border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitpE1rXzqmh9E3fTNziIkuAu0xjJJib8m4BlDkPBtpAcx5nNqZy1KxY49nDGBKnQ5cffrrLZ1AH1nQBbZ_YeOWlsma-GHs4hF2TbiJoE7YuiUT06Uh5DW47cHUcl4-HJRa5j9qZ1y-gf0/s200/f9b142b3-ce7d-4d38-9527-fc35b826011c_200x200.png" title="journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com" width="200" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Disclaimer</b></span></span></span></span></span></h3></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 115%;">By using our website, we imply that you agree to its terms
of use and privacy policy. For full details, you can refer to these documents by
clicking the links: </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/privacy-policy.html"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 115%;">Privacy Policy</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> and </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/p/terms-of-use.html"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 115%;">Terms of Use</span></a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Posts Recommended For You</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<br />
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-omesh-kumar-bharti-codeveloper-of.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Omesh Kumar Bharti's Crusade Against Rabies</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/07/dr-coluthur-gopalans-journey.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Coluthur Gopalan: Nutritionist Par Excellence</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.journeyofanonclinicaldoctor.com/2019/08/dr-mahdi-hasan-polymath-who-loved.html" target="_blank"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A Celebrated Anatomist: Dr. Mahdi Hasan</span></a></li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
Dr. Naval Asijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17605391312780430315noreply@blogger.com0