Ludhiana, January 12, 2014: The 69th Annual Conference of the Association of Physicians of India will be held in Ludhiana from February 20 to 23. This is the largest conference of physicians in the country. It is being held in Punjab after exactly 50 years. 5800 delegates from across the country have already registered for this scientific event. There will be 6 parallel sessions in 6 specially created halls at the ‘Palace Conference Complex’ which has been created by the organising committee by including all the adjoining palaces on the Ferozepur Road. There will be around three hundred guest lectures, orations, key note addresses, clinical discussions
The theme of the conference is Generating Indian Evidence since we feel that the pattern of disease among Indians should be evaluated and analysed. Around 700 original research papers will be presented during the meeting. A large number of PG students are participating. The organizing committee is encouraging the participation by post graduate students. Two books Medicine Update and Post Graduate Medicine and many Monographs will be released and distributed among the delegates to update their knowledge. The basic idea is to update the knowledge of the physicians.
There will be a distinguished foreign faculty of Dr. Inder S Anand (Minnesota), Dr. Navin C Nanda (Alabama), Dr. Satish Garg, Dr. Amit K Ghosh (Mayo Clinics), Dr. Kartik Ghosh (Mayo Clinic), Dr. Brinder Vij (Cleveland Clinic), Dr. Rohit Gulati, Dr. Mangla Gulati (Maryland) and Dr. Sanjay R Jain (Atlanta) from USA. Dr. Parkash P Punjabi (Hammersmith), Dr. Sangeeta Punjabi (Hammersmith) and Dr. Onkar Sahota from UK. Dr. Kunwarjit Sangla, Dr. Pankaj Arora from Australia and Dr. Salvatore Cassese from Germany will also arrive.
There will be eight Pre Conference Workshops on February 19. These will impart hands on training to smaller groups of doctors on topics like ECG, Echo, Endoscopy, EEG, Pain management, BCLS/ ACLS, ICU care and Scientific paper writing. These will be held in Dayanand Medical College & Hospital and Hero DMC Heart Institute.
The conference will be inaugurated formally on February 20 at 7 Pm by Parkash Singh Badal at the Palace Conference Complex. The state government is providing full support to the organising committee since such a large and prestigious medical conference is being held in the state for the first time. The organising committee is trying to showcase Punjabi Culture, hospitality, food and other features by creating ‘Rangla Punjab’ as many doctors will be visiting Punjab for the first time. The cultural evenings will also present Punjabi Bhangra, Giddha and Gatka for the physicians.
Some special features of the meeting include Environmental medicine, Toxicology, Genetics, Clinical Immunology, Nutrition & Dietetics and common infectious diseases. There will be emphasis on prevention and treatment of these diseases. Many sessions will be devoted on discussing common noncommunicable diseases like Diabetes, Hypertension, Stroke, Cancer and Heart attack. Medical quiz, debates and discussions will be held. The local organising committee consist of 50 physicians of this region. The conference is being organised under the aegis of Ludhiana Chapter of Association of Physicians of India.
The chief patrons of the organising committee includes former Directors of PGIMER, Chandigarh Prof. B K Sharma, Prof. K K Talwar and the present director Prof. Y K Chawla. The patrons of the organising committee are industrialists Sunil Kant Munjal and Prem Kumar Gupta and Prof. L S Chawla, Former vice chancellor Baba Farid University. Prem Kumar Gupta on behalf of the organising committee informed that they are making their best efforts to give a comfortable stay to the delegates from across the country. He emphasised that they must show them the Punjabi hospitality and culture.// ludhiana news online, ludhiana news in English, ludhiana news, ludhiana current news, ludhiana news live, Ludhiana breaking news, Ludhiana headlines, Ludhiana latest news, punjab news, india news, punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news,
Date:
Sunday, January 12, 2014